Another in my series of ten year old photos; here’s March 2008. ACMI’s Game On exhibition had some great old games to play. Here’s son#1 Isaac playing Pong. …but it was the 80s-era arcade machines that I really enjoyed the most, re-living my teenage years. (I’m still tempted to buy an old machine.) The old ... [More]
Category: Photos from ten years ago
Ten years ago I was surviving (somehow) with no hot water, after the water heater packed-up. The solar system I had installed to replace it is, thankfully, still going nicely. Anyway, it’s the last day of Feb – just time for some old photos from ten years ago – another in my series of rehashed ... [More]
Another in my series of ten year old photos. In late-2007/early-2008 there was a stoush around the banning of bicycles in zone 1 during peak hours. In February 2008 the ban was reversed. Notice that this sign is ambiguous: are the bikes banned on any train that serves zone 1 during peak, or just banned ... [More]
Here’s another in my series of ten year old photos, this time from December 2007. Rain at Flinders Street Station. This shot captured a particular problem with the drainage which saw water gushing down past the door of this Hitachi train. Hopefully that issue is long since fixed, or at least being resolved in the ... [More]
Bentleigh area peeps: the steam train is back tomorrow (Saturday 25th November)! Steam trains this Saturday: Caulfield, Ormond, Mckinnon, Bentleigh, Moorabbin. ? pic.twitter.com/fHTqBE4RrE — Daniel Bowen (@danielbowen) November 22, 2017 Meanwhile, here’s another of my sets of ten year old photos, this time from November 2007. The month started with a quick trip to Adelaide. ... [More]
ZOMG, for the first time since I started this series, I forgot to post photos for October 2007 in October. And nobody noticed. Not surprising; I suspect I’m the most amused by these. Here they are. First, here’s the classic pic of Flinders Street Station. Basically the same nowadays, but covered in scaffolding for the ... [More]
Here’s yet another of my blog posts of photos from ten years ago: September 2007. Around this time there was a somewhat sarcastic Metlink fare evasion campaign, which pointed out that fare evaders’ trips were subsidised by everybody else, and that fare evaders should therefore offer to buy dinner or mow the lawn of a ... [More]
Last day of August, so here is the latest in my series of posts of ten year old photos. (If you only want to see Transport-related posts, you can use this link, and/or subscribe to get them via email.) I think this might have been my first sighting of one of these plastic things on ... [More]
Yes, it’s that time when I run out of blog post ideas delve into the photo archive and post another in my series of photos from ten years ago. This first photo I probably took because I’ve long had a bee in my bonnet about fare gates being left open. But look how amazingly empty ... [More]
Time for another in my monthly series of photos from ten years ago… something of a bumper crop this time. Let’s start with a view over the city from Quarry Park in Footscray. Apparently the Melbourne Star observation wheel had been under construction since 2006, but I can’t see in anywhere here. I can’t actually ... [More]
Another in my series of ten year old photos. If you drive out of the car park at Southland, down the ramp from the 2nd level, near the railway line, you may have noticed that there’s a sign there saying to “Give way to pedestrains“. Evidently it’s been that way for at least ten years. ... [More]
Another in my series of ten year old photos. The old Olympic Doughnuts caravan, well before the shops along Irving Street were demolished to make way for additional station platforms. Footscray station snapped from the old (uncovered, ancient) overpass. This is platform 1, which has now become platform 3. Despite The Met having been long ... [More]