Despite living in Avondale Heights the past 23 1/2 years, I still consider Footscray my home town. I am proud that I was born there, and that it says as much in my passport. I support the Footscray Football Club (aka the Western Bulldogs) and own a significant amount of fan gear, including polo shirts …
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A Quick Look Through Footscray Shopping Centre
My mother wanted her hair cut last week, so I accompanied her on the bus to Footscray, to attend the Vietnamese hairdresser in the Footscray Market. Footscray has changed a lot since I was a kid, so I did a bit of reminiscing whilst I waited for her. Describing Footscray to outsiders might help make …
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Footscray Shopping Centre Goes Retro – In A Bad Way
According to one of the historical plaques along Barkly Street, in the 1950s the Footscray Shopping Centre was the second largest shopping district after the Melbourne CBD. As a child in the 1970s, the Nicholson Street Mall (a new experiment then) was a vibrant place. There was Forges of Footscray on the north side, and …
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Footscray Football Club Marks 100 Years In The VFL/AFL
For Friday night’s game against Collingwood, my beloved football club temporarily resumed its actual and traditional name, Footscray. The reason for this was to mark 100 years since the Footscray Football Club (Western Bulldogs since 1997) entered the AFL’s predecessor league, the Victorian Football League. At the time, in 1925, the entry of Footscray, the …
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Vale Charlie of Charlie’s Pizza
There is very little left of the Footscray that I remember as a child. Growing up on Gordon Street, we were forced to move north when the hospital expanded when I was seven. That side of the street got bulldozed. Years later, the Baptist Church over the street closed down and then got redeveloped as …
Pass The Dutchie?
Back in 1982, a band of teenaged British Jamaicans had a world wide hit with a soft reggae song titled ‘Pass The Dutchie’. It was quite a silly song (I quite like reggae usually, particularly ‘Is this love?’ and ‘No Woman No Cry’) and did not really deserve much notice or to be a number …
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