Title- "Glenferrie Road Malvern (suburb of Melbourne)Looking South 1915.
Caption reads- "A view of Glenferrie Road looking south towards Dandenong Road. Wattletree Road crosses east west, with Moran & Cato grocer shop on the south-west corner. Hattams drapers store, and Muntz photographers are on the east side of the road. Horse drawn vehicles, motor cars and trucks line the road."
Apparently keeping to the left hand side of the road didn't apply to that motorist when he parked, but then with the amount of traffic, it probably didn't matter.
What happened to all those glorious buildings?? What have we lost?
Most of those cast iron storefronts went for scrap or to the dump when people decided they needed to "modernize". I love the fancy supports for the trolley wires.
Parking facing the wrong way was common in those days as well as "U" turns in a business district.
Remember the 1906 San Francisco video that we've seen on this site a half dozen times?
The general flow of moving traffic stayed on their side of the street unless it was to their advantage to do differently.
My home town had poles in the middle of the street like that, maybe still has.
Thanks for posting Dane.
Luckily a lot of the buildings have survived.
Melbourne of course continues to use trams (or street-cars) so the tracks are there but the catenary is now suspended from the buildings.
That is beautiful that the town/street has been preserved either by accident or intentionally. My town, Los Gatos, CA, USA, a historical town has been compromised by the destruction of beautiful, historical buildings through *urban renewal* and other throughtless beaucratic movements.
I like that everyone can share the road. The state/feds are installing a light rail along a street near me right now. They had to eliminate all the parking (great for the businesses), the tracks have their own designated area, that no one can drive, walk, etc on. On top of it they are keeping the busses, which backup traffic every time they make a stop.
Back to the subject; I am glad they have kept most of the old buildings.