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Introducing Chapel Street, Prahran
During my first year in Australia, I stayed in Armadale, and took a tram to school via the city, then from Elizabeth Street to Parkville.
Commercial Road is the continuation of Malvern Road. After school, I alighted from the tram at Commercial Road, near the corner of Commercial Road and Malvern Road, where Prahran Market was and still is.
I walked along Chapel Street which is perpendicular to both Commercial Road and Malvern Road. I loved visiting the the Pahran library, which on the first floor of the building. I normally spent about an hour or so browsing through the various science books. Libraries in those days were like gravyards, so quiet that you could hear a pin dropped. I would hate to work in a library at night; it was not brightly lit, with high ceiling and creeky timber floor.
After that, I walked back to the tram stop where I got down. There was a supermarket just a few doors away known as Nancaro. I bought my sliced Kraft cheese there for my bread roll for school lunch.
Prahran was full of life then, another suburb with mainly migrant shopkeepers. I seldom went back to Pahran after I moved away from Armadale. Later after my marriage, I dropped by to Prahran market on very rare occasions.
It was almost twenty years later, I went to Swinburn Prahran campus to study for my Real Estate full licenced course. I car pooled with a colleague. During the first year, we rushed to the college after work on Tuesday evening, and our classes finished at 10 pm. On Thursday, we had 4 classes for morning to evening.
We always had problems finding a carpark. The multi-storey carpark was not built then. As either he or I drive through the side streets, I had a good look at some of small single fronted properties. To be honest, I never fancy living in that area.
It was a lot more difficult to pass the subjects those days. There was no online reference, and many assignments were handwritten and not wordprocessed.
We developed a new way to study; no, we never plagiarised, but did it smartly. We both passed our subjects with good results.
Prahran's development is like a yoyo. Chapel Street is a shopping, dining and entertainment precinct in Melbourne. Over the past 20 years Chapel Street’s fashionable fortunes, yappy haunt and loud music night clubs, slowly nosedive, showing sign that retail sector is struggling, and changing demographics.
Like many inner areas Chapel Street are surrounded by apartments, and hopefully the streets would be enlivened by new coffee shops and restaurants replacing the closed shops.
Only time will tell!
Thank you for reading.
Commenting on “Introducing Chapel Street, Prahran”
Introducing Chapel Street, Prahran
During my first year in Australia, I stayed in Armadale, and took a tram to school via the city, then from Elizabeth Street to Parkville.
Commercial Road is the continuation of Malvern Road. After school, I alighted from the tram at Commercial Road, near the corner of Commercial Road and Malvern Road, where Prahran Market was and still is.
I walked along Chapel Street which is perpendicular to both Commercial Road and Malvern Road. I loved visiting the the Pahran library, which on the first floor of the building. I normally spent about an hour or so browsing through the various science books. Libraries in those days were like gravyards, so quiet that you could hear a pin dropped. I would hate to work in a library at night; it was not brightly lit, with high ceiling and creeky timber floor.
After that, I walked back to the tram stop where I got down. There was a supermarket just a few doors away known as Nancaro. I bought my sliced Kraft cheese there for my bread roll for school lunch.
Prahran was full of life then, another suburb with mainly migrant shopkeepers. I seldom went back to Pahran after I moved away from Armadale. Later after my marriage, I dropped by to Prahran market on very rare occasions.
It was almost twenty years later, I went to Swinburn Prahran campus to study for my Real Estate full licenced course. I car pooled with a colleague. During the first year, we rushed to the college after work on Tuesday evening, and our classes finished at 10 pm. On Thursday, we had 4 classes for morning to evening.
We always had problems finding a carpark. The multi-storey carpark was not built then. As either he or I drive through the side streets, I had a good look at some of small single fronted properties. To be honest, I never fancy living in that area.
It was a lot more difficult to pass the subjects those days. There was no online reference, and many assignments were handwritten and not wordprocessed.
We developed a new way to study; no, we never plagiarised, but did it smartly. We both passed our subjects with good results.
Prahran's development is like a yoyo. Chapel Street is a shopping, dining and entertainment precinct in Melbourne. Over the past 20 years Chapel Street’s fashionable fortunes, yappy haunt and loud music night clubs, slowly nosedive, showing sign that retail sector is struggling, and changing demographics.
Like many inner areas Chapel Street are surrounded by apartments, and hopefully the streets would be enlivened by new coffee shops and restaurants replacing the closed shops.
Only time will tell!
Thank you for reading.
