Melbourne St
 

Taken when demolition was starting in preparation for the construction of Eastgate. Melbourne St continued beyond Avenue Parade as far as Stanley St then it became Pitt St.
Can`t remember name of Cafe.

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the cafe was called    the melba   ;)

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melbo/melba
i now need to know what does
n.b.s.p. stand for :confused:

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nowt really, it is a code for one of the smiley's that hasn't worked properly!!

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I think it might have been some old smiley

PS posted simultaneously with HR

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sorry seem to have got my threads crossed
should be on (do you remember)

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So were's the photo?.

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musta faded away after 4 yrs Al.pmsl i was thinkin the same.

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I'd love to see the photograph if anyone as a copy, I had family who live in the area and would love to see what it was like.......

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agree would love to see a photo was my childhood stomping ground.

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I'm sure the cafe was open on Sunday mornings...when I was a kid:rolleyes:..we would go down the old market Sunday morn searching for coins from under the stalls.. not very rich pickings but we usually got enough to buy a spud pie and the worst gravy ever from the cafe on Melborne st.. (eeh up,times were ard in them days!) :D

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it was open sundays but the Milk Shakes n Jukebox made up for the pies.;)

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Milk shakes n jukebox eh?...oh how the other half live! :D

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If I remember correctly somewhere around half-way through 2004 the server accyweb was on had a severe crash, Roy spent quite some time attempting to recover data but as you can see, wasn't completely successful.

If you view any of the threads pre-that crash some smilies didn't appear correctly but more seriously than that although he managed to save the text, some, if not all of the piccys posted couldn't be saved.

In fact I've just remembered, while recovering data one of the other files that went to it's grave was the dates that each member joined, so a large number of us ended up with the same join date which was basically the first day after the crash, (just checked on mine Jan 2004).

Hope that explains it for you.

:enough:

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cheers for that less, explains things was puzzeled meself.

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Yea, that answers question. Any chance of seeing that photo again Bert.

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I'll second that.....

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I used to call into the Melba/Melbo? occasionally around 1960, usually on Sunday afternoons, I think, and put a bob or two into the jukebox. It didn't have the amosphere of the Wayside opposite Joe Mort's, though.

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was probably in the melbo at the same time then, was the wayside the one which became "Ciros" david? was in ciros regular along with most of the reprabates of the time.:D

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cash i went in Melba cafe just for the jukebox and a cuppa
the bus drivers went in when they had time for a cup of tea.
good old days

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MelbO!...MelbO! :D

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Don't get agitated :D
We have already established in this thread that men call it Melbo and ladies call it Melba

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well if thats the case, next time i see the 2 young ladies me n me mate went in with i shall tell em that they aint.:D

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I used to frequent The Wayside from about 1958 to 1960. It was owned and run by Stan and Marjorie Forber - he was like everybody's dad, she stood no nonsense from even the toughest lads. My friend and I could make one coffee each last about 2 hours while listening to the jukebox that other people were putting money in. Happy, really rather innocent days. :)

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Pity we never got the photo.

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Sorry, but I've obviously missed this question from you, Cashy. I honestly can't remember. Can you remember when this might have been - I moved out of Accy in late 1961 and may have stopped going in there by then anyway. I seem to remember that it was quite a tiny place.

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yep it was very tiny place, i started going in occasionally around 61 back end of year i think, was a regular from around 62,right across the road from the "Big Crown" n "Joe Morts" in middle of the little row that is still standing, Ciro Polvani had it then, his daughter worked behind the counter also.:)

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Dont tell me Cashy, not you and the daughter??

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no way Al, may have considered it if she'd had a shave.:D