Degraves Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Degraves Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
I used to go to a disco in this street many moons ago. I wondered whether it was through that doorway and downstairs to the basement. I remember seeing Stevie Wright’s band play there. Maybe someone could enlighten me on where it was.
The street has changed so much over the years but was always interesting. I remember a great cake shop with Viennese style cakes and a place that I could buy vegetarian food-that was in the late sixties-for those who remember. ha ha ha! Later CAE art classes with Mirka Mora when I took my son to ‘cause he didn’t want to go to school that day. I’m sure he learned more there that day than he would have at school.
My mother and grandmother (and I suppose great-grandmother) always had a love of the little lanes and streets of Melbourne and we would always walk up Degraves street and cross Flinders Lane meander through Block Arcade on our way to the ‘must see’ Royal Arcade to look at Gog and Magog with the clock. Then off the gallery that used to be housed along with the museum in the State Library of Victoria building.
Yesterday to continue that tradition I took my grandaughter through these streets and then we went to the galleries at Fed Square and then St Kilda road. At 3 and a half – she loved those places as I’ve no doubt that Melbourne is singing in her blood. The family has been here since 1856! Looks like we are here to stay!!!
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Helen Chierego
Thank you to the person who bought this image. Much appreciated. xoxo
Antanas
Great capture…....
Elana Bailey
This is a great capture.
Helen Chierego replied
Elana, thank you!
Kathryn Potempski
I love this shot and the finish wonderful .
Helen Chierego replied
Kathryn, thank you for the feedback. Always nice to know if something workds from another viewer’s point of view.
Ted Byrne
So a guy says to me, “Ted, if an image is legible, does anything else matter?” And I wonder what he meant. Until I see an image like this and I understand that it is created out of idea and feeling. And my imagination is transported right into both of those things. And as my feelings and ideas that it generates… as they become clear… legible.. Hey! I understand what he meant.
Thanks for helping me with that Helen in this wonderful image.
Helen Chierego replied
Ted you write superb comments and you have a unique way of seeing and describing what is below the surface of an image. Not everyone can do that and it never ceases to surprise me when it happens. So thank you for telling me what you see. You are a rare gem. Cheers Helen xox
SandraRos
This is a lovely image and I would be very happy if you would add it to my group Tables and Chairs
madvlad
good framing, seeing is it in photography,or your in your game nice shot
Helen Chierego
...madvlad (I love saying your name…even to myself) ...just an accidental capture and it worked…
madvlad
rather then the night hawks this is the day owl?its a wonderful art work,of real life as it sits,you have done so much work here,that is worth staying a while and looking n looking more
Heather Nel
please consider entering this challenge LINK
Helen Chierego replied
Heather,thank you…I will be right over…
midzing 21 days ago
fantastic image,,, love the mood,,, I havent been to Degraves street in ages,,, time to go down,,, well done Helen
Helen Chierego replied 21 days ago
Wendy, yes time to saunter down the lanes of our city with your camera in hand…so much to see…
I never tire of the beauty and grungyness of the lanes…
rodeorose 20 days ago
Helen, what a brilliant shot and treatment to show this amazing laneway- wonderful place to spy interesting subjects.
Helen Chierego replied 19 days ago
...the laneways are my favourite city places and yes ‘wonderful place to spy interesting subjects’. Thank you Rosie. xox
Virginia McGowan 18 days ago
Interesting Helen, I was only discussing this morning with my husband, did he remember this particular coffe shop I used to go to in the 1950 ies,,[not often] but I worked around the corner] and wow it must be still there.
Helen Chierego replied 18 days ago
Oh! then you must have been a Beatnik if you were going to coffee shops in the 50s! ;))) Now I’m thinking Duffel coats and desert boots… ;D I worked around the corner in Flinders Street at FJs(Fletcher Jones and that is another story…wonderful man). Back then as you’d remember the lane close by: Flinders Lane was the domain of the rag trade…oh the memories…
Virginia McGowan 18 days ago
I missed your writing… yes the cake shop was superb.not that I liked cake, but others did .I used to go to Buckley and Nunn’s department store across the street able to get anything …fantastic quality , I still have a milk jug I bought for my Grandmother around 1956.Too early era for me re disco !
Helen Chierego 18 days ago
Virginia, yes I remember Buckley and Nunn…wasn’t it up near St Pauls…
...do you remember the man that used to write in a notebook outside where the Gas and Fuel was in Flinders street just across the road from the station…I always found him intriguing…wonder what happened to him…
Your milk jug must have a lot of happy associations…
Thank you for coming by-I love your memories of that part of Melbourne …
Cheers Helen