Victoria Street has
recently received a considerable update. The buildings on the North
side has been made more ‘Australian’. The bar is now known as ‘The
Wombat Cave’ and will in the future be a favourite meeting place for
the staff of the newspaper ‘W.C. Chronicle’. The paper has moved
into its new headquarters in the corner building. The sign-writer is
still busy painting the new signs, but passer-bys can read the latest
news, which are posted along the footpath: Geelong won the VFL
premiership; Kennedy has been assassinated in Houston, Valentina
Tereshkova
is the first woman in
Space; The Seekers play at ‘The Mug Punter Hotel’.
Next to the pub is the
hairdresser ‘Chez Alberto’ known for the line above the window: ‘Curl
Up And Dye,. The name of the watchmaker is taken from and old
Melbourne advertisement. The not so Australian half-timbered house
belongs to a photographer, J. F. Hurley. The small yellow building
now belongs to a shoe shop. The rather unusual typography of the sign
on the awning is a copy of an actual shoe shop sign.
The footpaths are a scan
of an old Vollmer cardboard with bricks. The scan has been added a
concrete curb in Photoshop and printed on 300 gr. paper before being
glued to 1.5 mm cardboard. The small cut-outs in the cardboard allow
rainwater to drain from the street.
The surface of the street
is made with black sandpaper, coarse 600.
The shelter at the
tram stop is modelled after a similar shelter at the corner
of
St Kilda & Commercial Roads
,
Melbourne. The window bars are made of fly-screen material. The track
near the tram stop
still needs to be filled in. It will probably be given a concrete
finish.
