Mucky Melbourne

The Argus – friday 24 June - 1949 POSED NUDE ON PIER While most Geelong residents were huddled around fires or wrapped in blankets a woman completely disrobed on Yarra St Pier to win a bet. The story revealed in Geelong City Court yesterday was that a man bet her that she was “not game” to do it. After she had taken up the challenge, it was alleged that the man disappeared without settling the bet. Police soon after found the woman wearing a fur coat. She was charged with having been drunk and disorderly. She was convicted and discharged after she told Mr. Blakiston, JP, that she was ashamed. from wikipedia Waterfront Geelong Yarra Street Pier is located at the end of Yarra Street and features a number of restaurants, as well as being the departure point for helicopter joyflights. The majority of the pier was destroyed by fire in 1988, but various proposals have been made for the rebuilding (pier image from googlemaps, fur coat woman from stock footage) ...

Sydney Morning Herald April 29, 1976 BLUE MOVIE BRIBE CHARGE – FINE MELBOURNE, Wednesday. - A Sydney man who offered a Melbourne Vice Squad detective money to arrange the showing of blue movie's was convicted on bribery charges in the Melbourne City Court today. The court was told that the man, David Gandali, 32, of Ocean Street, Woollahra, had offered the detective $5,000 a month to two years to organise the “safe” showing of blue movie's at the Barrel Theatre in Melbourne. Gandali had pleaded not guilty to offering a bribe to a police officer to forgo his duties. Mr P. Clothier, SM, fined Gandali $250 Detective Senior Sergeant John Sadler, of the vice squad, told the court Gandali had approached him on March 12 and told him he had $80,000 invested in the Barrel Theatre. “He said his proposition was to show one legitimate feature film and then two or three blue movie's,” Sergeant Sadler said. “If I give you $5,000 a month do you think you could fix it? I can ke...

Here is a funny story about the Ivanhoe Hotel in Collingwood, its now called The Tote . Not much has changed since the 50s, I'm sure they still get the occasional streaker. There's something I  wonder about this story, was he a local because he wouldn't have got far with no pants? Its funny to think this could been someones grandfather's dirty secret.  The Argus – 19 December – 1955 Crowd gapes at pant-less thief A "STRIP-TEASE" thief last night dashed down Collingwood streets clad only in a singlet and left his loot behind - in his pants. Mr. Albert. Lewis, licensee of the Ivanhoe Hotel, Johnston st. Collingwood, and his son,Howard, saw a man creeping down the stairs from the first floor at 7.30 p.m. When Mr. Albert Lewis asked him what he was doing, the man replied: "I've been up seeing my girl friend." Mr Lewis said: "There's no one upstairs. I'll ring the police. We can't have this going on." The man...

Theres is a little shop between Flinders St station & Banana Alley. Its been closed for a few years now. I went and looked up some records in the State Library and the earliest i can find was in 1930 when it was 3 shops, a tobacconist, a oils & colours paint shop and a bootmaker. It was rented by the MidCity Newsagency in 1973 and thats when it started its porn history. It was rented from Flinders St station. Ive seen a few old photos of it from a distance and could see glass windows that mustve been boarded up when it became a porno shop. If you walk towards Flinders St Station from Banana alley there's some steps at the back of the area between it and banana alley. I worked for MidCity newsagents and occasionally took over there during lunch hour, it was pretty small, had no toilet (the people at the carpark across the road let us use theirs) and the roof leaked during big rainstorms. It sits there in the middle of nothing and looks like they had plans for more but...

The Age, August 20, 1980 The opening of the gay sauna Steamworks, It will contain a gymnasium, expensive chairs & a motorcycle! OMG expensive chairs!!!! WTF a motorcycle? Steamworks closed a few years ago and the property was bought by the Coptic Church, I wonder what they thought when they found out about the history of the property. Im getting visions of priests crossing themselves constantly while trying to purge their own "evil" thoughts UPDATE:   after posting this on the LostGayMelbourne facebook page I found out that the special thing about the motorbike was that it had a dildo instead of a seat

Not much has changed around stkilda in the last 65 years, People think streaking was a 1960s thing, looks like their grannies and grandpas loved a bit of skin on the beach too Women to invade male swimmers' nude refuge For the first time in 30 years Middle Park beach baths, sacred nude bathing place for men, were invaded yesterday by an inspector, who bluntly told the men: "Put some clothes on." Startled males, accustomed for years to the freedom of nudity in their regular swim, obeyed—by wearing a towel to the water's edge, then swimming in the nude . One Victorian M.P., a regular visitor, soon started a rebellion against the order. "Be blowed to it. Some of us have been swimming here in the nude since we were boys," he said. But their days of freedom are numbered. Mr. H. Alexander, South Melbourne town...

East Brunswick Club Booby Bar Like a lot of trendy inner city pubs, the East Brunswick Club was once a bar for people who liked to look at tits while having their lunch or dinner Great for business men who need an "important conference interlude".

Doody the stripper, she was stripping in 1969, so if she was of legal age then she'd be in her 60s now. Thats something to make you think when you next see a woman in her 60s, it could be her, the legend who went from stripping to theatre! Ive tried a few things to find her but ive had no luck. Id love to see what shes up to now. it all started with the "hey whats going on" article i found in The Truth newspaper while looking for other stuff. Ive found a few mentions of the gallery owner too, he was a bit of a shit stirrer. Ill put that at the end of Doodys info. HEY, WHAT'S GOING ON? ... it's Doody and it's coming off! Middle-aged stockbrokers and teenage office girls peered out of windows of the drab, grey, Melbourne stock exchange as a busty former convent girl stripped at a premiere of the city's weirdest lunch-time strip show. Crowds of businessmen and more girls milled in the street outside as a band beat out heavy rock music to accom...