Mucky Melbourne

Many years ago there used to be urinals in this little alleyway off Centre Place. Im not sure of their exact position and which way they were facing.  Knowing how bad the drainage was back then it would've stank worse than the laneways of Fitzroy & StKilda after the pubs closed on a Saturday night in summer. Were they put there to keep them out of sight (and smell) of the people on the busier streets nearby? Were they accessible 24/7? Was the cool looking light there back then? Was it a beat?

Hello Im back The first 2 Fringe shows (2015 & 2016) were a success and I'm about to do a third! Here's a short film made by some film students around the time I did my first Mucky Melbourne Walking Tour back in 1995.

my blogs on hold for the moment due to my Fringe Festival thing more info and stuff coming soon as the Fringe Festival's finished click here for more info on the walking tour

Barbara was a single mum and a stripper back in 1972 The lovely Barbara would be 73 this year and might even be a grandma.  What Barbara was doing back in the 70s is still considered by some as un-feminist immoral behaviour. I say to them, shut the fuck up and mind your own business. Truth, may 6 1972 MUMMY IS A STRIPPER 'THE BEST WAY TO KEEP THE CHILDREN' by Robert Berglund A mother of three, who was educated at a ladies college, is providing for her family by appearing in an all-off strip show – the Purple Knight Barbara Sinclair, 31, told me: “its the best way I know of to support my three children.” Barbara went to school at Strathern Ladies College in Hawthorn. She became a stripper after she was apporached by the man behind the Purple Knight, Roger (Duke) Carroll. She said “One day Roger and his wife came around and he talked about a show he planned to put on in Melbourne. He asked me if I was interested. He and his wife seemed pretty decent people so I...

Back in 1972 it looks like there was a lot of stuff going on for the St Kilda strippers.  The 7 year old kid in the first story gets to be on stage with a tiger, then not long after is haunted by a ghost at his mums work. Maybe he was the person who stole the Gina's snake! I wonder where that kid is now, he'd almost be 50. If you are out there Jason, let us know what you're doing now. I highly doubt the shark attack story is real, I dont think theres been any fatal shark attacks in Port Phillip Bay since 1930 when 19 year old Norman Clark was attacked off the end of Brighton Pier on a saturday arvo. Melbourne Truth, Jan 8, 1972 SHOWBEAT with alec martin One of the biggest New Year's Eve surprises at Melbourne night spots was produced at the Getcha Gear Off strip revue at the George Hotel, St.Kilda. A live tiger from Sole's Circus walked on stage with the near-naked show girls at midnight. The audience, taken completely by surprise, lapsed into silenc...

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...