Whatsit Street

Some more pictures I took yesterday. (Yesterday I said I'd uploaded them to flickr but I was lying.) Some of the shops may or may not be fifties. It's hard to tell sometimes. I'll eventually get accurate info and we can all have a decko at them in the meantime.


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Great beach house. There's a few houses on this street that barely use the view at all. This one uses nearly every square inch of it. Plus I just like the house. Except that evil seventies window on this side, of course. Don't know the age of the bottom part. I'll peer over the fence at it one day when they're not home.


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Quick photo of the view from Ocean Beach. All the photos uploaded today and yesterday were taken with this much light. The rest are tweaked.


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This one's on the beach end of Trafalgar Avenue, just round the corner from West Street.


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Love the prow on the veranda of this shop. It's beside the pawn shop and across the road from the pub on the corner of Trafalgar Avenue.


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I wondered if this group of fifties shops around the Trafalgar Ave corner were earlier buildings updated in the fifties so I went round the corner for a look. The Lifeline shop (beige brick on left, grey fibro on right, brick loo) looks like it was built in place of an earlier shop. I'm using the dunny (outdoor loo) as evidence of that. Building an outside loo in the fifties would be unusual. It's a reno, I'll bet. I'd put money on the shop and that grey building being built fresh in the fifties. Ditto the shop next to it (the white building).

Got a few more Whatsit Street (West Street) photos to bung up next week. Presuming Blogger's working. It won't show me my own site today. Bastard!