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May. 15th, 2002 01:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hnpccI drive to work down Wurunjeri Way. Recently the Collins St extension into the Docklands has been being set up. It's quite trippy to watch. Spencer St Station is now between the overpass (allegedly an extension of Bourke St) that runs to Colonial Stadium and the half built overpasses that will become Collins St. The plan is for Collins St and Bourke St to intersect somewhere in the Docklands, which is just wrong. They're parallel to each other. Wierd.
The whole face of the city is changing. What used to be a vibrant hub in the middle of the CBD has been killed by the heroin trade, with the activity moving to Southbank (casino, restaurants, nightclubs, cinemas). I'm not sure exactly what they're hoping will happen in the Docklands, but I can't see the night/weekend trade moving from Southbank at this stage. Not while the casino remains, anyway. At the same time as the heroin trade has driven people out of the CBD at night and on weekends, there are more people moving into the CBD than since the very early days of the city. Personally I wouldn't move there atm - mostly due to the lack of supermarkets than anything else.
And while I'm thinking about the casino - the decor is so tacky. Before the permanent casino was set up there was a temporary casino in the World Trade Centre. (Yeah, our one, not the NYC ones obviously). The temporary one was in a gold, black and red carpet setting and made me think of Monaco and dress up to go there. The permanent one is decorated in a style that was pretty much out of date by the time it opened (think bad 70s Vegas) and clashes with pretty much any colour except black. For me at least it's a positive disencentive to go there. :-) Although the burning pillars and the fountains are fun. But you can see them without going inside, and most of us do. :-) They also relaxed the dress code to the point that you can pretty much get in wearing tracky daks and sneakers. Don't think anyone's tried in PJs yet, but I'm sure someone will give it a go.
I don't know. If I'm going to go and spend copious[1] amounts of money on roulette (having shoved the pensioners off the el cheapo table) I at least want to be able to pretend that I'm in a James Bond movie rather than a bad 70s rip off.
[1]copious for me. Not even small change for Kerry Packer.
And while I'm rambling on - why, oh bloody why are the 70s allegedly back in? I spent all of my teenage years going "70s. The decade taste forgot" and now people like Kate Hudson reckon that it was a cool decade?!?! Baby blue and brown looks crap on anyone - and i should know, I wore it as a netball uniform for 4 years. Argh!!! Not to mention the early 80s Madonna look seems to be hitting the shelves again. Tell ya, if fluro socks and large "NO/YES" t-shirts come in again I'm leaving. It only goes to show, hang around long enough and everything that you threw away comes in again. Dammit. ;-)
Oh well, at least the Bay City Rollers haven't made it back... yet..
The whole face of the city is changing. What used to be a vibrant hub in the middle of the CBD has been killed by the heroin trade, with the activity moving to Southbank (casino, restaurants, nightclubs, cinemas). I'm not sure exactly what they're hoping will happen in the Docklands, but I can't see the night/weekend trade moving from Southbank at this stage. Not while the casino remains, anyway. At the same time as the heroin trade has driven people out of the CBD at night and on weekends, there are more people moving into the CBD than since the very early days of the city. Personally I wouldn't move there atm - mostly due to the lack of supermarkets than anything else.
And while I'm thinking about the casino - the decor is so tacky. Before the permanent casino was set up there was a temporary casino in the World Trade Centre. (Yeah, our one, not the NYC ones obviously). The temporary one was in a gold, black and red carpet setting and made me think of Monaco and dress up to go there. The permanent one is decorated in a style that was pretty much out of date by the time it opened (think bad 70s Vegas) and clashes with pretty much any colour except black. For me at least it's a positive disencentive to go there. :-) Although the burning pillars and the fountains are fun. But you can see them without going inside, and most of us do. :-) They also relaxed the dress code to the point that you can pretty much get in wearing tracky daks and sneakers. Don't think anyone's tried in PJs yet, but I'm sure someone will give it a go.
I don't know. If I'm going to go and spend copious[1] amounts of money on roulette (having shoved the pensioners off the el cheapo table) I at least want to be able to pretend that I'm in a James Bond movie rather than a bad 70s rip off.
[1]copious for me. Not even small change for Kerry Packer.
And while I'm rambling on - why, oh bloody why are the 70s allegedly back in? I spent all of my teenage years going "70s. The decade taste forgot" and now people like Kate Hudson reckon that it was a cool decade?!?! Baby blue and brown looks crap on anyone - and i should know, I wore it as a netball uniform for 4 years. Argh!!! Not to mention the early 80s Madonna look seems to be hitting the shelves again. Tell ya, if fluro socks and large "NO/YES" t-shirts come in again I'm leaving. It only goes to show, hang around long enough and everything that you threw away comes in again. Dammit. ;-)
Oh well, at least the Bay City Rollers haven't made it back... yet..
