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Fitzroy history – car repairs on Johnston St

This 1948 photo show the premises of the Melbourne Auto Wreckers at 71-75 Johnston Street Fitzroy. The address is still a car workshop today. It’s interesting how some industries have remained in Fitzroy’s streets while others have long since moved away.

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Courtesy of Fitzroy local history photograph collection / ID: 15220 / photographer: unknown / copyright: expired – image is in the public domain / c1948

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 at 12:12 pm and is filed under Fitzroy, Johnston St, cars. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

One Response to “Fitzroy history – car repairs on Johnston St”

  1. em Says:
    October 29th, 2009 at 7:20 pm

    what a great old photo – god, how fugly is that blue thing !

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