True Hate Tattoo on Smith St closed some time ago, but more recently Soul Groove cafe next door also closed. Perhaps we will get some new businesses here with more groove…
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Archive for the category: Smith St
Fitzroy history – from furniture store to apartments
This 1905 photo shows what was Paterson’s Great Furniture Warehouse. The redevelopment includes business premises in the existing floors and apartments to the new floors above. Former first floor tenant Rice Queen relocated to Brunswick St as the redevelopment began and the space was recently advertised.…
Fitzroy history – from newsagent to restaurant
This is another image of one of the featured buildings from an 1889 drawing of Fitzroy. What was once a newsagent is now the Coconut Palms restaurant.
Courtesy the SLV / ID: H4634 / artist: F W Niven / copyright: expired – image is in the public domain / c1889…
lunch at the new Birmingham hotel on Smith St
The Birmingham hotel has had a poor recent past. Live music has come and gone, a campaign proclaiming ‘it’s not shit anymore‘ a few years ago didn’t last and it slipped into irrelevance before closing. Now it has reopened after a complete refurbishment featuring a vintage industrial theme based on the industrial heritage of its namesake city.…
Woolworths Fitzroy breaches Australian consumer law by refusing to offer a refund for faulty goods
Some time ago, perhaps a year or a bit more, I bought 4 Woolworths ‘essentials’ brand AAA 800mAh NiMH rechargeable batteries, made in China, from Woolworths on Smith St in Fitzroy. They recently failed to charge and are dead.
NiMH rechargeable batteries are supposed to be capable of dozens, if not hundreds, of recharge cycles, and should have a life of several years.…
lunch at Masak Masak, Smith St Collingwood
Masak Masak is a new casual Malaysian eatery on Smith St in a space where a couple of generic cafes have previously failed. In reinvigorating the space and changing its use I think it will do well, because there’s been nothing else like in the area since the closure of Roundhouse Roti a few years ago.…
Citro motors on Smith St has closed
I loved walking past here and seeing the various cars being worked on in this garage, which specialised in Citroens. Fitzroy still has lots of car workshops but this was probably the most interesting.
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Woolworths on Smith St bullies local government representative
The City of Yarra councillor Steve Jolly, of the Socialist Party, is more active than most councillors in engaging with residents and ratepayers. He sometimes has a stall outside Woolworths on Smith St, and it was there on Thursday 14 March that Woolworths management called the police in an attempt to evict Jolly from the footpath.…
two portraits of Lewis Marnell
Two portraits of the late Lewis Marnell, on Rose and Spring streets, the top one by Dvate and the bottom one by his brother Jonas.
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