• Pilk@aussie.zone
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    16 days ago

    Love reading the online catalogues at SLV. The language of certain decades is so well crafted, particularly with advertising:

    Melbourne and suburban hotel, guest and boarding house guide and tourist handbook. Date 1928?

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      16 days ago
      Any strange Girl coming to Melbourne can visit the Cafeteria here where meals can be got for a small charge

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          16 days ago

          The vast majority of buildings in this particular guide I’m reading seem to have been supplanted. Seems something of a shame but, equally, nothing stops progress.

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      16 days ago

      Oh you’d love some of the stuff I’ve worked on. Social disease, self pollution, public convenience, avoidance of harlotry. The turns of phrase are magnificent!