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CHESS MOVE ■ Silvie Paladino has started rehearsals for Chess The Musical to be staged August 18-26. It co-stars Martin Crewes and Simon Gleeson.

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Best Little Whorehouse in ... Parkdale

● The Girls of the House take a break in rehearsals for The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, being presented by Aspect Theatre from August 10 – 18 at the Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Rd., Parkdale.

Pictured from left are (back row, standing) Trish Angliss, Danielle Rancie, Kerryn Petrie, Lindi Rancie, ‘Jewel’, Robyn Pollock, Emily Duncan, Lyn Laister, Clare Zielinski, Katrina Lever and Amanda Fothergill.

Seated in the middle are Simone Griffiths and Anna Ates and girls in front are Kate Knight, Bec Cullinan and Helen Gianakkis.

■ The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, being staged by Aspect Theatre, is directed

by David Higgins, with musical direction

by Emma McGeorge and choreography by ■ Former VictoKim Annette. rian Premier Steve Based on a true story, The Best Little Bracks cut short the term of State GoverWhorehouse In Texas is set in the 1970s nor James Gobbo and is a moralistic tale about old fashioned after it was discovcountry traditions struggling to survive. ered he attended a Tickets: $30/$25/$20 (Gala Night August Victorian lunch 10 $35/$30/$235). group which had Bookings: www.aspecttheatre.com or Liberal links. Gobbo 9580 8415 during business hours. attended the lunch on - Cheryl Threadgold ● Steve Bracks two occasions.

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Top 5 THE TOP 5 COMMENTS HEARD DURING THE OLYMPICS OPENING CEREMONY 5. "Philip. Did you remember to record Mrs Brown's Boys?

4. "No Ma'am, Camilla didn't pack your parachute".

3. "Hey, look at the Greek team.

They're all carrying collection tins".

2. "Look at Delta Goodrem. They started singing and she tried to turn her seat around".

1. "I really don't think Prince Harry should be calling his Grandmother Pussy Galore!"

■ Anglesea company Moora Moora Pty Ltd may be permitted to market yabbies to the public, after a legal case was fought before Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal Senior Member Ian Proctor.

PrimeSafe, the Victorian Government’s regulatory agency over aquaculture, opposed the move.

The company currently supplies yabbies to the Melbourne Zoo, and to another company that runs a dam where people can fish for the seafood.

PrimeSafe says that if yabbies are to sold directly for human consumption they should be “purged”, that is, placedin clean water for 48 hours before sale.

Moora Mora says there is no evidence that purging is required in the interests of public health and safety. It says it is detrimental in economic terms, and puts stress on the yabbies.

Mr Proctor said Moora must be required to submit a food safety plan. He declined to decide that Moora must purge yabbies before selling them for human consumption.

He said it was open for PrimeSafe to take the matter to the Supreme Court for further legal adjudication.

Straight From Heart: A Stitch In Time .... Page 4 News: Peninsula papers at war ............. Page 5 Melbourne People: Been and Seen ........ Page 6 Melb. Confidential: Radio collapse ........ Page 9 Long Shots: Oldies but goodies .......... Page 16 Tribute: Darryl Cotton, 1949-2012 ...... Page 11 Melbourne Extra: Crocodile tales .......... Page 12 Magazine: Melbourne time capsule ...... Page 13 Readers Club: Recipes, birthdays ........ Page 26 Travel, wine: David Ellis reports ........... Page 31 Victoria Pictorial: Nostalgic photos ...... Page 50 Movies, DVDs TV, Radio Local Theatre Opera, The Arts

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Latest News Flashes Around Victoria

Video pirate fined ■ Kali Hovey of Corio pedalled illegal movies on Facebook to help fund her US honeymoon, Geelong Court has been told. Hovey was fined $2000.

Ballarat pigs impaled ■ Three piglets were found impaled on poles in high-pedestrian areas near Lake Wendouree, reports The Courier.

Mozzie virus warning ■ Murray Valley residents and visitors are being warned to protect themselves against mosquitoes following the detection of an encephalitis virus.

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‘A STITCH IN TIME ...’

■ When opportunity presents, proverbs, metaphors, phrases and the odd figure of speech continue to find their way into our everyday conversations to help us express truth, feelings or facts - generally through their wisdom and clever wit. In simple terms, we recite them to get our point across.

Eventually when we 'stop beating around the bush' and take the 'bull by the horns' to 'call a spade a spade', we often discover there is 'many a true word spoken in jest.'

The internet has made researching the origins of many century old metaphors and phrases readily available.

According to sites such as Wiktionary and The Phrase Finder the popular phrase 'A stich in time saves nine' for instance, is claimed to be first recorded by Thomas Fuller in 1732.

The author of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, is also believed to have brought the phrase back into popularity in the 1800s in her short story entitled Kitty's Day Class.

In 2006, the Opposition Leader Kim Beazley wittingly used the phrase to question the Prime Minister in parliament on the topic of interest rates, "Prime Minister, if a stitch in time saves nine, how many stitches are being saved by the last seven consecutive rises?"

Regardless of their inspiration when first coined, interpretations of popular phrases generally translate to a 'universal' connotation and mean-

● 'Is sublime.' Andrew Hall (Bright) ing. With 'a stitch in time saves nine' phrase on the tip of my tongue, often related to procrastination, I eagerly ventured to Melbourne's Convention and Exhibition Centre and weaved my way through the jammed packed Craft and Quilt Fair Expo, and among 300 exceptional quilts, striking fabrics, talented knitters, embroiders, sewers and quilt makers, I met many colourful members of this national, yet closeknit community, who when asked to put a new spin on the famous phrase to express their passion for needlework, turned out to be insightful, poetic and quite crafty. ● 'Makes for great designs.'

Beverley Bussell (Carrum Downs)

● 'Is my relaxing time.'

Marcia Flynn (Knoxfield)

● 'Can be a bitch at times.' Belinda Sherriff (Brisbane)

● 'What a great pick-up line!'

Chris Bogart (Ringwood North)

● 'Saves my mind.' Deirdre Gildersleve (Vermont South)

● 'I wish these quilts were mine.' Noelle Cutler (Chelsea)

● 'Makes the world shine.'

Pat France (Camberwell)

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Listen to the Melbourne Observer on your radio WEDNESDAYS 12.45AM. Cheryl Threadgold, community theatre writer, reports on 3AW. www.3aw.com.au

‘Merge’

1.15AM. Jim Sherlock discusses movies/ DVDs with Andrew McLaren. www.3aw.com.au

■ The Victorian Country Football League has issued a preliminary report that hints at merger the Hamilton and Hamilton Imperials clubs in the Hampden league. The clubs have until August 15 to respond.

Fox alert

■ Foxes are being spotted at inner-city locations such as St Kilda Rd. They will kill chickens, birds and puppies and spread mange - a disease that eats away at skin and is transferrable to humans.

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■ Convicted drug offender Christopher Austin, 21, has avoided extra jail time after he was mistakenly released from custody at Heidelberg Court due to a clerical error. A 21-day manhunt was underway whilst he was at large.

10AM. Editor Ash Long talks with Denis Scanlan on The Pulse 94.7 www.947thepulse.com

● In dispute: a photograph of Arthurs Seat is at the centre of angry words from the giant Fairfax Media group ■ You would think that with its share price at just onetenth of what it was a decade ago, Fairfax Media might have bigger things to worry about than a photograph of the Arthurs Seat tower.

However, the Melbourne Observer understands that Fairfax Media has sent off a stinging ‘cease and desist’ letter to Cam McCullough, publisher of the Mornington Peninsula News Group, over use of the image taken by staff photographer ‘Yanni’.

It seems the pic was first taken by ‘Yanni’ when he worked at Fairfax. ‘Yanni’ now works at MPNG. Fairfax cleared out many of its local employees and most of them now work for McCullough. They include top Editor Keith Platt, journalist Mike Hast, gun sales people Val Bravo and Aaron Hoffman.

McCullough now cranks out four local papers: Western Port News (40 pages), Southern Peninsula News (32pp), Mornington News (32pp) and Frankston Times (28pp). Fairfax struggles with its own local titles.

And we understand McCullough is about to start a new extra paper in Mordialloc-Chelsea. Fairfax had a paper there, the Independent, but it collapsed.

In the past, the giant Fairfax Media group has sent legal letters to the Observer too.

Over 40 years in the media, I’ve learned you cannot win any war for readers’ eyes, and advertisers’ dollars, by jousting an opponent - Ash Long, Editor

10PM. Rob Foenander presents Country Crossroads on Casey 97.7 FM www.3ser.org.au

THURSDAYS ● 3AW’s John Burns made his way to London this week ... travelling to Tullamarine Airport by the authentic London Taxis run by Steven Olsen and Brian Hickey.

‘Burnso’ left an autographed thank-you note: “I feel as though I am in London already.”

Burns and on-air partner Ross Stevenson are broadcasting from the Olympics, 5.30am-8.30am weekdays.

Erotic lending trend ■ Melbourne’s suburban libraries are reporting a trend in erotic book lending after the popularity of E L James’s Fifty Shades Of Grey. Monash Council has bought 20 copies of the book, and now has to order 10 more to keep up with demand from borrowers.

WE PREDICT IT WON’T HAPPEN

■ A Perth-based company has sought the Melbourne Observer to share in profits from readers contacting its ‘astrologers or psychics’.

Rebekah Bautista of Access Positive Pty Ltd made an unsolicited approach to the Observer this week, suggesting that the newspaper be paid 40 cents per minute when readers phoned a 1-900 number.

“Imagine for example if 500 readers call the

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● Rebekah Bautista of Access Positive Congratulations to Matt whose work has yet again appeared on the ABC ‘Insiders’ TV program

number for 10 minutes each in one month,” Ms Bautista said in an e-mail to Editor Ash Long.

“You would accumulate a total of 5000 minutes and you could potentially earn an easy $2000.

“This is a great revenue stream as you earn more for every new and repeat caller that calls the number.”

Ms Bautista said Access Positive Pty Ltd has been a Telstra dealer of premium rate 1-900 numbers since 2003.

“If you are happy with our offer, we will will supply you with our weekly horoscopes and a unique 1-900 number,” Ms Bautsita said.

“We will require you to place a link to our website from your horoscope webpage and if possible list our wbesite at the bottom of the horoscope column in your newspaper.

“This is a fantastic offer you cannot afford to miss,” Ms Bautista said.

“Yes, we can afford to miss it,” said Observer Editor Ash Long.

“We don’t want to participate in any secret bacjhanded commissions from readers’ calls.”

Christina La Cross has been supplying the Observer horoscopes since 2002.

9.15AM. Editor Ash Long talks with Bob and Judy Phillips on 3RPP. www.rppfm.com.au 10PM. Kevin Trask presents The Time Tunnel with Walter Williams www.4bc.com.au

FRIDAYS AM. Ted Ryan talks racing with Denis Scanlan on The Pulse 94.7 www.947thepulse.com 2.30PM. Jim Sherlock talks movies/DVDs with Denis Walter on 3AW www.3aw.com.au

SUNDAYS 9AM. Mike McColl Jones talks the Top 5 with Bob Phillips on 3RPP. www.rppfm.com.au 12 NOON. Kevin Trask presents That’s Entertainment on 96.5FM. www.innerfm.org.au 8.20PM. Kevin Trask presents The Time Tunnel on Remember When. www.3aw.com.au

MONDAYS 2PM. Yvonne Lawrence presents Life And Style on 3WBC 94.1FM www.3wbc.org.au 8PM. Len Baker presents Harness Review on 97.9FM www.979fm.net 10PM. Kevin Trask presents Memories Are Made Of This on 4BC www.4bc.com.au

TUESDAYS 6AM. Rob Foenander presents The Big Breakfast on 88.3 Southern FM www.southernfm.com.au

ALSO BE LISTENING FOR Julie Houghton discusses the arts on 3MBS-FM, 3MBS Digital, Online www.3mbs.org.au Di Rolle discusses Melbourne entertainment on 3AW, overnights. www.3aw.com.au

AND WATCH FOR Country Crossroads TV show on Aurora Channel 183, Foxtel www.aurora.tv

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Fun ship

● Cindy Pritchard

■ Cindy Pritchard is joining with Jan Hall, Jenny Seedsman and Rick Burchall to present the S S Taggart’s Winter Cruise show on Friday nights in August at Taggart’s Cafe and Bar, 389 Nepean Hwy, Frankston.

Dinner and show is $65, the show only is $30. Dinner is at 6pm, show is at 8pm.

Bookings: 9781 3444.

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Philharmonic winners

● Sunday night saw the successful staging of the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic’s Aria quest. From left: Andrew Walies, Jeremy Kleeman, Lotte Betts Dean and Nathan Lay. Julie Houghton’s report is on Page 41.

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Far North

● Retired Melbourne radio pair Angela and Keith McGowan continue their trek around Australia. They are currently exploring the Cape Tribulation-DaintreeCooktown regions of Far North Queensland. Angela is pictured with a roadside vendor of $5 coconut drinks at Cape Tribulation, near Port Douglas.

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● Wes Cusworth

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Move to WIN TV

■ Country Victorians watching WIN-TV this week see a new sports presenter, Mooroopna-based Wes Cusworth.

He joins Bruce Roberts and Jane Bunn each weeknight. For the past six years he was WIN News Bureau Chief in Shepparton.

Before joining WIN News, he worked for the Shepparton News, the Geelong Advertiser and Geelong News, and had extensive involvement in radio with the ABC Grandstand program and a commercial network in the Goulburn Valley.

Cusworth is being seen on bulletins aired across Victoria and the Riverina.

“Having umpired in the AFL in the days that country trips were commonplace, my connections with sport has taken me from Tooleybuc to Welshpool and from Edenhope through to Albury, and seemingly everywhere in between.”

Raised in Geelong, Wes was formerly a physical education teacher.

● Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu visited Derryn Hinch at 3AW’s outside broadcast prior to the Hamer Hall re-opening at the Arts Centre on Thursday.

● Melbourne’s ‘Media Brat Pack’ gathered for midyear drinks at The Wharf Hotel, on Friday night. From left are Rick Smart, Laura Turner and Dean Felton.

Promoting St Kilda PHOTO: FACEBOOK

Rhythm and Blues ● Liz Sullivan joined Peter Meehan who officiated at the Carlton Football Club at the weekend at a ‘Greats’ event. The Blues beat Richmond by 4 points.

● Leeanne Tyrrell, Ron Barassi, Diane ‘Dee Dee’ Dunleavy and Geoff Box were at the St Kilda Tourism luncheon held on Thursday. ‘Dee is an ambassador for the group. ‘Coxy’ was Master of Ceremonies for the function.

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Talk is cheap, gossip is priceless

ANOTHER RADIO STATION COLLAPSE FOR THE GARVINS

Bitch Melbourne’s Secrets

It’s Hamer time ■ K D Lang and Eddie Perfect were amongst the performers at the reopening of Hamer Hall last week.

But that’s about all we can tell you ... because the Melbourne Observer, and many other members of the Melbourne media - were left off the invitation list. ● K D Lang Jessica Bendell, Media Manager for the Arts Centre, told the Observer: “for the record neither Tim (Jones, Assistant Publicist) or I have tickets for Thursday night either.”

A Melbourne publicist was asked to work on a celebrity list for arrival photographs. The ‘wish list’ included Vince Colosimo, Russell Crowe, Judy Davis, Rachel Griffiths, David Gulpilil, Miranda Kerr, Ben Mendelsohn, Kylie Minogue, Guy Pearce, Magda Szubanksi, Gemma Ward, Mia Wasikowska, Jacki Weaver, Hugo Weaving and Sam Worthington.

The publicist wasmet with silence when they asked about air and accommodation for the celebrities ... and remuneration for the publicist.

No Rush for Geoffrey ■ Camberwell actor Geoffrey Rush’s announced the Melbourne cast of A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum on Monday night - but someone neglected to invite the media..

Group ticket bokers met with Rush and producer John Frost. The media get to do that in 10 days’ time.

The cast includes clude Magda Szuban- ● Geoffrey Rush ski, Shane Bourne, Gerry Connolly, Mitchell Butel and Christie Whelan. Rehearsals start on September 17. The show opens at Her Majesty’s Theatre on October 27. Forum played at Her Maj in 1966.

Antony is now in charge ■ Publisher Antony Catalano has assumed control of the Fairfax Community Network of 30 local newspapers.

His Metro Media Publishing company now runs the stable. He has promoted Eileen Berry to Group Editor.

Former FCN boss Colin Moss becomes Operations Manager. MMP’s Trent Casson will manage the merged group. ● Antony Catalano

■ Religious identity Mal Garvin was boss at Melbourne radio station 3AK when it collapsed financially to the tune of several million dollars.

3AK staff and creditors were largely left unpaid, and their superannuation entitlements were never honoured.

Interestingly, Garvin went on to be awarded an Order of Australia honour in 2009 “for services to young Australians”.

In the following year, Garvin quietly ‘retired’ from the Fusion Australia religious organisation after its National Executive found him guilty of “inappropriate behaviour” and “errors of judgement” with “a vulnerable young woman”.

The story was a front-page report in the Melbourne Observer, and reported by Derryn Hinch on 3AW and The Sunday Age. Now, another radio station with Garvin family connections has collapsed.

● Matt Garvin

Off air ● Mal Garvin

Rumour Mill Hear It Here First

‘Wish you were here ...’

■ This winter’s status symbol for Melbourne’s ‘look at me’ set is to have a photo taken at a London Olympics venue, and then to publish it on their Facebook page.

The knock-out ‘UpWith The Jones’ touch is to add a shot from the Qantas ‘First Class Lounge’ on departure.

Swisse Vitamins man Mitch Catlin and his tan have been pictured poolside. Publicity seeker Melissa Hoyer was photographed with Molly Meldrum.

3AW sports commentator Shane McInnes is posting from a number of London locations.

But topping them all has been Toorak real estate couple Megan and Paul Castran posting photos of themselves on their winter break in London, aboard Eurostar, in Paris and on Crete.

● Mitch Catlin

● Melissa and Molly

‘Shirl The Book’ launches

■ Shirl: The life of legendary larrikin Graeme ‘Shirley’ Strachan, by Jeff Apter, will be released today (Wed.).

Hardie Grant is publishing the book about Shirl, the voice and face of such massive 1970s hits as Horror Movie , Ego Is Not A Dirty Word’ and Every Little Bit Hurts.

Strachan hosted Shirl’s Neighbourhood TV program, Our House, and worked as a radio DJ, before being killed in a helicopter crash at age 49.

Dispute

● Jason Akermanis ■ Jason Akermanis is facing legal action by the Moonee Valley Football Club in its bid to recover a disputed $4000 playing fee, reports the Sunday Herald Sun.

Not financially viable Matt Garvin, son of Mal, this week announced the closure of Tasmanian radio station, Heart FM. Mal Garvin based the radio station at the Fusion headquarters at Poatina, near Launceston, to broadcast to central Tasmania, and also relay his national Sunday night program to 65 stations.

Matt Garvin, who took on the lead role at the station, as well as Directorships within the Fusion group, blamed the closure on lack of sponsorship support.

He said the station had struggled to sell sponsorship, had been rejected on a number of funding submissions and had withdrawals of key sponsors and committee members.

“That meant the station was clearly no longer financially viable,'' Matt Garvin said.

“This is a sad day for everyone involved.''

The Examiner newspaper at Launceston reports that a members’ meeting will be held on August 8 to consider the recommendation of the management committee to appoint an administrator and hand back the station's licence.

Heart FM was initially based at Poatina, and another station opened at Longford three years ago.

Whispers

■ Whispers hears that a number of Victorian community radio stations have to cut their live streaming services on the internet, because news services from a commercial station cannot be aired on the Internet for the duration of the Olympic Games.

Charity

■ Olympian Lauryn Mark says she donated the profits from her Zoo magazine bikini photo shoot to the Melbourne's Women's and Children's Hospital charity before Eddie McGuire branded the pictures as "soft porn".

That’s life PHOTOS: FACEBOOK

● Megan Castran on Crete

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■ Rumour is that a Victorian publication group is jumping printer-to-printer to stay alive.

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OLDIES BUT GOODIES

Melbourne

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Leaders in their field

Our Doors are Open!

Freemasonry helps make good men great men

● Ernie Sigley and Denise Drysdale ■ Melbourne TV favourites Ernie Sigley and Denise Drysdale are yet again proving that you can’t keep a good act down.

Ernie Sigley hung up the microphone from his 3AW afternoon show in 2008, and Denise Drysdale retired from The Circle morning TV show at the end of last year.

The pair will be performing a $39.50 twocourse meal lunchtime show at the Dorset Gardens Hotel, Croydon, on Wednesday, August 8.

Long Shots

Freemasons Victoria’s CEO Peter Henshall.

Photo: Lena Way Throughout history, Freemasonry has attracted millions of men from all walks of life, but it is no coincidence that so many Freemasons have been leaders in their field.

It is not that becoming a Freemason equates to automatic success, but rather Freemasonry attracts men of strength, intelligence, courage and great principle who discover that Freemasonry aligns with their existing sense of honour, morality and community.

"We often say that Freemasonry makes good men great men. During our ceremonies we use the tools of the ancient stonemasons as symbols to remind us of how we can improve our character and live a principled life,” said Freemasons Victoria's CEO Peter Henshall.

“For example, in every Lodge Room, there are two marble stones - a rough one and a smooth one. The rough stone symbolises a man in his adolescence, yet to reach his potential.

“The smooth stone represents the man who has evolved and developed as he receives education and life experiences alongside his Masonic journey, which have assisted in polishing his character," "The compasses you see featured alongside the square in our iconic universal logo remind us to conduct ourselves within boundaries, and to 'circumscribe our desires and keep our passions within due bounds'," said Mr Henshall.

"I joined Freemasonry at the age of 24. I can honestly say that as a result I have a better appreciation of the integrity and uprightness required to live a decent and proper life; to live with dignity and prudence.

“I've been privileged to be in the company of good men who show due regard for family and community. They have served as great example in helping me shape my life."

Famous Australian Freemasons include the first Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia Edmund Barton, cricketer Sir Donald Bradman, television personality Graham Kennedy, Australia's 12th and 20th Prime Ministers Sir Robert Menzies and Sir William McMahon, cycling champion Sir Hubert Opperman and aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith.

International renowned Freemasons include second man on the moon Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin, jazz musician Louis Armstrong, Sir Winston Churchill, Benjamin Franklin, poet and writer Rudyard Kipling, World War II General, Douglas MacArthur, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, George Washington and co-founder of Apple Steve Wozniak.

To find out more about Freemasonry, how to become a member, attend upcoming public events, or to take a tour of the Masonic Centre, please visit www.freemasonsvic.net.au or 'Like' our Facebook page, www.facebook.com/ freemasonsvic for the most up to date information.

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with Ash Long, Editor “For the cause that lacks assistance, ‘Gainst the wrongs that need resistance For the future in the distance, And the good that we can do”

● The Queen ■ How are you enjoying the Olympics to date?

The Opening Ceremony were the Queen with James Bond (Daniel Craig, British self- deprecation; Mr Bean (Rowan Atkinson), British humour; and Sir Paul McCartney, British music.

London’s Daily Mail carried a photo of The Queen in which they described her as appearing “businesslike”.

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● John Roberts ■ John Roberts, one of Melbourne's popular singers, passed away suddenly on July 15, at the age of 83.

John Roberts won a talent quest on Graham Kennedy's In Melbourne Tonight and as a result became a regular singer on the program.

In 1968 Graham gave John his own segment singing romantic songs for honeymoon couples.

He was with In Melbourne Tonight for nine years and then joined Channel Seven in the 1970s where he was a regular singer on the Penthouse Club.

He also sang on Bert Newton's Good Morning Australia.

John and his wife Florence moved to Queensland in 1989 where he performed in the casinos, clubs and retirement villages. John returned to Melbourne in 2006.

John Roberts performed at many venues throughout his career and I managed some of his shows in his later years.

John was gifted with a beautiful singing voice and he was a lovely man. Sympathy is extended to his wife Florence, his four children and seven grandchildren.

- Kevin Trask

New show in Melbourne

Thought For The Week ■ “School teachers have to face their problems every day, whereas bus drivers have all their problems behind them.”

Observer Curmudgeon ■ An old man signed: “At my age by the time I find temptation, I’m too tired to give in to it.”

Text For The Week

■ “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of ■ Observer columnists evil.”

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● Tim Draxl ■ Freeway - The Chet Baker Journey is to be staged for six performances at the Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre, Melbourne, from October 16-20.

Tim Draxl is returning to Melbourne after a sellout season at the Sydney Opera House.

The show was conceived and written by Bryce Hallett and Tiom Draxl, with musical direction by Ray Alldridge. The show also features Eamon McNelis.

In his late teens and early 20s, Baker looked like an angel and sang and played trumpet with astonishing assurance and ease.

From his emergence in the 1950s - when the good-looking young man from Oklahoma became an overnight sensation as a jazz trumpeter and singer on America's West Coast - until his drug-related death in Amsterdam in 1988, Chet Baker's life has become the stuff of legend.

Freeway is packed with poignant ballads and classic songs, including My Funny Valentine, My Buddy, Let's Get Lost, These Foolish Things, You Don't Know What Love Is, Look For the Silver Lining, Born to Be Blue, That Old Feeling and There Will Never Be Another You.

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Darryl Cotton September 4, 1949-July 27, 2012

● A publicity photo of Darryl Cotton from the 1970s

● Cotton Keays Morris: Darryl with Jim Keays and Russell Morris

● Performing in the black-and-white days of Australian television

● Darryl Cotton with Marty Monster and Marie Van Maaren, Early Bird Show

● Rick Brewer, Darryl Cotton, Beeb Birtles and Rick Springfield in Zoot ■ A Memorial Service for Darryl Cotton will be held today (Wed.), 12 Noon, at the Comedy Theatre, Melbourne.

● With Feur Long at the Observer Overnighters Christmas party at Grovedale

● With Brendan Scott at the Observer Overnighters party at Doncaster in 2010

■ The Australian entertainment industry lost one of its stars on Friday with the news of the passing of Darryl Cotton, 62.

Born in Adelaide, Darryl was a rock and pop singer, best known as a founding member of Zoot with Beeb Birtles, Rick Brewer and, later, Rick Springfield.

He won widespread popularity as host of Channel 10’s Early Bird Show on Saturday mornings.

And his acting prowess was seen on The Young Doctors, and in the lead role of Joseph And The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat.

Darryl Cotton worked for some time in Los Angeles, performing with artists including Olivia Newton-John, Shaun Cassidy and Cliff Richard.

His songwriting credits include Donny Osmond and Marie Osmond, Engelbert Humperdink and The New Seekers.

His own music success included Same Old Girl and Don’t Let It Get To You, winning a Countdown award for Best Solo Male Performance in 1980.

In the mid-1980s Darryl Cotton cohosted a five-hour TV marathon every Saturday with Marie Van Maaren and Marty Monster (David Triscott).

Melbourne entertainer Brendan Scott said: “I have known Darryl Cotton since I was about 11 or 12 years old when he would regularly allow me to perform on his TV show The Early Bird Show.

“I continued to work with him in more recent times and, to say that it was always a joy, is an understatement.

“I got to sing duets with him, trade onstage insults with him (always in great fun of course) and work very closely with him on many projects.

“It is so sad to learn of his passing and I know he will be very sadly missed by many many people. The memories, however, will always live on!”

Darryl Cotton won an Advance Australia Award for hi services to the community, acknowledging his keen support for numerous charities.

He performed regularly with Jim Keays and Russell Morris.

Earlier this year, Darryl Cotton performed at the Go!! Show Gold reunion spectacular at the Palais Theatre, St Kilda.

Melbourne radio man Craig Huggins described Darryl as a “ripping bloke with the kindest heart and time for everyone”.

Dermott Brereton: “What a truly nice man and gentleman he was.”

Max Merritt: “We lost one of the great ones!” Entertainer Don Crawford: “This is a sad sad day, a great loss not just to the Australian Entertainment Industry but to all of us.

Derryn Hinch: “He was a fit, zealous, health-conscious, non-drinker and nonsmoker.”

Marcie Jones: “We are all so very sad at the passing of Darryl. We had long conversations about life after death. He was a gentle-man and very kind. I know he is at rest, and he will always be in our hearts.”

Long-time friend Jeff Joseph said: “Darryl was much loved and highly respected by men and women alike, both in and out of the entertainment industry.”

Also sending condolences from Cape Tribulation in Far North Queensland were long-time friends Keith and Angela McGowan. Darryl had often appeared on Keith’s Overnighters radio show on 3AW. Darryl Cotton is survived by wife Chez (Cheryl), and children Amy and Tim.

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■ Jimmy Durante was one of the great American comedy performers of the 20th century. He was an amazing character who worked in films, television, radio and live performances.

Jimmy was a very funny man, he was a singer, pianist, actor and comedian - he would stop halfway though a song and tell a joke.

His trademarks were a raspy voice and his huge nose which was commonly referred to as his "schnozzola".

James Francis ‘Jimmy’ Durante was born in 1893 on the Lower East Side of New York City.

His parents had immigrated from Italy and Jimmy was the youngest of four children. When he dropped out of school he became a professional pianist and played in ragtime and jazz bands.

He worked with Eddie Cantor in his early days playing piano at a bar in Coney Island whilst Eddie was one of the ‘singing waiters’.

Eddie Cantor told the story of the cigar box on top of the piano that contained the pooled tips from all the waiters.

The box and the $125 in it mysteriously disappeared and Jimmy was so infuriated he said to Eddie, "How could they do a thing like that!"

Jimmy led an investigation to find out who had stolen the cigar box. They never found the culprit but at a reunion many years later Jimmy confessed to his colleagues that he had taken the money and gave them back their share.

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By Kevin Trask of 3AW and 96.5 Inner FM He said he had ‘borrowed’ the $125 to give to his father to pay for three of his relatives to immigrate to the US. He added, "Two of the guys croaked - what a break!"

Jimmy married his first wife Jean Olson in 1921. He teamed with his friends Lou Clayton and Eddie Jackson and they performed in vaudeville and Broadway shows.

In 1934 he recorded the song Inka Dinka Doo which was very popular in the hit parade and it became his theme song.

His film career began when he partnered silent screen star Buster Keaton in a series of short features.

Jimmy made his feature film debut in The Wet Parade in 1932. He soon became a popular

● Jimmy Durante screen star and his films included Broadway To Hollywood, Palooka, The Man Who Came To Dinner, Ziegfeld Follies and many others.

He became a popular radio star and teamed with Garry Moore in the Durante - Moore Show.

He would always ‘murder’ the English language in his sketches.

His popular songs included I'm Jimmy That Well-Dressed Man, I Know Darn Well I Can Do Without Broadway, I Ups To Him And He Ups to Me, Umbriago and his great duet with Bob Hope, We're The Boys With The Proboscis. His wife Jean died suddenly in 1943 while Jimmy was on tour.

What about some of the great quotes credited to Jimmy Durante: I hate music, especially when it's played.

Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.

Be awful nice to 'em goin' up, because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down.

In 1947 Jimmy teamed with Frank Sinatra

in the film It Happened In Brooklyn.

He began in television in 1950 and had a series of successful shows over a period of eight years. His catchphrase at the end of each show was “Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are”.

In 1960 Jimmy married Margie Little and the couple adopted a daughter. I loved his cameo performance in the film It's aAMad Mad Mad Mad World in 1963.

It is brilliant comedy in the scene where he has a car accident and lays stretched out beside the wreckage - then with his last dying breath his foot kicks a bucket.

During his career Jimmy Durante raised money for various charities and his work with handicapped children was exceptional.

Jimmy Durante passed away from pneumonia in 1980 at the age of 87 and was interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City.

In 1993, 13 years after his death, Jimmy's vocal version of the song As Time Goes By was used in the film Sleepless In Seattle and went into the hit parade.

Kevin Trask The Time Tunnel - with Bruce & Phil Sundays at 8.20pm on 3AW That's Entertainment - 96.5FM Sundays at Noon 96.5FM is streaming on the internet.

To listen, go to www.innerfm.org.au and follow the prompts.

MORE TERRITORY CROCODILE TALES

■ Alan Erskine, a newspaper editor from Mildura, was fishing on the Finniss River last week, when he noticed a huge five-metre crocodile on the muddy bank nearby.

The only problem was that it didn't have a head.

Apparently, according to Wildlife Ranger Tom Nicholls, it happens at the end of every wet season -people rush up from the south for some fishing, and take crocodile heads home as souvenirs to have them mounted.

I haven't had much to do with crocodiles, apart from having seen them and jumping out of the water at Adelaide River, snapping up dangled chickens in their powerful jaws.

Plus a couple on the spectacular Kakadu Yellow Waters cruise.

However, when I was up in Darwin with my mate Terry Cullen a few years ago, at a crocodile conference, we went into Arnhem Land somewhere to check on some Fresh Water crocs to see how they were faring with the infestation of the poisonous Cane Toads, which they eat, mistaking them for harmless frogs, and die shortly thereafter.

We would catch and measure them, and tag them, or read existing tags, noting all the details for future reference.

One activity was undertaken to ascertain their sex. This required inserting one's finger into their "vent" to have a feel around.

I opted out of that one!

■ Every year it's the same -there is a headline in the local Darwin paper I'm sure they have the same story and just dust it off!

‘Cold Snap Hits Darwin!’, and the article goes on to say that Darwin residents were "sent scurrying for their blankets last night as the overnight temperature plummeted to 20!"

20° overnight in Melbourne almost has locals the rushing to the beach for some ‘relief’!

Darwin is almost the same as Singapore - I once asked a taxi driver: "Every night on the TV news you have sport but no weather- why?"

"No point," he said, "the weather is always the same every day!"

I've experienced Darwin in the Wet and the Dry. With the former it's raining every day, with spectacular lightning displays, but the latter is extremely pleasant.

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with Nick Le Souef Lightning Ridge Opals 175 Flinders Lane, Melbourne Phone 9654 4444 www.opals.net.au weather wise, and it's easy to plan things when you know that it's not going to rain.

The worst part however is the "build-up", when it spends a few weeks at the end of the Dry, and it tries to rain.

The humidity a stifling, and it's then that people supposedly go ‘Troppo’.

One magistrate gave a light sentence to a gentleman who had shot his neighbour for mowing his lawn early one morning.

"It's understandable," said His Honour, "that's normal behaviour for the build-up!"

■ I don't rage too much against my fellow motorist, but I do note many an instance where I would like to. As everyone laments, it's just getting worse and worse.

It happened to a mate of mine a while ago in Alice Springs.

He owned a restaurant, and needed a new manager, so advertised.

A lady called, and an interview was arranged for the following day at 9am Mike was running a little late, so sped up a little, and entered the round-

about on the Stuart Highway a little too quickly, as did another motorist.

He told me that he was slightly in the wrong and cut the other driver off just a tiny bit, but said that because of her speed, she wasn't entirely blameless. She seemed to be in a hurry too.

At the next set of lights they both stopped, when she wound down her window and roundly abused him with a raging, expletive-packed invective.

They both sped off at the green light, going their separate ways.

As he drove up to his restaurant car park, he noticed another car had just pulled in ahead of him.

You can guess the rest!

As she alighted from her car, Mike said: "Don't even think about it!"

I'll bet she regretted that little bit of road rage!

■ Well, the Camel Cup has just been and gone again!

You can't escape camels in Alice Springs. There was the camel farm I have previously mentioned, for years, and another one at Stuart Well, 90 kms down the road.

And there are herds of wild camels roaming around the desert off the highway, especially down towards the Rock.

This year's cup winner, riding Chrissie for the third time, was Phoebe Waters, from Stuart Well. Her dad Neil owns a company called Camels Australia, and Phoebe of course has grown up with them.

The cup itself attracted about 6000 people to Blatherskite Park, and raised about $60,000 for local charities.

Whilst the event itself went off without a hitch, there was a glitch - five camels escaped; as they're worth about $5000 each, this caused a little consternation amongst the owners.

However, happily they were scooped up about 20 kms away near Pine Gap. No threat to national security!

■ There's always some eccentric activity going on in Alice Springs!

Apart from the Camel Cup, the annual Postie Bike race also reared its head.

Last time, a few weeks ago, it was Miss Universe Australia raising money for Outback kids; this time it was a Ms Australia finalist, Danielle Larch, heading a bevy of old postie bikes, via her project Dovetail Charity.

● Never smile at a crocodile It's always heartening to see how stationery items along the way, and some of the more advantaged mem- providing them with other exciting bers of society, like many service activities which they don't usually enorganisations and charities - Lions, counter.

The overall organizer of the ride Rotary, and Variety immediately spring to mind, helping out the least was Mrs Australia 2010, Bobby Murphy, who will go on to represent advantaged, in most cases kids.

So the Postie bikes have been Australia in the Mrs Globe Pageant bumping their way along the Stuart in August in California.

Excitement all round!

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■ Watching tattooed footballers, cricketers and other sportsmen and sportswomen carrying on with their antics has dulled my interest in following those sports that I was once keen on.

Now we have the Olympics and all the carry-on that has become the news - from petulant hissy fits to demands that a woman carry our flag into the arena.

Athletes have become part of the celebrity circuit and of course there are plenty of tatts adorning them as well.

The dreaded dollar destroyed true amateurism and the Olympics has become just another commercial venture with taxpayers as always footing the bill.

Olympic success has its post-Olympic repercussions as fading stars fail to face reality and the recent Grant Hackett meltdown was a sad reminder of this.

If we don't do well there will be the usual recriminations and handwringing but all the officials with their good salaries and fringe benefits will determinedly hang on in there.

Sport is now big business and there is no going back but who will apply the brakes and bring some common sense on board?

Sensible and determined sports ministers who can brush off their bureaucrats and start restoring some order may be the answer but they are just politicians aren't they?

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By Ash Long, Editor ■ How would it be to travel back in time? To the Melbourne of old - when the 6 o’clock swill was about to be replaced by 10pm closing, and when VFL football was at six suburban venues on winter Saturday afternoons.

The Melway Street Directory people today (Wed.) re-release the original No 1 edition of their iconic book, dating back 46 years.

It was an era of black-and-white television, Prime Minister Harold Holt, Premier Sir Henry Bolte, preTattslotto, and decimal currency had just replaced pounds-shillings-and pence.

Melway went on sale for $2.50 (25 shillings) at a time when ‘greater Melbourne’ extended to Deer Park in the west, Epping in the north, Lilydale in the east, and as far as Mornington in the south.

By comparison, the 2013 directory (No 40) includes Geelong, Healesville, Kinglake, Gisborne, Bacchus Marsh, Pakenham, Phillip Island, Portsea and Lorne. These would have all been considered as country destinations in 1966.

The Melbourne portrayed in Melway No 1 is light years away from our current international city.

Westgate Bridge was yet to collapse (1969), let alone open upon its completion in 1978.

The South-Eastern Freeway ran the short distance from Olympic Park (Swan St) to Burnley St. The Tullamarine Freeway ran only a few kilometres, from Mickleham Rd, ‘Broadmeadows West’ (now Gladstone Park) to the ‘Tullamarine Jetport’, under construction.

There was no Monash Freeway to Narre Warren, no Eastern Freeway from Hoddle St, no Eastlink or Mornington Peninsula ‘Frankston’ Freeway.

Melway No 1 shows the Plenty Rd tram terminus at East Preston (now Mill Park); the Burwood tram yet to be extended to Vermont; and the Mont Albert tramline yet to make its way to Box Hill.

The Melbourne of 1966 saw retail shopping concentrated on what we now know as the ‘CBD’.

● Melbourne 1966: looking to the east from the then-GPO in Elizabeth Street Victorian municipalities numbered more than 200, later reduced to 70 or so. Melbourne’s local government ‘cities’ included Box Hill, Brighton, Broadmeadows, Brunswick, Camberwell, Caulfield, Chelsea, Coburg, Collingwood, Dandenong, Essendon, Fitzroy, Footscray, Frankston, Hawthorn, Heidelberg, Keilor, Kew, Malvern, Melbourne, Moorabbin, Mordialloc, Northcote, Nunawading, Oakleigh, Port Melbourne, Prahran, Preston, Richmond, Ringwood, St Kilda, Sandringham, South Melbourne, Springvale, Sunshine, Waverley and Williamstown.

Each had their own town halls, most with their own rubbish ‘tips’ alongside residential areas.

The ‘shires’ on the city outskirts included Altona, Croydon, Diamond Valley, Doncaster and Templestowe, Eltham, Knox, Lillydale, Mornington and Sherbrooke.

The CBD of 1966 included features including the Ress Oriental Hotel in

● An ant made a guest appearance in the 2000 edition, walking onto the plate-making phase, getting squashed between the artwork film and the plate during exposure.

Chadstone had only opened in 1960, and Northland was new (1966).

Melbourne’s major shopping centres were listed as Beaumaris Concourse, Centreway Preston (where Preston Market later opened), Donvale (Tunstall Square), Eastland (to open in 1968), Forest Hill, Kingsway at Glen Waverley, The Mall at Heidelberg West, Centreway and Hamilton Place at Mount Waverley, Southland at Cheltenham (to open in 1969), and Parkmore at Vermont.

The only feature at ‘White’s Corner’, Doncaster, later to become ● A W-Class tram crosses Prince’s Bridge on its way to South Westfield Shoppingtown is a PMGpublic telephone booth.

Melbourne Beach in 1966

Collins St; the Herald building in Flinders St; The Age yet to move from Collins St to Spencer St; the Southern Cross Hotel in Bourke St; the Mutual Bowl in Flinders St; Menzies Hotel on William St; the Mail Exchange near Spencer St Station (now Southern Cross); and Police Headquarters ‘D24’ in Russell St. Today’s ‘Southbank’ area, home of Crown, is occupied by Riverside Ave and Yarra Bank Rd. The Docklands region is decades away, with the region shown as Victoria Dock, and the Dudley St rail yards.

City landmarks include the Ansett and TAA airline offices in Franklin St; the Carlton and United Breweries precinct of Bouverie St; and the Queen Victoria and Jessie McPherson Hospitals in Lonsdale St. Melbourne 1966 has St Patrick’s College alongside the Cathedral; the South Melbourne Depot in Kingsway; Prince Henry’s Hospital in St Kilda Rd; the Dental Hospital at the ‘Haymarket’; and the new Royal Children’s Hospital in Flemington Rd. Melbourne’s hospitals to be included are Airlie Maternity (Ivanhoe); Bethesda; Bethlehem; Burwood; Greensborough; Hamilton Russell House; Heatherton Sanitorium; Margaret Coles Maternity (Alfred); and Kew (Mental) ● Turn To Page 12

● Melway co-founder Merv Godfrey (centre) with his sons and current Melway directors Dean, David and Murray Godfrey

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Putting Melbourne on the map

● Merv Godfrey at the Melway office in Glen Iris, standing in front of the 1:100,000 scale wall map which was produced in 1980 ■ Merv Godfrey was the originating designer and cartographer of the Melway Street Directory.

He trained as a survey draughtsman with the Victorian Lands Department.

He served with the RAAF as a radio operator during WWII. Following the war he was employed with the State Electricity Commission of Victoria and became involved with various tourist maps during his ‘out of hours’ time.

Merv was one of the founding members of the Institute of Cartographers and served as honorary treasurer for 10 years.

He now holds the office of Fellow Member in recognition of his contribution to the Institute and cartographic achievements.

His involvement with Ray Harrison, a publisher, in the mid 1950s gave him the opportunity to produce the Olympic Games map of Melbourne in 1956.

He also was involved with many other tourist and oil company maps.

During the 1950s Melbourne had several street directories, Morgans, Collins, Robinsons and Universal.

Merv could see the shortcomings of these directories and proposed to Ray Harrison the possibility of producing and printing a Melbourne Street Directory.

The concept was to produce a multi – coloured high quality directory printed on a good quality paper.

Around 1960 Merv met Iven Mackay, who was also interested in the same project, he eventually became Merv’s partner as Ray Harrison died before the project had progressed very far.

Merv resigned from the SECV in 1961. They began in earnest the task of producing the new directory.

Merv, from his home studio which remained his office until 1985, assumed the role of creating his vision of designing and drawing the highly accurate multi coloured maps.

Iven took these maps and drove many thousands of miles in a secondhand old Morris Minor field checking every road and detail. ● Turn To Page 15

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● From Page 11 Suburban hospitals of 1966 shown in Melway include Mont Park, Larundel Psychiatric Hospital and the Gresswell Sanitorium. A branch rail line to Mont Park runs out of Macleod Station on the Hurstbridge line.

The new La Trobe University is shown to be under construction at Macleod West, with the yet-to-be named Kingsbury Drive shown as not yet constructed.

In its Commemorative Edition, the Melway folk look at some of the benchmark events in Melbourne from the era.

In 1968, the new National Gallery of Victoria opened in St Kilda Rd. In the following year The Age newspaper moved from Collins St to Spencer St. In 1970, with constructiuon of the Melbourne Underground Rail Loop ready to begin, Melway was about to publish Edition 4, and expand its definition of Greater Melbourne to include maps of Emerald, Monbulk, Werribee, Melton, Sunbury and Craigieburn.

By 1973, the Victorian Football

● Bulleen Drive-In Theatre. 1966 League’s expansion to Mulgrave/ and then further eastwards to Bulleen.

Waverley was included with detailed It would not be until 1982 when the maps in Edition 6 (1973).

Freeway was extended to Doncaster Random breath testing was intro- Rd. duced in Victoria in 1976, and a new The building of the West Gate emphasis on road safety was be- Bridge - complete with toll booths coming evident. was completed in 1978. Tolls were The following year, 1977, saw the abolished in 1985. opening of the Eastern Freeway, first The Mulgrave Freeway was exfrom Hoddle St to the Chandler Hwy, tended between Forster Rd and

Huntingdale Rd. Construction of Melbourne’s outer ring road was commenced in 1989. Construction continues today.

In 1989, Melway No 19 included maps of Yarra Glen, Phillip Island and the rest of the Mornington Peninsula.

The Docklands development ‘explosion’ is reflected in the 1993 maps, when the area was annexed to the Melbourne City Council area, a year after Jeff Kennett was elected as Premier.

Melbourne’s road network continued to develop with the start of construction in 196 of the Citylink tollway. This progress took in the routes to Melbourne Airport, the docklands and the south-east.

These ‘Kennett-years’ developments tok in the opening of Crown, construction of the Bolte Bridge, the enhancements at Southbank, and Federation Square in 2000.

Forty different editions of Melway portray a city that has developed from a close ‘town’ to an international city with hi-tech communication.

It is still enjoyable to take a trip down Memory Lane. Although there is no such street listed in the index!

Five years to produce first edition ■ The First Edition of Melway Street Directory was published in 1966 after having taken five years to compile.

After a very short time, Melway had firmly established itself as Melbourne’s number one street directory and quickly became a household name.

The name Melway was originated by the publishers from the ‘Mel’ of Melbourne and ‘Way’from find your way in Melbourne.

When Melburnians are looking for a street they don’t just refer to a street directory, they “look it up in the Melway”.

Melway claims to be the most advanced, accurate, up to date and comprehensive street directory produced anywhere in the world and its success is due to the dedication and innovation of the Melway organisation.

The Melway maps not only show in colour the total Melbourne road network but also include a wealth of additional information such as tram and bus routes, schools, shops, churches, Police stations, traffic lights, public telephones and hospitals.

Melway is used by the Police, Ambulance, Fire Brigade and all Government departments as well as the real estate, taxi and bus industries.

In radio, television and press advertising, the Melway grid references are now widely used by companies and organisations to assist clients and customers locating their premises.

Each new edition of Melway is completely updated and revised and additional pages of maps and information are included. Melway is wholly owned, produced and manufactured in Australia.

Looking to the future ■ Has the proliferation of computers, GPS and hand-held devices meant a threat for Melway?

This is not the case, according to Dean Godfrey, Managing Director, and son of founder Merv Godfrey. Book sales continue to be strong.

“The emergence of Google Maps offering free information has obviously had repercussions across the entire market, but Melway will continually seek to improve its products and listen to what the people of Melbourne want from their ‘bible’,” he says.

Dean says the Melway experience is more than about motoring. The printed book gives people to sense the surroundings, finding nearby recreational areas, and local shopping facilities.

The company is not ignoring the new technology: “The exciting opportunities that iPhones/iPads/wireless devices and the internet offer will see many platforms on which to view and use Melway mapping,” Dean adds.

■ Would Melway designer Merv Godfrey ever dreamed that his maps would one day become a fashion statement in the best Melbourne homes?

Artworks, perhaps with a street you absolutely love, a parkland that conjures up great childhood memories, or maybe a suburb you are synonymous with, can be incorporated into a piece of artwork for homes or offices.

In The Block TV program, Brad and Lara used a customised map fromMelway Mapping as a kitchen splashback on an island bench, choosing the area surrounding the Dorcas St, South

Melbourne property as the backdrop. The colourful, trademark maps added a dash of colour and interest to an otherwise minimal and contemporary design.

The judges “wowed” the distinctive design and marvelled it as “the best idea ever” and “really cool”.

According to Melway Mapping’s Customised Mapping Manager, Warwick Lyon, the in-house customised mapping department can design a map that specifically suits people’s needs. he expects increasing interest after The Block.

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Melway: mapping our lives

By Ash Long, Editor ■ Thank you to the Godfrey family, co-founders of the Melway Street Directory for producing the Commemorative 1966 First Edition, being released today (Wed., August 1).

This publication is a snapshot of our lives. It explains our history. It shows our roots. It traces our development. It portrays our favourite places. It reflects our innocence - as individuals and as a society in Melbourne.

Melbourne 1966 was quite different to Melbourne 2012. It was certainly tribal as 12 footy teams met on winter Saturday afternoons at Princes Park (Carlton), Victoria Park (Collingwood), Brunswick St (Fitzroy), Western Oval (Footscray), Kardinia Park (Geelong), Glenferrie Oval (Hawthorn), MCG (Melbourne), Arden St (North Melbourne), Punt Rd (Richmond), Junction Oval (St Kilda), Lakeside (South Melbourne) and Windy Hill (Essendon).

Melway hit the streets in 1966 as a 106-map directory, at a time when UBD, Morgans, Collins and Gregorys had been the standards.

In 1966, I was a Grade 4 pupil, aged 9, at Reservoir East State School. My life centred around that suburb, neighbouring Preston, and weekly trips to grandparents at Thornbury and Heidelberg.

By 1968, I was a Grade 6 student, 11, travelling by bus, tram and bus to Ivanhoe, and through all the suburbs in-between.

And by 1969, I was a 12-year-old newsboy for the Sunday Observer, soon to travel weekly to the printing plant at Fishermens Bend, using a Melway to help map out distribution delivery routes.

Truck drivers tok newspapers to places such as Essendon Aerodrome, to load onto the overnight Brain and Brown DC-3s to Tasmania. The Matthews Ave trams used to run straight into the Aerodrome.

The route from the City to the Aerodrome, pre-freeway, was Mount Alexander Rd and then ‘Lancefield Rd’, clearly shown in Melway.

When Tullamarine opened, there was certainly no ring road, so trips around Broadmeadows involved the dip into an area (Maps 5-6) shown as Broadmeadows West (now Westmeadows).

The is plenty of white space on those maps, denoting undeveloped land.

Our early newspaper truck deliveries involved suburbs such as

● Swanston Street, Melbourne in 1966: looking towards Little Collins Street The ‘Princes Gate’ area, with its proposed, Thomastown (Vilage), iconic Gas and Fuel building above, Tullamarine (Village) and Wantirna stood where Federation Square now (Hoyts). stands.

The city’s racing track includes the With the liberty to travel freely in a Epsom Training Track, the Mentone safe Melbourne, this youngster Training Track and RAS Showwould delight in City trips with desti- grounds (‘trotting’). A rail siding is nations including the Model Dock- shown for the Mornington Raceyard in Swanston St, Tim The Toy- course, on the route from Baxter and man, Foys department store in Moorooduc. The RAS Showgrounds Bourke St. include the main arena and trotting Clay pits, quarries and brickworks track. dot the Melway maps across MelMy hometown Reservoir (Map 18) bourne. shows a wide network of public teleOur weekly travels used to take us phone booths, long before an era of across ‘Mahoneys Lane’ (named as mobile and car phones. These were a ‘Road’), and I used to look out for a the original roll-the-coins boths, later Melbourne and Metropolitan Tram- followed by the Buttons-A-and-B ways Board double decker bus, parked models. at a motor wreckers.

Kingsbury Technical School was Melway shows the streets of north- prominent in a new suburb that had west Reservoir as being unmade. included a golf course. Technical Much of Thomastown, Lalor and Schools were important then, and few Epping is undeveloped, and Mill Park were ashamed to start their trade bais not even named. A solitary road - sics at ‘Tech’. Our society could do McKimmies Lane - runs for less than well to acknowledge that not every● Ash Long in the 1960s one requires a University-degree!

Braodmeadows, Jacana, Glenroy, a kilometre.

Even the streets surrounding the The Yallambie and Streeton Views Oak Park, Strathmore, Coburg and area that was to become the Bunareas, near Lower Plenty, are yet to Brunswick.

The special Melway commemo- doora Hotel are shown as “not fully appear on maps. The elevated area is dotted with radio masts for radio starative edition shows a branch line trafficable”.

Much of Map 10 is developed to tions 3XY and 3AW (Hendersons Rd), from Broadmeadows into the ‘Milithe ‘Janefield Colony’, extending 3UZ (Henty Rd), 3DB (Martins tary Camp and Migrant Hostel’.

Lane), 3KZ (Cleveland Rd) and 3AK Melway No 1 shows a Melbourne back to the Plenty River.

Much of Watsonia, Greensbor- (Stawell Rd). where our local Epping-Hurstbridge The north-south Fitzsimons Lane trains terminated at Prince’s Bridge, ough, Plenty and Diamond Creek across-the-road from Flinders St Sta- was yet to be developed, and the main takes a different course through Hurstbridge road takes a diferent Templestowe; Reynolds Rd is only in tion. No underground loop just yet. course at Wattle Glen. segments; and Springvale Rd ends in A western edge of the map depicts the middle of Donvale paddocks. a young St Albans, and the area which Back in the west (Map 25), Deer was to become Kealba - like much of Park is shown as home to the ICI neighbouring Keilor - is shown to be Explosives Factory; just as the Mariundeveloped in 1966. byrnong area was home to munitions My father had worked at a factory facilities, busy in the World War II in Parer Rd, Airport West, about this era. time. It had a post office box in NiddThe Sunshine of 1966 is sprinked rie. Entertainer Barry Humphries la- with roads yet to be fully constructed. ments in his latest show that this has The Inner-Circle railway line now become an inner suburb! through Carlton North and into FitzThe Coburg Drive-In Theatre is roy North is in print. As is the branch prominent on Map 18 of Melway No line from Fairfield to the Paper Mills, 1. The directory lists those in Me- alongside the Chandler Hwy. bourne to include: Bulleen (Hoyts), The Fairfield Hospital and Fairlea Burwood (Hoyts), Campbellfield Female Prison are shown alongside (Hoyts), Clayton (Metro Twin), the Yarra Bend National Park, yet to Croydon (Village), Dandenong (Pan- be sliced by the Eastern Freeway, oramic), Frankston, Hawthorn East which was to open 10 years later.

(Toorak), Laverton (Village), MariAt Heidelberg, near the house of byrnong (Sunset), Oakleigh South my grandparents, Melway No 1 has a (Hoyts), Preston (Hoyts), Preston reminder of the ‘gas holders’ that were (Olympic Twin), Rowville (Village), common across the suburbs. ● Essendon Aerodrome waiting area, 1960s Sandringham, Sunshine (Village) ● Turn To Page 16

● From Page 14 ■ Iven Mackay passed away in May 1989, 23 years after the first edition was released, and the Godfrey family assumed full ownership of the business.

The Melway philosophy has been to create a high quality product, while keeping operating costs low, resulting in competitive pricing.

With this philosophy Melway has been one of the true ‘cottage industries’, as the map production mainly took place at Merv’s studio with family members helping out.

All the maps for the first edition Melway were pen and ink drawn, larger than final size.

All typesetting was hand composed and printed on a hand operated letterpress machine in Merv’s garage.

Various members of Merv’s family were press ganged into typesetting (Merv’s wife Barbara) and the printing – there were many thousands of names to be set for the maps.

Once the maps were drawn they then had to be photographically reduced to final size. A simple camera was built specifically for this one task. As completion of the mapping task grew near, the hours correspondingly grew greater – often into the early hours.

Early in 1966 all maps were completed and ready for printing.

P.C. Grosser Pty. Ltd. of Moorabbin were the printers used for the first five editions.

Melway hit the streets in May 1966 at a retail price of $2.50, nearly twice the price of its nearest competition.

Melway’s first publicity was

by Graham Kennedy on IMT’s New Products.

Many sceptics said it would never sell because of the price difference. However, it not only survived but has become the most comprehensive directory in the world.

It is more than a street directory and there is no other name to describe it but it is a ‘Melway’.

Merv together with his partner began the task of looking to the second edition and realised they had made a rod for their own backs in keeping pace with a growing Melbourne and updating every map on an annual program. In 26 years 22 editions were produced.

It was during this second edition that Merv noticed the talents of a young cartographer working for the printer P.C. Grosser.

He invited him to help with the Melway cartographic work which Merv’s partner would collect from various sources and hand over to Merv for upgrading.

The second edition saw the change over from pen and ink drawing to the then still relatively new technique of scribing and cut and peel masking.

These had time saving advantages as it allowed the cartography to be carried out at map size.

It also saw the introduction of phototypesetting and photolitho film reproduction for the second and subsequent editions of Melway.

To produce the film work for the second edition, Merv converted a cupboard in his studio into a darkroom.

Conditions were cramped but the results were to Melway standards.

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What did Melbourne look like in 1966?

● Flinders St. 1966 ■ 28,950 streets across 106 maps, compared with 88,000 in Edition 40 ■ Eight migrant hostels in Altona, Broadmeadows, Brooklyn, Fishermen’s Bend, Holmes-glen, Maribyrnong, Nunawading and Preston ■ 20 drive-in theatres ■ Wide-open spaces where populated neighbourhoods now feature Sunbury, Melton, Craigieburn, Mernda, Doreen, Berwick, Pakenham, Cranbourne, Werribee, Caroline Springs, Altona Meadows, Tarneit, Truganina and Endeavour Hills The collectors’ edition maps out the proposed site of the Melbourne Jetport, an abundance of local drive-in movie theatres and the streetscape before freeways ringed the city.

It’s a talking piece, an excellent gift idea and a time capsule spanning Melbourne’s growth over nearly half a century.

Melway Managing Director Dean Godfrey says the Commemorative First Edition signifies the heart and history of a muchloved city and street directory.

“The First Edition is a snapshot of Melbourne in 1966 that covers a lifetime of most of Melbourne’s population.

“I’m excited that our company has a chance to showcase the product that started it all,” he says.

The Commemorative First Edition Melway also includes a 16page history section, with some great anecdotes about Melway, including the ant that accidently appeared in Edition 27.

There are also photographs and a timeline to show Melbourne’s growth, as well as praise from some of Melbourne’s well-known identities.

● Collins St. 1966

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● From Page 15 To the south, Frankston rail commuters were able to connect with ‘rail motors’ on the Stony Point and Mornington lines.

The Melway maps extended to the Mornington shopping centre precinct.

In the east, the orchard areas of Doncaster, Templestowe, Wonga Park, Ringwood North, Croydon North and Lilydale were shown as ‘blanked’ areas on the Melway map.

Much of Mooroolbark was yet to be developed, although the then-new Chirnside Park area was denoted, along with the ‘proposed’ 18-hol;e golf course.

The rail motor lines to Healesville and Warburton are in place in the first edition of the directories. Their closures were in 1983 and 1965 respectively.

The western suburbs paddocks of Ardeer, Derrimut, Brooklyn and Tottenham are a far cry from the 21st Century Melway maps of the same areas.

The Williamstown Ferry, from the Port Melbourne side, is noted as opening seven days a week, from 6.15am to 8.35pm.

The CommonwealthAircraft Factory runways take a fair slice of Fishermens Bend, and the Westgate Bridge is simply denoted as “approximate line of proposed new access road”.

Also at Fishermens Bend is a ‘Migrant Hostel’. There is one at Brooklyn Another appears at Chifley Drive (Princes St), Preston.

Melway No 1 reminds us of longforgotten brand-names: the Amoco facility on Coode Island, the Mebourne Metropolitan Board of Works, the SEC (State Electricity Commission) ... as well iconic facilities such as the stockyards at Newmarket.

Heritage locations from our past include the Police Hospital in St Kilda Rd, the Art Gallery and Cultural Centre (‘under construction’), and the HSV7 Studio Theatre in Johnston St, Fitzroy.

The GTV-9 studio in Bendigo St, Richmond is shown: it had been in operation for 10 years when Melway No 1 was produced.

The new ATV-0 studios at Springvale Rd, Nunawading is shown, although there are acres of empty paddocks surrounding the station which had opened only two years earlier.

ATV-0 was owned by airline boss Sir Reginald Ansett. His helipad on the banks of the Yarra River is shown on the city map 43.

In the inner-east, the Kew Mental Home and Cottages are shown, as are some of the streets that were taken in the following decade for the Eastern Freeway.

A map of where freeway extensions went later near Greythorn, show a public telephone booth in the path.

This was near the Albert Argenti Receptions centre on Doncaster Rd. The Burke Rd crossing of the Yarra River takes a different course on Map 45, prior to its duplication.

The Melway edition records aspirations ... some not achieved. At Blackburn, there is the ‘proposed new site for Camberwell Grammar School on Park Rd. Today, it is part of the Blackburn Lake Sanctuary.

On a personal note, I look at Glen Rd, Mitcham, where we bought our first house in early 1980s. The extension of that road is yet to be built in 1966, and much of the nearby Donvale area is shown as paddocks.

Melway No 1 takes a snapshot of a growing Melbourne of 1966. Galvin railway station on the GeelongWerribee line is shown. The General Motors station is denoted on the Pakenham line. But yet to make an appearance are stations such as

● The red ‘Tait’ trains used by Melbourne commuters in 1966

● From Page 15 In 1977 Melway bought its first film processor which replaced hand developing.

In 1993 personal computers were used to generate the indexes in-house.

In 2000 the Melway maps were all generated by computers.

In 2001 the film processor was removed and maps and indexes were passed electonically to the printers.

Melway first occupied premises in Milton Pde, Malvern in 1967 and moved to larger premises at 25 High St, Glen Iris in 1972.

In 1978 Melway moved to 19 -21 High Street, Glen Iris.

In November 2002 Melway moved to its new premises at 32 Ricketts Rd , Mount Waverley, While the company is larger now it still employs the original philosophies:- “to produce a high quality and up to date directory at an affordable cost, and to be far more than just a street directory”.

Melways hold their value ■ The Melway Commemorative First Edition is not cheap.

Encased in a premium display box, it is priced at $149.

Early Melway directories are collectors’ items. Especially the rare editions that include errors.

A limited number of copies of Edition 8 include details of a proposed Healesville Freeway from the proposed SouthEastern (Monash) Freeway, through Ashburton and Box Hill.

News came through during printing that the project had not been approved, so it was deleted from most of the print run.

Some 4000 copies of the 100,000 copies of the Melway Edition 14 went to press with the cartographer’s comments about the Tullamarine Airport: “Looks funny eh!”

These errors command a high re-sale value.

● Construction of Westgate bridge in the late 1960s, pre-collapse Ginifer and Kannanook. Many since the Melway maps. Who knew about disused lines such as Williamstown the explosion of homes in the next Pier, Station Pier and Princes Pier are half-century around Berwick, Pakincluded in the book. enham, Hampton Park, Fountain Light rail was still yet to take over Gate and Lyndhurst?

On Melway Map 96, the Lyndon the Port Melbourne and St Kilda hurst General Store is shown on rail lines.

My childhood memories include a Lyndhurst Rd, then a backroad bevisit - as a member of Army cadets - tween Dandenong and Hastings, long to the Williamstown Rifle Range, with before the notion of the Westernport Hwy. targets near Port Phillip Bay. The Frankston-Dandenong Rd is Out east, Map 62 shows there was still much development to happen in shown to be running through padVermont, Burwood East, Glen docks, and Carrum Downs has few Waverley, Mulgrave and Wantirna. streets. The now-bustling area of So too for Wheelers Hill and Scoresby. Langwarrin was in the middle of noKnox City Shopping Centre was where.

Who would have thought an old to be another dozen or more years street directory would have brought away.

The ‘Puffing Billy’ railway station alive so many past memories?

The Melway Commemorative 1966 at Belgrave, which had recently been commissioned, was included in the First Edition would make an ideal 1966 directory, as the western termi- Fathers Day gift for any Melbourne nus of the tourist narrow-gauge rail- dad who has an affection for his city.

To order: www.melway.com.au/ way.

One of the major developments in p r o d u c t s / p r o d u c t / m e l w a y the south-east at the time was the Vic- commemorative- 1966-1st-edition/ ● Some made Melway cushions!

- Ash Long torian Football League’s ‘proposed development area’ on Wellington Rd, Mulgrave.

Footy legend Ron Barassi makes a remark in the Commemorative Editon foreword: “When VFL Park opened in Mulgrave, the Melway was particularly helpful not only to locate the stadium, but also to beat a speedy getaway after the game with its trafic flow and exit information!”

VFL Park opened in 1970 and closed in 2000.

Areas such as Rowville, Dandenong North and Lysterfield are shown as undeveloped in the first edition.

For me, the Lysterfield map has me looking (unssuceesfully) for a Boy Scouts location, where the 4th Preston Cubs had a weekend camp around 1966.

We travelled there and back by furniture van - which was the custom of the time. ● A big part of my childhood transport was achieved by bus.

The young areas of Doveton and The Northland bus terminal opened in 1966, year of Melway No 1 Hallam are on the eastern edge of