THANK YOU TO COMMUNITY BANK PINEWOOD
History Monash Inc recently received a donation of $750 from Community Bank Pinewood, following a contribution by History Monash of some historic photos of the Pinewood shopping centre. The bank plans to display these photos on its walls as an indication of how much Pinewood has changed since the 1950s.
IT’S IN THE POST: OAKLEIGH POST OFFICE EXHIBITION
Please click on the Exhibitions heading under the “What’s On” tab to see details of the History Monash new exhibition.
NAMATJIRA PARK
Namatjira Park in Springs Road, Clayton South, was named as it suggests for Albert Namatjira. It was named in the 1960s along with a rash of name changes for streets, mostly in the Clayton area, to indigenous names. None of the names in a fast-developing Clayton appear to be indigenous
FIRST NATIONS MURAL IN OAKLEIGH
A mural commissioned by the City of Monash and painted by Gunditjmara, Yorta Yorta and Wemba Wemba artist Tom Day, has been painted on a previously blank canvas ─ the southern wall of Monash Council’s Atkinson Street carpark in Oakleigh. Titled Nanyubak artist Tom Day explained his concept at a
‘READ ALL ABOUT IT!”: NEWSAGENCIES IN THE 1950s TO 1970s.
“Read all about it! He-r-ald!” The once-ubiquitous call of the newsboy at busy intersections is long gone, as is the sight of heavily-laden bikes bearing paperboys around the suburbs. Newsagencies, in the last fifty years in Australia, have undergone great changes. This article focusses upon newsagencies from the 1950s until