Comment on Discussion Thread 🚲 Saturday 5 April 2025

Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Daylight? Shouldn’t be a problem.

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    curiosity

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    • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Fair point. I love the main drag - so many lotus stalks on sale.

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• tone212_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s changed a lot, the signs of gentrification all over but the old Footscray is still very much there. It’s a unique place.

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    it’s so run down it’s scary and sad

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    • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Used to go there a bit when I was a teen (over 30 years ago). It was very Asian and cool back then, not a worrying place to be. Some of those shops were grouse, not at all like the plastic-filled $2 shops of now, with exotic and niche goods. The only time I went there recently with the kids we were on the tram that goes through there and a messed up guy (drugs) got on and asked every person on the tram for money while intermittently ranting. Other people got on and off the tram who were of a similar disposition. Kids were not impressed. He then got off the tram at an intersection and I had to distract the kids from looking out the window because he weaved over to a light pole, pulled out his Richard in broad daylight and started peeing on it.

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      • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah it somehow feels more gentrified and less safe now. Now head there for Cheaper by Miles. And there’s a slow food market in west Footscray once a month. But that’s about it …com.au/…/slofo-wefo-farmers-market/

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      • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Reminds me of St Kilda in the 80s.

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