No more matzoh ball soup
Posted Thursday, July 31, 2008, 12:41 AM by Lonely Planet
It's been a slow but steady decline of a once charming street - not even gentrification, just crapification. What was once a beautifully down-at-heel village of delis, vintage stores and labyrinthine bookshops is now a mind-numbing roll-call of high-street obviousness. And now, the final nail in the coffin - my favourite old Jewish diner is closing, taking its swirly bronze wallpaper with it.
I find it hard when an area I love evaporates into the ether. But is it just me being a hostage to nostalgia? Am I yearnng for a time the generation before me saw as vulgar and banal?
Today's Johnny-come-lately is tomorrow's neighbourhood icon. It just has to have that magic.
- Dee Dee Luxe
Labels: St Kilda
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Being new to Melbourne I don't know the full history of this street (where I get my groceries as it's close to home). But what a shame. I think the giant golden M that it points to is the worst part.
LM
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