The multicultural nature of the city of Moreland is evident
everywhere, as is the rapid rate of change sweeping across this city. But to
have all of this evident in a 50 metre stretch of road is surely remarkable.
I
recently stopped to inspect a lovely Art Deco house on Moreland Road, just near
the corner of Nicholson Street. The house itself showed a bit of the history of
the neighbourhood – in the cupboard there was a small metal plaque stated that
the house was built by Maurice Lalor, builder, Heidelberg. The agent said he
thought the house would have been one of three wooden terrace houses, but the
other two were no longer there, rather a two level Italian brick house from the
sixties, complete with wonderful wrought iron fence and balcony railings. But I
digress.
Just across the road I spotted a double barrelled ghost sign
– Club Clobber faded under the white paint and an Asian Mini Mart sign peeling
from the front of the awning.
And in the small strip of shops just to the south of the
Moreland Road corner, near Wakim's Antique shop and another two antique shops, there are
two more shops with ghost signs. The empty shop has an Arabic sign, I think, but I am very
ignorant of other scripts. However, I am not sure that the Islamic bookshop
sign is in Arabic, or that it is a ghost sign as behind the second hand whitegoods there are still some
shelves with books and videos. I suppose you could call it a " mixed business".
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