I’m out of the country for 5 minutes, and the famous, iconic Barra Fat Wog Cunt wall comes tumbling down. How sad. At least the pictures will live forever. Bento recorded this development disgrace, even going as far as trawling the rubble for a chunk of masonry with the words, fat, cunt, or wog. The best he could find was “boobs.” Well I’ll go with that. Thanks Bento. Added the pre wall shot so you can remember too. And speaking of vanished worsts, what about the pylon. Has the knob dropped off while I’ve been in China?
The Worst of Perth 
It’s a bit sad, seeing those once proud old houses being demolished like that. Some of the very worst of Perth.
I daresay some awful abomnation of glass and steel and “sleek lines” will be installed in its place.
‘Come, live on fashionable East Parade. Gaze every morning on the psuedo-Soviet Glory of the East Perth Train Station’. (another Worst, if I recall).
There’s one building left in the rubble, a former brothel called Aphrodities (I think) that opened without planning permission (again, I think) and was swiftly closed down. A building firm has had it for the past few years.
And, yes, the top of the pylon was whipped off in storms about three weeks ago. 6PR did a live cross to the Nine News crew on the scene. It was tragically hilarious.
The kind of thing only inbred hicks would care about — but given Ben Cousins making a finger gesture made the lead news story two nights in a row I’m not surprised.
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they were not worst at all. and now, as always happens, they will be replaced by something worse.
wasn’t aphrodites on william street?
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Probably.
The brothels and bordellos of Perth are not my prime subject. It was definitely a feminine name, writ on a blue and white sign.
Antigone’s maybe?
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I have no idea but would like to think if it was Greek mythology as inspiration maybe it was called “Clytemnestra’s”. Sounds kind of dirtyish.
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I think it was, curious. Regardless, as mentioned here by Rachel, here are 23 fantastic photos taken inside in 1989, courtesy of Gypsy Pennefeather and the National Library of Australia.
I’ve always loved East Perth Train Station for emotional as well as aesthetic reasons. Being there meant holidays, and going to stay with my grandparents in Kal, a place that for an adventurous dusty urchin on a bike was a truly wild west wonderland.
Speaking of fantastic photos, this one of Kalgoorlie Station is just one of 280 (count ’em) of the most beautiful photos of WA you’ll ever see, taken by William Edward Fretwell. Enjoy.
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Oops. I meant to link to this one of Kal Station.
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i’m sure it was the two storey building opposite the now demolished jade house. it’s had two rather unattractive doors punched in the ground floor and is an asian grocery, or similar. i think.
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That has been covered too i think.
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East Perth Train station has never been a worst I don’t think. The exterior is polarising but check out the interior, it’s magnificent.
East Parade is perfectly horrible all on its own, it has nothing to do with the train station.
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I thought East Perth Train had been on here early in TWOP history. Maybe as early as the pre-Murrynian epoch.
Maybe not.
I will admit, it has been years since I looked inside its brown facade, but I do find it hard to take seriously any blog that is not only written by an architecture junkie (or student) but seems to think Curtin Uni is a best: http://perthsbest.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/curtin-mega-post/
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It was on here, but relegated to “Not Worst” status.
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You’ll find it here: https://theworstofperth.com/2007/11/10/kgb-headquarters/
Mrs Bento used to work there. The 6th floor has been preserved as a sort of time capsule. It is truly magnificent.
Poor Lisa’s identified the problem with the houses on East Parade. The sort of person with the money and inclination to restore and maintain an old character home is exactly the sort of person who is not inclined to live on East Parade. As such, these major corridors are ideal for higher density development – keeping the old houses inevitably results in miles and miles of crumbling shitholes (think Guildford Road/Lord Street, Scarborough Beach Road, etc), and a metro area spreading from Mandurah to Yanchep.
By all means we should be fighting for good design of new development, but maintaining unexceptional shacks on large inner-city blocks, along transport corridors, is a luxury we can’t really afford any more.
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curtin is indeed not worst. and the architecture building is not worstest of all.
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It used to look like the ablution block of a Soviet caravan park, but I think the makeover has been very well done.
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Curtin has some great buildings.
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The layout is horrific though…
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Journalism building waaaaay too far away from the Tav, for a start.
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In my day journalism was just about the closest teaching area to the Tav. Now I think there’s social work or suchlike in there.
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Not in the mid-90s. Journalism was at the arse end of the campus, with only garden sheds beyond, if I recall correctly.
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East Perth station is a fantastic building. So has the pylon been salvaged from the deep?
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Last I saw (in the Post) the top of the plyon was snapped off and hanging by a thread. Divers were putting a cage around it so they can rebuild it… or something.
I’m sure the local member will ensure this largely pointless local icon is restored.
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whereas the money could go towards a really great actual diving platform instead….
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Well its certainly pointless now!
And probably whatever will replace it even more so
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Story on the Pylon was actually reported on the Suggest Thread at the time.
Oh and to 6PR and others who cannot see the point behind the Chasers piss take on the Make a Realistic Wish skit – may I point out as a person with a disabilitgy that the whole premise was to point out how charities use disabled people as a tool of pity to raise funds which in most cases hardly ever gets used for it’s intended purpose and is eaten up by admin costs and to help pay for the generous salary packages of the Charity’s CEO etc.
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No, I actually wanted to know the progress on the pylon, as in whether it was still hanging by a thread or had fallen in.
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The pylon is currently in bondage.
I’m surprised Jesper hasn’t got the svenkage to mock the Cott council’s attempt to preserve this monument to engineering failure.
“So basically, nothing but money and more money to uphold a rusting piece of extreme averageness.”
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If anyone has picture of the bogged up pylon, please send.
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TLA,
A mate of mine’s a professional photographer, who coincidentally lives in Cott. Pics here: http://pa.photoshelter.com/c/terrylyon/gallery/Cottesloe-Pylon/G0000YQA2CwUxjJg
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He’s too busy with exams and diabolical blog book reviews.
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I think most of the criticism of The Chaser was of them not being remotely funny, and so having to up the ante on the shock value.
they have indeed jumped the shark.
the Holocaust, the KKK and kids with cancer are not funny. period.
the only thing last night that was remotely topical and satirical was the bit about Rudd using a flu mask to muffle the amount of the deficit. The rest was sub-Prosh stunts and overseas junkets. Bit difficult to be topical when you filmed the overseas stuff months ago.
extraordinary rendition? that’s so last president.
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“the Holocaust, the KKK and kids with cancer are not funny. period.”
That’s not true. there is no topic that cannot be done funny in the right context.
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maybe if done by cancer sufferers themselves, rather than by smug middle class twats
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Only if they have the timing. there is no topic that should not be covered at the right time and right context.
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John Safran’s KKK stuff was pretty funny, if I recall. And The Producers appears to have enjoyed some success.
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Saffran was funny just because he let them make arses of themselves, which is always the best way.
I recall Michael Moore taking a troupe of black cheerleaders to sing and dance at a white suprecist camp, and getting a gay choir to sing outside Jessie Helms office.
I don’t recall any holocaust skits in the Producers, just Hitler stuff, and Charlie Chaplin got there first.
I am surprised The Chaser didn’t get flak for ripping off the Holocaust sketch from Ricky Gervais
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here you go:
Winslet gets a quinella of the Holocaust and disability, and then gets ripped off by The Chaser and Tropic Thunder
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Skink has your Gravatar had a haircut? Theres something different about it.
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it’s my reserve, back-up, ‘perplexed’ gravitar,
without the rakish mo
somebody suggested that my gravitar suggested I was a complete knob, which may be true, but prompted me to instigate a change
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Perplexed? Perhaps he has been reading La Chongs recent ramblings.
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ah yes, where she says “I am not an apologist for China, but… the history of China requires a strong reign on democratic rights.”
and I think the title she was looking for was ‘through a glass, darkly’, rather than Lewis Carroll.
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When even the bobby the butt of your gags sees you coming a mile off, and rolls his eyes at your humour, as opposed to indignantly not getting it, you know you’re getting a little stale.
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I think I read in the local rag that Cott council will have a fundraising drive (much like Chaser’s SHORE rowing shed appeal) to fix the pylon, but after they’ve fixed the concrete base which is in a pretty bad state as well.
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This is an outrage and a travesty. A travrage if you will. Is it Scaffidi’s revenge? (or is it outside her ken?)
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Outside She-Ras’s kingdom.
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I think outravesty is better.
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Avoid terminininological inexactitude. Drunks will get confused “Have I got tavrage or travrage seein Trav is here ?”
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I looked, because I never actually knew what the pylon were for.
Who knew it was a Gallipoli-like symbol of failure?
Well, you might have. I didn’t.
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