Margeryx saw this lovely store in Manjimup, inside which she took an unaccountably small but vastly worthy photo. I know Manjimup was royally fucked over by Deff Geoff Gallop, (or was it that tool Carps?) but I didn’t know things were so bad they had to sew their own undies! And at $6.95 for the pattern! What happened to Royalties for Rurotards? Surely we can kick in for some proper Chinese made jocks for these poor bastards? The red are going to be Gstrings arent they? Some poor CWA type will be sewing up arse floss for an unemployed mill workers backside. And they wonder at the high level of rural suicides. Not only do you get jocks for your birthday, but they’re home made.
Manjimup underwear
The Worst of Perth 
Explains the low number of phascogale sightings in the area over the past few decades. They’ve been trying to avoid getting the hand me downs…? I really need sleep.
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It’s amazing how much the Manji Main St Mall of 2011 looks like the Murray St Mall of 1981.
(Shoex?)
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When did murray become a mall? Later than 81?
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I’m probably thinking of the Hay St Mall.
I’m sure they tore down Boans in late 1983/early ’84 to make Forrest Chase.
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Yes definate Hay St vibe circa 2005.
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I too thought this was a photo from your eighties’ archive.
It’s a long time since I saw a shoe shop with one of those trays full of left shoes out the front.
does Mandurah know we started a new millenium?
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Different Manji. Also lack of crabs not helping.
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Dunno. Maybe that’s why they need to make up their own knickers on the cheap?
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You’ve not been to Fremantle?
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Apparently cant give them away around here.
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Hail Wombat!
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Thank you Good Sir.
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Yes you are right, that shitty mall in Freo (just another of its faults) does have that Manjimup look about it.
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I hope it still looks exactly like this.
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Take out the the happy family and the plants, and add some ciggie butts, beer bottles, used fits and some guy in the process of OD-ing, and yep, it’s just like that.
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You havent been to Manji for a while… plenty of bathtub speed being made
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That’s where we used to smoke ciggies on the way to school. We had a name for it too, but it has been lost on the mists of time…
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Love the feature Toodyay stone work above the Shoex store and the Serendipity tiling. Tres moderne circa 1962 is what I’d date this marvellous Manji mall. Anyone remember When Perth Airport looked like this?
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Perth stylee.
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TWOP merch stylee.
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Ah! Snuff! You young sew and sew.
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I have always had some difficulty with a male g-string. Although not from an owner’s perspective.
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you struggle to remove them?
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That’s the least of my problems.
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I guess sewing undies makes a nice change for the CWA ladies from making crochetted willy warmers. Not much to do out in Manji from what I’ve been told. Apart from smoking the green stuff, growing it, and hog-tying your girlfriends ungrateful kids up in a tree to teach them a lesson.
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I keep getting drawn to this post. It really has much to offer.
How many different ways can they spell quick?
Sadly, there is – as far as I can see – correct apostrophe use.
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I wonder if they have patterns for these?
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All the fun of getting naked with someone, without actually having bare bums on show?
Interesting…
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Doesn’t this just hark back to a time when it was cheaper to make your own stuff that pay some poor chinese peasant to do it?
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That, and maybe also a time when off the shelf suggestive male undies were not available in Manji (c. 1981 judging by the hair)
Nice one Margeryx!
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Manji mormon man manglers
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Strategic Airways ceases Perth Bali operations from 29 October, Manjimup economy set to BOOM
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My brother got caught shoplifting from here back in the day cant say it has changed one bit in 10 plus years. Still selling the same tat
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tat worth shoplifting
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Sorry the picture was so small TLA – although I understand that it would be technically possible for me to send it straight to you from my new super high tech Samsung phone, I was forced by my lack of IT skills to get it from my phone to my laptop to my email to you with no small amount of difficulty.
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And yet the ancient mall exterior was a good size. Interesting.
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I’d say its a portrait vs landscape problem. Samsung clearly doesn’t like portrait or its trying to censor the jocks.
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I think they rename it to a clothes store.
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Urgh, my hometown.
I was accused of shoplifting butterfly hair clips and was thrown out – I twasn’t, I swear!
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