Lot of competing Bayswater FB groups at the moment. Basically in response to Bassendean and Maylands residents snickering into their pinxtos in their pubs and small bars as Baysie continues to be a shithole with a cheese shop and (now) TBSP. The Bayswater Deserves What it Gets (I think it’s called) group, which recently organised a delegation with a high crackpot percentage to try and force the council to restrict development to 3 stories – which, as one commentator has put it, would ensure that Rub & Tugs and Cartridge World have low rent premises for decades to come. For once, council venality should turn out as an advantage as it assumed that the Save Every Cocos brigade will be fobbed off with some discount cartridges and off peak happy endings vouchers. It’s hard to see what they are trying to preserve. King William Street has nothing. There is no building there that would be missed if it were gone. There is no heritage to preserve. There’s free wifi in a spot where nobody has any reason to go. With great transport to get you to the place. And nothing there when you get there. Jesus if Basso is laughing at Bayswater, then there’s a problem. You’d think Basso would have trouble feeling superior with their Rolf Harris baggage. But no. And that’s scary. Photo by James N.
The Worst of Perth 
Would it be so much better if it were redeveloped to look like Shenzhen ?
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Usually no. But in Bayswater’s case, yes.
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Oh deah
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The strip on Whatley heading up the hill is nice enough. Other than the bike shop and cheese place, the tenants all need to go though.
Is the Liquorland building possibly Perth’s oldest remaining example of Shedism?
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Basso has the advantage that Old Perth rd used to be the main road but now isn’t. It’s substantive but not a highway. Much easier to make a difference. King Willy is too much a main rd. But around the corners could still be good. The hotel is really terrible. Had the chance to change but refurbished in the same style.
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Pfft. No more a main road than the Arrondissement, Barrio or Bourbon Street.
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They did have a nice fish and chippery – is it still there?
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You can’t possibly be referring to the one that is currently there, so I assume the nice one has gone.
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The premises are not Basso worthy.
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Out of the Golden Triangle, my expectations can be low.
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You’re more of a Xxxxxx’s Xxxx Xxx man right?
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Keep Baysie Low – it has worked for Cottesloe for the last 30 years.
I hear John Hammond is trying to heritage list the Indiana Tea Room dunnies and is collecting oral histories of peoples favourite skid marks.
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And so he should , if true . Those dunnies are Brutalist and , architecturally speaking , what the Indiana ( and maybe Cottesloe itself ) really thinks
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Rub’n’tug customers are very price sensitive. So I am told.
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but spats and venetians c’mon
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Lived in Bayswater for years. Got sick of bizarro smugness that had crept into the habitués of that perpetually nondescript suburb. Packed it in, moved to the coast. Best move ever.
Happened to be over that way recently and did a drive by. Still crapsville. Get out while you still can. Non river side of Maylands is a pox too. Who would pay $500-600k for those unit developments next to the rail line. And ffs the dreariest shopping strip the other side of the tracks.
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would like to embiggen the Baysie VW Bug image to read the text – what does it say?
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Added the closeup up. The “free fruit for kids” is a nice touch.
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Is that the DAP with its claws out lurking behind all that vertical tickytacky ?
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DAPs – when democracy isn’t really working for you.
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At night and from the Crawley foreshore one can see the designer – illuminated new DAP building just to the left of l e d – lit Perth council house from across the water ! Inspiring ? Vibrant ? Exciting ?
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I think you’re getting your DAPs and SATs confused. It can happen.
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Rookie error.
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Haven’t checked to see if SAT has moved into the new DAP digs . Would make sense though . It was down the street before DAP started up .
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I sent one of my padowans to a DAP meeting at 140: she couldn’t find the building!
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Well 140 is so vibrantly contextual in its design it can be hard to spot . One must look for the enormous replica of the Stephenson plan on the lobby wall ( though it should be in coloured stone intaglio on the floor ! — which it would be in a real office tower and not a future conversion to luxury high rise )
DAP may be in its own home now .
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Only two sleeps to go until the next DAP meeting for the Golden Triangle!!
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It says the meeting is in October , so we have a while to wait
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Been & gone. You’ll have to try Tony Galati if you’re chasing free fruit.
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Am chasing Godzillaburgers
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Potatoes aren’t fruit. They are a tuber.
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There’s a difference between Basso and Baysie?
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cunt
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Three storeys, one small bar, and one celebrity pedo.
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Hasn t the minister for planning and infrastructure already seen to it that this car was blown up ?
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Just waiting for the next concrete pour at Emperor Barney’s Burswood colosseum.
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Christ. You’ve never heard of paragraphs?
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One-sentence paragraphs: they are the bomb!
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I’m deeply concerned about this…Friday last I did my usual round of about Nine rnt’s….I thus had the chance to speak with many of the ladies who would be unduly inconvenienced, having to drive across town to a new place of employ.
“tza raht bleedin shame, swhat is, avin t bleedin moov n all”
exclaimed my last fair maidan of the flexible fingers….or at least that’s what I think she said. She was trying to put her false teeth back in with one hand and adjust her curlers with the other at the time so I couldn’t be sure.
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