Guest Post from Cimbali. Another good one. Cimbali says…
Thought you might like this girl who is contemplating suicide on Greenmount Hill – not far from Chippers Leap. She is just a couple of kilometers up Gt Eastern Hwy from the Traveller RV guy. Apologies for the fuzzy zoom close up but pantechnicons were bearing down on me.
Thanks Cimbali.
I realised we have had only one carpet since Mazarina slipped into KGB headquarters with a spy camera to get us this. So I looked back through the files and found this one of the carpet at The Joondalup Resort.
Great guest poster Mazarina has another good one for you all. This is another good one for the recording history side of TWOP also, as I am sure this building won’t last too much longer. Mazarina says…
The worst of Perth isn’t always at eye level – sometimes you need to look up. Like at the corner of Milligan and Murray Streets. The owners of this establishment were clearly quite keen to keep backpackers at bay, hence the cunning plan to paint out the original ‘s’ in the sign. So instead of reading ‘hostel milligan’, it now says ‘ho tel milligan’. I’m a little baffled though, I’m not sure what the ho is supposed to tel milligan.
It’s a HOSTEL guys. Deal with it. (Gives you a little bit of a kerning problem too.)
Since Labor Prime Ministers are all the rage today, I thought I better take up CK’s suggestion and cover the curiously short armed statue of John Curtin in front of the Fremantle town hall. CK suggested some kind of thalidomide problem, but I think it was just considered better to give a Labor PM the impression of being a fiscal conservative, that is having short arms and long pockets.
Is that a copy of The Magna Carta he’s swatting flies with?
Will this hyundai ever go fast enough to need the downforce? Bayswater. Remember, someone paid to do this.
And this. Embleton. It’s a ute, so they couldn’t add much of an ironing board, but an impressive “pie warmer”..
Bad examples for the front and rear ends. I’d rather drive the ute though.
Long before the Convention Centre and The Belltower, the brunt of ugly Perth comments were taken by Parliament House. I went up there to look at it again close-up for The Worst of Perth this week. It is a beautiful building, restrained and composed with a very nice use of the light stone. The inside is a different matter, as the chambers look like tatty lounge rooms. However, what people usually mean when they say “Parliament House is ugly”, is the unbelievably horrible concrete fountain out the front, which obscures and distracts from the building itself. My father, (and I believe many others) always referred to it as the “Parliament House toilets overflowing.” I didn’t even get that, as the people’s cistern was dry as… well you know how dry. Adding this to category vanished worst, as the beautiful tree pictured has been chopped down.
Is it possible to do anything good with this type of shutter unless you own a third world jeweller’s shop? The awnings just emphasise the horrible look. However this IS Morley Drive Morley, and I suppose you could can point to a thousand worse houses if you owned it. Almost next door to the Morley virgins letterbox on Kiddie Street.
Here’s one from Stonehouse Crescent in Bentley. (Just a few steps from the Boogie Nights place). I love it all. The bricks, the round window, the yellow “bottle glass” which was very common in Perth homes, including my own, all set off with the cactus, the Mexican, the lamp and the Cocos Palms, (including a dead one). If I was overseas, this would make me homesick. Since I’m here though, just a little heartburn. Bunning Park, Bentley.
The Floral Clock in King’s Park used to be very popular when I was a kid, (along with a giant log), but I’m not sure why. Perhaps it was the quality of TV at that time. It used to have exotic plants, which have been replaced by more natives now. I couldn’t hang around to see if a tiny John Forrest pops out and says cuckoo on the hour.
OK, there has been enough TWOP action to give a summary of what’s not worst from our submissions, remembering that we’re not only about criticism, but also a historical record of the city, as well as a place for people to discuss the look and life of our town.
Surprisingly (to me at least) the purple Gemini has a lot of fans.
The ex Ettamogah Pub (Now Shennanigans) in Morley, has had some spirited defence from the staff as to it’s food and ambience, (although it was the Ettamogah design and concept that we were covering), and we have promised to go down there and give it a try.
East Perth Station, was generally found to be a fine building, including by me.
The coloured buildings at Edith Cowan’s Mt Lawley campus got support too.
The odd house on East Parade, as well as Vistula Butchers has fans too. (Vistula too was more about the tatty exterior than the quality of it’s smallgoods).
Well done guys. You all can print this out and hang it where applicable. Officially Not Worst.
I didn’t have much support for liking the Belltower though!
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