27 July 2021, updated :
Kia Ora, #StKildaRoad, one of those places you know from the tram, a big set of #ArtDecoFlats, built 1936/37 in two stages (replacing a 19thC mansion and the house next door, only 12 years old).
Designed by Lewis Levy in a smart streamlined mode, but most interestingly, the 60 flats face both the internal garden and four more side gardens as well, snaking in and out down the block. It was one of the biggest flat developments in Melbourne at the time.
The name comes from the Dixon family of Kia Ora cordial fame, led since 1907 by Mr John Dixon, who also invested in various flats through Kia Ora Investments – and the cordial originally got its name in 1903 from its literal translation of ‘wishing you good health’. Also, another case of #damntrees.
1st B&W is Wolfgang Sievers, 1968, 2nd is Graeme Butler c1980, when it was being renovated, seems to have lost the cute ‘electric’ sign, by then.
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