Re: Autumn in the GTCOTS St Kilda Road at Park Street (cont'd)
  Peter Bruce

Apparently the same was true at South Melbourne, wives turning up on payday
back in the '50s. Card games in the messroom for peanuts, red aces was the
game.


On Sat, 14 May 2022, 22:29 Andrew C, andrewhighriser@...> wrote:

> Peter, so you didn't have a card playing and gambling depot manager like

> Fred Tullberg at Malvern Depot? He and a few male Malvern staff members

> used to catch the train to Warrnambool for the annual horse racing cup

> meeting.

>

> Gambling on cards did stop at Malvern when wives started to call Tullberg

> complaining about their husband's losses and them not bringing home the

> bacon. Times were a'changin'.

>

> Andrew.

>

> On Sat, 14 May 2022 at 13:51, Peter Bruce p1.bruce@...> wrote:

>

>> Yuri and all there is a bit of a story about that Dorcas St shelter. Back

>> when South Melbourne/Hanna St was an all night depot there was a problem

>> with trammies getting into big card games in the mess room to the point

>> where some were losing big time. The Tramways Board then kicked the card

>> players out of the mess whereupon they decamped up the shed and then having

>> been moved on off M&MTB premises altogether they scooped up seat cushions

>> and moved to the Dorcas St. shelter. Dunno what happened after that, except

>> that there was always a sign up in the messroom. "Gambling on the Board's

>> Premises is strictly prohibited". The card games continued but only for

>> peanuts and when the all night trams finished up in I think the late '50s

>> South Melbourne was no longer a 24 hour depot. The shed was staffed 24

>> hours though, I think because R10 the breakdown truck was based there.

>>

>> Regards to all TDUs,

>>

>> Peter Bruce.

>>

>> On Thu, 12 May 2022 at 19:06, Yuri Sos trams4me@...> wrote:

>>

>>> Continuing on from previous Park Street post (have had to pull multiple

>>> shifts at work due to staff coming down with covid hence delay in following

>>> up posts).

>>>

>>> The current "Stop 20: Park Street". Z3.158 outbound as B2.2006 inbound.

>>>

>>> https://gallery.steam4me.net/albums/trams/2022/158_2006_stop20_stKroad_a7r3_19030.jpg

>>> (2,400 x 1500 2.46MB)

>>>

>>> Having completed my coverage of the Park Street stop pre-upgrade, I

>>> walked back to my car. The sun was hidden behind clouds but a weird yellow

>>> light lit up the scene which made the autumn foliage just SO much golder

>>> (is that a word?). Here's an inbound Z3.172 on route 16 in St Kilda Road

>>> approaching Dorcas Street with a former tram stop waiting room on the right:

>>>

>>> https://gallery.steam4me.net/albums/trams/2022/172_dorcas_stKroad_a7r3_19079.jpg

>>> (2,400 x 1500 2.87MB)

>>>

>>> Yuri.

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