From Glebe to Surry Hills

(tt)  Went for a long walk across 3 suburbs this morning.
Here are parts of Glebe, so close to the city but ages away in feeling

This is an old deco pub on the corner of Queen and Cowper

A permanent art exhibition is on view in Queen St.  Many residents have permitted sculptor, Hilik Marankar, to place pieces in their front porches and walls.

 An old shop on Wattle St

This is some detail on Sydney Tech Museum

This is the transmission tower at the ABC on Harris St Ultimo. Many of us actors had regular gigs there before almost all the radio drama dept was decimated by cuts. Who wants to hear radio plays anymore?

A block in Chinatown. One of the cafes was once a cabaret room but like all in this town has gone to  god.

 Chinatown

The dear old Capitol Theatre. This with the State further into town are the last trad theatres in Sydney. And they were originally built as picture palaces so any musicals that go in make the actors look like Barbies through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars.

 A grand old pub. Only a bar remains downstairs. The rest is part of a computer complex

 One of two Cafe de Wheels in Sydney. They used to sell only pies and peas but now have diversified. The man on the kerb has obviously just finished his pie floater.

Barry Humphries at 78 is bidding adieu to his glorious characters including the genius creation, Dame Edna.  My photo as Sancho in "Man of La Mancha" once hung in one of these.

Another grand old watering hole on Pitt St. This would have dwarfed all the other 19th century shops and houses in the vidcinity

Central Station clock, restored at last

The deco classic Dental College

 Seems as a current teetotaller I am fascinated by pubs

Many were covered in ceramic tiles....easy to wash off the chunder

The Green Fairy lives here

 This is a chinese herbalist. The floor above looks like it is in the tree

I was sitting in a little stone park and my eye was caught by this plaque

It reads "light and warmth was to be found at the the top of O'Hears stairs at William McCanns Sunbeam Hotel" When I turned around to get my bearings I worked out that the bench I sat in would have been right in the centre of the public bar.