THE MYER BUILDING, BOURKE STREET MALL MELBOURNE. NOT BUILT BY US!!!

Here is the offical bullshit - note melbournes first theatre opened in 1841 on Bourke street uuuuuuuum yep a mere 5 years after MELBOURNE WAS FOUNDED (or found dead) .........5 years and a few sheep, some dirt and tree stumps a few indigenous and some diseased soldiers and we build a theatre!!! get fucked you mind controll programmers! #historyisalie #tartariahuntersmelbourne

"Having been laid out as part of the Hoddle Grid in 1837, Bourke Street was considered "out of town" until the 1840s when the western end saw the opening of St Patrick's Hall, the first synagogue and the first public hospital. During the 1850s it gained a reputation as a busy thoroughfare popular as the centre for Saturday nightlife. As retail presence increased the street was often compared to London's Oxford Street.

Melbourne's first theatre opened on Bourke Street as the Pavilion (1841), and by the late 1840s the east end was established as Melbourne's main entertainment zone. Theatres and public halls were complemented by billiard halls, cigar divans, rifle galleries, bowling alleys and sideshows. While the early evening crowd trod Bourke Street's pavements for entertainment or for show, the night-time street was also notorious for public disorder, fights, brothel touts and drinking and drunkenness.[1]

Cheap restaurants appeared from the 1870s, when Parer's Hotel and Crystal Tea Rooms[4] became a Melbourne institution, while the Café de Paris was a favourite literary and artistic meeting place. Twentieth-century restaurants such as Florentino's, Pellegrini's and the Society Café have become Melbourne institutions.[1]

The late 20th century onwards has resulted in office block developments, residential skyscrapers, the introduction of several shopping arcades and the Bourke Street Mall."

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