Shoppers outside Myer at Chadstone Shopping Centre, 1960
The Chadstone Shopping Centre is outside the City of Monash, but it's just across (the numerous lanes of) Dandenong Road from Hughesdale. Built on the site of the Convent of the Good Shepherd, Oakleigh, starting with their paddocks and later the land that hosted its imposing Gothic stone buildings (demolished by Whelan The Wrecker in 1986), Chadstone was recognised from the outset as a regional shopping centre. Popularly known as Chaddy, it opened on 3 October 1960 and has grown through a series of extensions. See locale on Google Maps.
Title: Cities and towns - The Myer Emporium Ltd's shopping centre at Chadstone, one of the Eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Vic. The centre has a sales turnover of 12 000 000 Australian Pounds a year, and employs over 1800 people
Date range: 1960 - 1960
Source: From the national Archives of Audstralia
NAA: A1200, L36544
Item ID: 11658606
Shoppers outside Myer at Chadstone Shopping Centre, 1960
The Chadstone Shopping Centre is outside the City of Monash, but it's just across (the numerous lanes of) Dandenong Road from Hughesdale. Built on the site of the Convent of the Good Shepherd, Oakleigh, starting with their paddocks and later the land that hosted its imposing Gothic stone buildings (demolished by Whelan The Wrecker in 1986), Chadstone was recognised from the outset as a regional shopping centre. Popularly known as Chaddy, it opened on 3 October 1960 and has grown through a series of extensions. See locale on Google Maps.
Title: Cities and towns - The Myer Emporium Ltd's shopping centre at Chadstone, one of the Eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Vic. The centre has a sales turnover of 12 000 000 Australian Pounds a year, and employs over 1800 people
Date range: 1960 - 1960
Source: From the national Archives of Audstralia
NAA: A1200, L36544
Item ID: 11658606