Lonsdale Street, Dandenong, 1940s.

Point of view from in front of the Town Hall looking across to the other side, with the Cenotaph (war memorial) still located on the center median of Lonsdale Street. Woolworths opened in Dandenong around 1940.

The Vanity Court Arcade was built to the left of Woolworths; the site having been occupied by the Tharle Brothers Butchers in the early 1900s.

John Inoz writes:

Owen's Hardware store was there when we came to Dandy in 1959. Remember going in there with my mother. Coles later bought all those shops to build a bigger store than the small one they had a bit further up Londsdale Street. After that Woolworths bought up the remaining stores to extend and rebuild their store to match Coles.

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