Little Bourke Street, The Myer Emporium, C. 1930
Christmas time in the city,
The Myer Emporium expanded to Lonsdale Street in the 1920s at a time when this section of Little Bourke Street was known as Post Office Place.
Only a few years earlier you would have seen horse-drawn traffic dominating the street scene, but by 1930, when this photograph was taken, cars dominated the roads, although it was still possible for pedestrians to walk down the middle of the street safely, as you can see in the photo.
From the time traffic congestion became an issue in the 1910s, cars have travelled from east to west along Little Bourke Street, so in this image the photographer is pointing his camera north-west and the street continues west towards Elizabeth Street and the General Post Office, on the opposite side of the street, out of view – (now H&M) before heading up the hill to Queen Street and beyond.