This was on Beach Road Sandringham overlooking the popular beach in the fashionable bayside suburb. This solid structure with large openings on a high visibility drive through site was a ready-made opportunity for a fast new business in car culture Australia.Like an empty shell in nature, it beckoned it's next occupant - in the debris of the past lay another's future. McDonalds and Colonel Sanders' Kentucky Fried Chicken who had arrived in Australia a few years prior were the first to take advantage of this roadside carnage. They feverishly cleaned former lubritorums of their oil and grease and refitted the disembowelled structures with a visual cacophony of fittings and flashy signage to encourage consumption from their oily vats. Outside it was a circus emblazoned with candy stripes and the patriarch's happy face. - yes The Colonel moved in here. This franchising practice became widespread and soon transformed many Australian arterials from clumsy ugliness into what Robin Boyd so aptly described as strips of "American Carnival Architecture". Though in Melbourne, The Colonel was mildly curbed; my brother in law, a town planner with a state authority at the time, ordered that the excessive red impaired judgement near traffic lights. But Robin Boyd did have the last laugh. He was commissioned to design a fish and chip shop in South Yarra (among Melbourne's most expensive residential real estate). His design was a circle of glass sheets, flat roof and giant sphere of almost the same diameter on top of it. The sphere was aqua coloured. Internally lit, it looked like it was full of swirling liquid. Affectionately known as "The Fishbowl" it stood for many years on a corner site in Toorak Road. The demise of the "Service Station" was merely the transition phase during this change of land use. From the outset with this folio, I chose to keep the storyline confined to this initial phase of disintegration. But even that was not understood by the assessing lecturers.

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