Health
Quirky 1930s cafe sign an echo of today’s disease fears – The Age
History repeats as staff at a Kensington cafe wipe down surfaces that once housed a library connected to the hygiene movement that flourished 80 years before COVID-19.
“I would get asked 15 times a week, by customers, ‘So what’s that mean, that sign?’ ” Mr Peterson said.
But it’s not some cute retro piece. Research shows that the library that once operated on the site was part of a sanitising movement to stave off deadly diseases, 80 years before COVID-19.
Allan Girdwood at the family newsagency and lending library in the 1950s.
Local historian John Dickie said that in about 1938, a W. Girdwood opened a newsagency at 44 Pin Oak Crescent, then called Railway…
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