Re: Spies, Lies and Olympics - ABC-TV, 31/5

[Mark Bau <markbau@altavista.com>]

> From: "Bradley Torr" <btorr@bigpond.nospam.com>
> Newsgroups: aus.rail
> Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 15:23:21 +1000
> Subject: Spies, Lies and Olympics - ABC-TV, 31/5
> 
> Did anyone catch this show last night? Lots of footage of 1950's Melbourne
> electric trains, semaphore signals and enough W-class trams to keep the
> Mexican gunzels busy!
> 
> I wish the documentary would have gone into more detail re: Olympic
> transport arrangements. There were lots of shots of buses transporting
> athletes, etc. to and fro the Olympic village - but where *WAS* the Olympic
> village? It looked very Housing Commission - perhaps Heidelberg?

> 
> Regards,
> Bradley.
> 
I used to go to school very close to at least part of the Olympic village,
it was at Newlands a little east of Pentridge prison. I'm not sure if it was
the whole village but everyone called it the Olympic village, was later used
as housing comision flats. I think there were also bits of the Olympic
village in the Heidleberg area but I'm not sure

Mark