Knox City Shopping Centre, The Glen, Eastland: Historic photos of shopping centres

From the fountains at Box Hill Central to Kmart at Boronia Shoppingtown, take a stroll down memory lane with these historic pictures of our shopping centres.

Boronia Shoppingtown in 1979.

Do you remember parking your pram at Kmart Burwood or picking up groceries at Boronia Shoppingtown?

Enjoy a trip down memory lane with these historic photos of shopping centres and retail strips in Melbourne’s east.

BORONIA SHOPPINGTOWN

Cars outside Kmart and Coles in 1979. The stores still operate today.

The centre is now known as Boronia Mall.

The interior of the centre in 1979.

WAVERLEY GARDENS

The Mulgrave centre in 1981.

Restocking the shelves in 1981.

BOX HILL CENTRAL

Putting the final touches on what was then known as Whitehorse Plaza in 1974. It was the first time moving walkways had been used in a shopping centre in Victoria. Picture: Max Williams Photography.

The fountains in action. Picture: I grew up in Box Hill Facebook page

The new Box Hill Central Shopping Centre in 1984.

OLD ORCHARD SHOPPING CENTRE

Old Orchard Shopping Centre, Springfield Rd, Blackburn taken by Wolfgang Sievers, courtesy of the State Library Victoria.

ARNDALE SHOPPING CENTRE

Safeway at Arndale Shopping Centre Croydon 1967. Picture: Wolfgang Sievers, courtesy State Library Victoria.

BURKE ROAD CAMBERWELL

Burke Rd Camberwell shopping strip, looking south from the railway station, 1955.

EASTLAND

Eastland, Ringwood, opened in 1967. “From a woman’s point of view, it will be wonderful,” said Ringwood’s woman Mayor, Cr Elizabeth Penny. “But for the city it will be something more.”

The Myer department store at Eastland in 1977.

Eastland from above in 1988. Picture: Peter Ward.

RINGWOOD MARKET

Customers check out the specials at Ringwood Market.

KMART EAST BURWOOD

Check-outs at the East Burwood Kmart in 1969, after almost three months of trading.

The carpark in 1969.

KNOX SHOPPING CENTRE

The centre opened in 1977, with Myer the central tenant.

Shoppers inside the centre in its early days.

The covered walkway from the bus and taxi terminal to the main entrance.

CHIRNSIDE SHOPPING CENTRE

Chirnside Park Shopping centre in 1979.

Shoppers inside the centre.

GOLDEN MILE NUNAWADING

The business on Whitehorse Rd. Picture: Whitehorse Historical Society.

UPWEY MAIN STREET

FOREST HILL CHASE

The centre in 1968.

The refurbished centre in 1989.

THE GLEN

Construction progress at the Glen shopping centre in 1990. Supplied photo by Ron Robertson.

The centre in 1995.

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