The Wild Reed: Melbourne

Friday, March 21, 2025

Melbourne

Australian Sojourn – February-April 2025 • Part 7

I recently spent five days in Melbourne, visiting family and friends. Here are a few pics!

Above: Melbourne’s Southern Cross railway station – Saturday, March 15, 2025.

Above: My older brother, two of my four nephews, and my two great nephews!

Above: My older brother Chris with his youngest grandson.

Above (and opening image): Melbourne’s Flinders Street railway station – Wednesday, March 19, 2025.

Above and below: I think this is my favorite building in Melbourne! 👍🏼😁 . . . It’s the Forum Theatre, or simply The Forum.

Notes Wikipedia:

Built in 1929, it was designed by leading U.S. “picture palace” architect John Eberson, in association with the local architectural firm Bohringer, Taylor and Johnson. Designed as an “atmospheric theatre,” the interior intended to evoke a Florentine walled garden, complete with a cerulean-blue ceiling sprinkled with lights like twinkling stars, mimicking a twilight sky.

It was renamed the Forum Theatre in 1962, converted into two separate cinemas in 1963, then, after the cinema’s closure, used for religious services for several years; however, since 1995, it has operated as live music and events venue Forum Melbourne, more commonly known simply as The Forum.

Above and below: Melbourne cityscapes.

Above: The beautiful interior of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Center where my friend Lauren works – Wednesday, March 19, 2025.

Right: With Lauren, with whom I worked in 2019 at Mercy Hospital back in Minnesota until two years ago when she and spouse relcated to Australia.