Toxic Custard Workshop Files - The Grooviest Thing In Melbourne

Round 2: (14-20/7/97) Big Rocks versus Chunk Of Library
What: (The unofficial title)	Big Rocks	A Chunk of Library
Where:	Swanston Street, outside the Town Hall	Corner Swanston Street and La Trobe Streets, outside the Museum and State Library
Details:	If there's anybody who doesn't believe that real estate prices inflate beyond all recognition, show them this. The rocks have engraved in them a few of the things that the local Aborigines got in exchange for the land that Melbourne now sits on. Blankets, beads, knives, that sort of thing. In retrospect, probably a little cheap, but better than the proverbial kick in the teeth - which is just a taste of what many other Aborigines from the settlers.	This may look like a chunk of a library that someone's created as a sculpture. It's not. There's an actual library down there. It's not very well known, and getting membership is very tricky, involving a certain amount of potholing. The Cave Clan can probably point you in the right direction. In fact, if you watch very carefully as you pass under Swanston Street on a Loop train, you can see part of the geography section from the window.
The Result:	No real contest here - I bet librarians wish people thought all libraries were this cool.
	14 votes	132 votes