Maps Port Adelaide

Good choice. I was born in Woodville, many, many years ago so I'm also interested in this as a CXL map.

 

Similar story for me. I've lived in a number of places around Australia, first because the old man was in the army and we moved a lot for his various postings and then after that work took me to a few places here and there.
However the last time I was in Adelaide was in the 1980s, I really should get back there some day, especially as the ConCentric Games convention is held at the Burnside Community Centre - that's practically in the heart of the city!

 

Whoa! Talk about seven degrees of separation! Or in this case about one degree...

I currently live in a suburb next to Midland, I used to work in Kalgoorlie, I used to live in Geraldton (went to Geraldton Primary, still have family there) and I used to have family in Dongara (crayfishing).
The only weak links in all that are Leinster (although I have passed through there once or twice) and Queensland (I've visited once, only the Gold Coast and Tweed Heads though).

You'd still recognize the Midland Primary School but it's changed function a few times since you were last here! It's now the Midland Junction Art Centre and before that it was the home of the Australian Opera Studio (and there's a Dome Cafe in part of the complex).

 

Midvale Primary is just down the road from me, if I'm at home during a weekday I can hear the noise whenever they have sports day!
The local shop across the road from the school playground changed hands some years back but is still going strong. However half the shops over the other side (on Hooley Rd) are closed up, they couldn't compete after Midland Gate shopping centre had its big expansion. And the cinema near the Swan Park Leisure Centre closed down (surprise, surprise, the cinema is now incorporated into Midland Gate) and was demolished a couple of years back and even the Chicken Treat that was next to it has closed now.

Do you recall the "new" (as of the early 1990s) suburb of Stratton near Swan View? It would have still been mostly bushland with only a few streets when you were here - and in another coincidence, I'd just moved to Swan View in late 1995 - anyway... yeah it's pretty much a fully developed suburb now, shopping centre, bottle shop, pizza bar, bus service and all.

Yeah I can relate to the Nullarbor comment, done that trip by car and bus enough times to last me (also done it by plane and train but the train was way back when I was too young to remember it). We always used to stop at the blow holes even though it delayed us about half a morning - was like a family tradition to go see 'em haha.

 

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Yeah having a look at Adelaide now, I can see just how much bigger the place is now.
I remember that when I was trying to find the Adelaide location for ConCentric Games 2012 on Google Maps, I got lost because I kept thinking Woodville was an outer suburb in the north-west (and not the middle area that it is now!) and Elizabeth was a satellite town in the north-east (and not the outer suburb that it is now!)