Council Offices, Port Adelaide

The Council Offices in Port Adelaide dating from 1939 were designed by Adelaide architect, Christopher A Smith.

Note the rounded corner of the building and the horizontal bands above each bank of windows. A small balcony above the main entrance with metal railings also features similar banding and is offered a little shelter by a series of three eyebrows stacked on top of each other, underlining the city crest.

Reference: Twentieth Century Heritage Survey, Stage Two (1928-1945), Peter Bell, Carol Cosgrove, Susan Marsden & Justin McCarthy 2008, volume 2, P40

Globe Hotel, Port Adelaide

When I took this picture about 5 years ago, this was a hotel with a crisis of identity. There are clearly two names. Globe Hotel along the top of the building and Golden Port Tavern in the faded paintwork of the wooden verandah. I have seen a more recent photo and the verandah has been repainted covering the Golden Port Tavern name but the Globe Hotel name has also been painted the same colour as the hotel facade suggesting to me that it no longer goes by that name either.

In any case, it is a fine looking Art Deco pub in Port Adelaide that was probably called the Globe Hotel in the 1930s when it was built (or renovated). A bit of detective work looking at the photos, shows that the signage on the left of the building covers the older Globe Hotel name indicating that the Golden Port Tavern is a more recent incarnation.

Does anyone in Port Adelaide know the history of this pub?

Gibb & Miller Ltd, Port Adelaide

This squat horizontal building is Gibb & Miller Ltd Engineers in Port Adelaide.

I can't imagine that the narrow band of windows along the front of the building let in much, if any, light but no doubt there would be windows in the roof to provide light.

The perfectly proportioned lettering spelling out the company name adds to the simplicity of the facade but my favourite is the metal "GM" monogram above the entrance.

Dalgety Wool Store, Port Adelaide

This wool store in Port Adelaide was built for the Dalgety Company in 1938.

Clarkson, Port Adelaide

Like Power Mobile, this is another strange little shop in St Vincent Street, Port Adelaide.

Obviously the whole top part of the shopfront has been boarded up, except for the Clarkson name, and it was a furniture shop a few years ago when I took this photo.

I hope it is still there and I'd love to know what is under that boarding.

Power Mobile, Port Adelaide

I caught this small shop in St Vincent Street, Port Adelaide in mid-change from a Marine Electronics shop to a Mobile Phone shop in September 2005.

I like the disaster area below the verandah and the beautiul signage above it.

I also like that the shop front is made of wood. Most of the time Art Deco elements are made from concrete but this little shops nods to the Australian past of wooden buildings.

So traditional building technoques are employed even though the original shop owners want to show they are part o the modern world.

I'd like to see what has become of this little place in the last 3 years since I saw it in this state.