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--- history:h_aust_vic_melbourne [2026/07/24 08:23] – [The 1950's:] gary1
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   *1958: Bendigo-Heathcote train line closes after 70yrs service
   *1958: German immigrant chef Wilhelm Paul "Willi" Koeppen and wife opens //The Cuckoo// restaurant in the Dandenongs and introduced the concept of the smorgasboard to Australia and launched a radio and television career with his own TV slot called //The Chef Presents//, becoming the first celebrity chef in Australia - he was to disappear in 1976 in mysterious circumstances presumed homicide
-  * 1959: historic Melbourne Fish Market building on Flinders & Spencers Sts built in 1890, demolished to make way for the Flinders St overpass at King St which was finished in 1961.
+  * 1959: historic Melbourne Fish Market building on Flinders & Spencers Sts built in 1890, demolished to make way for the Flinders St overpass at King St which was finished in 1961 (demolished in 2005).
   * 1959: historic Equitable Life Assurance Building (built 1896) on the cnr of Collins & Elizabeth Streets demolished. A 7 storey building of marble walls & floors with 15 tonne roof blocks. The building's 4m sculpture //Charity being kind to the Poor// had towered 4 storeys up over Collins St, and now stands on the lawn in the University of Melbourne.
   * 1959: //Brittania Hotel// on Bourke & Queen demolished