Quadrangle Shopping Village

NO SKATEBOARDS.
NO SMOKING.
NO ROLLERBLADING.
Rollerblading? Really? What does this look like, 1982?
That sign is just one of the reasons I love the Quadrangle. It’s been there forever, and as far as I know id the only Quadrangle shopping village in the world. There’s some deeply unfashionable (yet reassuringly expensive) ladies fashion boutiques, an IGA (that used to be a Jewels, then a Franklins, then a Coles) with a crappy range, an amazing Butcher Boys, some kid of café that keeps changing hands, the Flavours of Peking Chinese restaurant that’s been going since time immemorial, and a rather clean bathroom. I love it because it screams village, community, small-​town suburban life of the kind that’s dying and won’t be around in 100 years. So come one, come all, eat and drink and make merry.
But if you’re on rollerblades, God help you, you take your business elsewhere. We don’t want your kind around here.