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Parkside Football Club 1897/2017

in its V.F.L. history the club finished last on the premiership ladder, with only 3 wins in 18 games”
That was a terrible conclusion to a great story, 100 years and a wooden spoon for its football team.
“” http://www.fnwb.com.au/heritage/footscray-books/

“One hundred years ago, when Footscray was first proclaimed a municipality, it was a small village of
400 white pioneers, subsisting on the stone quarries and surrounded by virgin bush, in which the
aborigines, emus and kangaroos roamed.

Today, with a population of 64,000, it is the pre-eminent manufacturing suburb of Melbourne and
the focal point of the pulsating, great western area of the metropolis.

The centenary of local government in Footscray on June 10 this year can be celebrated therefore with
immense pride in the past and supreme confidence in the future. “

The Mail, June 1959

“An estimated 25000 people lined Footscray streets on Monday for the biggest, gayest procession
the city has ever seen. The parade was a highlight of the city's centenary celebrations.

Organised by Footscray Junior Chamber of Commerce, the parade proved to be a “miniature
Moomba," It had all the color, variety and attraction of Melbourne's glamor procession.”

Footscray Advertiser, June 15, 1959

Once a Parksider, Always a Parksider