Its images, of "kids on the prowl, the old Salvo street bands, the Koorie clans, the card joint "kaphenois"", were first shown at Brummels in a exhibition of that title in 1974, and when re-exhibited forty years later at Colour Factory, "serve as a rare documentation of day-to-day Melbourne and glimpse into an era that, while not actually all that distant, is most definitely a thing of the past."