St Kilda Junction by the 1900s had long been transformed into an urban environment. The smell of eucalyptus after rain, the sounds of squawking flocks of water birds flying over head and the sight a mobs of kangaroos moving through the open woodlands and grass lands of the early 1840s was replaced by a network of road and structures ever increasing in size and complexity, the sound of rattling of cable trams and other traffic and the air was soon to be dominated by the smell of gasoline.