I grew up in Preston, Melbourne. My parents bought their first home there in 1947. Strangely, it was of the same era and floor plane that we live in today. When I needed to go to the city, I would walk 3 kms to the local railway station. Today it has changed - as has most of the suburb of my childhood and teenage years.
I would walk by this intersection or probably more often ride my bike by on the way to school. Note the traffic "lights".....
Today they are museum pieces of our past.