Auckland's Dominion Road heads in a straight line south from the city through the suburbs of Balmoral and Mount Roskill. The road is lined with small shops and countless Asian restaurants many of them Chinese in all their incarnations.
The road was made famous by Don McGlashan's group, The Mutton Birds' in their 1993 song, titled "Dominion Road".
Here are a couple of verses from the song and some photographs I made yesterday.
Dominion Road is bending
Under its own weight
Shining like a strip
Cut from a sheet metal plate
'Cos its just been raining
But its getting better now
He found it in him to forgive
He walked the city
And he found a place to live
In a halfway house
Halfway down Dominion Road
But its getting better now
He rests his head on the window sill
He watches the city
See the antennas in the hills
From a halfway house
Halfway down Dominion Road
Halfway Down
Halfway Down
Halfway Down Dominion Road
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