Myk's Milk Bar, Graham Street, Port Melbourne, Warren Kirk, 1995.

In the 1950s, milk bars sold 73 per cent of Melbourne's confectionery, ice cream and soft drinks, and 33 per cent of its tobacco. The milk bar was more than just a mixed business; it played an important social role in the community. In the milk bar's heyday – the 1950s and 1960s – it was a place where teenagers could hang out, buy milkshakes and play pinball machines – or later, video games. By the 1970s the milk bar's role as a social venue was being superseded by shopping malls and fast-food franchises.