Sunset Strip, Victoria

Sunset Strip
Town
Sunset Strip is located in Bass Coast Shire
Sunset Strip
Sunset Strip
Coordinates: 38°29′42″S 145°15′58″E / 38.49500°S 145.26611°E / -38.49500; 145.26611
CountryAustralia
StateVictoria
LGA
Government
 • State electorate
 • Federal division
Population
 • Total427 (2016 census)[1]
Postcode
3922

Sunset Strip is a small town on Phillip Island in Victoria, Australia.

History

The town was established in the 1960s through the privately developed Sunset Strip Estate, which provided more than 350 residential allotments.[2] It was designed by civil engineer Ronald Lee and occupies a 38-hectare triangular site between Back Beach Road and Phillip Island Road.[3]

Aerial view, 1975

The estate was first marketed in early 1961, with purchasers entering contracts that were conditional upon subdivision approval being granted within several months. Approval was delayed for several years, however, resulting in the cancellation of most contracts.[4]

Subdivision approval was eventually granted in late 1963, after which land sales resumed and continued until early 1968.[5][6] Progress was initially slow, with only 17 homes built by 1975.

Naming

The town is named after the Sunset Strip, the stretch of Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, California. The place was popularised in Melbourne by the American private detective crime drama 77 Sunset Strip, which aired frequently on Channel 9 between 1959 and 1964.[7]

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Sunset Strip (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  2. ↑ LP57844 - Survey plan report. Victorian Department of Transport and Planning. 1963.
  3. ↑ Lee, Ron (1963). Copy of Fieldnotes of Survey, Part of Crown Allotment 132 & 133, Parish of Phillip Island. Victorian Department of Transport and Planning.
  4. ↑ "Last chance to buy on the Sunset Strip estate". The Age. 11 March 1961. p. 38.
  5. ↑ "Sunset Strip Estate". 31 December 1963.
  6. ↑ "To finalise estate". The Age. 20 January 1968. p. 51.
  7. ↑ "77 Sunset Strip repeats on GTV-9". The Age (radio/TV supplement). 29 September 1960. p. 2.


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