Melbourne's History in the 1880s

By adding 51 Melbourne's population is 29,000 and then that swells to half a million by the peak of the landboom. It's difficult for me to imagine what that would be like to see. See why he said he grow at such a pace. But I imagine people probably extrapolated that rate of growth forward into the future. We tend to simply project a current trend and imagine that it's going to last forever. There are two great moments in Melbourne's history in that 1880s period - one in 1880 and one in 1888 when we have grand international exhibitions. These were sites for the imaginary grandstand effect.