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The residential areas increasingly became slums, with some areas threatened with clearance.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s Cremorne became a centre for crime.

Well known Melbourne criminal Dennis Allen was known to own around a dozen homes in Cremorne, which were used for a variety of illicit purposes.

One was demolished in 1989 by police searching for evidence in the Walsh Street police shootings, it had earlier been seized by the Australian Taxation Office.

Other shadowy businesses in Cremorne Street in the 1970s included a brothel, a door-to-door business selling fraudulent oil paintings, and clothing sweatshops.