over the following decades more retail buildings were constructed. large-scale subdivision of farmland began in the 1920s, and californian bungalows began to dominate the architecture of the area. around 1927, the mayfair cinema was built, an elegant building in the neo-greek style; it was demolished in the early 1990s. the sandringham service station, still operating in 2011, was first erected by sydney waring in 1929.