Farmers shops lift drivers

Farmers shops lift drivers Remember going into Farmers and there was a nice friendly lift man would take you up to all the floors...I am sure James Smiths had them too. The Maple Furniture shop had a rickety old lift that u could see it going up and I was so scared of it. I think the Maple was in Manners st?... The James Smiths Xmas parades at the Basin Reserve and all the free iceblocks.. Also does anyone recall Cadbury small chocolate bars wrapped up in silver paper with a wrapper on and were a bite size or were to me as a 4 yr old & the chocolate was so yummy. back in the early 60s.???
Remember the Ag Hall dances in Dunedin, along with, Town Hall dances, T'Town & Teen Time dances. Oh yea, & the dances at the YMCA. Can't remember the name of the group that was at the YMCA but the lead singer was Clive Blackie. Any other Dunedin folk here with memories you want to share?
cool u recall the Warldoff too and my Gran used to take me there in the hols for a treat. Always quite a dark place but then most Cafes were back those days.. Also do u ever recall back in the early 80s girls wearing ties with their clothes and i used to wear some to work and thought so cool. Then sparkly belts came out like silver and gold thin ones in the 80s too
Lido Movie theatre I jsut remembered the old movie theatre in Newtown called the LIdo and only went there once. Also the old Vogue movie theatre in Brooklyn now called the Penthouse and when I was little it had closed and that place used to fasinate me as to what it would be like inside as always looked so old..There used to be this Milkbar next door and they sold the most delicious choc dipped icecreams
there was one on Plimmers steps and the Wellington basketball team was sponsered by them for a while but the name escapes me at the mo,and i think you mean the Ascot (used to be called Our theatre ) in newtown because the Lido was on the corner of Bond st opposite the Majestic
SCHOOLING KHANDALLAH 1948-1955 swimming cold water from hills above park,cows and sheep driven up the road going to the works,fishing in the out let from the works bottom of gorge rotten row of ships waiting to go to the breakers,driving through GLENSIDE as there was no motorway north,catching unit to Wgnt for manual trading,Traffic officer on point duty James SMITH corner,Luna park along from J.S, Trams.Yes those were the days trolleys down hills around KHANDALLAH
We lived near Gear Meat co. in Petone and when it was a southerly we had to shut all the windows because of the smell from the meat works. On killing days the sea around the outlet would be bright red and there would be millions of sea gulls. All that's gone now - I think people today would be complaining about the smell!!! We just accepted it as part of life.
Top of the Farmers in Auckland was a great area for kids with cars to drive around in and the best morning tea. It was a real dept store, they have taken a dive of late, don't know the meaning of customer service either! 246 was good too for morning tea and Smith & Caugheys. Fish n Chips, 1 shilling a piece and a two bobs worth of chips.
remember the policeman on the corner of J S ,speaking of corners ,1964 i stood on the Duke Of Edinborough corner on top of the telephone box with all the others and waived up at the Beatles on the ST George Hotel Balcony,and i seem to remember riding on the last ever Tram going up Hopper st wgton,Royal Oak ,Vance Vivian`s,royal tiger ,cricketers arms ,wakefield ,imperial,carlton ,barrets,masonic,just to name a few of the old wellington pubs boy what pub crawls we had
Rock and Roll Jamborees at the Wellington town hall,Balls at the Majestic caberet you could watch after the movies,Dances at REO GRANDabove the S/Station KILBIRNE,Flying Boats at Evans Bay Dry Dock,Painted Slip EVANS BAY westen bank A/park,
Adam Bruce Milk Bar Wills Street Meeting partners after college 4.00pm train up the coast back 2 carrages for girls only. 5 shillings for tram pass per mth
When "coffee shops" were in in thing in Palmerston Nth in the mid 60's. I wasn't allowed to go in. Because "young ladies" didn't frequent such places. I used to sneak in sometmes especially if Mr Lee Grant was singing
Hey My husband recalls Santas Grotto on top Farmers Auck. too and & the coffee shop and he was treated something for being a good boy lol.. The big Santa on side of building outside and a finger pointing. Funny little man in the lift,short and rosy face.
Ohhh coffee bars in Dunedin. I was at the Zodiac Coffee Lounge most days after school as The Inbetweens practiced downstairs & they were friends of mine. Tony & Paul's Mum worked in the Zodiac too. I also used to go to The Little Hutt on a Friday night to meet up with mates & have a Hot Chocolate & cheese rolls.*Drooling now.* Cheese rolls are another thing most Nth. Islanders know nothing about.Protein Cream milkshakes were the best.
Born in the 40's I remember the night cart vividly! We'd hear the horse stop outside our gate, and put our head under the blankets, because we believed if you saw the night cart man you would end in a sudden and terrible way. We used to be able to get a penny bag of specked fruit from the fruit & veg shop, and a penny bag of broken biscuits from the grocery/dairy. Sixpence paid for the bus into town, the pictures, (at the 'fleapit'), an ice cream and some jaffas at half time, and the bus home. The jaffas were dropped at a very quiet and enthralling part of the movie, and they would roll all the way down the wooden floors to the front. So many memories
How about the winter shows NEWTOWN Horses pulling the milk cart Traffic Officers on motor bikes Swimming pool round bay with sand bottom by Port Nic boat harbour JS corner you met your mates, there was always a gent half a sleep selLing Watch Tower
was a state ward from the age of 7. Because of that I had quite a strange up bringing. In some ways over protected. About 24 primary school. I was lucky I only went to one high school. And had a very nice foster mother for my high schooling years. But she had very old fashioned ideas. Boys could run round without a shirt in the back yard but had to put it on for meals. The backs of womens knees were ugly and should be covered at all times lol. This was early 60's.One of her teenage boys had a nernia in the groin and it wasn't talked about because you didn't mention the word groin
At 17 &1/2 went down to Dunedin to live and find an old foster mother, which I did. Found a job at Cadburys and with my first pay bought myself a pr.of knee high boots. I wore them once then went o and took them to show them to my ex foster mother.( She was an English Woman}. She looked at them and said in a horrified voice "They look like German jack boots". On the way home I threw them in a rubbish binI've never bought boots since
Match box cars Remember the match box cars in packets and cannot recall their brand names now...I had a box of them even tho a girl my dad used to get them for me.. I too recall the Winter show buildings in Newtown and the fairs there and dolls on sticks. The smell of hotdogs and candy floss. Photographers taking your picts at the show and in the streets.
Used to catch overnight railcar down to Wgtn. from AK to check out great bands at Ali Babas - esp Quincy Conserve, Tom Thumb. Venues in Auckland mid-late '60s. 'Platterack' in Durham Lane, 'Hauraki 1480 Village' around the corner - Later 'Grannies'(?), 'Galaxie' in Customs St, 'Monaco' up in Federal St. Bands that were around at the time LaDeDa's,Underdogs, Challenge,Jigsaw,Rebels,Dallas4,LeFrame, - Saw The Who & Small Faces at the AK Town Hall January '69.
SHOPS C.SMITH,LAMP HOUSE,D.I.C MAPLE,TINGEYS PAINT,McKENZIES chain store,BLUNDER AN BROWN,SMITH AND SMITH,GEAR MEAT,DON FRANIS
Adams Bruce clean & Archibald ,A & T Burt,Courteny Hardware,Te Aro Seeds,Zenith Seeds,Huppert Industries,Spincraft,Stewart Hardware,Couchmans Cycles,cinema supplies,Duthies,whitcombe & caldwell,hill & jackson,turner & evans,ferguson & osbourne,j j niven ,odlins,nash`s,universal furs,whitehead & pears,morrison & gilbert,Mecca Cafe,bing Harris,Machells ,hutchison and wilson
Can anyone recall this neat Cafe called Clowns in the 1980s era down off one of those sts say like customhouse Quay??? It had like a basement area u could go down in and had a large clown on a swing and I loved it there. Hubbie dont believe me that it had this clown as he visited with me after they had taken it down and it prob a diff cafe now..
remember those little plastic submarines ou used to get in the Weet-Bix ? The ones you put baking powder in and they would dive, well I just found one amongst my hoarded treasures, new in wrapper :-
going to the pictures for 6d on a Saturday afternoon with my cousins, knitting with a cotton reel and 4 nails in the top, finger knitting, helping my dad with the silver paper pictures, getting a comic every week, going to the dairy every morning to get mums bread - one and a half loaves on Monday, one loaf Tue-Thur and 3 loaves on Friday.
The dairy used to put the bread aside nd I would go in every day and ask for Mrs Chalk's bread, same with the magazines - put aside at the book shop. Before sliced bread came in the bread would be unwrapped and handled by the shop keeper and then by me, put in the basket on my bike and taken home. Then the shop keeper started putting a piece of paper around the middle of the loaf. We never worried about unwrapped bread being unhygenic - didn't get sick either.
I was born at the start of the war and can remember the yank marines taking my cousin out on dates! Was a country raised girl and spent holidays with my city cousins...the only time I got to the movies was then..trams and their special smell... trains,all steam and hating the engine as it pulled into our country station...the '47 polio epidemic..the diptheria vaccination...butcher shops that smelled great,sawdust on the floor...cake shops that had real decent cakes,not what passes for cakes today. In the 50's I remember Evening in Paris perfume...loved it.also Pagan, Black rose,White magnolia,...