IVANS on the corner of Anglesea and Ponsonby road...remember going there as a kid,lady with her big orange hair who could remember the order without writing it down..lol..and massive plates of food,with stacks of buttered bread ..excellent service...hardly get a joint like that around now
A night at the gluepot, ...
then the long stumble up ponsonby road to IVAN's (restaurant )
...steak, eggs, chips & plate of bread&butter 6 miles high.
all served by Mary,..a large Ukranian woman who never, ever wrote anything down.{.and was apparently seen smiling once.}
Joes Bargain House Ponsonby Road
Friday, April 09, 2010
he Crypt Nightclub and the other one just around the corner, god used to go there all the time, but cant remember the name now, you had to walk downstairs to the dance floor
there was a chinese jewellery shop around the crner from the civic - welleslley street. And wasn't there a pizza place on the corner? they had amazing jewellery in there I seem to remember, the night club was next door to them.
I remember that shop, used to stand outside on cold nights after clubbing at the Crypt imagining being warm with them on, Lol then we'd all about 20 or so of us dressed to the nines in gatsby gears stroll on down to vulcan lane for a bit before heading to the white lady if not the cafe mall on commerce street for burgers and milkshakes. Then taxi home. Was that the Club 21 Snapper? There was another night club behind queen street on same side, a short dead end street. How I managed to get in them underaged I don't know.
Rendells, George courts, Mckenzies then it changed to Woolworths, international market Quaggs ice cream palour across the road, farmers free bus on Pitt street remember the funny mirrors in farmers?
I think it was Debbie Dorday who had Burgundys. Used to advertise on TV ? Yeah definately Debbie Dorday, cause I used to work next door at NZ Post, back in the old Post Bank days, could have been Marcus Craig but I thought he was at Ace of Clubs, did he open another place downtown years later?
Harmony House when it was in Queen st, it always had great stuff in the window, The milkbar that was next to it.
We lived in Browns Bay Greville Road, which was the last house on that st, then miles of bush behind it, now its the motorway
there was a chinese jewellery shop around the crner from the civic - welleslley street. And wasn't there a pizza place on the corner? they had amazing jewellery in there I seem to remember, the night club was next door to them.
I remember that shop, used to stand outside on cold nights after clubbing at the Crypt imagining being warm with them on, Lol then we'd all about 20 or so of us dressed to the nines in gatsby gears stroll on down to vulcan lane for a bit before heading to the white lady if not the cafe mall on commerce street for burgers and milkshakes. Then taxi home. Was that the Club 21 Snapper? There was another night club behind queen street on same side, a short dead end street. How I managed to get in them underaged I don't know.
Rendells, George courts, Mckenzies then it changed to Woolworths, international market Quaggs ice cream palour across the road, farmers free bus on Pitt street remember the funny mirrors in farmers?
I think it was Debbie Dorday who had Burgundys. Used to advertise on TV ? Yeah definately Debbie Dorday, cause I used to work next door at NZ Post, back in the old Post Bank days, could have been Marcus Craig but I thought he was at Ace of Clubs, did he open another place downtown years later?
Harmony House when it was in Queen st, it always had great stuff in the window, The milkbar that was next to it.
We lived in Browns Bay Greville Road, which was the last house on that st, then miles of bush behind it, now its the motorway
Quaggs Icecream Parlour . Manhattans. shoprite in Ponsonby road, K Rd night market in the carpark behind Rendells, they used to get so many people there, they had to close it down because it used to sway, had a stall there too.
Picasso night club, all the Chinese takeaway places in Greys Ave plus the shady dealings that went on there.
I remember the popcorn dispenser at the bus terminal that had salted popcorn., back then I think that was the first for Auckland.
Was the International market behind Smith & Caugheys where all the new boutique shops are now, used to be stalls for the horses way back when?
Stones shoe shop K Rd. I used to work there, would wrap shoes in brown wrapping paper all nice and tidy. The fish and chip shop in K rd was the best on a friday night .The milk bar across the road for lunch and a ciggie
nternational market was on Queen St next to Smith a Caugheys, and then there were a couple of shops next to the market, then the Arcade
I've just remembered another shop - the corner shop across the road from the Civic Theatre that used to sell REAL fur jackets, stoles etc.
Picasso night club, all the Chinese takeaway places in Greys Ave plus the shady dealings that went on there.
I remember the popcorn dispenser at the bus terminal that had salted popcorn., back then I think that was the first for Auckland.
Was the International market behind Smith & Caugheys where all the new boutique shops are now, used to be stalls for the horses way back when?
Stones shoe shop K Rd. I used to work there, would wrap shoes in brown wrapping paper all nice and tidy. The fish and chip shop in K rd was the best on a friday night .The milk bar across the road for lunch and a ciggie
nternational market was on Queen St next to Smith a Caugheys, and then there were a couple of shops next to the market, then the Arcade
I've just remembered another shop - the corner shop across the road from the Civic Theatre that used to sell REAL fur jackets, stoles etc.
Thursday, April 08, 2010
246 - going upstairs for lunch at the coffee shop (or whatever they used to call cafes), The Strand Arcade and can anyone remember the sweet shop that sold hand made chocolates and boiled lollies? Directly opposite that shop was the ice cream parlour (can't remember the name) but they sold the best ice cream in the world. Angus Steakhouse restaurant that sold the biggest and best steaks and bbqed them for you. And I also remember the old man that operated the lifts at George Courts.
Trillos, Downtown. Orient Restaurant in the Strand - just closed after 40 years. Wah Jang Fruit shop, opposite the Central Post Office. The old man in Woolworths, stocking shelves. The old lady at the bus depot selling news papers, ciggies. Hare Krishnas in K Rd Thursday nights.
Trillos, Downtown. Orient Restaurant in the Strand - just closed after 40 years. Wah Jang Fruit shop, opposite the Central Post Office. The old man in Woolworths, stocking shelves. The old lady at the bus depot selling news papers, ciggies. Hare Krishnas in K Rd Thursday nights.
Gluepot Ponsonby Rd
Tony's restaurant, Cobb & Co , Cook Street Markets, Farmer's trams, milk shakes in metal containers, paper boys on corners of Queen Street selling daily papers, Hari Krishna's on a Friday night, going to the movies and standing up for God Save the Queen at the start and stampedeing out at half time for an ice cream and drink....
Tony's restaurant, Cobb & Co , Cook Street Markets, Farmer's trams, milk shakes in metal containers, paper boys on corners of Queen Street selling daily papers, Hari Krishna's on a Friday night, going to the movies and standing up for God Save the Queen at the start and stampedeing out at half time for an ice cream and drink....
Oriental Dance Hall near the top of Symonds Street.
I have danced at the Orange and the Peter Pan.
Peter Pan had a sprung floor. When it was made into a night club,
Mainstreet, they covered the floor with another floor, to preserve it.
I can remember a girl got shot and killed outside there, very sad.
Cook Street Market in the basement of the Ace of Clubs and the Browns Mill market. The McKenzies store on the corner of Queen Street and Vulcan Lane. George Courts in K Rd.
Keans for Jeans
still have a glass from the peter pan .it was found in a bag of bottles that came home from there its been sand blasted with the name . you were not allowed to drink there but every body used to take in a bottle and mixers .its hard to beleave you could only buy soft drinks no fruit juice or any thing else . people going in always had a hip flask any a bag of drinks bags were never looked into .them was the days
The Olive Rose a boat that took school parties all over the Waitemata harbour in the 50s and 60s is she still working?
Surfside in Milford anyone remember it
International Market, next to Smith and Caugheys, I loved going down to Cook St market, remember you used to walk in quite coherrent and walk out stoned out of your head. and George Courts remember the old guy in the lift? my sister worked there as a sign writer,
I have danced at the Orange and the Peter Pan.
Peter Pan had a sprung floor. When it was made into a night club,
Mainstreet, they covered the floor with another floor, to preserve it.
I can remember a girl got shot and killed outside there, very sad.
Cook Street Market in the basement of the Ace of Clubs and the Browns Mill market. The McKenzies store on the corner of Queen Street and Vulcan Lane. George Courts in K Rd.
Keans for Jeans
still have a glass from the peter pan .it was found in a bag of bottles that came home from there its been sand blasted with the name . you were not allowed to drink there but every body used to take in a bottle and mixers .its hard to beleave you could only buy soft drinks no fruit juice or any thing else . people going in always had a hip flask any a bag of drinks bags were never looked into .them was the days
The Olive Rose a boat that took school parties all over the Waitemata harbour in the 50s and 60s is she still working?
Surfside in Milford anyone remember it
International Market, next to Smith and Caugheys, I loved going down to Cook St market, remember you used to walk in quite coherrent and walk out stoned out of your head. and George Courts remember the old guy in the lift? my sister worked there as a sign writer,
Auckland - in the olden days
Remember the Tivoli on K Road, used to show a cartoon parade for the kids during the holidays, The Maple, the big store on the Grafton Bridge corner. The toyshop down further, it always had Model Trains in the Window? the days when kids could walk home safely.
Uncle's Burgers at the other end of K Rd on the way to Western Springs. They don't make them like they use to.. (sigh).. Particularly good after the movies or crusn' Queen Street hehehe!!
Adams Bruce and cheap broken biscuits.
Farmers in Hobson St on the top floor with the bikes and pedal cars for the kids to use while parents have a cup of tea nearby.
Shopping in K Road, catch the Farmers Free tram down Pitt & Hobson St. More shopping at Farmers (Great Store) then free trolley bus to Queen St. Yummy "Snow Freeze"? ice cream at Woolworths. Pass the Roxy theatre -Western movies- always stunk of disinfectant, on way to bus terminal, where all the buses departed from, catch an old Stewart bus, out west. Drove for ABC many years later and drove machines that were older than me!
American Milk Bar in Newmarket..
white lady for a pie pea and spud .the mt eden swimming pool which i beleave is gone now auckland in the 50/60 the man in the wheel chair selling papers on the way to the wharf and catching the tram they rattled and banged along in the winter they were so cold . .farmers having tripe days where the whole shop smelt of boiling onions
had a Saturday job in Nibble Nook, the ice cream and lollie counter at the Regent Theatre. It was a Kerridge Odeon theatre.
On the other side of Queen Street were the Amalgamated theatres.
Century, and another I can't bring to mind. The other one was up near the library.
The Kerridge Oden girls walked on one side of Queen St and the Amalgamated girls walked on the other.
The Regent theatre had a marble staircase. There was a basement, where in the spring tide it flooded from the stream that ran under Queen St. Probably still does, but will be well drained now. I had to hang tea towels down there, and it was very spooky. You could not go to the bottom step when the water was in there.
When it was half time, you could hear the children coming, sounded like a heard of elephants on the way. All wanted to be first to get the icecreams and lollies. All pushing and shoving each other out of the way.
Uncle's Burgers at the other end of K Rd on the way to Western Springs. They don't make them like they use to.. (sigh).. Particularly good after the movies or crusn' Queen Street hehehe!!
Adams Bruce and cheap broken biscuits.
Farmers in Hobson St on the top floor with the bikes and pedal cars for the kids to use while parents have a cup of tea nearby.
Shopping in K Road, catch the Farmers Free tram down Pitt & Hobson St. More shopping at Farmers (Great Store) then free trolley bus to Queen St. Yummy "Snow Freeze"? ice cream at Woolworths. Pass the Roxy theatre -Western movies- always stunk of disinfectant, on way to bus terminal, where all the buses departed from, catch an old Stewart bus, out west. Drove for ABC many years later and drove machines that were older than me!
American Milk Bar in Newmarket..
white lady for a pie pea and spud .the mt eden swimming pool which i beleave is gone now auckland in the 50/60 the man in the wheel chair selling papers on the way to the wharf and catching the tram they rattled and banged along in the winter they were so cold . .farmers having tripe days where the whole shop smelt of boiling onions
had a Saturday job in Nibble Nook, the ice cream and lollie counter at the Regent Theatre. It was a Kerridge Odeon theatre.
On the other side of Queen Street were the Amalgamated theatres.
Century, and another I can't bring to mind. The other one was up near the library.
The Kerridge Oden girls walked on one side of Queen St and the Amalgamated girls walked on the other.
The Regent theatre had a marble staircase. There was a basement, where in the spring tide it flooded from the stream that ran under Queen St. Probably still does, but will be well drained now. I had to hang tea towels down there, and it was very spooky. You could not go to the bottom step when the water was in there.
When it was half time, you could hear the children coming, sounded like a heard of elephants on the way. All wanted to be first to get the icecreams and lollies. All pushing and shoving each other out of the way.
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