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.
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Your memories - especially on Queen St rekindled so many of mine. I had forgotten many of the names you mentioned, but now thinking back it almost seems like just yesterday. I worked for the giant Kerridge-Odeon corporation for many enjoyable years,
working lots of night shifts. Remember the White Lady, the coffee shop in Customs St that was open late, Friday & Saturday nights when you could hardly move on the footpath because of the movie crowds. The 'Tap Room bar' at the back of the Cinerama Theatre where we would often meet for drinks between shifts. Those certainly were The Good Old Days.
Wow, memories flooding back reading through these posts. What about the 'wanna buy a flower?' disabled boy who used to sit outside Smith & Caughey; walking through the Royal Albert hotel past all the diners to get to Busby's bar underneath the Tap Rooms; The Hungry Horse across the road in Elliot st (used to work there); the Greek Taverna on Wellesley and the DB Tavern on a Friday night; Tequila Sunrise nightclub, Alladins, Sunday afternoon movies at the Civic or St. James; the Lion tavern on Fort st., the Great Northern Hotel (hmmm recurring theme in the places I remember...). Fantastic times, wouldn't know where anything was in town these days. Thanks for the nostalgia rush.
Any photos of tequila sunrise nightclub in Auckland in the 70's would be greatly appreciated my father ken Murphy/elliott used to run it so I would love any photos to show him. Much appreciated simoneelliott@hotmail.com
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