Hi GMUGgers
On 28 Oct 2005, at 4:07pm, Mark Secker wrote:
now there's a market opportunity Next Byte are missing out on......
- in case you don't know Next Byte's Nedlands store is an old bank
and as such has a fully functional walk in bank safe built in to it
I grew up 100m from that bank and can remember it being built. We
lived in Louise Street opposite the Rose Gardens in a little
Californian Bungalow style home that mum and dad built in the mid
19302s when Stir;ling Highway was a plank road with trams, and Ned's
Land was considered sand plain country, far flung from their
childhood homes in Guildford and Vic Park.
One of the shops closer to the Dalkeith Rd corner used to be the
ESANDA Bank and when ANZ was formed they built the new bank on the
corner of Mountjoy Rd. I can't remember what was there before
(perhaps a house) but on all 3 corners opposite on the crossroads
with Stirling Highway were car yards and a service station. My good
mate and I, at the time, used to race our bikes around the bank on
weekends and do big broggies in all the loose quartz stones in the
carpark. I had my big brother's old 27" Swansea semi-racer with cury
handlebars lifted up, which dad had reconditioned for me (vision
Kermit in the Muppet Movie for anyone who knows me), being a poor
Nedlands kid - remember this was in the 1950-60's - and my mate was a
Dalkeith kid with a brand new 3 speed Malvern Star 26" with a curved
top frame!)
Windsor Theatre had an outdoor theatreo which we loved, although the
deck chairs were too saggy for us kids to sit in and see out of, and
the Flamingo Coffee Lounge was popular with the bodgies and widgies
in their FJs and Customlines. We watched our first TV there, with a
TV mounted on the wall and a sign saying "Don't just stand there; buy
something!" The place was packed with people just watching the TV.
That is now a Pewrsian rug shop from memory.
The Windsor lolly shop is now the fishing shop - if that's still
there, and the shop on the corner of Dalkeith Rd (Real Estate's?) was
a butcher's and deli-type shop.
Hey, what's this got to do with Macs?
Regards
Reg
