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[Bates]

You've just described my 90's..
The Carousel shopping centre as well.
Being able to get around Westfield without needing a map, Bex and good lie down after getting home from there.

Don't forget our neighbouring Clovelly RSL/Airforce Club and the steaks at the DOG.

Best memory of all...drum roll please...Summerhaze Books & Music run by the Summerhays family..I still have a rare David Bowie DVD I bought from them.

The DOG had the worlds biggest steaks!

$10 steak night at the Coogee Bay Hotel was an interesting initiative as you had to cook them yourself and I couldn't boil an egg in my teens.

You couldn't beat No Names Darlo. We'd train the house down then go and smash a Pasta Schnitzel combo for $12 plus unlimited bread and cordial. Place was always packed!

[redwhiteblue]

The DOG had the worlds biggest steaks!

$10 steak night at the Coogee Bay Hotel was an interesting initiative as you had to cook them yourself and I couldn't boil an egg in my teens.

You couldn't beat No Names Darlo. We'd train the house down then go and smash a Pasta Schnitzel combo for $12 plus unlimited bread and cordial. Place was always packed!

Those places were our Gowings haunts as we'd work 6 days a week plus Thursday nights. One of the guys lived on St Marks Road and we'd get up to all sorts of mischief and end up sharing cabs home. Agh yes, the white butcher paper table cloths and jugs of orange cordial..I still have a coaster from Balkan Seafood too..Then I got even more mischievious when I worked in the bank as we had weekends off and no late night work..we ended up at Archies one night with some Freddy Fittler bloke..

[Mickie Lane]

Those ice creams were great Mickie and my timeline with them is about 55- 58 years ago. My first 7 years were in Paddington till my father sold up and moved to Kingsford, that was a real culture shock, went from concrete foot paths to having grass on the foot path. I still a far more connection to Paddington than i do to Kingsford. My father sold just to early before Paddo went through the boom.

The reason I my dad my brother & my children go for Easts is because my pop was from Paddington. Born in 1900 so he was brought up in a really tough time 1920, 1930, Paddington wasnt a nice part of town it was full of poor families & crime was high, plenty of fights & then the razor gangs came along.
My nan was from there too they were both 2nd generation Aussies & their parents (my great grand parents) had full on Irish accents.

[Red.]

Ah ok, i remember talking about the ambulance station with you as one of the guys i went to school lived there also but i think they moved away even before my family moved from Paddington, i remember going to a birthday party there one year, We were not far from the Dunbar, just down on Stewart St, the property had two entrances, the other was on Leinster St. There was a vet on the corner of Walter and Renny St opposite the Dunbar which we took our dog to a couple of times.

When my family moved from Adelaide we lived in Stewart Street for a couple of years before my parents bought a terrace very close to the Dunbar.

PS: Was your friend's name Warren by chance?

[horrie hastings]

When my family moved from Adelaide we lived in Stewart Street for a couple of years before my parents bought a terrace very close to the Dunbar.

PS: Was your friend's name Warren by chance?

Memory is vague but i'm 99 % certain it was Michael Devlin.

My parents rented the house in Stewart St before i was born but bought it off the owner who ended up staying in one of the flatettes till he passed away, The main house was a terrace with kitchen, bathroom,laundry, living area and one bedroom downstairs and one bedroom upstairs with a verandah, there were three flatettes, two were attached to the main house but had no internal entrances to them from the house and the third one was above a shed in the back yard, all were good size. When my brother was born in the last year of Paddo my father decided the house was to small as my sister and i already shared the big up stairs bed room so my baby brother was in the down stairs bedroom with my parents. Instead of thinking outside the square my father decided to sell even though there was the empty flatette up the back where my sister could have made her own space . My father decided to sell and took the first offer on a hand shake, the owner of the Dunbar offered him almost double the other offer but my father wouldn't go back on the hand shake .
It was an odd property for that part of Paddington as it had a large back yard so there was even more scope for expansion if done properly, even though the postal address was Stewart St the front of the house was on Leinster St, from Stewart St it was a narrow path that was next to garages that led down to the back yard. I still shake my head of the lost opportunity that property presented.

[horrie hastings]

The reason I my dad my brother & my children go for Easts is because my pop was from Paddington. Born in 1900 so he was brought up in a really tough time 1920, 1930, Paddington wasnt a nice part of town it was full of poor families & crime was high, plenty of fights & then the razor gangs came along.
My nan was from there too they were both 2nd generation Aussies & their parents (my great grand parents) had full on Irish accents.

Your not wrong there Mickie about it not being a nice part of town, even my young memory from the mid to late 60 s it was still considered a slum, we still had a guy just up the street living in a car with his dogs and those dogs were feral. But around 1970 you could see a few things slowly starting to happen, a few little boutique shop were happening along Oxford St, still had it's old business's but there was a change happening.
My father sold to early just before the boom and the gentrification of Paddington but as i said to Red my father didn't think outside the square as the property had so much room and potential and should have kept it.

[horrie hastings]

The DOG had the worlds biggest steaks!

$10 steak night at the Coogee Bay Hotel was an interesting initiative as you had to cook them yourself and I couldn't boil an egg in my teens.

You couldn't beat No Names Darlo. We'd train the house down then go and smash a Pasta Schnitzel combo for $12 plus unlimited bread and cordial. Place was always packed!

We were going to No Names even in the 60 s when we lived at Paddo, I used to like going on a Saturday back in the earlier days because at lunch time they did ravioli instead of spaghetti and i would have that and roast chicken or scallopini . The spaghetti and schnitzel combos were great and some times i would order the pork chops which were yummo, also back on the 70 s their fish dish they used trevally which was a cheap option at the markets at that time and it was good. My mother would often order the lambs fry, i actually didn't mind trying a bit of it when she ordered it. There was nothing more comforting about having a bowl of spaghetti, the basket of bread on the table, a salad of just iceberg lettuce with white vinegar as the dressing and the orange cordial. I rented in Yurong st for a while in the 90 s and was still living there when i met the better half and my parents came around one night and wanted to take us out for dinner and guess where we ended up ? No Names which was not even a five minute walk around the corner.

The DOG was a good pub and i went there on and off for years, even for a while around 2013- 2018 again because i could get a direct bus from home at St Peters to the DOG. It is a Justin Hemmes owned venue now so i give it a wide berth.

[Bates]

Back in the day there were small convenience stores in obscure locations. The business owner would live in the back or above the shop. These old shops are now prime residential real estate. Does anyone remember the little shop in Belgrave Street Bronte? Smack bang in the middle of a small street surrounded by homes.

[mightyrooster]

I always thought Western Star was Australian. Well it was founded here but apparently is no longer Australian owned, but NZ owned. Hmm.

[Duchess_of_Bondi]

I'd buy my footy boots from Kevin Junee's on Ebley Street. Black and Orange Tigers were the go.

Bates, I'm just going through some more of my Roosters memorabilia as a weekend rainy day project and I was given a 1980 newspaper poster by an elderly customer of mine when I had my shop in Charing Cross from 2008 to 2011. She had a connection to Johnny Rheinberger too as I remember.

It's from the Eastern & Hail Reporter and the list of sponsors back then is gold.

To name just a few, along with their well wishes for the team:

Giles Health Centre Coogee - " Win, draw or lose..you're still champs at Giles Health Centre"

Theo's Milk Bar Charing Cross - "Cock a Doodle Doo Easts to win in 1980"

Play Sports Martin Place - "Best wishes to Roosters & their supporters"

Mark Eaton Furnishings, the best furniture store in Bondi Junction, AGC Bankcard and deposits welcome 89 Oxford St.

Bondi Towing Service - "We tow the Roosters over the line. Easts to win!"

Gold Prospectors Supply - 332 Oxford St - Ground Hog Finds Gold! according to the ad..

The other side has predictions from Frank Hyde, Mike Cleary, Rosemary Foot MP, Bill Mordey, my sister's old boss Ron Casey and Malcolm Elliott.

I think I'll need to get this double sided laminated as it's too big for my scrapbook

[horrie hastings]

Victa Mowers back in Australian hands again.

https://startsat60.com/media/victa-i...ke-coming-home

[Bates]

Bates, I'm just going through some more of my Roosters memorabilia as a weekend rainy day project and I was given a 1980 newspaper poster by an elderly customer of mine when I had my shop in Charing Cross from 2008 to 2011. She had a connection to Johnny Rheinberger too as I remember.

It's from the Eastern & Hail Reporter and the list of sponsors back then is gold.

To name just a few, along with their well wishes for the team:

Giles Health Centre Coogee - " Win, draw or lose..you're still champs at Giles Health Centre"

Theo's Milk Bar Charing Cross - "Cock a Doodle Doo Easts to win in 1980"

Play Sports Martin Place - "Best wishes to Roosters & their supporters"

Mark Eaton Furnishings, the best furniture store in Bondi Junction, AGC Bankcard and deposits welcome 89 Oxford St.

Bondi Towing Service - "We tow the Roosters over the line. Easts to win!"

Gold Prospectors Supply - 332 Oxford St - Ground Hog Finds Gold! according to the ad..

The other side has predictions from Frank Hyde, Mike Cleary, Rosemary Foot MP, Bill Mordey, my sister's old boss Ron Casey and Malcolm Elliott.

I think I'll need to get this double sided laminated as it's too big for my scrapbook

Great memories mate.

My late Uncle who migrated from Greece in the 50's spent the remainder of his adult life calling Charing Cross "Charlie Cross" and Brad Fitler was "Brad Filter" no matter how many times you corrected him

[Duchess_of_Bondi]

Great memories mate.

My late Uncle who migrated from Greece in the 50's spent the remainder of his adult life calling Charing Cross "Charlie Cross" and Brad Fitler was "Brad Filter" no matter how many times you corrected him

That's really sweet..there are many times when I guess we all wishes Freddy Fittler did have a filter..

Speaking of Greek, time to make my platter soon.

[horrie hastings]

And just up on the next corner from Kevin Junee's Run For Your Life sports store on Bronte Road was an Australian institution Henny Penny chicken, great chicken, BBQ and fried, far superior to the Colonel back in the late 60 s and 70 s but as most American multi national companies they try and dominate the market and drive the local and far superior product out of the market, Henny Penny disappeared from Sydney somewhere in the mid 70 s or maybe a bit later, it was still around in country areas in the early 80 s but now its just hanging on by a finger nail in it's original hometown area of the Newcastle. Of course its not as good as it was back in the day but it still worth a visit if you are in the Newcastle region and want a fried chicken fix, and it is still Australian owned.

Pic of the inside of Bondi Jct Henny Penny

https://www.facebook.com/Igrewupinmo...7339381682961/

[horrie hastings]

Bates, I'm just going through some more of my Roosters memorabilia as a weekend rainy day project and I was given a 1980 newspaper poster by an elderly customer of mine when I had my shop in Charing Cross from 2008 to 2011. She had a connection to Johnny Rheinberger too as I remember.

It's from the Eastern & Hail Reporter and the list of sponsors back then is gold.

To name just a few, along with their well wishes for the team:

Giles Health Centre Coogee - " Win, draw or lose..you're still champs at Giles Health Centre"

Theo's Milk Bar Charing Cross - "Cock a Doodle Doo Easts to win in 1980"

Play Sports Martin Place - "Best wishes to Roosters & their supporters"

Mark Eaton Furnishings, the best furniture store in Bondi Junction, AGC Bankcard and deposits welcome 89 Oxford St.

Bondi Towing Service - "We tow the Roosters over the line. Easts to win!"

Gold Prospectors Supply - 332 Oxford St - Ground Hog Finds Gold! according to the ad..

The other side has predictions from Frank Hyde, Mike Cleary, Rosemary Foot MP, Bill Mordey, my sister's old boss Ron Casey and Malcolm Elliott.

I think I'll need to get this double sided laminated as it's too big for my scrapbook

Hancocks hardware at Randwick used to be a sponsor and would have players awards and presentations at their store but it was before 1980 memory wise and i was still at school, think it would have been around 1977-78 maybe even 79.