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bugjuice
7th June 2006, 18:39
has a 'man crèche'...?? wtf..
guess you'll be finding me there on a regular occasion.. :wait:
better have a bloody good arcade and bike area..
CycleTreads / motomail - get yer arse in that mall!!!
Hope there's a mac store..
yungatart
7th June 2006, 18:42
I hate malls!
BuFfY
7th June 2006, 18:46
I can not wait for it to open!
My question is, what is this Warehouse Extra?
sAsLEX
7th June 2006, 18:55
I can not wait for it to open!
My question is, what is this Warehouse Extra?
one with alcohol?
Brett
7th June 2006, 20:24
another mall...where are all the shoppers?? No wonder we having such an alarming, and ever increasing level of debt...Hope there is a bike store:blip:
Colapop
7th June 2006, 20:43
I can not wait for it to open!
My question is, what is this Warehouse Extra?
We (Beca) did some of the Services design for this I think. It's just another mall. The "Man Creche" is just a bar with a couple of outdoor shops and a food area.... Warehouse Extra is just one that has a Brumby's, Pharmacy, Bottle store, and full grocery department.
If you like malls - good. If you like retailers having a choice as to where they trade and what choices they can offer then malls suck.
Marmoot
7th June 2006, 20:50
has a 'man crèche'...?? wtf..
where you can sit down, relax and enjoy being pampered by lovely gorgeous young ladies?
bugjuice
7th June 2006, 20:53
dunno.. hope so..
that'd be a good deterrent to female shoppers!
Badcat
7th June 2006, 21:01
I can not wait for it to open!
My question is, what is this Warehouse Extra?
warehouse "extra" is their hypermarket concept.
it's a full traditional supermarket, bottle store, pharmacy and normal Warehouse store.
one stop shop - like Wal-mart in the USA.
k
BuFfY
7th June 2006, 21:02
warehouse "extra" is their hypermarket concept.
it's a full traditional supermarket, bottle store, pharmacy and normal Warehouse store.
one stop shop - like Wal-mart in the USA.
k
Ok, thanks :)
I just thought it may have been all warehouse stuff, not like brumbies etc
Sylvia Park - I went to the primary school across the road from 1958 to 1966,it was on our patch....how about a bit of history on the site?
I served my apprenticeship under one of the family whose farm it was on,my daughters are good friends with his nieces and nephews,and of course I went to school with members of the family,the school was also built on their land.Some may remember the old farmhouse that stood beside the motorway interchange for many years,the manager for the freezing works resting paddocks lived there,but it was the original farmhouse.They were Irish,the family name is similar to mine,and when in the British Army they took the ''e'' from the end of the name - Catholic to Prodestant,possibly the same happened to my name.When the old boy was released from the army,he changed his name by restoring the ''e''.....Catholics again.The Government took the land and gave him $5,000 - then the US Army built the camp.After the war ended the land was offered back to him for $5,000 - but the old Irishman had spent it all,and so the land was lost to them.
My foreman,who has been my friend all these years,would tell me stories of the fun he had with the American solders when he was a teenager in those war years.He had the run of the camp,and supplied ''intelligence'' for reward.One thing he did was find a ''warm spot'' for a soldier and his girl for the night.....chasing a cow from her resting place so they could put down a blanket,worth some chocolate or stockings for his sisters.He was also an infuence in my love of bikes,because he also rode,and would tell me tales of being towed behind a bike on rollerskates down the Mt Wellington Highway,having to jump the joining strips in the concrete road....any of my stunts were pale by comparison.
As kids we would roam the deserted camp,trying to break into buildings,thowing stones at cats,rats and pidgeons,racing around on our pushbikes.There were big catchment tanks like swiming pools for rain water,they were full of green slime,frogs and eels - but we would swim in them for a dare.We knew what was in those building - army stuff...I know for sure one was full of 1940 Chev sedans,all brand new,never used - I remember when they went up for auction.Some had motorcycles in them,brand new Indian spares,enough to build hundreds of bikes just from parts....Valentines would supply you with a parts list,and you could buy the complete bike to build yourself.
Sylvia Park Army Camp was part of my life from early childhood into adult life - as eternal as the Hamlin Hills and Mt Wellington....it's kinda sad to see them gone as I go past....something has been taken from my life.
thealmightytaco
7th June 2006, 22:15
That was deep Motu. I feel ya.
oldrider
7th June 2006, 22:21
A bit off topic but we used to pinch all sorts of things out of the tanks and other American military vehicles traveling on the railway and left parked up on the sidings in Woodville railway yards.
We used to make bombs and blow things up, god knows how we survived those times when I think about it now.
I was the youngest of about 14 boys living around us at that time. :innocent:
Grenades were legal tender at school - they could be found over the road....if you knew where to look.
All disarmed of course....gulp!
sAsLEX
7th June 2006, 23:07
Grenades were legal tender at school - they could be found over the road....if you knew where to look.
All disarmed of course....gulp!
The dumb kid in class when i was ten found a live shotgun shell on the way to school and proceeded to try set it off by slamming his desk lid down on it so the staples he had put in it would hit the primer thing, than god the thing was soaked.
Electrocuted himself a couple of days later by putting coins into an eletrical socket.
Darwin got something wrong as I still see him about when I go home.
Fishy
8th June 2006, 07:56
Im gonna walk over there at lunch time and check out the food hall...screw the retail stores Im just in it for the food mmmmmmm foooood.
Gremlin
8th June 2006, 19:42
Im gonna walk over there at lunch time...
yeah... hope you didn't drive :rofl:
Apparently the police had to shut down the car park at one point for 4 hours, due to the huge amount of traffic. It even backed-up the southern causing chaos all around.
Least I can still split to get where I need to go :first:
yungatart
8th June 2006, 19:47
And the pillocks in our midst would have us believe that this is progress....
whats that old song...... they paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
BuFfY
8th June 2006, 19:49
But when anything new opens there are always big queues.... everyone HAS to see something new!
Karma
8th June 2006, 19:50
Least I can still split to get where I need to go :first:
You sure?
Mind you, at least you've got that van with the wide load warning driving ahead of you.
What?
9th June 2006, 06:28
OOooooh!! A new mall! I can hardly :yawn: wait...:zzzz: :zzzz:
chanceyy
9th June 2006, 06:42
they are hoping that mall will generate 1 million in sales a week ... can see the credit cards taking a hammering ... debt level will skyrocket ....
glad its in Aucks .. :nya:
only another 4 in the country to go ... :doobey:
off side .. while staying in the states had similar set up .. was fantastic to shop in but it was not impacting on other shops in the burbs, as they were quite well out of the way, just wonder how the shopping centres close to sylvia park will survive
Fishy
9th June 2006, 07:43
Well I walked over there to scout out the food hall and to be honest, its just another damn mall.
Same old shit different location. Even the food hall has the same old stores as what is in Pakuranga Plaza. Lame!. Don't think I'll go back there again.
Squeak the Rat
9th June 2006, 07:45
I'm flabbergasted :gob: that sooooo many people need to be the first to see a new shopping centre. I suppose it has all those new shops - The Warehouse, Hallensteins, Sunglass Hut, Glassons etc etc etc that have been seen 50,000,000 times before, but they are new!
If this is what "normal" people enjoy then I'm not normal (shuddup) and happy about it.
Heard on the radio this morning that the council reckons the traffic jams cost local businesses millions of dollars. Yet another example of great Auckland planning.
I'll visit the mall one day.... :ar15:
Lou Girardin
9th June 2006, 08:26
Shopping is the new recreational activity of choice.
Sad fuckers.
bugjuice
9th June 2006, 08:41
they are hoping that mall will generate 1 million in sales a week ... can see the credit cards taking a hammering ... debt level will skyrocket ....
what I don't get tho, is that no matter what mall or town or street you go to, they're all the same f'in shop!!!!!! There's a Glassons in every mall, there's a Halenstiens in every mall, there's a bloody everything else in almost every mall.. so why do they have to go buy stuff from the new mall?!?!
Just go to the old ones, they've got the same stuff!!
I vomited in my mouth when I saw that mall
I haven't been to a mall in NZ for over 6 years and I have no intention of going to Silvia Park. I hate malls with a passion. They're full of Neanderthals, aimlessly wandering around the place in search of food.
As for the Warehouse, I can't understand the attraction. Stephen Tindall is the real Montgomery Burns. A nasty man indeed. Oh what about the Tindal Foundation I hear you say. It's just a tax dodge cleverly disguised as a PR exercise that appears to be helping the community. Yeah right. What about all those independents he's put out of business? He's ruined small town NZ. What about all those small NZ suppliers they've screwed over?
There's a conspiracy going on I tell you. It is no coincidence the Warehouse and the Labour Party share the same colour.
Lou Girardin
9th June 2006, 10:07
When I shop I want small shops with owner/operators who have product knowledge and an interest in what they sell.
Not bored, spotty school leavers who wouldn't know a widget from a doofer and are more interested in harvesting their new crop of pimples than actually serving customers.
So you can see that I don't shop much.
And what is it with food halls?
Do we have this urge to revert to primate behaviour and have people watch us while we eat?
ManDownUnder
9th June 2006, 10:14
LMAO.....
it's a MALL... a set of shops all in the one spot... oh yay!
What's different about it. It has... a "man creche"?? *YAWN* So that means the guys have somewhere to hang out while the boss parts with the cash. yippee...
Tis no different than any other mall in this land of ours, except it's the biggest. WTF Explain how that is better again?
Squeak the Rat
9th June 2006, 10:23
It's better because American TV has taught us thicko inbreds that it is better. This is our culture man!
We are all good little capitalists, lets go and feed the machine!
What are you doing this weekend? I'm going SHOPPING!!!!! :wari:
bugjuice
9th June 2006, 10:27
on reflection, if there's a 'man crèche', does that mean there'll be topless chicks swaning around, since that's what most guys would probably prefer, than the preskool is kool toys.. i do like the fire truck tho.. :o
Squeak the Rat
9th June 2006, 10:32
Titties and beer!
now this thread is going somewhere.....
Marmoot
9th June 2006, 16:41
i'm really interested with this, uh, man-creche concept.
It better have some she-chests in it.......
ManDownUnder
9th June 2006, 16:48
You boys never heard of a titty bar??
And if looked at from that angle alone the man creche at the mall has one distinct disadvantage. She (aka the fun plice) could swan around the corner at any time and get all pissy at your orthilogical interests...
Nup - support the locals, ignore the corporates and go to the specialty shows when the urge takes you
Glad im not an Aucklander
Glad ! im not an Aucklander
Imagine being an Aucklander...........Shona Laing should rewrite the Kennedy song....:yes:
crashe
9th June 2006, 17:08
Drive there... and wait in the que's.... no way you ride there and lane split and park right out the front. Should you buy anything there, you then attach it to the back of your bike.... thats what bungee cords and straps are for.. :whistle:
Ok I watched the TV1 news last night...
People rushing throu the doors at warp speed to get the first bargin....
Then some man bitching an moaning cos he has 6 or 7 kids and could only get 1 $50 14 inch tv... and not get one for each of his kids...
Like what about the rest, who wanted to get a cheap TV....
I got a Warehouse brochure in the mailbox for that store and I live out west... Checked it out... there wasn't any real bargins there at all.
All the stores in any mall are out there as well...
Only thing different at that Warehouse is, that they sell more food products and booze.. one stop shop.
Not sure how Foodtown/countdown or what ever the supermarket is out there will like it... like comparing prices etc...
Credit cards bouncing to the max... debt collectors and Bay Corp will be having a field day real soon...
Ya know crashe, i was at Glenfield Mall a few months backs, looking for a bag like what the kids take to school, but in my case....... to work, anyway, went to the WareWhare, they looked like what they were, cheap ass crap, so went to a proper bag shop just along from the big red lucky dip shop and found one that was made better, you could see the zips would last and best of all.................it was cheaper, its still pays to shop around, dont anyone get sucked into believing W/House is the best place for value for money cos it aint......apart from cd's and dvd's......:blip:
chanceyy
9th June 2006, 18:19
Ya know crashe, i was at Glenfield Mall a few months backs, looking for a bag like what the kids take to school, but in my case....... to work, anyway, went to the WareWhare, they looked like what they were, cheap ass crap, so went to a proper bag shop just along from the big red lucky dip shop and found one that was made better, you could see the zips would last and best of all.................it was cheaper, its still pays to shop around, dont anyone get sucked into believing W/House is the best place for value for money cos it aint......apart from cd's and dvd's......:blip:
its the usual saying you pay for what you get ... i too like a bargin and good quality .. would rather spend a few $$ more on something that will last longer
hate friggen shopping ..grrrrrrrr would rather have teeth pulled
APPLE
9th June 2006, 18:36
me'n Roosta might go for a nosey thru there tommorrow.
diggydog
9th June 2006, 18:46
on reflection, if there's a 'man crèche', does that mean there'll be topless chicks swaning around, since that's what most guys would probably prefer, than the preskool is kool toys.. i do like the fire truck tho.. :o
did you say topless chicks, ill be there as soon as can.:blip:
Flatcap
9th June 2006, 18:49
did you say topless chicks, ill be there as soon as can.:blip:
Well, lets just hope that the topless chicks aren't lactating, unless you perverted bastards are into that sort of thing....
diggydog
9th June 2006, 19:14
When i was up that way last time, i was told that mt wellington was having a bigger shopping mall than botany downs, then yet there was going too be a even bigger one at dairy flats.No clocks to keep track of the time, with soothing music all so you will be tempted to spend until your hearts content.:yes: :bye:
Colapop
9th June 2006, 19:35
Come on people - it's just another excuse to fill up landspace with advertising and bullsh*t! About the only thing worse they could have put there would've been new parliment buildings...
jazbug5
9th June 2006, 19:44
One of my oldest buddies is in charge of running maintenance and security for that place. A couple of us who are stuck in the yUK were catching up together at the pub on the day of opening and gave him a ring (by random chance) just as it was all about to kick off. Poor Broo.
So if any of you contractors have been dealing with him, tell him he's an arse and I want my amp back!
skidMark
9th June 2006, 20:29
what motu said on page one was seriously deep.....get the us army to take it over again.......whose a rich biker on here.....that can make the whole mall one big bike shop...?
new kb head quarters.....
KIWIBIKER..... bikes and accessories........has a nice ring to it....
with of course a computer area to log onto the forums durrrr...and ride in bike parking.......so i don't have to leave my baby in a carpark outside all on it's own...
Squeak the Rat
10th June 2006, 10:09
Then some man bitching an moaning cos he has 6 or 7 kids and could only get 1 $50 14 inch tv... and not get one for each of his kids...
Like what about the rest, who wanted to get a cheap TV....
Yep, that's the sort of person who these malls are such a draw card. Takes on the awesome responsibility of having kids, has 7 of them in fact. Trouble is he's a lazy fucker who's idea of "looking after the kids" is to put them in front of a TV. Why have the kids if you aren't going to raise them properly. Get thee to the mall you bowel infected pond scum. :shutup:
GR81
13th June 2006, 11:05
mate of mine had a theory about the traffic...
area - mt wellington = fobsville
shop - the warehouse = fobmagnet
the warehouse - opening day specials = fob day out
day - thursday = dole day
Things will surely get a lot better when they extend the commuter train system to there.
Well I assume that's what's going to happen.....
Motu
13th June 2006, 11:14
The place was put there originaly because of the rail.Actualy the Yanks offered to put in the canal to the Manukau for nix just to make their shipping easier...lost opportunity there eh?
Colapop
13th June 2006, 11:21
Didn't they offer to dig that little trench just north of Wellington too? Transmission something...?
Pixie
13th June 2006, 11:35
Grenades were legal tender at school - they could be found over the road....if you knew where to look.
All disarmed of course....gulp!
Now the pussy authorities evacuate a suburb and call in the bomb squad when they find a grenade in a collection
Didn't they offer to dig that little trench just north of Wellington too? Transmission something...?
Was it them that dug the trench just south of Wellington?
Motu
13th June 2006, 11:56
Now the pussy authorities evacuate a suburb and call in the bomb squad when they find a grenade in a collection
When we were kids we roamed the whole area on our pushbikes looking for the ''ammo dump'' - our Holy Grail.We never found it,but grenades and 303 shells we pretty common in the area....no mother lost her marbles if she found one in a school bag.
It did exist as my mentor told me,he was there when the Yanks left of course.They couldn't leave everything behind,we couldn't afford to pay for it,and as freebees it would wreck our ecconomy as well.So they loaded as much as they could onto their ships...he says they went out past Rangitoto and just drove tanks and bulldozers,jeeps and motorcycles off the sides of the ships.He said he'd actualy seen them drive a bully off the side for an anchor.Then they went out to Mangere,it was just flat waste land then - they dug huge trenches a mile long and just poured their equipment in,he saw lathes still in their packing crates,motorcycles,weapons,all buried.I think some of it was dug up some years ago when they needed to do some development there.The Yanks were all about waste,they had everything and just threw it away.
Squeak the Rat
13th June 2006, 12:01
I always cringe when I see old footage of perfectly serviceable WW2 planes being pushed off aircraft carriers at the end of the war.
Any idea of the actual location past Rangitoto? That would be some good diving :)
Gremlin
13th June 2006, 16:38
...he says they went out past Rangitoto and just drove tanks and bulldozers,jeeps and motorcycles off the sides of the ships.He said he'd actualy seen them drive a bully off the side for an anchor.Then they went out to Mangere,it was just flat waste land then - they dug huge trenches a mile long and just poured their equipment in
and when you read this you suddenly realise that what you heard wasn't a one off.
Went on a cruise to the islands, with P&O. Can't remember which country, either Vanuatu or Fiji, but there is a well known area called Million Dollar Point. Fantastic Diving etc.
Story goes on a similar vein. Wanted to sell equipment to british/french, and got down to 5c in the dollar. British/French were greedy, and figured the US had to leave the equipment behind (can't return equipment to US, under their supply agreement), so refused. Orders came from Washington to dump the lot, so the americans built a pier out into the water, and chucked a brick on the acclerator.
However, having dumped all the equipment, they managed to create an unofficial reef, which was not charted. It sunk two ships (:killingme) before something was done, and now it is a fantastic location for diving.
Motu
13th June 2006, 17:26
I know people who have dived on that reef.There was a movie doing the rounds about 23 yrs ago (I remember because my daughter was crawling around the theatre)I forget what it was called,but home movie of some guys world trip - around the Islands on a sailing ship,then right up through Africa in a DAF.Anyway they stopped on this deserted island and found all the abandoned US equipment - the fuel drums were even full,so they poured fuel into some trucks and drove around wrecking them.They just walked out of the Pacific War leaving everything behind.Be nice to be rich eh?
Squeak the Rat
13th June 2006, 17:34
Vanuatu evidently (thanks google). I wanna go....
http://www.pacificislandtravel.com/vanuatu/diving/milliondollarpoint.html
Some enterprising kiwi evidently dragged out 14 bulldozers after 3 years, gave them a bit of a clean and sold them to the aussies.
Wasp
13th June 2006, 17:39
one of the staff from our auckland division walked in there at lunch today to see a "blue screen of death" on what looks like some sort of advertising/map thingy or something - i'll post the pic when im at work tommorow
Gremlin
13th June 2006, 18:20
They just walked out of the Pacific War leaving everything behind.Be nice to be rich eh?
The US doesn't actually have a choice, hence all the reef creating...
They used to get their supplies for bottom dollar on one condition. That they never brought it back to the US. Of course, that didn't mean destroying the machinery, but that was the government egos talking. The actual stationed staff apparently didn't have a problem leaving the equipment for locals, as they had become their friends.
For million dollar point, we were told someone did bring up some bulldozers, cleaned them up, and took em away to sell, but nothing more...
edit: didn't realise there was another page, squeak beat me to the bulldozers...
Badcat
14th June 2006, 15:38
they have dedicated motorcycle parking!
it's on the rooftop park - nice and close to the entrance.
see pic
Squeak the Rat
15th June 2006, 15:49
they have dedicated motorcycle parking!
it's on the rooftop park - nice and close to the entrance.
see pic
Sorry, a thread about a shopping mall doesn't deserve to be bumped again, but is that ALL the dedicated motorcycle parking? That looks like you'd need 3 sherpas to carry your food so you could walk to the entrance and back (not to mention leaving fellow parkers to die slowly while stuck in traffic)....
I bet they'll pack a sad if you park on the footpath near the entrance because they were so kind to have provided dedicated parking.....
Badcat
15th June 2006, 15:58
Sorry, a thread about a shopping mall doesn't deserve to be bumped again, but is that ALL the dedicated motorcycle parking? That looks like you'd need 3 sherpas to carry your food so you could walk to the entrance and back (not to mention leaving fellow parkers to die slowly while stuck in traffic)....
I bet they'll pack a sad if you park on the footpath near the entrance because they were so kind to have provided dedicated parking.....
no - there's about double what you see in the pic.
and it's actually pretty close to an escalator entrance.
i was impressed to see something there for us - and thought it was a good thing....
how's that cup, squeak, half empty still?
k
Squeak the Rat
15th June 2006, 16:04
no - there's about double what you see in the pic.
and it's actually pretty close to an escalator entrance.
i was impressed to see something there for us - and thought it was a good thing....
how's that cup, squeak, half empty still?
k
Ah, it looked like it was on the other side of nowhere and I thought you was using sarcasm. One sometimes has to deduct based on online personality whether some one is being sarcastic - and I don't personally know the type of person who has actually visited Sylvia Park :nya:
Seriously, I am actually surprised, so good on the developers on this one.
PS - the cup is over specified for requirements :)
Badcat
15th June 2006, 16:19
Ah, it looked like it was on the other side of nowhere and I thought you was using sarcasm. One sometimes has to deduct based on online personality whether some one is being sarcastic - and I don't personally know the type of person who has actuall visited Sylvia Park :nya:
Seriously, I am actually surprised, so good on the developers on this one.
PS - the cup is over specified for requirements :)
ahhh.
well - i CAN be a little sarcastic at times.
so - fair call.
: )
K
Badcat
15th June 2006, 16:20
I don't personally know the type of person who has actuall visited Sylvia Park
oh - and some of my "valued retail partners" are situated there - so i was working, honest.
Finn
15th June 2006, 16:25
they have dedicated motorcycle parking!
it's on the rooftop park - nice and close to the entrance.
see pic
Ha, ha. Those little bike spaces look cute.
skidMark
15th June 2006, 16:57
can guarantee cagers will try and park lengthways cross them.....
would a goldwing fit in there.....mind you a goldwing doesn't really count as a bike does it?
The_Dover
15th June 2006, 16:58
Ha, ha. Those little bike spaces look cute.
And today's Camp David award goes to FINN!!
Cute is not a word any self respecting heterosexual male should use.
Except in the context of "she's got a cute arse" etc.
charlotte22
15th June 2006, 17:04
I think it's great there's bike parks, but what will I do with all my shopping once I get to my bike?
Guess some saddle bags are in order.....
skidMark
15th June 2006, 17:08
the question is now then....can you buy bike saddle bags at silvia park
Finn
15th June 2006, 17:55
And today's Camp David award goes to FINN!!
Cute is not a word any self respecting heterosexual male should use.
Except in the context of "she's got a cute arse" etc.
I also hate rugby and prefer females company. Arh crap, I'm a fag.
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