Sylvia Park Mall

[bugjuice]

has a 'man crèche'...?? wtf..

guess you'll be finding me there on a regular occasion..
better have a bloody good arcade and bike area..

CycleTreads / motomail - get yer arse in that mall!!!
Hope there's a mac store..

[yungatart]

I hate malls!

[BuFfY]

I can not wait for it to open!

My question is, what is this Warehouse Extra?

[sAsLEX]

I can not wait for it to open!

My question is, what is this Warehouse Extra?

one with alcohol?

[Brett]

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

[Colapop]

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]

has a 'man crèche'...?? wtf..

where you can sit down, relax and enjoy being pampered by lovely gorgeous young ladies?

[bugjuice]

dunno.. hope so..
that'd be a good deterrent to female shoppers!

[Badcat]

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]

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

[Motu]

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]

That was deep Motu. I feel ya.

[oldrider]

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.

[Motu]

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]

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.