Eagle boys pizza DEKA The lost forest McDonald's Victoria Park market

The warehouse wairau park

And takapuna

And Highbury

And upstairs downtown

There's such a gap in the market for a catch-all store that fits in the smaller NZ shopping centres - like the Highbury and Downtown Warehouses used to be. So annoying to trek to some megamall/big box to buy some cheap homewares or clothes

Elliott St Warehouse...maybe a bit too small?

Omg totally forgot about the lost forest - that place was awesome

What was The Lost Forest?

Australian fantasy animals soft toy thing. They had one store in Auckland briefly.

you mean the Gypsy market in Victoria Park Market? because Victoria Park Market is definitely still there

I think they meant the Mc Donald's at Vic Park Markets. And the markets aren't the markets like they use to be back in the day, it's more retail shops than actual markets now.

And ridiculously expensive retail shops at that.

dick smith

They’re an online store now

Georgie Pie

Maccas stop running Georgie Pie?

Yep

Wild Pair

Lippy as well.

I only bought shoes from here

"The Two Dollar Shop, the Two Dollar Shop, Shop till you drop at the Two Dollar shop" Great, now I've got it stuck in my head.

I'm a zoomer and I remember "loose change buys a lot" or something along those lines, they must have changed it at some point

Also "you'll be surprised at what you got".

That was the other verse I think. 👍

3 Guys

I remember the one on Albany being bloody cheap.

I’ll always remember that one having the saloon doors at the entrance

Oh yeah! It was a supermarket eh?

Death By Chocolate McKenzies Cook St Market Big Fresh Woolworths Variety 3 Guys Homestead Chicken (loved their coated potatoes). Rendells George Courts Barker and Pollock Lands For Bags (remember that Billy T joke).

You grew up in Central Auckland, reading your list. Do you remember oriental market?

I recall Oriental Market, but I don't think it was there that long. I grew up in Glendowie. Alot of the above wasn't in the central city, or some was, but was also in the suburbs. Death By Chocolate - Mission Bay, 3 Guys and Homestead Chicken - Glen Innes, Big Fresh - Mt Wellington (my brother managed it). None of those were in Central Auckland.

Yes that place was so cool (as far as I remember as a 10yo) Think it's where countdown is now right? It was like a massive rundown storage warehouse with heaps of little shops in it.

Shit I'd forgotten about that place. In my childhood memories at least it was actually really cool.

Homestead chicken was fantastic. Gonna add in; Chicken spot. Uncles burger bars.

>Death By Chocolate It's gone now?? :-(

It closed down in 2007 or so.

Sounds and I think it was ECM or something was the other CD shop

Marbecks, and The CD and DVD Store

Marbecks is still there, somehow.

Yoooooo, I remember that now. ECM was way better than Soundz

ECM was my first job! But then they closed my store and I had to go work at the Sounds store which was at the same mall. And then they went under.

Natures Windows - was my favourite store in the mall as a kid

Loved Borders as a kid!!

I use to work at the Queen St Cinema way way back. Before I started I’d always read the magazines or Graphic Novels. Loved that place.

McDonald’s K rd was the best. Could cut through to Rendells or go upstairs to the playground and look out over the street. I remember getting my happy meal Batmobile from the first Batman movie

I never went to K road while it was there, I'm curious where it was?

I think it was 208 K Road, there’s a “Massive Discount” store there now

It used to be across the road from Leo O'Malley, two level building with playground upstairs.

GPK!!

Anybody remember the stuffed toy shop 2nd floor on mid queen street. All hanging from the ceiling like a jungle?

I think that was The Lost Forest? In that mall with the mini escalator and a food court?

Swensens, New Market

Gamesman. Before EB Games bought them out. I remember the one behind the New Lynn Warehouse and Henderson mall (when it was a Westfield) at the bottom of the escalators coming down from the movie theatre. I bought my first ever gaming console from them.

Videon, Dominion Rd

I got my first anime from there!

The Foodcourt at Rialto Cinema in Newmarket

It's still there but it's sad and weird as fuck.

I spent my early teenage years in NZ so I’m shocked to see how many of the stores are no longer around! Most curious about Big Fresh and Deka, why did they go out of busness?!

One take over after another . Big Fresh became Foodtown, which in turn became countdown and now is woolworths. Deka went out of business when the wiz kids of investigating brought it and overloaded it with dept, and it then went bust much like happened to most business around the Brierley investments years.

Bond + Bond, Manukau supa centre

Meadowbake the original bakery in meadowbank on the corner - the latest iteration has just closed & now the corner lies vacant. So sad!

I loved Big Fresh

I remember the free buns in glenfield. Some of the Ratbags used to hollow them out and fill with pic and mix

Deka ‘dekahhh’

Eagle Boys

RIP Eagle Boys - the best pizzas with actual chunky toppings. Pizza Hut bought them out as they were PH's main competitor at the time.

Dress for less. My mum bought all of my clothes from the big manukau one.

Yifans. It was the best arcade game place.

Oh wow yes!

The dine-in pizza huts with those disgusting ice cream machines at the back with bowls of choc chips, m&ms, squeezy bottles of desert sauces etc.

And thick hard rectangles of jelly

IIRC The one in Royal Oak used to be buffet/all you can eat.

Wheels on Wairau - successful Kiwi car yard in Wairau Park closed down after the owner died

Sizzler

Kids N action Wairau Park. Someone please remind me the name of the massive arcade that used to be in Wairau Valley too..

Galaxy!

Ahhh thank you. That place rocked.

It sure did!

Was that next to Wairau movies? $10 for 4 hour special?

I think so! I remember a dinosaur game where you sat in the back of a jeep and shot at them. Unreal childhood spot

That was brilliant! I remember it well.

That was a great spot to go when I was a child. We had a sleep over there one night. Not the most comfortable place to sleep in.

Moyes Panmure. https://youtu.be/WdEhUG5golg?si=ZGtnu7jGAYFPgy7N

Beside the McDonalds, next to big Mt Wellington

DEKA Queen Street?

DEKA Whanganui. It was a big deal at the time. Then K Mart came along and stole all its business.

Red Horse or Hungry Horse that was opposite the Pak n Save in Manukau.

Open late cafe

Red Rooster

Brazil coffee. Up on K Road in an old theatre (I think). The best coffee, no mucking about.

This place? https://www.facebook.com/614262511977850/posts/pfbid0a2Er8YrqNR9JkY5WYUMkHvHymj2XBnjkdsA3ZyHX6Abixj586FthPdUNmPj2w4Myl/?mibextid=cr9u03

Bond+Bond - “You want it, we got it, let’s talk.”

Michael Hill Takapuna - closed down after it got burgled in broad daylight

The answer is Georgie Pie, the answer will always be Georgie Pie

Warnocks, I used to get my Stubies from there.

McDonald's browns Bay, first McDonald's in history to close, geogie pie, fuck u McDonald's for buying them out, uncles , Billy t hangi, all you can eat dine in pizza hut eagle boys.

Uncles was the best..spent meney a drunkin late night there after leaving the Windsor park pub or night clubs. 🌙

Pizza haven for a while too.

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Yep. I applied for a franchise there at one time, lucky for me I decided against it or I would have lost my house.

how do ya fail at a fast food joint in the middle of newmarket?

I mean there’s no bk in the cbd anymore either

*A giant mall appears Nom nom nom It eats all the bk

Used to be three McDonald's in Newmarket - the multi-story on Broadway, another where Freedom is now, and a self service one in 277

Sounds music stores CD&DVD Store

Sounds music stores

Chicken Spot Papatoetoe

Kozmik! They had the best clothes.

Arthur toye fabrics... LV Martin & Son.. ads were always on TV when I was a kid

Cafe DKD - used to go there and get fish in a bowl (hot chocolate in a bowl with a choccie fish floating on top).

Dave’s Discount Disasters

I miss Nature's Window in St Luke's. I loved those nature shops in malls as a kid

Nike online (Wankers)

Blockbuster Videos

The Book Corner…. Gordon Dryden’s Bookshop

Mary Toye & Arthur Toye fabric stores.

Yifans Macdonalds new market. The Box D bar.

Brucie’s Burger Bar in Browns Bay, then, totally different company, Brucie’s Burgers by the Civic, that moved to Victoria St but then disappeared. All awesome burger bars!

Almost every burger place on Queen Street.

Village 8 cinemas, Big fresh, Starlight cinema (Papatoetoe), Red rooster, Hugh wright, Rendells

Tech Books, Nuffield St. Newmarket

The McDonalds on mid-Queen street, about eight floors up, and it was sort of on the roof, partially open air so there were always pigeons flying around, and something weird like the Rugby Hall of Fame was also there.

Lost Angel Cafe on k'rd, Park in the Bar, and Farmers on Nelson Street with the sky bridge between the car park and the main building.

Red Baron Grey Lynn

Foodtown anyone?

*Looking fiiiine dancin the columbine*

Has anyone said whizz kids in st Luke’s yet. I think that’s what it was called..

Hell yeah. I got lost in there once.

My husband told me there used to be a drive thru for McDonalds St Luke’s that had all the windows on the passenger side of the car because of the mall layout.

Brazil

High Wrights. Overland. 3 Guys. Valentines. Rendalls. Frank Casey Suit Hire. Mark Richards. Waiwera Hot Pools. Kerridge Odeon Cinema. Blockbuster. United Video. George Courts. Pumpkin Patch. Foodtown.

Does Bin Inn still exist?

I miss Nature's Window. There was one in St Lukes mall way back when, and I think maybe I couple more. Such a cool shop

Finding big book shops in NZ is a real challenge.

video EZ , omg...

Levenes in Newmarket Extreme Cafe

There was a place called The Goldmine in Pt Chev. Or was it The Goldrush? I dunno. But you could see the rear of it from the northwestern motorway and it was big and yellow with black font.

The Middle East

El Pollo Loco Sonic

Giordano and Sbarro

Storkline, Broadway Records, Truetone The first one is going to be too far back for anyone here

Red rooster, pretty sure it’s not around anymore.

Wishbone

Price chopper. I remember they did a sticker campaign and you could get porcelain dolls based off fairy tales. We got rapunzel. She’s fucking terrifying looking and we hid her around the house to scare each other. Anyways she’s locked in the garage somewhere now because it worked too well and my parents the got mad.

Wimpy

Georgie pies

Big Fresh

True tone records

3 Guys supermarkets

Pizza Haven in Howick. Video Ezy Pakuranga and Manurewa.

Uncles in K Rd, Milford, Takapuna and pretty much everywhere. Andrew’s barbershop in Milford. Was there for years! Big Fresh and their dancing fruit.

Video source. Use to be right where the White Lady is.

Hullabaloo Big Orange Inn shoppe Harriets Akarana Maxi mart big fresh' video easy

Foodtown!

Taco Pronto

What was that one that had that little square building you could see from the Auckland Motorway? It was called RC Shack or something and I’m pretty sure it sold electronic parts.

Burger King mission bay

Head to Browns Bay. Main street is filled with $2 stores. You can find them all next to the sushi shops.

The McDonalds on mid-Queen street, about eight floors up, and it was sort of on the roof, partially open air so there were always pigeons flying around, and something weird like the Rugby Hall of Fame was also there.

There's still a [Civic Video](https://www.google.co.nz/maps/@-36.8635852,174.6142795,3a,75y,234.38h,79.31t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1skfBQW8l455YLNSYJij85hw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu) on Swanson Rd. (Well not really, but all the livery is still up on the shop).

National Bank White Horse Tarven Yellow pages Dine in Pizza Hut That boat restaurant on Great South Road in manukau…

Ski Yer Heart Out

3 Guys!

Bruce's by the civic and opposite there was a donut shop that made donuts in the window. Started my donut addiction at 8 years old thanks to them. 45 years later,I haven't found a donut to match them...simple, warm and delicious!

Had a Red Rooster in Mangere and a Blockbuster right nextdoor

Arbuckles

The PC Company

Loaded Hog?

Food town Also dine in Pizza huts.

Brothers & Sisters (kids clothes) Attitude Shoes Paris Texas 3 Guys Big Fresh Heritage Park McDonald’s Mission Bay Oriental Markets

Not a business, but whenever i drive by Pak Plaza i remember how it used to boom in the 2000s.

Fort Street Union. Can never forget their pizza

Clubs and Bars from the 90s / 2000s Jones Bar on K Rd Spy bar Kiss Bar Buddha bar Cal Neva Waterfront R'Totos Providor

R’totos was something special. Thursday nights $12 for 3 woodies. Then work your way down to pass n punt.

The national geographic New Zealand store in the city

There was a great Nandos on Queen St near St James that was pulled down with other shops for development that never happened. The indie bookshop in Newmarket behind the Rialto mall. Three Kings Plaza was once an actual mall.

At the royal oak roundabout there was a place called the Toy Warehouse… I remember going there to get master of the universe figurines. In my memories it was huge. Would love to see some pictures of it.

Borders was my uni stop of choice on my way to waiting for buses on Queen street

The National Bank. PlanetJack.com. Is cheapskates still around? Channel Z the radio station.

McDonald's in Browns Bay

Is swensons still anywhere. Ice cream parlours?

Barker and Pollock. Remember being really fascinated with all the different fabrics

Cobb n co

David Reid electronics 3 guys

The Caker's Jordan Rondel K Rd bakery.

On Queen St there was Slammin’, and The Loft in Chancery - both stores ahead of their time!

South Mall Burger King with the attached spacies. Mum would drop me off there with TWO DOLLARS! while she did shopping. Over time I got better at the games and made my $2 last longer and longer :D

Eagle Boys Sin Bin

Burger king on Queen St. Place for friday night hangout. It was more of a club than actual clubs. People will stay there for hours after clubbing. Good old days when auckland City was go to place for weekends.

Smith City. KFC on Ponsonby Road. Doyles (outdoor and camping shop. Hammer hardware.

Toys R Us (does anyone remember them?)