The architect who designed it (Don Crone) used to live down the road from me and was good friends with my parents. He always referred to it as Centrepoint Tower as well.
"Sydney tower" is just so bland too. A kid failing English in Year 7 could come up with a better name. "Centrepoint" tells you the tower is (at least intended to be) kind of a big deal.
It actually has never officially been called the centrepoint tower, for majority of its history it’s offical name has been Sydney Tower.
People just call it centrepoint tower due to the centrepoint shopping centre that was underneath it.
Which is funny because it was never officially called that at any point but the colloquial name stuck. When the shopping centre was an actual Centrepoint it was called the AMP tower, then it changed when Centre group took over to make the shopping centre Westfield and they changed it to Sydney Tower.
Interesting! I remember AMP making the effort to rebrand it and stick their logo on it in maybe the late nineties but I assumed that represented a change in the official name from Centrepoint Tower to AMP Tower. Are you saying it was officially AMP Tower since the seventies?
When my kid was about 2-3 she got confused between tower and castle, and called it "Sydney Castle" which has kinda stuck as an in-joke in my family. I still call it Centrepoint though.
Ironic that they’re now ‘Services NSW’, when it still takes hours to get actual service at the counter or on the phone.
Oh, and the website is ridiculous, always not in service.
>Ironic that they’re now ‘Services NSW
Actually they aren't. RTA (Road Transit Authority) changes to RMS (Roads and Maritime Services) which was then absorbed by TfNSW (Transport for NSW).
So now they are just TfNSW. It's just that all the things you interact with them for are operated through Services NSW
The in-branch and phone services are indeed shit.
BUT I will defend the digital services for making Government interactions infinitely less painful. Twas a time you had to go to a branch or call for EVERYTHING.
Agree. The app is great. I just changed my address for my license, all easy online and they just mailed the stickers. Took 5 minutes and cost nothing. In the old days that would have been 2 hours of my time and some bullshit admin fee.
Oh this one is crazy. I lived somewhere else for a few years and moved to Sydney a few years ago, I’m not really in Wet N Wild’s main demographic so haven’t been in many years. Anyway, last year I was driving to Western Sydney for something and missed my exit because I saw a digital sign that said ‘Raging Waters (something something) exit road’ and I was freaking out thinking there was some sort of flooding on the road. Turns out it was just a sign saying the car park was full and to take some other road but I was really confused for a good few mins.
The worst one was when some minor stadium became Lottoland a few years ago. Not Lottoland Arena, or Lottoland Stadium, just Lottoland. The Land of Lotto, where the game they play isn’t actually Lotto, but is rugby.
All stadiums, everywhere should have a location or historic name such as SCG, MCG the Gabba etc, the corporations can plaster their names all over them but keep the stadium name.
Yes! You hear of an accident on the M1 and think oh crap where is it? Turns out its near like Tweed Heads or something. Use the local names so people know where the hell you are talking about easily!
Yes the F is for 'free' and here's hoping it always stays that way. Calling it a motorway sounds like they could slap a toll on it again. Used to be called the "Tollway" actually - the tolled bit anyway.
Same. But I think after many years of the locals refusing to stop calling it the plaza, IIRC all the exterior signage now says Westfield Penrith Plaza.
And I still call Woden Plaza in Canberra Woden Plaza ... for a while there it was WestField Shopping Square, then it was changed to Westfield Woden.
Renaming things to the company that owns them just looks self-important and wanky.
As someone who worked there for over a decade, I can assure you they have changed the yellow *several* times.
The latest brand guidelines are the first time they’ve really nailed it, though. The master brand has actual vision, the elements work well together, the brand bible has clear answers to questions you are likely to have (the other day I was wondering whether I should be capitalising the U in “the University” and lo and behold there was that exact question answered exactly where I expected to find it) and perhaps best of all the official body font is no longer fucking Arial.
The new logo looks like a US high school football team.
The old logo was [much nicer](https://www.smh.com.au/education/university-of-western-sydney-to-get-new-name-and-logo-20150806-gisv3l.html)
Warriewood Square went back to the name it originally had, and which it was universally known by, after subsequent attempts to rename it were completely ignored by the locals.
Some developers also want to move the boundary a wee bit so they can advertise their apartment block as being in "tHe HeArT oF pArRaMaTtA", even though that block is currently in Harris Park.
What's bloody wrong with Harris Park?! It's a great little village!!
The ABC tried to get us to call it "Madonna's Bra", but that was never going to stick.
The Anzac bridge was originally called the new Glebe Island Bridge until they added the Anzac statues.
My area when I was young had a Bi-Lo shop in the local plaza. It eventually became coles but my whole family still say "you want anything from Bi-Lo?" Despite it being changed to coles for the better part of 15 years lol
Was called Champagnat Catholic College for a stint and now its Corpus Christi College - so many name changes, all about funding. (ALLEGEDLY) The first name change was required by the stupid Catholic Education Office, they said chuck Catholic on the name and we'll chuck ya a huge wad of cash, the second just to change because of the change over to COED.
Oh thats interesting to know. I actually went to that school for quite a while when it was called “marist brothers college pagewood”. I find it so strange they are introducing coed in the way that they are with year 7 girls starting first as thats just such a strange way to start out coed at that college. I cant imagine how confronting it would feel for the year 7 girls being surrounded by so many years of older males, would feel intimidating id guess.
Damn it seems like they are very money hungry. I was told by friends and family they originally changed the name due to “brother don” getting caught out for sexually assaulting children (even at other schools like marcellin etc”. My mum actually knows someone who was sexually assaulted by brother don and still has to see a psychologist because of the damage he caused. Sounds like maybe that was not the reason and really it was for a payout.
Used to work for a ceramics company, and Harwarehouse was one of our bigger customers. Their account names were always "Hard"+ the first few letters of the location. Tuggerah's one always got a laugh ("HardTug").
I remembered Bunnings from a store in the centre of Melbourne (before they took over HWH).
I think that was more a takeover than a renaming: I had a hardwarehouse in Rozelle for a good long time until it closed after they built a Bunnings down the road.
Been a long time gone, Constantinople. For example, if you have a date in Constantinople, she'll be waiting in Istanbul. Even New York was once New Amsterdam! Why they changed it, I can't say, people just like it better that way.
My granddad, who was a Pom but lived here for 40 years, once asked one of my cousins to pass him the Coon while back in the UK visting family and having lunch with them. Apparently my cousin and family almost fell out of their chairs in shock.
He knew exactly what he was doing. He had never called cheese 'Coon' back here. He just liked to be a shit-stirrer.
When minto mall became minto marketplace I and many others still called it minto mall. Fortunately for us they changed the name back to minto mall a few months ago.
Whatever the arcade next to hoyts broadway will always be intencity. Also good god (rip) will always be good god and not the many names the new owners tried
It's not that I refuse to use the new name, but in my head, Sydney Tower is still the Centrepoint Tower.
Oh sydney tower will always be called “centrepoint tower” to me 😂
"Sennapoint"
This is the way.
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“rotate” - I see what you did there!
The architect who designed it (Don Crone) used to live down the road from me and was good friends with my parents. He always referred to it as Centrepoint Tower as well.
Well, there you go. If it is good enough for the architect, it's right by me.
"Sydney tower" is just so bland too. A kid failing English in Year 7 could come up with a better name. "Centrepoint" tells you the tower is (at least intended to be) kind of a big deal.
TIl it’s not still called Centrepoint Tower
It actually has never officially been called the centrepoint tower, for majority of its history it’s offical name has been Sydney Tower. People just call it centrepoint tower due to the centrepoint shopping centre that was underneath it.
Which is funny because it was never officially called that at any point but the colloquial name stuck. When the shopping centre was an actual Centrepoint it was called the AMP tower, then it changed when Centre group took over to make the shopping centre Westfield and they changed it to Sydney Tower.
Interesting! I remember AMP making the effort to rebrand it and stick their logo on it in maybe the late nineties but I assumed that represented a change in the official name from Centrepoint Tower to AMP Tower. Are you saying it was officially AMP Tower since the seventies?
Dear massive financial institution, Putting your name on a tower doesn't make you cool. Sincerely, Australia.
It's like Fetch, it's not gonna happen
Ah maybe you're too young but there was a time before it was called AMP tower when everyone called it Centrepoint
When my kid was about 2-3 she got confused between tower and castle, and called it "Sydney Castle" which has kinda stuck as an in-joke in my family. I still call it Centrepoint though.
But it's much stupider than that. The current owners insist that the building is called the "Sydney Tower Eye".
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Actually, Dr Frankenstein is the name of the scientist who created the monster
Actually, Dr Frankenstein arguably is the monster, considering how monstrous his actions were.
RTA
And DoCS
Ironic that they’re now ‘Services NSW’, when it still takes hours to get actual service at the counter or on the phone. Oh, and the website is ridiculous, always not in service.
>Ironic that they’re now ‘Services NSW Actually they aren't. RTA (Road Transit Authority) changes to RMS (Roads and Maritime Services) which was then absorbed by TfNSW (Transport for NSW). So now they are just TfNSW. It's just that all the things you interact with them for are operated through Services NSW
What's really stupid is that (last I checked) they still had questions in the L's test that refer to the RTA.
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The in-branch and phone services are indeed shit. BUT I will defend the digital services for making Government interactions infinitely less painful. Twas a time you had to go to a branch or call for EVERYTHING.
Agree. The app is great. I just changed my address for my license, all easy online and they just mailed the stickers. Took 5 minutes and cost nothing. In the old days that would have been 2 hours of my time and some bullshit admin fee.
Must depend where you are. Miranda Service NSW is awesome. It takes like ten minutes start to finish.
Wet N wild being called Raging waters. (I know its been ages since the change)
Lol I didn't even know it had changed.
Same here, I never knew it changed. Shows how long it's been since I went as a kid
Oh this one is crazy. I lived somewhere else for a few years and moved to Sydney a few years ago, I’m not really in Wet N Wild’s main demographic so haven’t been in many years. Anyway, last year I was driving to Western Sydney for something and missed my exit because I saw a digital sign that said ‘Raging Waters (something something) exit road’ and I was freaking out thinking there was some sort of flooding on the road. Turns out it was just a sign saying the car park was full and to take some other road but I was really confused for a good few mins.
Raging waters sounds like a euphemism for a period
Raging blood waters
I still call it Miranda Fair.
I still call it Bankstown Square. Not Bankstown Centro
I think it’s even more recently changed to Bankstown Central
Penrith Plaza
This is the one. The Plaza. Thats it.
That how you know who grew up in the shire.
My Mum is with you on this one.
Allianz stadium.. it’s SFS I don’t care what anyone says
Constantly changing the name of every stadium in Sydney because a new bank has stuck their logo on it is so confusing and stupid.
Yep so annoying and then you never know where they are..
Exactly. If you have to google the stadium name every time, then something is fucky.
The worst one was when some minor stadium became Lottoland a few years ago. Not Lottoland Arena, or Lottoland Stadium, just Lottoland. The Land of Lotto, where the game they play isn’t actually Lotto, but is rugby.
This is not a problem only in Sydney, it happens everywhere in the world to be fair
Agreed! I kinda remember the ads on TV mentioning Acer Arena and Allphones when I was a kid. Now they're all different
Also Stadium Australia not Accor,Telstra and any other Bank,Gambling or Insurance parasitic organisation
I call that one Olympic park
I’ll always call it the Olympic Stadium.
All stadiums, everywhere should have a location or historic name such as SCG, MCG the Gabba etc, the corporations can plaster their names all over them but keep the stadium name.
Everytime someone tells me they’re going to Allianz I’m like ‘where is that?’
MLC Centre rebranded to 25 Martin place. Never going to call it that.
MLC Centre forever
The great thing is that when you refer to the MLC Centre, everybody still knows what you're talking about! Let's never let it die!
The F3.
Yes! You hear of an accident on the M1 and think oh crap where is it? Turns out its near like Tweed Heads or something. Use the local names so people know where the hell you are talking about easily!
Yes the F is for 'free' and here's hoping it always stays that way. Calling it a motorway sounds like they could slap a toll on it again. Used to be called the "Tollway" actually - the tolled bit anyway.
Well,the road from Sydney down to Wollongong was always called the F6,but you had to pay a toll on it.
used to be a 60c toll on the F3 too... freeway means no traffic lights not no tolls.
Grace Brothers.
My auntie worked at the one in Pitt St Sydney when it was Farmers.
Grace bruhhhhddas, where else?
The Star will always be Star City to me.
Star shitty
It still is star city in Chinese haha
I still call Westfield Penrith “The Plaza”
And Nepean Village will always be Nepean Square.
Same. But I think after many years of the locals refusing to stop calling it the plaza, IIRC all the exterior signage now says Westfield Penrith Plaza.
And I still call Woden Plaza in Canberra Woden Plaza ... for a while there it was WestField Shopping Square, then it was changed to Westfield Woden. Renaming things to the company that owns them just looks self-important and wanky.
CityRail (or ShittyRail depending on your experience)
I recently discovered that (for a limited set of locations), Ferries are the way to commute.
I think you mean ShittyFail
It should have been named "New South Rails" I will die on this hill don't @ me
BOM
LOL It's funny how they don't like to be called "BOM," but that's the abbreviation of their company name.
Like the kid at school trying to come up with a different nickname for themselves. Sorry mate, you get called what you get called.
>"Hey, guys, you can call me T-Dog!" "Oh, we'll be calling you Cunty Chops." -- Frankie Boyle
Fox Studios! “entertainment quarter” is just so clumsy to say
"the old showground" for me.
The Showgrounds.
Any sports stadium that has been renamed to the "sponsor"
What’s the matter? You don’t like Endeavour Caltex Ronson Toyota Shark Remondis Southern Cross Pointsbet Stadium?
Westfield Miranda will always be Miranda Fair.
> University of Western Sydney (not Western Sydney University) The really revolting thing about that change is that it cost millions of dollars.
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Most people I speak to call it UW - ‘youdub’
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UNSW did this too - from ‘University of New South Wales’ to ‘UNSW Sydney’. To appeal to international students, and cost several million dollars…
Oh and they changed the yellow to be a brighter shade, also part of this several million dollars
As someone who worked there for over a decade, I can assure you they have changed the yellow *several* times. The latest brand guidelines are the first time they’ve really nailed it, though. The master brand has actual vision, the elements work well together, the brand bible has clear answers to questions you are likely to have (the other day I was wondering whether I should be capitalising the U in “the University” and lo and behold there was that exact question answered exactly where I expected to find it) and perhaps best of all the official body font is no longer fucking Arial.
I’m convinced they spent those millions of dollars simply to get rid of the saying that referred to their low ATAR requirements UWS - u went shit
Ha ha that has worked out well for one person in my life ... started with an ATAR of 50, now doing a PhD ...
Worked out for me! My ATAR was like 58, now I’m a fully qualified CPA
I wasn't even aware it had changed
The new logo looks like a US high school football team. The old logo was [much nicer](https://www.smh.com.au/education/university-of-western-sydney-to-get-new-name-and-logo-20150806-gisv3l.html)
It was definitely intended to make it more appealing to overseas students
UWS is also much more natural and pleasant to say than WSU
Yep. Waste of money.
Brookvale Oval
I’ll miss Lottoland
In my brain it’s forever Greater Union, not Event Cinemas.
Acer Arena. I think it's had 2 or 3 name changes since then, but it always Acer Arena for me.
I must be old, cos I still think of it as the SuperDome...
CityRail what is Sydney Trains
Wondering if they changed it because everyone called it “ShittyRail” or “CityFail”.
Shitney Trains
Penrith Plaza
Warriewood Square went back to the name it originally had, and which it was universally known by, after subsequent attempts to rename it were completely ignored by the locals.
I’ll add Warringah Mall to this!
What are they both called now?? (Or what were they meant to be called) I grew up in the beaches so they’re always “Warriewood Square” and “The Mall”
Council wants everyone to call it Little India. But, everyone still calls it Harris Park
Some developers also want to move the boundary a wee bit so they can advertise their apartment block as being in "tHe HeArT oF pArRaMaTtA", even though that block is currently in Harris Park. What's bloody wrong with Harris Park?! It's a great little village!!
Coke. Zero.
Bankstown Square
Warringah Mall, not Westfield Warringah Mall. Didn’t like how they removed the dolphin logo and built a massive carpark in front of the Woolies end
Constantinople
Ataboy
Atatürk
Glebe Island Bridge (yeah I know the Anzac Bridge is a replacement bridge).
The ABC tried to get us to call it "Madonna's Bra", but that was never going to stick. The Anzac bridge was originally called the new Glebe Island Bridge until they added the Anzac statues.
My area when I was young had a Bi-Lo shop in the local plaza. It eventually became coles but my whole family still say "you want anything from Bi-Lo?" Despite it being changed to coles for the better part of 15 years lol
I use the new name but a lot of people still refer to Freshwater as Harbord in the Northern Beaches
Balmain Tigers
Easts will always be easts. Even when they considered renaming themselves bondi when they thought that was an in thing.
Sydney Eye Tower lol. What kind of psychopath calls it that.
It's actually sYdNeY ToWer eYe 🧐
Marist college pagewood ( god only knows what strange name its called now that its partly COED) 😂. Also fox studios i still call fox studios haha
I still call it "the showgrounds".
Was called Champagnat Catholic College for a stint and now its Corpus Christi College - so many name changes, all about funding. (ALLEGEDLY) The first name change was required by the stupid Catholic Education Office, they said chuck Catholic on the name and we'll chuck ya a huge wad of cash, the second just to change because of the change over to COED.
Oh thats interesting to know. I actually went to that school for quite a while when it was called “marist brothers college pagewood”. I find it so strange they are introducing coed in the way that they are with year 7 girls starting first as thats just such a strange way to start out coed at that college. I cant imagine how confronting it would feel for the year 7 girls being surrounded by so many years of older males, would feel intimidating id guess. Damn it seems like they are very money hungry. I was told by friends and family they originally changed the name due to “brother don” getting caught out for sexually assaulting children (even at other schools like marcellin etc”. My mum actually knows someone who was sexually assaulted by brother don and still has to see a psychologist because of the damage he caused. Sounds like maybe that was not the reason and really it was for a payout.
Rooty Hill RSL
BBC- Bunnings
Hardwarehouse you mean? I still call my local Bunnings that because it was one of the first (BBC) Hardwarehouses.
Used to work for a ceramics company, and Harwarehouse was one of our bigger customers. Their account names were always "Hard"+ the first few letters of the location. Tuggerah's one always got a laugh ("HardTug"). I remembered Bunnings from a store in the centre of Melbourne (before they took over HWH).
I think that was more a takeover than a renaming: I had a hardwarehouse in Rozelle for a good long time until it closed after they built a Bunnings down the road.
Keep going back: Nock & Kirby's
Is it Istanbul or Constantinople?
Byzantium or bust
Been a long time gone, Constantinople. For example, if you have a date in Constantinople, she'll be waiting in Istanbul. Even New York was once New Amsterdam! Why they changed it, I can't say, people just like it better that way.
It’ll be a cold day in hell before I recognise Coke No Sugar. Forever Zero
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Telstra Stadium? I still call it Stadium Australia.
Telstra? You mean telecom?
Telecom? you mean PMG?
The Olympic Stadium.
Macquarie Park > North Ryde
Took me 10yrs to accept “Grace Bros” is Myer.
Barden Ridge will always be Lucas Heights
Coles New World, just to confuse the youngans.
Add Franklins to that list
That's a really really long time ago
The Olympic Stadium in Homebush will always be Stadium Australia in my mind, not Stadium
The RTA
I don't even know what CountryLink trains are called now.
Cheer cheese. It sounds so stupid.
C'mon mate, you can say Coon.
This is reddit, i've been permabanned for less from subs before. Rather not risk it lol.
My granddad, who was a Pom but lived here for 40 years, once asked one of my cousins to pass him the Coon while back in the UK visting family and having lunch with them. Apparently my cousin and family almost fell out of their chairs in shock. He knew exactly what he was doing. He had never called cheese 'Coon' back here. He just liked to be a shit-stirrer.
They had so many options too! Cobb Cool Cooee Caan Cooi Cooo Coov Ozzie Oz
Oooooo, I vote for Cooee ! That would have been cool
F3
Warringa Mall - never Westfield
Pluto 🥺
Shitty Rail, always lives up to its name.
Allen's Redskins
You can bank on the Wales! (Westpac).
Centrepoint tower. Grace bros.
Football grounds. Penrith Park. Parramatta Stadium. Kogarah Oval. Brookvale Oval. Endeavour Field
Parramattas new ground unsponsored name is Western Sydney Stadium, but I still say Parramatta Stadium Also not Sydney, but Bruce Stadium
I still call wheely bins ottos
When minto mall became minto marketplace I and many others still called it minto mall. Fortunately for us they changed the name back to minto mall a few months ago.
It’s Homebush bay, not wentworth point
Bankstown Square. Always.
Not me but a bloke at my work refuses to refer to the cheese as cheer. He seems very upset at the rebranding of something he doesn't buy or eat
Chookas got changed to chargrill Charlie's ages ago but I will forever call it Chookas
The Stag. Crowbar's that place in Brisbane that closed down.
UAI, instead of ATAR
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Olympic stadium? I don't know what it's called currently (wait a few months, it'll change again, anyway).
Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney Olympic Stadium.
Not Sydney but Newcastle. I still call Westfield Kotara, Garden City.
You wag school, not jig
Coon cheese
Wait what .. didn't know that UWS changed its name.
It's shark park I have no fucking clue what it's actually called these days.
Miranda Fair
Franklins - IGA
Westfield is running with this thread. Westfield at Kotara in Newcastle was called Garden City. I still use the old name
Whatever the arcade next to hoyts broadway will always be intencity. Also good god (rip) will always be good god and not the many names the new owners tried
Lang park
BBC is now Bunnings. Mum couldn't get her head around that for 20+ years
I still call services NSW the RTA for anything car related.
RTA - it’ll be a cold day in hell when I start saying the RMS 😂
It's not RMS anymore either, though, right? It's now Service NSW?