Posts belonging to Category Development
Posted by bondimermaid on June 21, 2010
So yesterday was a glorious winter’s day and I decided to take a walk down to the beach area of Bondi. There were lots of people around – as there often is on Sunday morning – with Bondi markets etc. and Bondi was buzzing. But as I walked I really felt overwhelmed with all the […]
Categories: Bondi, Development, Tourism
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Tags: Bondi, Bondi Beach, Bondi Surf Club, contruction site, local newspaper, retail, Tourism, Town Centre, Waverley Council
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Posted by bondimermaid on June 12, 2010
Back in the days before our homes had several entertainment screens in them, the only way to get some screen entertainment was to go the picture theatre – or cinema, as we now know it. In the Bondi area alone (including Bondi Junction), there were at least half a dozen picture theatres in operation around […]
Categories: Bondi, Cinema, Development, Entertainment, History, Picture Theatres
| Tags: Bondi Beach, food, food hall, Hall St, King, King's Cinema, Mary Poppins, Metro cinema, North Rose Bay, prime real estate, Rose Bay, Star Cinema, The Creole Disco, the Star
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Posted by bondimermaid on May 30, 2010
Last year The Bondi Tram Disco part of the Bondi Hotel, and the Gould Street drive-through bottlo vanished when the bulldozers came in to make way for yet another development at Bondi Beach. Known as The Beach House this new 5-storey development will comprise residential apartments and retail spaces. Waverley Councillor Mayor Sally Betts has […]
Categories: Bondi, Development
| Tags: Adam Gibson, Bombora Bar, Bondi Beach, Bondi Hotel, Bondi Hotels, Bondi Tram Disco, Development, Mayor, retail arcade, retail spaces, Sally Betts, The Beach House, USD, Waverley Councillor
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Posted by bondimermaid on May 23, 2010
Before Bondi became a BRAND… – you could buy pies and cream puffs from the Flying Pieman at 3.30 in the morning – there were 3 petrol stations on Campbell Parade – the Astra was a grungy pub renowned for being somewhere you could always score – you’d have ‘eyeballs’ at ‘the concrete’ – you could buy […]
Categories: Bondi, Commercialisation, Development, History
| Tags: Bondi Beach, Dover Heights Bowling Club, Gelato Bar, Hall Street, Queen, Rose Bay, Rose Bay wharf
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