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
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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 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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Posted by bondimermaid on May 13, 2010
I expect that when most people think about Bondi they’re thinking of the beach area, or of the Campbell parade area. For me, “Bondi” is actually quite a large area. Although a lot of things in this blog may be primarily concerned with the Beach area of Bondi, when I’m imagining Bondi, I‘m not just […]
Categories: Bondi, Locality, Maps
| Tags: Bellevue Hill, Bondi Beach, Dover Heights, Newtown, Rose Bay, Sydney, Waverley, Waverley College
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