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AddBy: Pae Koroki3rd Jul 2024 3:51PMI think that is amazing, I lived in Te Puke in the 40s and 50s and Mr Washer always was a great guy, he had a "tic" and you always thought he was nodding at you, and the down under coffee lounge was fantastic, my brother Bill worked for Wright Stephenson in the 50s and on Friday night if the regent in Tga had a good late night movie on I would go over with him and a couple of his mates, and go to the pie cart on the strand by Judds music store and have a pea pie and pud, 2 slices of bread and lots of gravy for 2 shillings and then we would go to the down under and have a coffee and then go to the regent and watch the late night movie ,actually get the real hard ice cream from the nibble nook and some red round chocolate covered lollies in a red box as well as there was no half time and we would watch the movie, Dennis Hulme used to come as well, and brother Bill and Dennis would race along the welcome bay road those days, I was in the back of brother Bill's car he was a traveler on the road for Wright Stephenson and his car was owned by Wright Stephenson, Dennis had an MG Tf1500 those days and later got his MGa I think it was and he used to bring it around to our house and get my father to tune it for him when he had a hill climb on a Sunday, great days those 50s, Bill went to Australia in 58 and dad died in 1960 could go on about the 50s for ages as I have great memories of Te Puke in those times, working at the show grounds for the side shows and ferris wheel and merry go round, and hotdog and candyfloss caravan, and toss the ring over your choice of prize and the girls that you put the ping pong ball in the mouth to get numbers ,that was the A&P shows and I did Te Puke, Tauranga and Katikati in 3 consecutive weeks as Bill did the exhibition for Wright Stephenson, but I always had 4,5,mates to do Te Puke and we rode out on our push bikes and I knew the boss of the side shows and got the jobs for my mate's but they didn't do Tauranga and Katikati, got great money to do that I'm talking 55 56 57 and 58, crikey I better wrap up
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Printed serviette from the C. F. Washer & Sons Jubilee Dinner, 1959
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C. F. Washer & Sons Limited, Printed serviette from the C. F. Washer & Sons Jubilee Dinner, 1959 (24 March 1959). Pae Korokī, accessed 05/11/2024, https://paekoroki.tauranga.govt.nz/nodes/view/91087