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| Thread ID: 129351 | 2013-02-19 21:32:00 | Original Name | Richard (739) | PC World Chat |
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| 1328845 | 2013-02-19 21:32:00 | I've been puzzling for ages about the original name of the hotel on the corner of Customs St and Queen St in Auckland. It is now the Mercure and was previously the South Pacific. But before that??? Anyone remember? |
Richard (739) | ||
| 1328846 | 2013-02-19 23:00:00 | Snake Pit? It was the South pacific in the early 70's, don't know if there was another hotel on the site before it was built. |
Whenu (9358) | ||
| 1328847 | 2013-02-19 23:40:00 | I think it was the South Pacific in about 1963. I stayed there one night while trying to hitchhike through Auckland and gave up in the dead of night. And Auckland in those days was dead ... | WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1328848 | 2013-02-20 06:17:00 | Union Hotel maybe. Anyway here's a PDF (civictrustauckland.org.nz) from Auckland Civic Trust historic hotel development with some listings. Auckland City Council has archives (www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz) of publican/hotel licences from the 1880's, but I think a fee to order or to view microfilms. Bit of a report here. (www.aucklandcity.govt.nz) | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1328849 | 2013-02-20 09:04:00 | Looks like it was the Waverley Hotel in 1908 | Whenu (9358) | ||
| 1328850 | 2013-02-20 10:48:00 | True. Waverly hotel at that location according to the archive maps from link above, after the Waitemata (the original hotel), then became The Great Northern Hotel, amongst prior names and future names. Names here (www.aucklandcity.govt.nz) and viewable digitally and micro film with more details. | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1328851 | 2013-02-20 16:51:00 | I thought the Great Northern was diagonally opposite on the south western corner. Not that I would know, being U21 at the time ... | WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1328852 | 2013-02-20 20:26:00 | I thought the Great Northern was diagonally opposite on the south western corner. Not that I would know, being U21 at the time ... Yeah, right. |
Whenu (9358) | ||
| 1328853 | 2013-02-20 21:23:00 | By golly I think the Waverley is right. The Great Northern was on the other diagonal corner of Queen St, and was previously the old Auckland Hotel. I remember it well. | Richard (739) | ||
| 1328854 | 2013-02-21 06:13:00 | Yup, just had a chat with an old timer (older than me), and he confirms it was the Waverley . The one on the diagonally opposite corner of Queen & Customs definitely was the Great Northern . I remember having a quiet beer at the upstairs house bar of the Northern just before the 6:00pm swill started . A paper boy wandered by and I bought the latest Auckland Star to discover I'd won the lottery . . . my "lucky" birth date had won me the chance to do National Service . In case anybody misses the significance, National Service at the time captured 18 year olds . I was drinking under age by 3 years . . . And the pubs had paper boys selling papers, Salvation Army types doing head jobs on guilty drinkers, and the occasional cop checking ID . :D |
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