Do you remember these companies?

[Wahesh]

Do you remember these companies?

 

[BELMORE]

Firstly, I can’t see that post.

Secondly, there’s a reason shit like this is on facebook, so keep it there

 

[Wahesh]

Sorry I'm not sure why it didn't work - just fixed the link.

Companies like:

• Copperart
• Bi Lo (a supermarket, I can't believe I forgot that one)
• Franklins
• Go-Lo (I used to work there lol)
• Grace Bros (before rebranding to Myer)
• Tandy Electronics (WOWSERS!)

 

[N4TE]

Past/Lives of the Near Future

Revealing traces of a former Sydney

pastlivesofthenearfuture.com

This guys blog is pretty good. He doesn’t post much these days but well written.

 

[Bulldog Wrestler]

 

[Greenmachine121]

Franklins was awesome

 

[Ripley]

Look up Yahoo’s fuckups over the last decade or two. Could’ve bought Google for a steal, and hence YouTube would’ve been theirs. Got offered a cut of Microsoft in some deal knocked it back. There’s more too, fuckup after fuckup.

Classic example of how to turn a big business into a small business.

 

[BELMORE]

Look up Yahoo’s fuckups over the last decade or two. Could’ve bought Google for a steal, and hence YouTube would’ve been theirs. Got offered a cut of Microsoft in some deal knocked it back. There’s more too, fuckup after fuckup.

Classic example of how to turn a big business into a small business.

Google bought youtube though…

 

[DaBulldog]

Sorry I'm not sure why it didn't work - just fixed the link.

Companies like:

• Copperart
• Bi Lo (a supermarket, I can't believe I forgot that one)
• Franklins
• Go-Lo (I used to work there lol)
• Grace Bros (before rebranding to Myer)
• Tandy Electronics (WOWSERS!)

Man I must be old. I know all of them except Go-Lo. It’s happening all the time now. So many companies we grew up with are now gone.

 

[DaBulldog]

Franklins was awesome

Franklins I grew up with. They occasionally sold random things like Aldi too. Not a lot, but I’m pretty sure that’s where I got a pair of Mohamed Ali boxing gloves. They were a good cheap supermarket.

 

[DaBulldog]

What about Norman Ross. This is where Gerry Harvey worked before he pioneered the Harvey Norman Franchise.

 

[SARGE]

Fairstar computers and that Wally zub

 

[Cujo]

Fairstar computers and that Wally zub

Wang computers...also remember when our primary school got its first (& only) computer when I was in year 6, a Microbee.
Anyone remember Microbees? We were allocated 15 minute blocks of time one day a week...

 

[Bullpit]

Nock & Kirbys with Joe The Gadget Man

 

[LAND_LORD]

What about “stacks” they had cheap tennis balls and tried to push Sergio tergcini tennis rackets..


They were closing down forever, one week to go, 6 days, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.5, 1....extended one more week!! Went for 2 years like that

 

[LAND_LORD]

Fairstar computers and that Wally zub

He lived round corner from me, he had a Porsche with Wally number plates. He still does stuff, Adad

 

[SARGE]

He lived round corner from me, he had a Porsche with Wally number plates. He still does stuff, Adad

What stuff? Lol

 

[DaBulldog]

What about “stacks” they had cheap tennis balls and tried to push Sergio tergcini tennis rackets..


They were closing down forever, one week to go, 6 days, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.5, 1....extended one more week!! Went for 2 years like that

I don’t remember that place but I remember another business that the guy out the front was always saying on the loud speaker too ‘we’re closing down, everything just go’ they were still there for about the 2 year period after (like your talking about), but it was a budget discount goods store.

 

[LAND_LORD]

Who remembers cobra in Parra westfields..

When they first opened they had lines for 200 metres to get in. I walked past and the owner “Paul from Paul’s warehouse grabbed me and said you busy? He chucked a lanyard over my neck and said you work for me.. I was at the door like a nightclub for a sports apparel store. Lol.

 

[LAND_LORD]

What stuff? Lol

Adad.com.au

He does commercials for people. It’s the same bloke from fairstar.