I do remember Wanambra Arcade and the movie theatres there and I remember the bookstore was called Alberts Bookshop. The downstairs bar when it was the Australia Hotel was called Davey Jones Locker and later Albert’s Tavern. When Angus and Robertson moved back to Murray Street as you say about opposite where it had been in the former Australia Hotel it was in what had been Charlie Carters Grocery Store.
It could have been but I don’t remember it. I did leave Perth in 1959 and really didn’t return till 1969. As far as I can remember Michelides Tobacconist retail store was on that corner. Further East along Wellington Street closer to Barrack Street there was a John Wills grocery store. Tom the Cheap stores were all done on the cheap – low rent, basic shelving etc and about a 10% mark up. Even then rents in Perth city, I would think, would have been too high for one of those stores. I think at one time, however Tom Wardle bought the old Sandover site in Hay Street and opened that as Tom’s Other Store which suggests he may have had another store in Perth.
I think Angus and Robertson Book Store was where the Australia Hotel had been – not sure when that closed. I don’t remember a grocery store along that side of Murray Street. Charlie Carters was opposite next to Popes Butchers. Near the Grand Theatre there may have been a Woolworths. The stores that the former Lord Mayor of
Perth Sir Thomas Wardle owned were called Tom the Cheap – http://australianfoodtimeline.com.au/tom-the-cheap/
Not only the site of the former Boans Department Store but also Padbury Building with many shops on Forrest Place and of course the Australia Hotel on Murray Street. A lot of people seem confused about Forrest Chase and think that is a street but it’s a shopping centre same as Galleria Shopping Centre, Morley. I’m not sure when that section of Murray Street between Barrack and William Streets became a mall but it was later than the same section in Hay Street. I remember the trams always travelled west in Hay Street and East in Murray Street before it was a mall.
Forrest Chase is a shopping centre/development – South side faces Murray Street, North side faces Murray Street and its West side faces Forrest Place. http://ispt.net.au/properties/forrest-chase/
Forrest Place runs from Wellington Street to Murray Street.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-17/the-changing-face-of-forrest-place-perth/7421894
Here’s a great article on the Grand Theatre – http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/81724290
FYI Museum of Perth has now moved to The Esplanade and is in the Atlas Building.
The hotel on Wellington Street that was demolished was the Imperial Hotel. A good source for finding what was where until 1949 is the WA Postal Directories site. Until Friday September 2nd in Grand Lane at Museum of Perth – a small museum – there is an exhibition on that you might be interested in. http://www.museumofperth.com.au/
My memories of the Grand Theatre are different. I would have said in the 1940s it became quite run down and was often referred to as ‘the flea pit’. Serials (e.g. Captain Marvel) were shown there with an actor visiting schools for publicity and I do remember seeing The Mummy’s Curse there in the 1940s and being quite frightened – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mummy%27s_Curse
I thought it was in the 1950s that it had a refurbishment and English films were shown there with a big billboard on the Horseshoe Bridge advertising them. After it closed as a theatre there was a Chinese Restaurant there at one stage. I remember down the lane next door a dance marathon was held in the late 1950s.
The restaurant is named after Ivy and Jack the two main people in For Love of Ivy.
I do remember Wanambra Arcade and the movie theatres there and I remember the bookstore was called Alberts Bookshop. The downstairs bar when it was the Australia Hotel was called Davey Jones Locker and later Albert’s Tavern. When Angus and Robertson moved back to Murray Street as you say about opposite where it had been in the former Australia Hotel it was in what had been Charlie Carters Grocery Store.
It could have been but I don’t remember it. I did leave Perth in 1959 and really didn’t return till 1969. As far as I can remember Michelides Tobacconist retail store was on that corner. Further East along Wellington Street closer to Barrack Street there was a John Wills grocery store. Tom the Cheap stores were all done on the cheap – low rent, basic shelving etc and about a 10% mark up. Even then rents in Perth city, I would think, would have been too high for one of those stores. I think at one time, however Tom Wardle bought the old Sandover site in Hay Street and opened that as Tom’s Other Store which suggests he may have had another store in Perth.
I think Angus and Robertson Book Store was where the Australia Hotel had been – not sure when that closed. I don’t remember a grocery store along that side of Murray Street. Charlie Carters was opposite next to Popes Butchers. Near the Grand Theatre there may have been a Woolworths. The stores that the former Lord Mayor of
Perth Sir Thomas Wardle owned were called Tom the Cheap – http://australianfoodtimeline.com.au/tom-the-cheap/
Not only the site of the former Boans Department Store but also Padbury Building with many shops on Forrest Place and of course the Australia Hotel on Murray Street. A lot of people seem confused about Forrest Chase and think that is a street but it’s a shopping centre same as Galleria Shopping Centre, Morley. I’m not sure when that section of Murray Street between Barrack and William Streets became a mall but it was later than the same section in Hay Street. I remember the trams always travelled west in Hay Street and East in Murray Street before it was a mall.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theatre,_Perth
https://theworstofperth.com/2009/03/25/pizza-showtime/
Sorry that should be – North side faces Wellington Street.
Forrest Chase is a shopping centre/development – South side faces Murray Street, North side faces Murray Street and its West side faces Forrest Place. http://ispt.net.au/properties/forrest-chase/ Forrest Place runs from Wellington Street to Murray Street. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-17/the-changing-face-of-forrest-place-perth/7421894
Here’s a great article on the Grand Theatre – http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/81724290 FYI Museum of Perth has now moved to The Esplanade and is in the Atlas Building.
The hotel on Wellington Street that was demolished was the Imperial Hotel. A good source for finding what was where until 1949 is the WA Postal Directories site. Until Friday September 2nd in Grand Lane at Museum of Perth – a small museum – there is an exhibition on that you might be interested in. http://www.museumofperth.com.au/
http://watvhistory.com/2013/05/factors-that-moulded-entertainment-in-perth-part-3/
My memories of the Grand Theatre are different. I would have said in the 1940s it became quite run down and was often referred to as ‘the flea pit’. Serials (e.g. Captain Marvel) were shown there with an actor visiting schools for publicity and I do remember seeing The Mummy’s Curse there in the 1940s and being quite frightened – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mummy%27s_Curse I thought it was in the 1950s that it had a refurbishment and English films were shown there with a big billboard on the Horseshoe Bridge advertising them. After it closed as a theatre there was a Chinese Restaurant there at one stage. I remember down the lane next door a dance marathon was held in the late 1950s.