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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Saturday morning Step Fitness demo at the @oldshopsoz.bsky.social Health and Fitness Expo at Westfield West Lakes Adelaide c1995. Shout out to our Adelaide/SA followers 👋

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Saturday morning shoppers at Clifford Gardens Toowoomba QLD 1985: Don't forget to put your entry in for your chance to win the Suzuki Mighty Boy/Daihatsu Handivan 600cc whatever. Shout out to our Queensland followers 👋

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Alpen Muesli: Who else felt like a breakfast hipster when munching on this in the early 80s?

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Pulling up the bus outside the Sydney Opera House 1974. Robert O Foster collection/Ball State University USA.

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Straight from the source - buying fish at Constitution Dock Hobart 1977. National Archives

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

When Sweet Orange Marmalade was just 59c at Coles and not some kind of bougie imported European luxury.

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The then-new PMG/Post Office at Crows Nest NSW 1960s. Now occupied by the Metro station that is planned to have three residential towers built on top. National Archives

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

A classic red Merc blends in nicely outside the new Safeway/Red S supermarket at Church St Brighton, Melbourne 1983. Shout out to our Melbourne members. National Archives

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

No it's not something out of Mad Men it's the original lobby at Sydney's Wentworth Hotel 1966.

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Yes kids, Uncle Old Shops used to eat his Subway Footlongs when they looked like this.

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Bring back the easy to read Sans Serif font on product packaging, like these mid-70s Arnott's flavoured cracker selection. 👓🔍

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

To our recent followers welcome to @oldshopsoz.bsky.social - We're light on the fizz so you can slam us down fast. And to everyone, please repost / share our posts to help make Oldshopsoz the best and biggest place on #BlueskyAus for retro retail memories and Oz consumer nostalgia.

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Big W Back to School 1987. Stackhat and KT26s is on our list.

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

That time Maccas Australia tried it on with the fast casual dine-in concept Boston Market. Died in the arse after a year or two.

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Botany Rd Beaconsfield, inner Sydney 1977. As working class a neighbourhood as it got. Now the part of town where people queue around the block for Insta-famous croissants.

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Streets Hawaiian Delight late 1960s. When the wrapper art they knocked up at 4:59pm on a Friday was still awesome.

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Testing out the Radial Tuned Suspension of the Torana Sunbird outside Pick n Pay hypermarket, Aspley Brisbane 1986.

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Don't even think of going Back to School coz the school holiday fun continues with Old Shops Carnival Capers, two shows daily 11am and 2pm. Be there for our bubblegum blowing competition with lots of cool prizes and giveaways from Bubble Yum. Westfield Marion SA 1985 Pic: Westfield Marion FB

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Buy any four Stripe exercise books and get a freebie sticker - another unbeatable Back to School offer from Olympic stationery and @oldshopsoz.bsky.social

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Kmart Back to School 1987: Trax sneakers, Maxims Flasks with the beaker cup and cotton rucksacks.

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Australians all let us rejoice 🇦🇺🎵 For teenage girls can dress young and free Thanks to Venture 1988! #AustraliaDay #StrayaDay Catalogue pic taken outside Greater Union cinemas Russell St Melbourne, now a hotel.

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Who remembers Arnott's Maryland cookies, sorry BISCUITS. Choc hazelnut recipe back when Arnott's quality meant something.

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

🎶 I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand Walking through the streets of Tassie in the rain He was looking for the place called Lee How Fooks Gonna get a big dish of beef chow mein 🎵 Werewolves of Lindisfarne, Tasmania.

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Remember when Kmart had Australia's Choice, rather than Anko choice?

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Hey there you / With the sad face / Come up to my place / And have some cheese 🎶🎼 Kraft Australia cheese range 1970

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Tennis greats Lew Hoad & Rod Laver on sponsors duty at Farmers department store Sydney 1964. Both were shut out of the majors after turning pro & had to do stuff like this for a living. #AO2025 #AUSOPEN [pic: SLNSW]

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Red Baron tomato sauce by Letona, back when packaging was fun and a bit phallic.

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Ken Rosewall working in his parents' grocery at Penshurst, Sydney 1956. This was a publicity pic for his then-sponsor Carnation Milk. #ao2025 #ausopen [pic: Getty Images]

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Coles at Burns Bay Rd Lane Cove NSW, 1968. State Library NSW.

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Peter's ice cream product cards from the summer of 1979/80 Blue Fin was fantastic! Pic credit David McMahon

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Rare pic of the interior of Mark Foys department store, Sydney 1953 showing the mezzanine level space. All of this was obliterated when they shoehorned over 20 courtrooms for the Downing Centre law courts. SLNSW/Pix Magazine

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

The forgotten NSW retailer Anthony Horderns shown here at Keira St Wollongong.

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Early 1970s Streets Heart ice creams with a Neapolitan line-up of flavours.

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Hot fresh donuts at Queen Victoria Market Melbourne 1975 - but not before loading up the Valiant with the day's fruit and veg shopping. National Archives

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Retro Maccas on the telly - Prisoner 1983: Joan The Freak Ferguson’s caring side shines through when she treats Shane a runaway boy. Styrofoam Big Mac and Southern Fried Chicken pictured. Location credited as McDonalds Nunawading Melbourne.

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

"Close your eyes and I'll kiss you..." - but not before I've opened up my pack of Scanlens Young Talent Time bubble gum cards from the late 80s.

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Weirdo's House of Fun - magic and novelty shop at Piccadilly Arcade, Sydney. Undated image from book by Brian McCullagh documenting Sydney's heritage of magic shops.

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Aerial view of the new greenfields Macarthur Square shopping centre development at Campbelltown NSW, 1979. Photo from Museum Macarthur.

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Old Shops Australia - X and Musk can fuck off @oldshopsoz.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Tile work on the former butcher shop at Proston QLD, near Kingaroy. Pic credit Lisa Deed

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