March 19, 2025 • 7 mins
There are many things people miss about the Gold Coast from years gone by, so Moyra and Big Trev opened up the phones to ask you to reminisce with them!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I've got a forty five minute drive when I drive
to work every day, So I leave from Benora Point
that's where I live, and drive up to Southport because
that's where our office is now. In the way, I
just listened to some music and think about what I'm
going to have lunch pretty much essentially jam pack day
and how I can annoy the crap Adamorra and ben right.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
You think about that.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
That's living.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, it's natural. Is natural talent being a jerk.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
As I got to Nirang, I thought, you know what,
I'm gonna have a carry pie. I was like, yeah, cool,
that's what I'm having. So I thought, okay, the best
place that I know this way is Goal Scenes and
there's one on olsen av at Ashmore. So I drove
all the way there and then as I got there,
it's across from where the Audi and the Zarapis is Nashmore,
(00:54):
across the road. They've got their main office there. We
went there with the pie. We went like the bakery man, Yeah,
the bakery with the guy's head office.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
The Gaien Emily Jade had a pie.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Buss like two years ago. Yes, And we went there. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
And then I got there and it wasn't there. There
was just an empty lot.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
They from what I can remember of that day, we
actually had a discussion about the fact that they were moving.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
And that was two years ago.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yeah, I didn't get that memo.
Speaker 6 (01:29):
I think we all separately had that conversation with staff there.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I don't think I was there.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
That was two years ago.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I know because then I came in and then I
had to go to the bakehouse over the Ashuble City Plaza.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Which has been there for many, many years.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Thank god, they hadn't moved. And then I came in.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
He sat down to lunch and they had talked to Nathan,
who works good front of the show, and he goes, yeah,
they moved two years ago. Yeah, and they moved up
to Helensville. Two other office is now in Millennium Circuits. Okay, cool,
Well you're the way anyone that knew that? And then
I woked you guys, He said, exactly the same thing,
And then you told me exactly.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Two years ago. We wondered that in a.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Regular bace, I missed that place. Now have to go
to Millennium Circuit in Helen'sville.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Well, can you just go to the place of Ashmo.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah, I'm going to go there, but I like the
people there.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
He's been there twice in a week, Trevor, and it's
Tuesday and that was Thursday.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
You really have a right new pie shop. But what
do you miss that disappeared? Like the usuals, like the
pizza hut down a Kira Sizzlers that we're we don't
just food, we can do anything.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
I used to really love the bulletin dog. I know
this might sound weird, not today, Okay. From the eighties,
there was a black and white bulletin dog. And it
was when there was only the bulletin and it used
to it was like a I don't know, like a
kel be kind of thing. And it would there'd be
like massive like a trailer, and on the back of
(03:06):
it would be the black and white dog, a massive
dog with like the paper in its mouth like it's
holding it.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Was it like I thought it was like a real dog.
But you're talking about it.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
There's a real dog.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
I'm talking like the size of a statue, like a
statue dog.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
A big dog.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Oh okay, not that big dog.
Speaker 7 (03:28):
Like it puts you to sleep, all right, double five seven,
one one two nine. I think you know where this
is going. What do you miss that used to be
here on the Gold Coast? Could be food, could be
a dog.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
It's not a real dog. We all know that.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
Yeah, Indy was good.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Indy was great.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I never went to Indy.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Ah.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Yeah, well you just realized the pie shot was gone.
Speaker 8 (03:53):
So fair.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
You probably didn't realize it wasn't on anymore.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
It probably went there, mate, you had a great time.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
You just can't remember when did that stop? Jeff from Broadbage?
What do you miss that's disappeared?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Melbourne's upstairs, fish bowl cocktails downstairs, contributing to my alcoholism,
fish boils.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I remember the fish bowls and then not much after.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Yeah, that's that's pretty much you're Yeah, you go to
the toilet that was out the back.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Do you remember that?
Speaker 5 (04:26):
No, there was The toilet wasn't actually within the building
of Melbourn's originally it was like a Yeah, it was
like another toilet which was sort of out in like
a parkway.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Yeah. It's weird the house and yeah, not very pleasant.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
No, not at all. Why do we miss it?
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Happy memory?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Yeah it sounds great.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Same from what do you miss?
Speaker 8 (04:49):
Well? I just realized, no, this is gone I've not
been out for a long time.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Oh wow, seriously, thank you, than.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
And I.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
Yes, So the fancy restaurant we used to go to
his kids called Holy Mackerel, and my mom used to
work there, and then I worked there when I was
like fifteen, and he used always get a prawn cocktail
when I was a kid. It was the fanciest place
to go to.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Fancy then which suburb was it?
Speaker 8 (05:21):
Oh, the Holy Mackerel was behind? So it did in Labrador.
It was on the corner just opposite the Lotus Creek Bridge. Yeah,
behind where the there was a pizza hut there too.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Back then, I remember that one.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Yeah from the yeah, the pizza hut roof Yes, yes,
I think that John That turned into Chow's restaurant as well,
which was a fantastic Italian restaurant.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
And was Holy Mackerel like a seafood restaurant, was it?
Speaker 8 (05:48):
Yes, yes, there was a secred restaurant. You walked in
it was like it kind of was like where the
sharks have got it now where you had all the
fish tanks there? Oh wow, yeah, but I just I
just remember it as a kid, I had a prawn
cocktile and then we slept under the tables like my
mom and all their friends.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Would drinking responsibly happy. Sorry we broke the news about.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Yeah that Mandy from adre Bah. What do you miss?
This disappeared?
Speaker 9 (06:13):
I miss the sorry cafe called Olivia's. It was it
where the Q one is where the Q one is now.
And it was like an old fashioned milk barner, you know.
The girls used to ride around on roll skates and
stuff and serve you. And it was they had an
f J holden up in the ceiling.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (06:32):
Yeah. And I also missed the driving theater where Harbourtown
is now. Yeah, that's what all that land was. Yeah,
before Lewis Lane Coort brought it.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah, would be Mandy.
Speaker 9 (06:46):
Which one?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah, the Harbortown one.
Speaker 9 (06:50):
I mean that's probably you know however long Halfortown has
been opened now twenty five.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Years, but although I guess we really Yeah, the.
Speaker 9 (06:58):
Main road that you go into like do you turn
up like where all the little industrial area is and
turn into Halftown that way, that's the actual entrance to
the drive in theater. So it's pretty freaky when you're
driving there, you go, it's not the theater. And I
also missed the Crooked House. I don't know if you guys.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Remember that the Crooked initially was a Crooked House.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
Crooked House so cool.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
It was a restaurant, but it was just really badly made.
Was not intentionally made, like
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Big trim for the driver on
I've got a forty five minute drive when I drive
to work every day, So I leave from Benora Point
that's where I live, and drive up to Southport because
that's where our office is now. In the way, I
just listened to some music and think about what I'm
going to have lunch pretty much essentially jam pack day
and how I can annoy the crap Adamorra and ben right.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
You think about that.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
That's living.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, it's natural. Is natural talent being a jerk.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
As I got to Nirang, I thought, you know what,
I'm gonna have a carry pie. I was like, yeah, cool,
that's what I'm having. So I thought, okay, the best
place that I know this way is Goal Scenes and
there's one on olsen av at Ashmore. So I drove
all the way there and then as I got there,
it's across from where the Audi and the Zarapis is Nashmore,
(00:54):
across the road. They've got their main office there. We
went there with the pie. We went like the bakery man, Yeah,
the bakery with the guy's head office.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
The Gaien Emily Jade had a pie.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Buss like two years ago. Yes, And we went there. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
And then I got there and it wasn't there. There
was just an empty lot.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
They from what I can remember of that day, we
actually had a discussion about the fact that they were moving.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
And that was two years ago.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yeah, I didn't get that memo.
Speaker 6 (01:29):
I think we all separately had that conversation with staff there.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I don't think I was there.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
That was two years ago.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I know because then I came in and then I
had to go to the bakehouse over the Ashuble City Plaza.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Which has been there for many, many years.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Thank god, they hadn't moved. And then I came in.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
He sat down to lunch and they had talked to Nathan,
who works good front of the show, and he goes, yeah,
they moved two years ago. Yeah, and they moved up
to Helensville. Two other office is now in Millennium Circuits. Okay, cool,
Well you're the way anyone that knew that? And then
I woked you guys, He said, exactly the same thing,
And then you told me exactly.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Two years ago. We wondered that in a.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Regular bace, I missed that place. Now have to go
to Millennium Circuit in Helen'sville.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Well, can you just go to the place of Ashmo.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah, I'm going to go there, but I like the
people there.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
He's been there twice in a week, Trevor, and it's
Tuesday and that was Thursday.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
You really have a right new pie shop. But what
do you miss that disappeared? Like the usuals, like the
pizza hut down a Kira Sizzlers that we're we don't
just food, we can do anything.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
I used to really love the bulletin dog. I know
this might sound weird, not today, Okay. From the eighties,
there was a black and white bulletin dog. And it
was when there was only the bulletin and it used
to it was like a I don't know, like a
kel be kind of thing. And it would there'd be
like massive like a trailer, and on the back of
(03:06):
it would be the black and white dog, a massive
dog with like the paper in its mouth like it's
holding it.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Was it like I thought it was like a real dog.
But you're talking about it.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
There's a real dog.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
I'm talking like the size of a statue, like a
statue dog.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
A big dog.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Oh okay, not that big dog.
Speaker 7 (03:28):
Like it puts you to sleep, all right, double five seven,
one one two nine. I think you know where this
is going. What do you miss that used to be
here on the Gold Coast? Could be food, could be
a dog.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
It's not a real dog. We all know that.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
Yeah, Indy was good.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Indy was great.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I never went to Indy.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Ah.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Yeah, well you just realized the pie shot was gone.
Speaker 8 (03:53):
So fair.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
You probably didn't realize it wasn't on anymore.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
It probably went there, mate, you had a great time.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
You just can't remember when did that stop? Jeff from Broadbage?
What do you miss that's disappeared?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Melbourne's upstairs, fish bowl cocktails downstairs, contributing to my alcoholism,
fish boils.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I remember the fish bowls and then not much after.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Yeah, that's that's pretty much you're Yeah, you go to
the toilet that was out the back.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Do you remember that?
Speaker 5 (04:26):
No, there was The toilet wasn't actually within the building
of Melbourn's originally it was like a Yeah, it was
like another toilet which was sort of out in like
a parkway.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Yeah. It's weird the house and yeah, not very pleasant.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
No, not at all. Why do we miss it?
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Happy memory?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Yeah it sounds great.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Same from what do you miss?
Speaker 8 (04:49):
Well? I just realized, no, this is gone I've not
been out for a long time.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Oh wow, seriously, thank you, than.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
And I.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
Yes, So the fancy restaurant we used to go to
his kids called Holy Mackerel, and my mom used to
work there, and then I worked there when I was
like fifteen, and he used always get a prawn cocktail
when I was a kid. It was the fanciest place
to go to.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Fancy then which suburb was it?
Speaker 8 (05:21):
Oh, the Holy Mackerel was behind? So it did in Labrador.
It was on the corner just opposite the Lotus Creek Bridge. Yeah,
behind where the there was a pizza hut there too.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Back then, I remember that one.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Yeah from the yeah, the pizza hut roof Yes, yes,
I think that John That turned into Chow's restaurant as well,
which was a fantastic Italian restaurant.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
And was Holy Mackerel like a seafood restaurant, was it?
Speaker 8 (05:48):
Yes, yes, there was a secred restaurant. You walked in
it was like it kind of was like where the
sharks have got it now where you had all the
fish tanks there? Oh wow, yeah, but I just I
just remember it as a kid, I had a prawn
cocktile and then we slept under the tables like my
mom and all their friends.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Would drinking responsibly happy. Sorry we broke the news about.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Yeah that Mandy from adre Bah. What do you miss?
This disappeared?
Speaker 9 (06:13):
I miss the sorry cafe called Olivia's. It was it
where the Q one is where the Q one is now.
And it was like an old fashioned milk barner, you know.
The girls used to ride around on roll skates and
stuff and serve you. And it was they had an
f J holden up in the ceiling.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (06:32):
Yeah. And I also missed the driving theater where Harbourtown
is now. Yeah, that's what all that land was. Yeah,
before Lewis Lane Coort brought it.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah, would be Mandy.
Speaker 9 (06:46):
Which one?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah, the Harbortown one.
Speaker 9 (06:50):
I mean that's probably you know however long Halfortown has
been opened now twenty five.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Years, but although I guess we really Yeah, the.
Speaker 9 (06:58):
Main road that you go into like do you turn
up like where all the little industrial area is and
turn into Halftown that way, that's the actual entrance to
the drive in theater. So it's pretty freaky when you're
driving there, you go, it's not the theater. And I
also missed the Crooked House. I don't know if you guys.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Remember that the Crooked initially was a Crooked House.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
Crooked House so cool.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
It was a restaurant, but it was just really badly made.
Was not intentionally made, like
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Big trim for the driver on
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