Woolworths Food Market Opening - a photo on Flickriver

Notes: the main store at 87 Katoomba St, was opened 23 June 1939 as a purpose designed retail outlet for the Woolworths chain. Prior to this in the 1930s the site was the premises of S Kensell Grocers and the Civic Fruit Vegetable and Confectionery Shop. It is significant as one of the few remaining examples of a chain of purpose-designed stores from the period. During the 1990s was occupied by Crazy Prices and more recently an office supplies store.

The Food Market, from the mid 1920s these premises housed Pepperday’s Mercery Store and Helen Hunter’s Ladies Hairdressing salon and gift store. The façade underwent later modification and during the 1990s was occupied by Crazy Prices, Go-Lo, and more recently a computer shop.

Format: silver gelatin negative, 4" x 5" (10.2 cm x 12.7 cm) Kodak Royal Pan

Date Range: Food Market official opening 17 April 1959, thanks to Stephen Ward of Woolworths Heritage Centre

Location: Katoomba Street

Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons

Repository: Blue Mountains Library bmcc.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/default/

Part of Local Studies Collection: SS 06-09

Provenance: Souvenir Snapshots

Links:
BLOG - bmlocalstudies.blogspot.com/search/label/Katoomba

WOOLWORTHS (1939, March 28). Blue Mountains Daily (Katoomba, NSW : 1939), p. 1. Retrieved May 10, 2021, from nla.gov.au/nla.news-article194478591

KATOOMBA BUSINESS PROPERTIES CHANGE HANDS (1938,
July 16). The Katoomba Daily (NSW : 1920 - 1939), p. 2. Retrieved May 10, 2021, from nla.gov.au/nla.news-article190116487

Some rights reserved

Taken in: Australia / New South Wales / Katoomba (show map)

Taken on: April 17, 1959

Sets appears in: • Shops and shopping • Souvenir Snapshots collection

Groups appears in: • Trove: Australia in Pictures • Katoomba

Stats: 1,998 views

go back

close tools panel

Badge creator

Use Flickriver Badge Creator to create a badge linking to your photos, your group or any other Flickriver view.

You can place your badge on your Flickr profile, Blog or Website.

Add to your iGoogle or Netvibes page

Flickriver widget for iGoogle or Netvibes can display almost any Flickriver view - most interesting today, by user, by group, by tag etc. Once added to your personalized homepage, just edit widget settings to select your desired view.

Clickr on one of the buttons below to install:

Embed on your Web site

To embed this view, Copy and Paste the following HTML code:

Black background (preview):

White background (preview):

Firefox and Chrome addons

Adds a 'Flickriver' button to your browser. While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on this button to open the same view on Flickriver.

Install in Firefox
Install in Chrome

Search plugin

Add 'Search on Flickriver' to your browser's search box. Works with Firefox and Internet Explorer. Install search plugin

"View on Flickriver" Greasemonkey script

A Greasemonkey script that adds Flickriver links to various Flickr photo pages - user photos, favorites, pools etc, allowing to quickly open the corresponding Flickriver view.

Also, allows quickly viewing any Flickr photo on black background in large size.

Install "View on Flickriver" script

Bookmarklet

While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on the bookmarklet to open the same view on Flickriver.

To install: drag and drop the following link to your Bookmarks toolbar.
IE users - add the link to your Favorites under the Links folder