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#FlashbackFriday Orientation at Otago 30 years ago. hocken.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/640…

Some West Coast general stores for #FlashbackFriday. These photos come from a little album put together in December 1936 and kept in the records of Sargood Son & Ewen Ltd. See the ALT text for locations.

8/8: The cover of a Tip-Top Ice Cream Company annual report from 1954.

7/8: An advertisement for a 'stainless steel and enamel refrigerator, for milk bars and dairies'. From the front cover of the N.Z. Confectioner and Ice Cream Journal, vol.1 no.10, 15 March 1950.

Ice cream! A few images from the collections, looking at a favourite summer treat for #FlashbackFriday 1/8: A young boy with an ice cream, 1950s. George Chance (1885-1963) photographer.

@itslise It is looking south from St Andrew Street. You would now see Farmers on the left. Milburn & Neill Optometrists only moved out of the corner building last year.

@DocHocken Is the first one the malls block? I'm not sure what intersection the one with Princes Street is.

#FlashbackFriday. Dunedin's George Street, Octagon, and Princes Street, captured by the same unidentified photographer about 1927. What's familiar and what's not?

@southernscoop True! Or any painted road markings.

No roadcones.

Our new Digital Collections site launched last October and we continue to add new things. Here are just a few of the hundreds of items added over the past few months. If you go to hocken.recollect.co.nz and click on 'Show All', the recent additions display first.

If you were ‘trans-island’ this summer, did you take a Cook Strait ferry (aka ‘floating bridge’) to get to your destination? “Drive on Drive off….. New Zealand Railways Cook Strait Ferries”. Wellington: [NZ Railways Publicity Branch], 1966. Ephemera Collection. #FlashbackFriday

Have you been camping or glamping this summer? One of the age-old obstacles to a camping holiday is its lack of creature comforts. Alex Thompson & Son's 1939 catalogue includes the Kia ora Tent, claimed to be ‘scientifically designed to give roominess’. #FlashbackFriday