Abandoned Oz - Sydney’s George Street Demolitions

Abandoned Oz - Sydney’s George Street Demolitions - August 2024

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@michaeltba9062 2 ай бұрын

I think this era is going to be regretted. Modern architecture is soul-less and totally devoid of any character. You used to be able to look at a photo and name the city. Not any more. Houses now look like factory units. You used to be able to look at a photo of a street and recognise it as being typical for a certain suburb. Not any more.

@what_up777 2 ай бұрын

What a lifeless city Sydney is now. I worked near that location in the 90's and it was always bustling then.

@HyperHorse 2 ай бұрын

All those moments will be lost. Like tears in rain....

@anniemon 2 ай бұрын

Skinners Family Hotel build 1845 & a hotel until 1873. Many uses since then & Heritage listed 1999. The reason the corner building is staying. Makes the corner look nice.

@murraykitson1436 2 ай бұрын

This reason did not save The Royal Oak Hotel in Parramatta which was even older . Just ask Phil !

@pauly540 2 ай бұрын

Hunter Street used to be one of the last decent loading zone spots for us making deliveries. Now that's taken away, along with Pitt St loading zones turned into bike lanes, looks like city businesses won't be receiving supplies for much longer 😢

@anniemon 2 ай бұрын

That corner building used to be a pub (or Hotel as they were called) . Hasn’t sold alcohol in a very long time.

@cassandrafox6830 2 ай бұрын

Wow, thanks. Worked on 10th Floor 300 George St from 1982-1993, that building next to the old pub on the corner, all but gone.

@biancawilloughby9980 Ай бұрын

The corner building was a hotel called the Metropolitan. The hotel had a public bar and the top floor was a fine dining restaurant. My father worked there in the 1970s. It was very grand.

@HyperHorse 2 ай бұрын

Is anyone old enough to remember a huge toy store in St Leonards called Uncle Tony's?! They were very well known in the 1980s....

@murraykitson1436 2 ай бұрын

It sounds familiar, but I do remember the bowling alley and the Alderson Building with the revolving Mercedes sign on the roof . Another niche institution was the 729 club in Lithgow Street whose members were people involved in the television industry , hence the name was derived from the channels 7 2 and 9 . Channel 10 did not exist until about 1965 so wasn't included in the name of this club which was originally in Crows Nest . I recently had an early appointment at RNSH ( hospital) so while I was filling in time at St Leonards Station , I looked down Lithgow Street to reminisce then looked at my phone ... the time just happened to be 729 ! Quite spooky . 😳

@janetpendlebury6808 2 ай бұрын

Used to be one in Blacktown, my kids used to love going shopping there.

@robertwelch-q7s 2 ай бұрын

Do you mean Uncle Petes toys?

@murraykitson1436 2 ай бұрын

@@HyperHorse I have Googled Uncle Pete's Toys and it began in the 1970s . I did not conduct a thorough search , but doing so might provide more information.

@HyperHorse 2 ай бұрын

@@robertwelch-q7s I guess so. lol

@jayfielding1333 2 ай бұрын

I hope they pick something more exciting than Hunter Street Station, which would be so out of place among Central, Gadigal, Town Hall, Museum etc. I can't stand stations named after roads.

@hcrun 2 ай бұрын

I lived and worked in Sydney from 1964 until moving to Canberra in 1984. Even when in the ACT I would visit Sydney city (the CBD and some suburbs) for work until 1993. The city centre would be a strange location to me now, with very little remaining from my years in the place. I really have no wish to visit it these days.

@Stikibits 2 ай бұрын

Good for some private developers and contractors, not the public.

@billamm 2 ай бұрын

I read somewhere that the building on the corner is being used as a site office for the duration of the build.

@antstransportandchallengeschan 2 ай бұрын

The City Mutual Life Assurance Building is a heritage-listed commercial building located at 60-66 Hunter Street, in the Sydney central business district, in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was built during 1936. It is also known as CML Building and 10 Bligh Street. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.[1]

@margaretgood580 2 ай бұрын

Does anyone remember the clothing store on the cnr of Hunter and George street across from Wynyard station back in the late 1960's ... " MERIVALES "

@peterclarke7221 2 ай бұрын

The building on the corner was a branch of the Advance bank at one stage

@cassandrafox6830 2 ай бұрын

and had a sports store in the basement at one stage.

@jayfielding1333 2 ай бұрын

I'd all but forgotten about Advance. I used to love their logo as a child and was disgusted my parents banked with Suncorp.

@meganpaull6140 2 ай бұрын

Great video thanks for the update

@dulcinealee3933 2 ай бұрын

Isn't the Hunter St Connection where the hidden GPO is? I'm not talking about the old GPO building which is now a luxury hotel but the parcel and letters pick up ppint ( no post office counter) . I stumbled upon this GPO collection point by mistake taking a wrong turn under tge Hunter Connection. Maybe I''m thinking about the wrong building.

@anniemon 2 ай бұрын

Think you’re correct. There was PO Boxes in an out of the way area.

@sirreynolds1681 2 ай бұрын

In the Seventies it was a cool menswear shop. The In Shop.

@joools1953 2 ай бұрын

Women’s clothes as well. I used buy dresses there, when I had the legs for minis.

@MorrisHillmanProductions 2 ай бұрын

John and Merivale Hemmes owned the shop.

@ec7152 2 ай бұрын

4:00 had a look on google street view and the it was a foreign currency exchange place until 2015 and then it became a convenience store then around 2018 it became Oscar Wylee store

@aquamonkee 2 ай бұрын

So what's the digging along George St between Hunter and Bond, and again further past Bridge in aid of?

@jackthediscoverer 2 ай бұрын

I've been there before the last time I been to the arcade is when I was riding through Wynyard on Anzac day . I haven't been in the arcade but I been outside the arcade. Its really sad to see that white heritage go

@pauljay828 2 ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure I remember that building being a bar on the upper level, and McDonalds on ground level?

@tinascousin 2 ай бұрын

Definitely used to be a Maccas at street level. Heaving with ppl >midnight Friday and Saturday nights 🤣

@krislawry 2 ай бұрын

@@tinascousinno, that was on the corner of George and Bridge Streets, not George and Hunter Streets!

@tinascousin 2 ай бұрын

@@krislawry I stand corrected. A shorter drunken stumble from Circular Quay than I remembered it being 🤣

@aaajp3 2 ай бұрын

Yeah that old building use to be a McDonalds at street level and on top was actually a Bar from around 1998 anyway.

@krislawry 2 ай бұрын

No, that’s not correct. That hotel you are referring to that was occupied by McDonalds is on the corner of George and Bridge Streets.

@EpicGalaxy-O- 2 ай бұрын

Hunter Street Metro station, should just be called Wynyard (as a continuation)

@ec7152 2 ай бұрын

I think the old building on the corner is heritage listed

@niccisaxby4942 2 ай бұрын

😢😢😢

@Indi3R 2 ай бұрын

Corner building was a pub, cant remember the name

@HappyDays-nk7iq 2 ай бұрын

Should really pedestrianise Hunter Street. I mean it has been blocked off to cars for years already and will continue to be blocked off to cars until 2032. Might as well just pedestrianise it permanently.