Old Avondale
Acknowledging our community’s past through old images from people’s personal collections and heritage images from Auckland Libraries and other sources. Check out #OldAvondale for more examples.
Monica Smith (née Timo) at the old 3 Guys supermarket in the middle of Avondale Town Centre in the 1980s.
Photo courtesy of the Timo family.
The St Jude Street level crossing in 1954.
Photo by Les Downey. Walsh Memorial Library, MOTAT, 11-0202.
Built in 1915, the Hollywood was originally the Avondale Town Hall. It has also been used as a community hall, a playhouse theatre and a cinema. Today, the Hollywood still plays movies and has become a popular venue for gigs and other events.
Photo by Ada Bratton, 1990. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 302B-005.
Matia’ali’i Pasina Malagaomā William Andrew Betham (aka William – second from the left) and āiga at their Avondale Rd homestead in the early 2000s. In the 1970s William and his brother became the first men to receive their pe’a outside of Samoa, in the same home pictured here.
Photo by Mark Adams, provided to us by Lyss Betham.
A group of men and their greyhounds outside the Avondale Hotel some time in the late 1800s. Hotel licensee J. R. Stych is third from the left and the greyhounds used to race at Avondale Racecourse. Before it was demo’d, Avondale Hotel was in what is now the SuperValue carpark.
Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections JTD-24A-04792-1. Information via local historian Lisa Truttman (Timespanner).