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Queen Street, south side; No. 98*; Harcourts Real Estate
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PhotographerDon McLeod
Description* Street number 98 has been allocated to keep pictures in street order.
Foreground objects; tyre-display racks
Began as a Sava-Dollar supermarket around 1970.
It had been a health centre; then in July 1982 the building was due to reopen as the city's second electronic-games parlour; a proposed earlier venue at 13 Main Street's 'south' end had raised many objections. Before it opened, it advertised darts, table tennis, pool, video games and a sauna which would be coming soon.
It was offered to te YMCA as a gymnasium in August 1981, after the Army closed the Trentham facilities they had beeen using. It was run by the YMCA from June 1983 (the official opening by the mayor was on August 12) until it closed just before Easter 1992; Wellington YMCA had gone into receivership. Instructors Debbie Houston and Carolyn Wahapa set up their 'No Limits Aerobics and Fitness Centre in space formerly used by the YMCA in this and the adjacent King Street building. They closed in June 1996.
The corner building was taken over by the Red Cross as an opportunity shop, training centre, and emergency response unit in March 1998, and later by Harcourts Real Estate.Date Taken5th February 2016
Description* Street number 98 has been allocated to keep pictures in street order.Foreground objects; tyre-display racks
Began as a Sava-Dollar supermarket around 1970.
It had been a health centre; then in July 1982 the building was due to reopen as the city's second electronic-games parlour; a proposed earlier venue at 13 Main Street's 'south' end had raised many objections. Before it opened, it advertised darts, table tennis, pool, video games and a sauna which would be coming soon.
It was offered to te YMCA as a gymnasium in August 1981, after the Army closed the Trentham facilities they had beeen using. It was run by the YMCA from June 1983 (the official opening by the mayor was on August 12) until it closed just before Easter 1992; Wellington YMCA had gone into receivership. Instructors Debbie Houston and Carolyn Wahapa set up their 'No Limits Aerobics and Fitness Centre in space formerly used by the YMCA in this and the adjacent King Street building. They closed in June 1996.
The corner building was taken over by the Red Cross as an opportunity shop, training centre, and emergency response unit in March 1998, and later by Harcourts Real Estate.
Date Taken5th February 2016Part of
CollectionStreetscapes 2016
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