Not only the prices Ken but check out the counter and surrounds mate. WOW! I thought the Fonze was going to enter from stage left.

Coles in the good old days had a Cafeteria as well, just as good too.

I miss the old Woolworth's and Coles stores.

I'm reliably told by my mother (91yo), in Newcastle Cafeterias were at Coles, David Jones and The Store. I remember going to the Coles one many times.

Those were the days, a new Matchbox or Dinky toy & a pie with sauce with Mum.

We used to like the Myer cafeteria occasionally as a treat, it was a bit upmarket for us, but you could go back for seconds.

The Travelling Dillberries wrote:

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I'm reliably told by my mother (91yo), in Newcastle Cafeterias were at Coles, David Jones and The Store. I remember going to the Coles one many times.

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Besides Coles,Woolworths, DJs and The Store Newcastle's Hunter Street also had cafeterias in Wynns & Waltons Department Stores which we also went to back in the 50/60s. It was part of the big day out to catch a double decker bus the 25kms into town with our parents.. Thanks BG for the reminder of a different era...no Maccas, KFC or shopping malls around in those days.

 

That photo in the OP has to be late 60s or early 70s as the prices are in decimal currency.

Cheers

BB

 

-- Edited by The Belmont Bear on Friday 28th of December 2018 06:57:32 AM

rockylizard wrote:

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Gday...

Yeah ... the world sure woz a different place before the KFCs and Macca's arrived.

I used to love the cafe at Spencer Street Railway Station back in the 60s, 70s and early 80s. All gone when they upgraded the place to Southern Cross station.  

BB, I reckon the pic of Woolies food counter is from the good ole Yew Ess of Aye and it is of an early era -

https://www.historicunioncounty.com/article/woolworths-lunch-counter

Cheers - John

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 Yeah John having a closer look at the photo you are probably right it does like something from the US the style even looks a bit Art Deco - I just assumed it was a photo of a woolies cafateria as that was what the topic was about.

Cheers

BB 

-- Edited by The Belmont Bear on Friday 28th of December 2018 09:41:32 AM

In the late 1950s a pie/pastie with sauce was 1 shilling (later to be 10c). It had been 10 pence and I'd get 2 pence worth of liquorice squares. I was given a shilling some days for lunch. The prices in the menu are a similar amount. 1 shilling in 1955 equates to $1.68 these days.

BG you made me curious so I did a search on Google images for that photo it is actually from a Woolworths store in the US taken back in the 40s or 50s hence the Art Deco appearance. When you look at cafeterias, cafes, milk bars  etc. all around Australia from the 50s and 60s we really copied the American style.

Cheers

BB