Where did IHers go shopping?

Brunswick’s Barkly Square has long been a popular shopping destination. But what were the shopping options for IHers in the 1960s and 1970s? In 1961, the first Selamat Datang recommended a group of shops on Royal Parade near ‘Naughtons’: a newsagent, grocer, chemist, and barber. Closer to IH there was ‘The Dugout’, a food shop which boasted ‘the best of everything’. Just a little further away were the Carlton Milk Bar for ‘cheese, chocolates and food from all over the world’ and King and Godfree for ‘wines & spirits, beer & liquors’. All of these shops advertised in Satadal (some examples of their advertisements are below).

In the early 1970s, IH got its very own shop with the opening of ‘Ye Olde Shoppe’ in the basement of the Scheps building. Photographs show some of the products on offer: toothpaste, washing powder, biscuits, chocolate, soft drinks, ‘Milo’, noodles, tinned food, stationery, and bananas (1c each).