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Speaker 1: I lost shops.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're searching out the lost shops that we used

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Speaker 2: to go to that were a big part of our

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Speaker 1: We're goings to Bowen's.

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Speaker 3: We're going to Bonenes, we are.

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Speaker 2: Indeed, it's one of the one of the great department

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Speaker 2: stores that was locally owned.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yes.

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Speaker 4: Known as the People's Store, Bowen's held a special place

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Speaker 4: in the history of the state and in the hearts

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Speaker 4: of many West Australians from its opening in eighteen ninety

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Speaker 4: five until nineteen eighty six, when the doors closed for

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd only just got my PBS cash card by then,

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Speaker 2: and yeah it's I'd no sooner had the chance to

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Speaker 2: go in and spend with it, and they closed it down.

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Speaker 4: So in six Harry and Benjamin Bowen purchased the site

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Speaker 4: in Wellington Street in Perth, paying forty two pounds for

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Speaker 4: each foot of frontage, a bargain at a time when

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Speaker 4: Wellington Street was little more than a swamp. Bowen Brothers

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Speaker 4: opened opposite the Perth Railway station on the November the

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Speaker 4: seventh in nineteen eighteen ninety five. My mouse didn't even

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Speaker 4: want to say eighteen ninety five, and then when Benjamin

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Speaker 4: Bowen died in nineteen oh one, Harry became the sole proprietor.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and then took it to big, big things, although

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Speaker 2: he wasn't around to really cash in on it when

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Speaker 2: I think was Meyer who obviously bought it, didn't they? Yes, Yes,

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Speaker 2: that's where the Meyer Store stands now. But gee, some

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Speaker 2: of the stuff you could buy.

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Speaker 5: Here are some.

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Speaker 6: Examples of the savings this week from their August Home

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Speaker 6: Savings catalog. Up to fifty percent of our office quality glassware,

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Speaker 6: or save twenty five percent on Kinnock stain, Let's deal cookware.

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Speaker 6: Saved now on lounge Makers, three piece Sweet, seven piece

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Speaker 6: dining suites, wallunp and much more. Remember it's one stop

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Speaker 6: for quality and service at Bone.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Bon's big part of the WA history. And sadly, well,

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Speaker 2: what's been gone now for forty years this year? I

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Speaker 2: know forty years this year. Have been around for a

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Speaker 2: long time, Well, that's been around a long time, but

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Speaker 2: it gobbled up the local the local store, which was Bones.

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Speaker 2: What are your memories of Bones? I mean I just

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Speaker 2: obviously I remember mostly going there as a kid. I

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Speaker 2: never actually tended to buy stuff myself there and just

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Speaker 2: get dragged along by mum.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to.

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Speaker 4: Remember what the bag looked like, because you know, we

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Speaker 4: all know what the David Jones Ones looks like.

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Speaker 3: I think you remember Hearn's.

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Speaker 1: Was it red?

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Speaker 3: I think it was red and white.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess it was probably similar to my because

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Speaker 4: that's what sort of took us place.

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Speaker 3: But anyway, that's neither here nor there.

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Speaker 4: We are taking your memories on Bones, Barry and ellen Brook.

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Speaker 1: Hello Barry, Hey, going guys, good?

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Speaker 3: What do you remember?

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Speaker 8: The old Bones in Morley was the favorite hangout? Yes,

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Speaker 9: We used to wag.

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Speaker 8: School, we duck over there and Bones always had the

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Speaker 8: latest Atari or whatever the latest game was. Yeah, he

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Speaker 8: could actually play it, so we'd all be lined up

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Speaker 8: I can't remember the exactly I grew up in Dinalla,

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Speaker 8: as kids are always interested a what's his smoke? So

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Speaker 3: Moment to school.

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Speaker 2: I'm just going to say, now, all of a sudden

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Speaker 9: To exactly mate. It was tragic, it was tragic. It

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Speaker 8: And it was sad, but it was Yeah, it was

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Speaker 9: You know, growing up all the latest scenes.

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Speaker 4: You can't vouch for the fact. You can't underestimate the

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Speaker 2: I know, those games so basic by today's statium.

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Speaker 3: But we loved them.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Barry, Thank you, Barry.

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Speaker 2: Sad day that bones burnt down in Morley and sad

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Speaker 4: Sue in Wembley on text says, I remember back in

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Speaker 4: the sixties and seventies, my two aunties were seamstress slash

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Speaker 4: designers for the well to do Ladies about town at

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Speaker 4: Boone's department store. They won Gown of the Year in

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Speaker 4: nineteen sixty six which was televised.

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Speaker 3: On Channel seven.

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Speaker 4: So that reminds me of that great movie Ladies in Black,

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Speaker 4: which I reckon. The TV series they made of it

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Speaker 3: But if you haven't seen that, so you should check

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Speaker 2: Back in the days when there was a specialty person

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Speaker 2: for everything you went into the department store, there were departments, exactly,

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Speaker 2: specialty departments. Bruce is on the line from Rivets and

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Speaker 2: Bruce's Memories of Bonds Mite.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, Hi, highly Hi. Nineteen eighty four, February. I took

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Speaker 9: my girlfriend on my first date there, my first date,

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Speaker 9: and I put on the tie, shine my shoes. We

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Speaker 9: went upstairs. I had some flowers delivered to the restaurant

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Speaker 9: on the top floor. And years later, a few years later,

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Speaker 9: we're married. We're still married thirty seven years in one month.

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Speaker 1: Ow thanks to bones. And that's right, because it used

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Speaker 9: Yeah, stairs restaurant beautiful that there'd be booths and all

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you needed your privacy, I did well.

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Speaker 3: Congratulations Bruce. That's a gorgeous story.

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Speaker 2: And then Bruce, after the restaurant, did she drag you

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Speaker 9: I think we did have a wonder Oh this should

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Speaker 9: be nice. I'd like, what do you think of it?

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Speaker 2: That's fantastic, A great memory. Text you from Annie. I Mindari.

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Speaker 2: Her great aunt was an institution there as an anoxer consultant,

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Speaker 2: which is a makeup brand YEP on the counter at Bones,

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Speaker 2: because as we were talking about before, there were people

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Speaker 3: A special give you a little spray of past And she.

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Speaker 3: Great aunt Rose.

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Speaker 2: April nineteen eighty six.

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Speaker 3: She was an institution.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Nicole, you worked at Bones as well.

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Speaker 3: Hello Nicole, Oh.

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Speaker 10: Good morning guys. How are you good?

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Speaker 3: So what did you do?

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Speaker 10: So? My first job was as the office junior in Bones, Geralton,

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Speaker 10: and I thought I was.

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Speaker 3: Just did, Yes, I bet you did.

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Speaker 4: What were the what were the perks of being an

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Speaker 10: Well, I got to do all the jobs that you know,

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Speaker 10: other people didn't want to do so, so I loved it.

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Speaker 10: I loved it because I got to run all over

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Speaker 10: my friends.

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Speaker 3: All right, So on.

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Speaker 10: A Friday evening I would. I was only seventeen, but

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Speaker 10: they thought nothing of sending me down to the bottle

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Speaker 10: then I'd have to make up arid pladder Friday drinks. Yeah,

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Speaker 10: for the store manager and the management team well Friday, No,

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Speaker 10: they just didn't muck around. So I was under the

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Speaker 10: formidable eye of missus Tick, now.

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Speaker 1: Very famous in ger.

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Speaker 10: And she was really fierce. But in her spare time

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Speaker 3: You want a combination ic nudists with power.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, Well there's there's an interesting memory of

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Speaker 2: bones right there.

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Speaker 10: Very good time.

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Speaker 3: That's great.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for thank you, Nicole.

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Speaker 3: Reminiscing with the resident community theater nudists.

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Speaker 2: Every town on every department store had one Clono.

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Speaker 4: Sharon in Kingsley memories of morning morning.

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Speaker 5: When I was finally allowed to go into the city.

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Speaker 5: We used to live and grew up in your kin

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Speaker 5: to the donuts, the Hot.

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Speaker 3: Donuts, with a lot of times about their donuts.

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Speaker 10: Gosh, they were the best.

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Speaker 5: And then we'd get our little bag of donuts and

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was just the highlight of the day.

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Speaker 4: Now were these You're just your classic Royal show style

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Speaker 4: ring cinnamon donuts.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I don't think you can bet that.

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Speaker 1: You can't be.

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Speaker 3: You can keep your crispy creams.

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Speaker 2: And the smell and the smell would walk out onto

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Speaker 5: Smell like donuts.

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Speaker 11: That was just it was a draw cut.

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Speaker 1: They weren't stupid.

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Speaker 2: They were drawing you in to get your dress by

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Speaker 2: getting you with the donuts.

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Speaker 10: Absolutely, it was right at that front door.

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Speaker 3: No, yeah, yeah, they weren't. Really.

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Speaker 1: They knew what they were doing.

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Speaker 3: Cinema donuts. I know we all do.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Sharon, Sharon, you.

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Speaker 2: Too, seees big part of people's life.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely.

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Speaker 4: We've had lots of comments about the donuts on the

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Speaker 4: text line, people just saying hot cinnamon donuts, hot donuts, nothing.

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Speaker 2: Else, especially for those that were kids at the time.

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Speaker 2: That was what drew you in the door to go

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Speaker 2: and spend some time getting dragged around by mum.

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Speaker 4: Bones cool memory unlocked listen. Jun Dana remembers their brother

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Speaker 4: getting lost in Bowen's. They were down from Calgarolia walking

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Speaker 1: Found in the Toy department.

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Speaker 4: Run of West Australia's most famous department store, Shoppers, the

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Speaker 4: Great Late Aileen Bond.

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Speaker 9: History, wasn't it.

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 9: I love those That was our life, wasn't it?

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Speaker 3: The shopping Burns and Hearns and everybody went to the city,

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Speaker 3: went to town. We went to town, all right. That

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Speaker 4: Perth, Maurice and bragger up. What is your memory of Bowen's.

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Speaker 12: I worked in the hardware department in the main store.

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Speaker 3: In there, they had a department for everything.

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Speaker 12: We're in the basement to wear departments. And then they

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Speaker 12: closed the saddlery down and we were moved out to

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Speaker 4: Ah wow, because I don't I don't think.

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Speaker 4: I might not have gone down to the basement, but

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Speaker 4: I don't think department stores have hardware sections.

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Speaker 3: I mean you wouldn't they do.

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Speaker 11: We had paint, but I mean, now, now.

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Speaker 3: No wonder that'd be hard for them to compete with Bunning.

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Speaker 1: That's a fruitless exercise.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, others have tried and failed. Oh Maurice, great memories.

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Speaker 1: Thanks, thank you. Remember their cash, thet cash that in

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Speaker 1: the donuts, the smell wapping out onto the.

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Speaker 4: Because Maurice would have been up during her lunch break

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Speaker 4: for a couple of just a handful of cashews. And

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Speaker 4: also the sort of the original pick and mix of

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Speaker 4: chocolates where they were all those different tubs.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, food is delight absolutely.

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Speaker 3: And a lot of people are mentioning the hot.

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Speaker 1: Cashes, the donuts of the it's.

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Speaker 4: Donuts versus cashews at donuts for me, and the pick

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Speaker 4: and mixed chocolates would have been hot cashews all the

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Speaker 4: way for me. Better than a donut. Oh yeah, in

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Speaker 4: my humble nutting opinion, Sue. And as mister said, my

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Speaker 4: uncle Clay was the house carpenter at Bowen's in the

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Speaker 4: Boones Cafeteria for bangers and mash and green peas.

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Speaker 1: They had lift operators back then.

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Speaker 3: Oh, they were just things haberdasherie, Aberdashian. It was like,

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Speaker 1: They also, but then they sort of caught.

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Speaker 2: Up with the times, so you know, they were very progressive.

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Speaker 2: They got into the whole store card credit card business.

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Speaker 2: Donna from Yen Chip said on the text line never

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Speaker 2: give a seventeen year old at Bones credit card. That's

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Speaker 2: the lesson she learned because she.

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Speaker 1: Spent and spent and spent. But Donald, did you get

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Speaker 1: the sab? Did you get the sab? We're welcoming on

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Speaker 1: the line.

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Speaker 2: Perhaps the most famous Bones employee, original personality and host

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Speaker 2: of a local morning TV show here in Pert Good Morning,

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Speaker 2: and I'm sure there were probably some Bones segments on

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Speaker 2: that show.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely speaking of a good morning of Perth A Jenny Seaton,

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Speaker 4: I'm having an I'm we're not worthy moment here. A

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Speaker 4: TV and radio presenter, the first Lady of Perth Radio,

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Speaker 4: Jenny Season, is with us.

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Speaker 3: Good morning morning.

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Speaker 11: Jenny, Lisa and Russell. Thank you so much. Could we

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Speaker 11: get some of your younger listeners joining us here at Curtion.

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Speaker 2: DEMI I think, well, well you can't come on here

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Speaker 2: start pilfering our listeners now it's the Spirits no risk,

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Speaker 2: all right, Look, I'll tell you what you can listen

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Speaker 2: to Jenny, but nobody else.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, well allow it.

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Speaker 4: Now you Saturday working at Bones when you were seventeen.

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Speaker 3: What did you do there?

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Speaker 10: Oh?

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Speaker 11: Look, memories of Bones to me have stayed with me

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Speaker 11: for decades, to be honest, but I was auditioned to

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Speaker 11: work out at the public address office every day. Now,

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Speaker 11: this was transmitted all over this, all over the four

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Speaker 11: studio with real to real tapes and yeah, that sort

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Speaker 11: of thing. And are they thirty in the morning. We

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Speaker 11: would when the doors would open, I would over all

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Speaker 11: the stores say good morning shoppers, and welcome to Bones.

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Speaker 3: Oh gosh, you were the voice of Bones. Good morning shoppers.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, good morning shoppers. And of course it was you know,

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Speaker 11: obviously I've had a lot of callers, which is just

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Speaker 11: lovely because it's great to remember back at the time

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Speaker 11: when going into the city, of course, was the big

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Speaker 3: We would go on the train and it was a big,

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Speaker 11: Yes, it was a big outing because you didn't have

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Speaker 11: the suburban shopping centers obviously, and a lot of people

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Speaker 11: used to come in just to go to the cafeteria

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Speaker 11: and have pie chips and gravy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, as we've had a lot of people reminiscing about

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Speaker 4: the hot cashews and the doughnuts this.

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Speaker 3: Morning as well.

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Speaker 10: Huge.

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Speaker 11: Do you know how clever that marketing was? Is a

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Speaker 11: smell as you walk past the store. It got you

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Speaker 11: throughout the year with fashion parades in every department. I

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Speaker 11: told you what the lingerie praads used to get the

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Speaker 11: bloats coming through a bunch of time, that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: With you, I'm just looking for the missus.

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Speaker 4: How much of your pay ended up being spent within

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Speaker 4: the walls?

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Speaker 1: How much? How much after you got your pay, how

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Speaker 1: much less the store with you?

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Speaker 11: Look honestly the temptation to have the food because the

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Speaker 11: smells were going through all the store all the time.

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Speaker 11: But I would say when Frank Bowen had it, you

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Speaker 11: know the history of the story. It was us in

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Speaker 11: eighteen ninety five, Yeah, with Harry Bowen and another one

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Speaker 11: another Bowen. I didn't know Benjamin Bond, but anyway, their

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Speaker 11: marketing skills were brilliant to be able to get people

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Speaker 11: in the store with entertainment, the fashion Hall became at

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Speaker 11: like a Disneyman at Christmas time, with the train going

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Speaker 11: winter and spring summer international models would come across. It

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Speaker 3: It was huge, you know.

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Speaker 4: In twenty twenty two, the three ton vintage department store

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Speaker 4: columns was stolen from a property out.

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Speaker 3: In Helleda Valley.

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Speaker 4: These were forty one by six meter tall cast iron

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Speaker 4: columns made in nineteen twelve foorth half a million dollars.

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Speaker 4: They were pinched and I don't think they've ever been recovered.

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Speaker 11: I can remember renovating a home and using some columns.

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Speaker 1: I just do you know where they are, Jenny, because

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Speaker 1: we need to go this case.

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Speaker 11: First sold the property. I've got to tell you the

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Speaker 11: other big department stores were brilliant at that time too.

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Speaker 11: It was a real outing. But I remember my mom's saying,

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Speaker 11: I think I must have been at thirteen twelve or thirteen.

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Speaker 11: I was a late bloomer. She said, you need a

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Speaker 11: But she took me to David Jones, and that's why

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Speaker 11: they measured you up to your first trainer.

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Speaker 1: Bra the service back then, real service.

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Speaker 3: Try absolutely.

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Speaker 4: Jenny has been lovely to reminisce about Bowen's with you

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Speaker 4: this morning.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 11: Great pleasure and we really miss those days. There's no

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Speaker 11: two ways about it. Yes, thank you so much, Thank

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Speaker 11: you very much, Jenny,