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Speaker 1: I lost shops.

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Speaker 2: They were such a big part of our lives and

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Speaker 2: now they're gone. Hearn's that was a big part of

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Speaker 2: our life.

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Speaker 3: Irishman Thomas Ahearn opened the first Hearn's store in Hayes

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Speaker 3: Street in May nineteen twenty two.

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Speaker 2: I wasn't there for no do you, how.

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Speaker 4: Very very dare you?

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Speaker 3: He had been working in drapery management. He insisted on

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Speaker 3: a controlling partnership and eventually brought out his partners to

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Speaker 3: own the business outright, and it thrived under Thomas Ahearn didn't.

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Speaker 3: It known for its careful buying and strong presence, and

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Speaker 3: it had shops all over the joint. I did used

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Speaker 3: to go to the one in Garden City, Yes.

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Speaker 2: So did I. And I used to go to the

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Speaker 2: hay Street and I used to go to the one

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Speaker 2: in Clermont too.

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Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, all right.

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Speaker 2: I had an Aharn's card as a kid, because you see,

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Speaker 2: Aharns being local specialized in school uniforms, and schools back

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Speaker 2: then didn't all have from there. And so I had

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Speaker 2: like a little Hearn's car.

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Speaker 3: Was it down in the basement the school sort of uniform.

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Speaker 3: But I seem to have a memory of going down

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Speaker 3: into a basement.

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Speaker 2: Uniform city but not yeah, okay, but I did. But

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Speaker 2: then I just ring mum and her mum, I've lost

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Speaker 2: my socks. Get small socks. Yes, you can go and

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Speaker 2: use your Hearns card that you've got in your little wallet.

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Speaker 3: With all due respect? Was it Hern's the one that

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Speaker 3: was famous for the shop that the girls on the

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Speaker 3: counter being notoriously rude.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, well, I wouldn't have noticed.

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Speaker 3: Do I have to serve you?

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Speaker 5: Really?

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Speaker 2: It wasn't experience?

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Speaker 3: Well, yes, I think, yeah, a little bit.

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Speaker 2: It was a little bit. It was a little bit

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Speaker 2: fancy though. It was a little bit fancy, like if

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Speaker 2: you were looking and look at how timely is it

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Speaker 2: just a couple of days away from Valentine's Day? If

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Speaker 2: you're looking for a Valentine's Day gift. In nineteen eighty eight,

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Speaker 2: Hearns was the place to.

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Speaker 1: Go colorful, be romantic, be scientific with Esday lorders, free

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Speaker 1: gift filled with makeup, fragrance and treatment products including white linen,

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Speaker 1: powerful spray, and skin perfecting cream. It's free with any

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Speaker 1: esday lorder purchase of twenty five dollars or more. Be

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Speaker 1: noticed with a whole new look complements of estay loorder.

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Speaker 2: Available only in the esday loader counter at honest.

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Speaker 3: Yes, if you had to get past the yesday lord

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Speaker 3: now lady, No, but I mean that that continues to

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Speaker 3: this day. They spend this much and we'll give you

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Speaker 3: a bag full of stuff.

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Speaker 2: That we hope you'll come back a buy, you know,

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Speaker 2: for real next time.

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Speaker 3: Yes, exactly, but.

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Speaker 2: Hearns, Yes, a very very big part of WA And

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Speaker 2: as I said, it was the last independent, last family

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Speaker 2: owned department store in Australia until ninety nine.

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Speaker 3: Yes, nineteen ninety nine is when it ended. And I

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Speaker 3: guess it's you know, big competitor Meyer.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it was who gobbled up bones.

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Speaker 3: Who gobbled up bones, bones, bones, And yes, as we said, ultimately,

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Speaker 3: David Jones acquired all five A. Hearn stores for twenty

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Speaker 3: nine million dollars nineteen nineteen nine.

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Speaker 2: Wargain five stores, five.

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Speaker 3: Five stores for twenty nine bucks.

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Speaker 2: That won't even they won't even get you the top

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Speaker 2: apartment in that new building going up in City Beach. No,

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Speaker 2: oh god, thirty nine million.

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Speaker 3: Thomas Ahearn was posthumously recognized as one of the one

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Speaker 3: hundred most influential West Australian business people back in twenty thirteen.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for giving us a Hearns.

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Speaker 2: Yes, your memories of a Hearns? What did you go

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Speaker 2: there for special memories? Were they good or were they

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Speaker 2: like Lisa's at the front desk? Sometimes not so good?

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Speaker 3: I think it was it was mostly the makeup counters

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Speaker 3: where they were a little bit renowned. Well, no, that's

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Speaker 3: a little bit uper tea.

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Speaker 2: And that's why I never had That's why I never

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Speaker 2: had that experience, because I wasn't one for going up

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Speaker 2: to the makeup.

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Speaker 3: Well, you didn't get your Hearns a year esday, Lord,

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Speaker 3: a bag of.

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Speaker 2: No I didn't miss. I went there to shop. Is

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Speaker 2: the last of perths of WA's department stores, Hearns and Lisa.

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Speaker 2: It would appear that some of your memories of the

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Speaker 2: makeup counter Hearns have triggered a few people.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Donna, and the Ann Chip says the women's sales

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Speaker 3: reps at Karen Up were done up like flight attendants

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Speaker 3: and were so rude and obnoxious with the customers.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't just you.

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Speaker 3: I didn't imagine it.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 3: Jillan Bateman, Hello, Hello, Well, what's your memory of the Hearns. Jill.

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Speaker 5: Oh, well, it was a long time ago, so the

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Speaker 5: memory is a bit shaky. But I was a young

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Speaker 5: child and I can remember going shopping with my mum

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Speaker 5: in a Hearns in the Hay Street mall store and

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Speaker 5: walking up those creaky wooden staircase they had there, and

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Speaker 5: being careful not to get hit by other shoppers with

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Speaker 5: their bags. Funny time. Yeah, it was a great store.

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Speaker 2: We got all this stuff from the makeup counter knocking

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Speaker 2: little kids, I'll knock you off this deck. It seems

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Speaker 2: to be something about wa stores and floorboards, because Charlie

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Speaker 2: Carter's was remembered for its wooden floorboards in the supermarkets,

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Speaker 2: and you're remembering the Herns for the creaky wooden staircase, right,

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Speaker 2: they seem to have scrimped on on floors in local stores.

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Speaker 5: They don't have the wooden staircases anymore, No, they do not, the.

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Speaker 3: Right, Thanks Jill, Jill, you thank you all right, Yes,

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Speaker 3: staircase you do.

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Speaker 2: I don't actually specifically remember the wooden staircase.

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Speaker 3: I do, it was like it was quite grand.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I remember the elevator where the you know, the

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Speaker 2: door came across and there'd be someone there to take

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Speaker 2: you to your floor.

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Speaker 3: John what's his name?

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Speaker 2: Yes, dressed nicely haberdasherie on level three.

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Speaker 3: Back to you, sir, it's our memories of a Hearns today.

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Speaker 3: Jackie and Bentley on the text said, my grandmother used

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Speaker 3: to take us to a Hearn's cafeteria as a treat.

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Speaker 3: It was just that little bit fancier than Cole's cafeteria,

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Speaker 3: the Coles cafeteria too. And Julie and these past says

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Speaker 3: Hearns was always the go to, you know, place for

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Speaker 3: wedding presents and other special occasion things. Her her aunt

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Speaker 3: Nellie worked there. Amongst the Waterford crystal and fine china,

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Speaker 3: and the signs that said lovely to look out to

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Speaker 3: life for a hold. If it's broken, consider it sold.

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Speaker 3: And this area do you walk with your hands in

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Speaker 3: your arms off against your side. Julie says Hearns was

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Speaker 3: the last place in Perth to have a lift operator,

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Speaker 3: a kind older man who pressed the buttons and guided

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Speaker 3: everyone to the right place. So how very are you

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Speaker 3: being served?

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Speaker 2: How very and we're done very by gone. We think

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Speaker 2: we have tracked down a relative of the great Thomas

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Speaker 2: Thomas Hearn who started the whole Hearn's story.

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Speaker 3: We're talking about a Hearns today, which was started by

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Speaker 3: Thomas Ahearn back in nineteen was twenty two, and we

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Speaker 3: actually have Thomas Ahearn's great grandson, Tom. I wonder where

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Speaker 3: you got named after her in Freeo.

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Speaker 4: Good morning, Tom, Good morning. Yeah, there's about six Thomas's.

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Speaker 2: I bet it's a family tradition. I'm sure.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, might be.

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Speaker 2: And why wouldn't it be?

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Speaker 4: So yeah, very very unimaginative. So you.

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Speaker 3: Are your what's your experience of being in the Ahearn's family.

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Speaker 3: Are you too young to remember much of it or

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Speaker 3: you're just sort of on the cusp of it all happening.

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Speaker 4: No, No, I remember very well. So, yeah, mama was

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Speaker 4: a Hearn. Obviously my grandfather didn't work in the business.

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Speaker 4: He was a doctor. But his brother John brand the show. Yes,

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Speaker 4: great grandfather. He came out from Cork in Ireland or

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Speaker 4: a ten pound palm ticket. I think the story is

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Speaker 4: he took his mate's ticket. Yeah, yeah, very fine. Memory

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Speaker 4: of the city store and there was a car park

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Speaker 4: in the eighth where the family could park, and there

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Speaker 4: was the old Diggre there who remembered every single cousin

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Speaker 4: or name any part of the car for you had

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Speaker 4: to be for you.

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Speaker 3: I was going to say your Christmas shopping with a

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Speaker 3: car park.

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Speaker 4: Than that, the family got a pretty healthy discount, I believe,

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Speaker 4: so mom would take full of full advantage of that

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Speaker 4: which you could. And it's funny you talk about the

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Speaker 4: roots earlier. And I do remember one incident where the

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Speaker 4: lady was being quite rude to my mum and she

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Speaker 4: pulled out a Hen's card and she's like, oh, anything

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Speaker 4: else I can do.

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Speaker 2: Just give it her the doc you know who I am.

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Speaker 1: I love it.

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Speaker 2: About saying.

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Speaker 4: I don't drop of the card on the table and

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Speaker 4: there you go.

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Speaker 3: Oh that's great, great memories.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Tom.

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Speaker 4: Thanks Tom.

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Speaker 2: Can I just ask you a question?

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Speaker 4: Your job?

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Speaker 2: Are you in retail?

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Speaker 4: No? I work. I'm working the pubs and I'm a musician.

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Speaker 4: So I did get I did get offered when I

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Speaker 4: was a teenager to work. In the dispatched sense of it, I.

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Speaker 2: I'm off to work in the pub better.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Tom.

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Speaker 1: Thanks