Somers. Fire at the Palm Beach Store in Alexandra Avenue near the present Yacht Club location.
Somers. Fire at the Palm Beach Store in Alexandra Avenue near the present Yacht Club location.
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PHOTOGRAPHERRod Nuske, photographer for Westernport News in the 1960s and 1970s.
COLLECTIONBalnarring and District Historical Society
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Fire at the Palm Beach Store in Alexandra Avenue near the present Yacht Club location.
The Store building was run as a cafe called ‘The Driftaway’ or ‘Drift Inn’. It had fish nets hung on its walls and rush matting on the floor.
Thieves broke in and dropped a candle which set light to the matting. The dog woke up the residents Geoff and Judy Reynolds and mother Ida Reynolds. They escaped the fire but the store had to be demolished.
Later, a remaining shed on the site was turned into ‘Patsy’s Pantry’ by Conrad Wood. Conrad and his wife Patsy sold sweets and ice cream from there. Later Conrad’s father Frank took this role.
Two fire trucks parked close to a weatherboard building with product logos ‘’Kodak”, Cottees’ and ‘Coka Cola’ around the door. Two trucks and a Land Rover parked in the foregrouno date. One man leaning on a truck, another sitting inside a truck and two women near the building talking to each other.
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