Hi Gadge, yes it was Gerald Maggs P/L that type of store have all gone now, maybe Modac in the city is hanging on still, haven't been there for a few years and Mrs Modac died a couple of years ago, she was in her 90's and still worked in the shop every day. I said to her maybe 10 years ago that when we were teenagers and went to the shop she scared us with her abrupt attitude, but she didn't scare me anymore. She laughed it off. They had no computer or even a half modern cash register and she had a machine with a big roll of tape on it that was their adding machine receipt print off. I went in there with my brother from Sydney around the same time and when we walked out he said he thought the motor sitting on the end of the counter was the one sitting there the last time he went in and that was at least 20 years ago.. The thing is with Modac, they owned the building and several around it in the middle of Elizabeth St worth multi millions of dollars and I don't think they had a calculator in the shop, just the adding machine.
Yes Arkana was also a good store but sadly this type of store can no longer survive in the modern world
