Introduction

Imagine a time when life was so certain that when you built a building for your business you were confident enough in the future that you put the name of the business into the very fabric of the building.

This is not a time of mergers and takeovers of globalisation and restructure, this is when life was more local and certain.

There are a number of such buildings around and so this blog is an attempt to record some of them and more importantly a bit of the history of the business which by and large are no longer with us.

If you know something about any of these business please add a comment. You can do this without having to sign up for anything and can be anonomous if you prefer.



Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Otago Daily Times Store



This is 47 Cresswell Street

The building is a lot larger that then picture suggests but I liked this photo.

The Evening Star Store (the ex Massey-Harris Store in the last entry) is across the road form this building as it runs from Willis St through to Cresswell Street. Apart from both of these companies being Newspapers the other connection is that they are now both owned by Allied Press and while the Evening Star has been reduced to a twice weekly community give away newspaper the Otago Daily Times is still going strong as a daily paper.
A short history of the newspaper is to be found on their web site here  http://www.alliedpress.co.nz/history.php

These stores were (and probably still are) for storing bulk newsprint which as a large and heavy commodity was likely shipped in, hence the location handy to the wharfs. I think these days it arrives by rail.
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