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.

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Friday, September 10, 2010

Pagonis

This is 191 Princes Street

With an uncommon name like Pagonis you would think it would be easy to track something down on this but alas no to date all I know is that the full name of the firm was A & G Pagonis Limited and the company later changed its name to Waldorf Milk Bar Limited.

So I am left to assume it was a Milk Bar at some stage.

I did find a Wellington based D Pagonis who was moving his Black and White Milk bar from Willis to Cuba Street. With such an uncommon name (in NZ) you would have to suspect that these folk were related and it seems involved in the family business of Milk Bars.

As the concept of a Milk Bar has now disappeared into history, it was pretty much what it says and in todays terms is a cafe

This picture paints a thousand words
'The Golden Gate Milk Bar', URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/golden-gate-milk-bar, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 6-Jul-2009
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  1. BlueJanuary 24, 2021 at 6:52 PM

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