# 5 Parry's Milkshakes and more …


TROLLEY BUS 1959

Trolley Bus, Railway Pde, Kogarah outside Parry’s Milk Bar, a famous ‘meeting place’ for students of local schools.   Fondly remembered by Clive James in his autobiography Unreliable Memoirs. “There were shops at the Loop [Kogarah station], including Parry’s Milk Bar … Being bought a fruit sundae in Parry’s late at night was pretty well the most luxurious think that could happen to you.”  Any happy memories of Parry’s after school?

7 thoughts on “# 5 Parry's Milkshakes and more …

  1. Yes, I remember the milkshakes from Parry’s milkbar very well. I went to Kogarah Primary School (years 1959-1963) and caught the bus home (down Rocky Pt Road) outside Parry’s milkbar but the treat for myself and my girlfriends (Kim Oliver, Janet McDonald) would be a cold milkshake sitting in one of the cubicles in Parry’s milkbar. There was a newsagency on the corner and Turner Bros where we’d buy socks and hankies etc just a few doors down from Parry’s.

  2. Re Parry’s Milkbar – I dont remember after school but I do remember hot chocolate milkshakes after Girl Guides over the other side of the train line. Then watching that new thing called “TV” in the window of the electrical store at the foot of the station stairs probably around 1957-58.

  3. I am searching for Suzanne Williamson who lived in Kogarah, Australia, in the fifties and sixties. We were penpals! I lived in Bandon, Oregon, USA. I found this website, hoping it might lead me to Suzanne. I’ve not had contact with Suzanne since the late 1960’s, and she may not even remember me. My name was Sharon Ward, and we were about the same age. We wrote letters to one another regularly, as penpals. It would be wonderful to reconnect! I now live in Lake Oswego, OR, USA.

  4. As a student of Sans Souci, Hurstville then Moorefield Girls High School I remember Trolley busses, Parry’s milkbar and the loop but the Loop was at the top of Russell Avenue in Sans Souci where there was Martyns newsagents, the Ice Works, Smalls Produce and a little further along St Andrews Church of England and Sunday School Halls. I still have all my school magazines 63 to 68, badges and a photo book of a trip to Cairns we made with the school. I wish I had known of the reunion. This is a great site.

  5. My maiden name was Kim Oliver and lived in Chapel st Kogarah. Am trying to reconnect to Julie Lee that I went to school with (Kogarah Primary) I used to go to her place and eat watercress from the market garden.

  6. I remember mum would by my sister & I a milkshake every Thursday after helping her with the shopping & I swear the ginger beer had real ginger in it in those days.

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