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- Title
- Real Lives - Ponsonby Road
- Content partner
- NZ On Screen
- Collection
- NZ On Screen
- Description
This 1988 TVNZ documentary looks at Ponsonby through the eyes of some of its oldest identities. It's a pivotal time in the Auckland suburb's evolution from working class preserve to upmarket retail destination and residential area. Gentrification is taking hold, as older residents move on or are forced out by rising property prices. But there are still traces of the old Ponsonby to be seen in the fabled Gluepot tavern, op shops, drop-in centres and a dizzying array of eateries — and there are...
- Format
- Video
- Date created
- 1988
- URL
- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/real-lives-ponsonby-road-1988
- Related subjects
- auckland / suburb / change / development / gentrification / community / shopping / politics / labour party / church / religion / music / fashion / auckland girls grammar / illona rodgers / bhana / jools topp / topp twin / mahinarangi tocker / mahinārangi tocker / mahinaarangi tocker / prego / op-shop / michael joseph savage / mick savage / ivan's restaurant / eighties / 80s / 1980s / hamburger heaven / bakehaus / bhana brothers / ponsonby care centre / newton police station / dennis gunn / postmaster / augustus braithwaite / ponsonby post office / shangri la / ponsonby village / orsinis / allendale house / auckland unitarian church / all saints church ponsonby / bishop selwyn / j weir and company / funeral directors
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