The gold-etched window art at 171 Onehunga Mall marks the former shop of local legend Gordon Sai Louie, whose family operated the fruit shop on the site from the 1940s until 1988. From 1988 until 2018 the building housed the Legendary Hard To Find But Worth The Effort Second-Hand Bookshop, which now operates from two locations, one in Newton and one in Dunedin. The Onehunga Mall building is currently still vacant, and it would be wonderful if the owner undertook long-deferred maintenance and preserved this historic shop for future customers.
See also:
Blog: Public transport comes to Onehunga, 10 February 2015
Blog: Avondale to Onehunga tramlink, 31 October 2010
Blog: From sea to shining sea, 20 July 2009
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