Ray White Real Estate/Car Wash – Bankstown, NSW
Ray White, Bankstown. It looks a little…unusual, doesn’t it? Like it could have been a Pizza Hut, or some other kind of fast food restaurant? Well, you’re right. There IS something strange about this Ray White…
It’s the only real estate agent with a car wash and a lube bay.
Pizza Hut/Olsens Funerals – Revesby, NSW
Continuing in the series of Pizza Hut restaurants around Sydney, today we find Revesby’s former Pizza Hut restaurant converted into an Olsens funeral home. Pizza Hut would have closed around 1999, so this has been there for awhile. The roof is starting to lose its green, with the former red paint clearly visible from the street. So too the door handle:
As we’ll soon discover as we continue exploring the repurposing of old Pizza Huts, this one is up there with the strangest. I wonder if they kept the oven?
Tri-Star Video/Titanic Cafe – Bankstown, NSW
Tri-Star Video showcased their entertainment at this location until approximately 1995. It has since become the Titanic Cafe. This is apparently Tri-Star’s second location – from at least 1989 until 1993 they were on the opposite corner of West Terrace. In a way they were pioneers – jumping ship on the video shop business long before it was a necessity.
Newsagent/residential – St Peters, NSW
What’s clear is that this now-residential address on Princes Highway at St Peters was once a newsagent. What isn’t clear (but will be shortly) is that in 1950, this newagent sold the first-prize winning lotto ticket for Lottery No. 2154.
Image from Barrier Miner, 11 Oct 1950.
Past/Lives of the Near Future 
