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"I remember this store well. When Stockland purchased the centre and redeveloped it I remember they did some preliminary work.

The first stages I recall were the closure of the Oak Bar which had a frontage between Woolworths and BigW. It was closed and demolished as was the Parcel Pickup to make way for what would become the “New Format” BigW store. When the Oak Bar closed people were directed instead to this take away outlet for their milkshakes until it too was scheduled for closure. It had a narrow exit corridor next to it which would become the emergency exit, the store itself being redeveloped as I understood it, into what is now the toilets. This was preliminary work because the old toilets were to be closed and demolished to make way for what would become “The New Woolworths.” I remember my terrible disappointment as a kid at the loss of my milkshakes and nut sundaes at the Oak, and my milkshakes while playing "Galaga” on the sit down arcade table, another feature which defined the era. Fortunately this atmosphere is still preserved at Freemans Waterhole. This time represented the demise of the shopping paper bags and wooden grocery frames which proceeded conveyers. The centre soon became very cluttered and difficult to park in and we shifted then to Shoeys. I well remember the excitement of the opening of “the new part” when the new Woolies and BigW opened and when the old Woolworths was transformed into a thoroughfare and shops, at that time with high roof and and original Woolworths fixtures and no lowered ceiling. It was Christmas time and the height was used to house a particularly high Christmas display, something no centres bother with nowadays.

All of that came back looking at one shop. They had good old style cafeteria food.

I don’t know that you’d want to comment that this is where you go to toilet, but nonetheless some background you might appreciate. Kids of the era were horribly disappointed that they were “taking the park.” A strip of the old park was owned by the centre and was reclaimed, upon which is none other than about half of the KFC building and the current roadway."

- Stephanie Curry