Welcome to Auckland’s original ‘Municipal Destructor’. Everyone, like me, know it as Victoria Park Market – a super popular open air market through the 80's to 2000's – a great place to buy your crystals and tie-dies etc! I've always known that it was originally the city rubbish dump – when the city was waaaay smaller). There is more to the story, of course. It was originally created in reaction to a bubonic plague scare in Sydney. For sanitary reasons it was built to burn Auckland’s rubbish and waste while using the heat generated to provide electricity to power the city. Sounds pretty clever eh, and I guess we were plague free. However, we must have been breathing some seriously toxic smoke fumes! That 38 metre tall chimney must have helped a little but don't forget all the horse manure and night carts, they were definitely smellier times. The municipal destructor is now a gentrified place that's home to restaurants and businesses, like the superb Milenta restau...
Next door to T. Whites bikes on Symonds Street. The original store caters to the fixie and BMX crowd but this one to keeping every bikes on the road. The store also includes a selection of new and recreated townie bikes, a great selection of old frames and parts too, like the mid 90's XT shifter set I picked up recently as well as a sweet new Soma Fabrications 'Clarence' bar. My kind of bikeshop.
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