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Description

This colour photograph is of the corner of Church Street East and The Square. The large three-storey building in the centre of the photograph is the PDC building. This building was constructed 1929-1930. In 1956 the PDC was taken over by the Manawatu Co-Operative Society and renamed the Premier Department Store - the branding must have changed soon after this photograph was taken. In 1988 the company went into receivership and this building was demolished in 1990. It is now the site of the Plaza shopping mall. The white marble statue in the centre of the photograph is the Statue of Te Awe Awe, which still stands in the same location today [2016].

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Public Photograph Collection Sq 398
Date
1956
Digitisation ID
2014P_Sq398_008975
Held In
Coolstore

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Taxonomy

Tags
club hotel,
foote brothers,
maple,
oegdens,
the square,
Community Tags
te awe awe statue,

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