THE COLOUR PATCH
“Who can forget the Colour Patch? You could also get a lovely hot milkshake at Harry and George’s. Woiwood’s next door did a nice cheese roll. Over the road was a Chinese cafe for a while. 1959?”
“The Colour Patch, every Sat night after going to the Theatre Royal my beloved and I would go there and have a cheeseburger and a Schweppes Orange soft drink!”
“I still remember my mum buying what was probably her first cappuccino at Harry ‘n George’s Cafe (now Dot’s) in Barker Street.”
“Hot milkshakes were a Winter delicacy. Icecream whizzed around in hot milk with lashings of caramel flavour. “
“Hot milkshakes were a thing to have in the late 50’s. Especially on a cold Castlemaine winter’s night. I remember my dad buying them on the way home after carpet bowls at the town hall.”
“Nana and Pop would go to the Colour Patch every week”
After dances at St Mary’s hall, we’d go to the Colour Patch for food – it was open until late. Then we’d watch the cars drag race down Barker St.
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“We’d skip school and go to the Austral and play Daytona.”
“When I was pregnant with my first child, in 1986, I’d drive 10 k’s into town for those chips! Never really a fish and chips kind of girl but needs must! In that altered sense, they were amazing! Haven’t had them since!”
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