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Information and photos courtesy of the Redland City Council Local History Library.
In our history series:
1948 Banks transport depot. Site now occupied by bakery at entrance to Cleveland Plaza arcade in Bloomfield St, Cleveland
Vehicles used by Banks Transport company. Edna Banks beside the truck at Wellington Point in late 1920s
Banks Transport, loaded with empty fuel drums, headed for Brisbane before the days of fuel tankers at leveland, taken from 17 Homer St in heavy rain in 1959
The original Capalaba Drive In at Capalaba.
TODAY: Cleveland Plaza in Bloomfield Street occupies the spot where Banks Transport depot was.
The original Capalaba Drive In at Capalaba which opened in 1955.
Capalaba Corner . where Old Cleveland Road, Mount Cotton Road, and Redland Bay Road.
This is what the Capalaba area looks like when Capalaba Shopping Centre opened in 1981.
The first stage of Capalaba Park Shopping Centre now where the Capalaba Drive once was.
Capalaba Park Shopping Centre now where the Capalaba Drive once was. Photo courtesy of Capalaba Park Shopping Centre.
Capalaba Park Shopping Centre looking towards John Fredericks Park. Photo courtesy of Capalaba Park Shopping Centre
In 1936 a new two-storey hotel was built on the site of the old Capalaba Hotel.
The current Capalaba Tavern on Old Cleveland Road just opposite where Redland Bay Road and Mount Cotton Road intersect with it. The original Capalaba Hotel was popular with Sunday drivers, and many residents, including around Capalaba, opened roadside stalls selling home-grown fruit, vegetables and sometimes honey. In 1973 the Capalaba Tavern opened. It is currently being renovated.
The original hotel was built in 1877. This photo was taken around 1910. Photo: Local History library, Redland City Council.
How the Capalaba Hotel looked in the 1920s. Photo: Local History library, Redland City Council.
Mr Spohr looked very smart in 1945 while making his bread deliveries
![Bird’s corner store, on the corner of Redland Bay Road and Colburn Avenue, Victoria Point - Joe Bird lying down [front right] with the Echardt boys](/images/transform/v1/resize/frm/storypad-Q3FbDHvXMv_PRUS8qHIjZTU_BkY%3D/245f97c9-ca4e-4f34-ba8e-e4e88dc87742.jpg/w576_h298_fmax.webp "Bird’s corner store, on the corner of Redland Bay Road and Colburn Avenue, Victoria Point - Joe Bird lying down [front right] with the Echardt boys")
Bird’s corner store, on the corner of Redland Bay Road and Colburn Avenue, Victoria Point - Joe Bird lying down [front right] with the Echardt boys
The butcher may have had eggs in the basket on top of his cart, as well as meat inside
Despot’s store, now Westpac corner in Cleveland
Dolly Jarvis’ shop in Redland Bay Rd at Capalaba
What Redlanders couldn’t grow they bought, and they shopped at places like Kratzmann’s Store in Wellington Pt (it only recently burnt down)
In 1961 this was a typical shop in the Redlands – Herman Holzapfel sold farming and produce supplies from the Capalaba produce store.
The milkman delivered fresh milk each day – this dairy operated from Fernbourne House in Wellington Point from the late 1920s until the 1960s.
Fashions from the past
