Club Troppo is back – for one night only – Saturday May 6th at the Entertainment Grounds.
It’s now “sold out”, but Star104.5 has the last tickets in town, and your chance to win them this week.
With the reunion proving so popular we thought we’d take a look at where else Coasties would like to travel back in time to, or want to see come back one more time.
Star104.5 cannot be held responsible for any amount of nostalgia that may also arise…
Once upon a time Frogy’s was THE place to go. Abandoned since 2002, and due for demolition any day now, the old roller rink was the place to skate and be seen, and almost a rite of passage for teenagers on the Central Coast.
It’s going to be replaced by a triple-tower development in the heart of Gosford featuring residential and commercial spaces, cinemas, shops, an 80-room hotel, and 600 space carpark ready to move into by the end of 2018. The new development dubbed ‘Waterside’ may have a budget of $234 million, but most Coasties’ memories of Frogy’s are priceless…
Bring back the after-work drinks at Lord Ashley Bar at Crowne Plaza Terrigal (AKA ‘Lord Smash’). The bar named after a 19th century British politician (who also had a steamship named after him), was in its prime in the 1990s, ‘the’ place to meet mates after a hard day at the office. One of the original ways to do some social networking on the Central Coast, Lord Ashley Bar still serves up supper in a sweet setting, rumoured to overlook the site where the old iron screw steamer sank off the coast at Terrigal.
In days gone by many a Coastie and their colleagues got every bit as smashed at the steamer did.
There was a whisper that the North Sydney Bears were indeed coming back, in the form of the Central Coast Bears, and making our stadium their home ground. Rumours reported that the Bears would play 11 games in Gosford and 1 at North Sydney oval. But in the past 9 years since the stories started, barely anything has happened…
You once could make a day of it at Forries, with Supa Putt, Go Karts and the Kamikazi Waterslide all at Forresters Beach. There was even a bowling alley and bungy jumping set up in the space along The Entrance Road.
But the Bogey Man well and truly put an end to the popular putting place, with the sale of the land to developers of a new housing estate called ‘Forresters Reach’, rumoured to be on par with other top residential properties. And kids – big and small- need to find somewhere else to play.
Old Sydney Town was an institution where many an institution arranged an excursion back in the day. It was a slice of colonial life that Coasties could step back in time to, from 1975 until 2003. The “biggest heritage park in NSW” was also a big drawcard to the coast for those cruising the F3…a time tunnel to a top day out – 6 million visitors can’t be wrong.
The closure was blamed partly on the new wave of social media and the “instant gratification” generation, that prefers modern technology to a step back in time.
Ironically, the very tech held responsible for its demise was subsequently used to try revive it, with groups on Facebook and other social media calling for the tourist attraction to be brought back to life. And a few years ago there was talk everything “old” could be new again, with word of a revival for Old Sydney Town, but a fire in Heritage Hall and surrounding sites lost a lot of the artefacts and documents being stored there.
The site at Somersby is now used for location shots for film and TV productions.
Who hasn’t stuffed themselves silly on Sizzler’s famous cheese toast? The restaurant at West Gosford was renowned for its value and very long queues to try the food. Sadly even the sizzle when out of the replacement restaurant known as Trackside, and it shut up shop and stopped serving in June 2016 after 14 years at the Riverside spot. Happily though recipes abound to make your own version of that cheesy bread at home and stuff yourself with the memories instead.
Some more spots where Coasties would love to travel back in time to include:
Key Largo, a nightclub at Crowne Plaza with its monthly comedy nights.
Pizza Hut at Kariong, another great place to get a feed back in the day.
Treehouse nightclub at Terrigal – now the Supermex restaurant
And how many Coastie kids had their birthday party in the Train at McDonalds West Gosford?
Head here for more of a walk down memory lane
And keep listening to Star104.5 all this week for our ‘Troppo Tracks’ to win your way to the Club Troppo Reunion Saturday May 6th at the Entertainment Grounds.
And tell us, what would you like to see come back to the Coast?
