a8817 Online No. 25
"Some of the most interesting furniture I’ve come across would have been back in the early days: antiques and even Edwardian pieces over a hundred years old."
In 1909, a woman was caught by an undercover policeman running a secret business here, reading the future in her customers’ tea leaves.
The Jackson Furniture Company operated on King Street from the 1960s. They built hardwood American colonial furniture and date-stamped every piece. An example of their distinctive, illustrated catalogues is held in the State Library's collection.
The father of these two businessmen, Con Dellis, originally rented the former Trocadero building to house his furniture business. The same building had been a picture palace and a skating rink in its previous lives.
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