Fifteen Goondoon Street supplied ships for the best part of a century before Coastlinero took the lease and set four tables of felt on the old counter.
Where it started
One trade becomes another
The building went up when Gladstone’s harbour trade was at its busiest, stocking rope, canvas and stores for vessels working the wharves nearby.
When the chandlery closed, the long counter and the high rafters stayed; Coastlinero fitted four tables of felt where the shelves of rope once stood.
The name comes from the family that ran the chandlery longest, kept on the sign out of respect more than nostalgia.
Then
A working chandlery on the harbour front
Between
Empty for a decade, roof and rafters intact
Now
Four tables of felt and a small counter
What has not changed
Three things stayed the same
The counter is original; it has simply moved from ships’ stores to house chips.
No machine has ever sat on this floor, then or now — every hand is dealt by a person.
The room still keeps harbour hours, opening late and running well past midnight.
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