1960s: Hotel Cronulla was about to be replaced by a new four-storey hotel in 1961.
There had been earlier versions of the hotel at North Cronulla, dating back to 1988.
The new hotel, with its big sundeck overlooking Dunningham Park, was given the name Northies in the 1990s.
It was demolished in 1999 to make way for the Sur Mer development, including a new-look Northies, which opened in November, 2000.
1970s: Hurstville was a much more relaxed suburb in 1971.
There was unrestricted street parking and the police station that was built in McMahon Street in 1909 was still adequate for the area’s needs.
1980s: Pharmacy assistants were waiting when Prime Minister Bob Hawke visited Westfield Hurstville in 1989.
New regulations meant a cut in dispensing fees for pharmacists, leading to claims many would go out of business.
1990s: Searchers spent a winter’s night combing bushland in Jannali Reserve in 1996 before a young boy, Thomas Donlon, of Oyster Bay, was found and carried to his parents by an SES volunteer.
The youngster had wandered off during a junior soccer club barbecue.
2000s: Australian and world Number 1 Mick Fanning, was in surfing heaven at the Cronulla reef break Voodoo in 2007.
Fanning stopped off in Sydney while heading home to the Gold Coast after competing at the Rip Curl Pro at Bells Beach in Victoria.
