Parry's Milk Bar & Candystore

Parry's Milk Bar & Candystore

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Posted 2012-09-03 by Lexa Tfollow
Remember the good old days when you went to the local milk bar to meet up with friends? Well, that tradition is what owner Tim Downs has kept going with legendary Parry's Milk Bar in Caringbah.

It's candy striped pink and vibrant, with black and white diamond flooring creating a very retro decor straight out of the 1950's, you can't miss it.



Parry's first opened in 1958, right at the top of the stairs at Caringbah's railway station. Originally serving those great milkshakes, sodas, ice cream sundaes, lollies and chocolates for those special treats. It has been a meeting place for young and old over the decades.



Time has moved along with some changes, introducing coffees and imported sweets. Yet you can still get those smooth creamy milkshakes of yesteryear. Still made in the aluminium containers and still poured into the thick vase shaped glasses we remember way back when. Re-creating those flavours with a special ice cream and an extra touch of flavouring coating the inside of the glass, you sip away reminiscing, all that is missing is the paper straw.



Due to our current 'health regulations' we can't buy lollies like we used to, in small cardboard boxes where the shop assistant would pick out one by one. If allowed, I'm sure Tim would have them. There are a few sweets you can buy loose, Coconut Ice and Fudge, displayed in old glass domes that used to sit on old milk bar counters.


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Remember chocolate frogs, freckles and Love Heart's? Now they are mixed with some great U.S.A. candies, Junior Mints, Boston Baked Beans and Butterfingers. There are Nestle's Walnut Whips which are popular in England.


There is a great display of single chocolates you can buy, or loads of pre boxed chockies that line the walls.


Oh, they also have one of Sydney's largest Easter Egg display. Selected from local chocolatiers who still use old fashioned metal moulds. The shells are thicker than the high turnover eggs you see everywhere.

Make that special trip and reminisce over a great milkshake.

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