Kroshel’s Mobile Store
The concept of home delivery was fairly common in the 1900’s with bakers, grocers and butchers each delivering goods to your doorstep.
However, Barossa local, Collin Kroshel (1921 - 2017), took this idea to another level with his dream of creating a mobile store to serve the needs of the local community.
Celebrating with a Bang
Many children growing up in Australia in the 1950s, 60s and 70s may remember one special evening held annually on November 5 – Guy Fawkes Night or ‘Cracker Night’.
Early Entrepreneurs Leditschkes of Point Pass
Point Pass is a small town 11km North of Eudunda and like most country towns, it once had a thriving General Store.
‘The Schrapel Emporium’
Ernst Schrapel was born in Tanunda, 1861. Over his lifetime he was described as having ‘enterprise, good judgment and a tremendous capacity for work’.
Local Barossa History – With compliments
WORDS BY LUKE ROTHE
Local Barossa history
Last century storekeepers were often challenged as to what complimentary gift to offer their customers at Christmas for another year of their loyalty.
Calendars were the most popular Christmas giveaway, a...
More than just a Chemist
Warnecke’s long running Chemist & Druggist store in Gawler Street, Nuriootpa closed around 1922, leaving an opening for a new pharmacist in town.
The Tanner and Currier
A receipt from O. E. Juttner dated 1937 declares him a ’Tanner & Currier’. However, this once important trade term has slipped from most people’s vocabulary.
‘Chemist, druggist and soft drink maker’
‘Chemist, druggist and soft drink maker’
barossa history
‘Chemist, druggist and soft drink maker’
words by
luke rothe
Last edition’s story on Barossa Canneries was just part of the Warnecke family’s involvement at Nuriootpa.German settler, Ludwig Wilhelm Warnecke worked...