What happened to those great venues?
previously housed Ames IT academy.
The Mon Desir in Takapuna, Auckland, was bulldozed and turned into a six- storey waterfront apartment complex in the mid- 90s.
The pub was where David Bowie had his infamous “four- days- ofdebauchery” with a group of Kiwi fans who managed to slip past security.
During the 1980s, the pub was reported to have the biggest on- the- spot beer consumption in Auckland and rock fans got boisterous around the swimming pool as they listened to bands on the pub's notorious Thursday nights. Midge Marsden, the Al Grant Band, the Rockafellas, Dave Dobbyn and The Exponents played a tearful farewell concert to “The Mon” in 1994 after it was announced it would be demolished.
Windsor Castle, at 144 Parnell Road, Auckland, once shook to the sounds of Toy Love, Street Talk and Dave Dobbyn.
Since its music heyday it has been a restaurant headed by Simon Gault and a sushi bar before reverting back to a local pub. The 890sq msite, which has 268sw mof professional offices on level one, was sold this year for $ 6.62 million.
The White Horse Inn on Ti Rakau Drive in the Auckland suburb of Pakuranga was the home of New Zealand glam rock during the 1970s.
The pub closed some six years ago and is soon to be replaced with a new three- storey mixed- use development with a dozen or so food and beverage outlets in 2100sq mof space at street level, and 30 apartments above.
The Adelaide, on the corner of Wellington's Adelaide Rd and Drummond St, had a colourful history even before it became a classic rock bar.