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Kōrero: Department stores and shopping malls

Riding Sammy the seal

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Riding Sammy the seal

A boy gets a grip on Sammy the seal in Johnsonville Mall, Wellington, which opened in 1969. Malls in the 1960s and 1970s often featured animal statues children could climb on and concrete plant tubs.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP-Municipal-Towns, Wellington and suburbs, Johnsonville and Ohariu-02

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Helen Laurenson, Department stores and shopping malls – New Zealand’s main malls, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/22228/riding-sammy-the-seal (accessed 5 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Helen Laurenson, i tāngia i te 4 February 2010.