Colombo Street

A lot of those early machines that I bought, um, they were owned by George Samuel, uh, from Acme Leisure, I'm going back a long way.

And it was in a burger bar on Colombo Street, and I used to play it at that burger bar.

And that's where I sort of got a lot of the, um, uh, yeah, machines I liked.

I'd play them, "Oh, I like that," and Somehow or other, I'd gotten to involve with George or knew him and yeah, and he was like, "Oh, I've got a Solifire here." And I thought, "Oh, that must be that game I played." Yeah, that was the one that used to be sitting in at, at the, at the...

Do you mean that-

Uh, you might see some people down off their nut down Colombo Street.

They're probably homeless people generally, but it seems that...

Is, is a blind eye turned to that?

But actually for me, you know, I went to the stadium opening here with 660, and on the way to, um, you know, queue up with 37 and a half thousand people, um, on what was actually, you know, a spectacularly kind of, you know, dynamic evening for Christchurch, a kind of moment of rebirth, um, after so much intellectual, political, financial capital has been invested.

There was a queue of another people, of 68 people on Colombo Street waiting for a hot meal, and it's those two parts.

It's that idea that actually that's just the tip of the iceberg of the problems that we face as a community, as a city, and that actually there is a, a darker path out there for us, and we have to be awfully careful about what it means to, to walk down that path.

Right.