Firework advertisement

Gordon Sym Choon’s store was at 235 Rundle St. He traded in peanuts, was an agent for Wrigley’s chewing gum, and sold fireworks from China and England right up to the 70s. 

Advertisement to promote fireworks sold in Gordon Sym Choon’s shop.

Image Courtesy of: History Trust of South Australia

Gordon was the youngest child of John Sym Choon and So Yung Moon who immigrated from Guangdong province in southern China to South Australia in the 1890s and the brother of Gladys Sym Choon who owned a China Gift Store in Rundle Street.