SCOOTING: Jim Gault, 38, rode his five-year-old son’s scooter from Lakemba to Hurlstone Park [5.7 kms] today with a two-fold purpose — to beat the rail strike and win a bet of £1 and 10 schooners. He will have to ride the scooter from his work… Read More ›
A representative of Tooth’s Brewery today took possession of the bar of the Pier Hotel, Botany-road, Botany, until certain matters are dealt with by the Licensing Court next Wednesday. The Licensee, Mr. Len Harris, has removed his stock of beer… Read More ›
The Dramatic Club Hotel, Melbourne The Irony of Circumstances. On the same day that Mr. G. R. Ireland the well-known actor commenced to play the part of the reformed drunkard in “Ten nights in a bar-room,” he became the licensee… Read More ›
A BARMAID who threw a glass of beer at a police sergeant at the Golden Sheaf Hotel, Double Bay, saying : “Here – cop this?” still lives to tell the tale. In fact, she’s still throwing beer at customers. Her… Read More ›
DURING the late 1940s, it was reported that you could have a beer at Albany’s London Hotel, with a dash of jive. The pub, on the far south coast of Western Australia, you see, was hosted by Harry Ward, a… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © WHILE my wife ran a few errands, I waited over a schooner of Resch’s at the White Horse Hotel on Crown Street, Surry Hills, Sydney. Pulling-up a bar stool, I noticed sitting beside my beer, a tip… Read More ›
A THIRSTY budgie became somewhat of a celebrity in 1954 when it featured in newspapers from Newcastle to Melbourne. Joe the five-week-old budgerigar, was said to have been the “drinkers’ friend” and “one of the boys” at its home at… Read More ›
A FREE counter lunch was being served at a well-known pub in Castlereagh-street, Sydney, where “thirsty men leaned comfortably over glasses of foaming lager”, reported the Sun newspaper on November 19 1929, when they were disturbed by a barefooted boy…. Read More ›
AT the height of the infamous ‘six-o’clock-swill’, Sydney health authorities had a crackdown on pubs flouting hygiene regulations in 1946. A culture of heavy drinking evolved in Sydney pubs during the time between finishing work at 5pm, and the mandatory closing… Read More ›
TWO Sydney barmaids — Billie Williams and Gladys Henwood — were not impressed by Melbourne’s champion beer puller, Cyril O’Brien, who boasted he could serve 1000 customers in an hour at the Windsor Hotel. Newspapers across the country reported in… Read More ›