AFTER an unbroken record of close to 90 years the licence of the St Leonards Inn, in the South Australian bayside town of Glenelg, finally left the McDonald family on September 11 1933. The pub had been handed down among… Read More ›
Adelaide hotels
Early taverns of South Australia
THE historic South Australian Hotel will soon undergo changes which will convert the old-world Adelaide landmark into one of the most modern style hotels, modelled on London and Continental lines. The management changed hands recently, and one of the… Read More ›
Barmen strike forces Adelaide’s Imperial Hotel publican behind his bar
As a result of the decision of Adelaide barmen to cease work, following on the 8/ a week reduction, members of the families of many licensees took their places behind the bar on Monday. Max Flannagan of the Imperial Hotel hard at work. – Observer… Read More ›
Red Lion Hotel, Adelaide, and its missing 40 feet long saloon bar
SOMEBODY HAD A USE FOR IT! As astonished as everyone else, Mr. Bill Holmes recently found himself the owner of the 40ft.-long saloon bar of Adelaide’s historic Red Lion Hotel. THE bar was among items on the auctioneer’s list when… Read More ›
Gresham Hotel, Adelaide
HIS WOODEN LEG There were peculiar circumstance attached to a charge of begging at the Port Adelaide Police Court on Saturday. Timothy Byrnes a miner, of Adelaide, was charged, on the information of Inspector J. E. Noblet, with halving gone… Read More ›
Turtle calls for a drink
TODAY’S HEAT was too much for this turtle. This morning it walked into an hotel on the South road, Edwardstown (SA), and seemed on the point of collapse. The hotelkeeper put it on a block of ice and gave it a… Read More ›
Norwood Hotel, Norwood SA
EXTERMINATOR Mr. C. E. Cumnick, of Fullarton, inspects the floor of the dining room of the Norwood Hotel, which has been partly eaten away by white ants. He opened the floor and found that a stump, 5 ft. in diameter,… Read More ›
Sturt Arcade Hotel, Adelaide
THE death of Mr W. Sandover, of Hose Park, in his eighty-seventh year, removes an old publican and politician who was an active public man in Adelaide from the early fifties to the eighties. Going to the Victorian diggings, he… Read More ›
White Hart Hotel, Adelaide
THE LATE MR. F. W. A. KLAUER. Mr. Frederick William Augustus Klauer, late landlord of the White Hart Hotel, Hindley street [Adelaide], died on Friday, August 16, at the North Adelaide Private Hospital. The deceased, who was 76 years… Read More ›