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 ›
Adelaide hotels
Rooms ransacked
“HOTEL BARBER” SEEN, BUT ESCAPES ROOMS were ransacked and two suitcases were cut open at the Eagle Hotel, Hindley street, Adelaide, last night by a “hotel barber”, who was almost captured in a lavatory. He jumped through a window and… Read More ›
Fall down a cellar
AN OLD MAN’S DEATH ADELAIDE, Jan. 26. James Barber, of Woodville, to-day accidentally fell down an open trap door, which led into a cellar at the Buck’s Head Hotel, at Stepney, and fractured his skull. He died soon afterwards (after… Read More ›
Publican pulls a beer
Heaven forbid! A publican serving his customers? Here’s a little beauty from 1930, when the publican of the Imperial Hotel in Adelaide was forced to go behind the bar and pull a few beers for his customers after barmen and… Read More ›
Bodyline cricketer’s armour
McCABE EQUIPPED Has Suit of Armour ! ADELAIDE, January 18, When Stan McCabe returned to his hotel late last night he found installed in his room a complete equipment for combating leg theory bowling. Standing in the corner was a… Read More ›
Beer-quake at the Federal
The bar-room shook, drinkers swayed, and glasses flew everywhere when a 36-gallon keg of beer exploded in the cellar of the Federal Hotel at 4 o’clock on Saturday afternoon. The cellar is directly under the bar-room and the explosion caused the whole… Read More ›
Road accidents claimed the lives of two publicans of Morphett Vale’s Emu Hotel
By MICK ROBERTS © COINCIDENTALLY two publicans of one of South Australia’s oldest trading pubs had their lives cut short as a result of similar tragic accidents. The publicans of the Emu Hotel at Morphet Vale both met their ends… Read More ›
Women in the public bar: “Men don’t swear when I’m here…”
When Mr. Bob Lowick, of Centennial Park, goes into a hotel bar for a drink, his wife goes with him. Yesterday 50 men were drinking in the front bar of a North Terrace hotel when, at the height of the… Read More ›
Spider in beer quart
WHEN MR. H. C. BECKER, of Glenside, was about to open a quart bottle of beer at his home on Saturday night he found a spider about 2 inches long floating in the neck of the bottle. The quart… Read More ›