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 ›
Adelaide hotels
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 ›
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 ›