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Today’s Beer Price Rises
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Rush for Draught Beer
THE public had its first taste of draught beer for nearly a month in city hotels this morning. Barmaids were kept busy attending to customers. –The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld) Wednesday 13 October 1937.
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They Rushed This Hotel
DRINKERS last night rushed this hotel in the city — one of the few which adhered to the promise during the week to open for trading on Saturday afternoon and night. –Sunday Mail (Brisbane) Sunday 22 June 1947.
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Keep Barmaids Young Smart & Cheerful
YOUNG city barmaid Dawn Jones, 22, thinks good-looking barmaids are good for custom. She said yesterday that a barmaid with a cheery smile and a young personality helped “tired businessmen forget their worries”. Dawn, of Wellington Road, East Brisbane, rejected… Read More ›
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Old Bill’s Pub Yarns
DURING the latter part of the 1940s, and early 1950s a popular article appeared on the front page of the Brisbane Telegraph by the name of “Old Bill’s Column”. In nearly every issue there was a reference to a pub… Read More ›
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Bar Classes
One Brisbane hotel is running a bi-weekly class for bar and lounge staff to teach them manners of service and general rules for bar and lounge. This picture shows a group of girls learning how to pour beer under the watchful eye of Miss… Read More ›
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Prominent Publicans: 8
JOHN Brosnan, mine host of the Union Hotel, Petries Bight, is a native of Kerry, the “rule” place for pretty women and high class cattle. He served his apprenticeship with the famous firm of P. Stokes & bons, and shortly afterwards sailed for Queenslsand—… Read More ›
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Prominent Publicans: 7
JOHN Greaves, the genial boniface of the British Empire Hotel, is a son of Erin, Born in Limerick, with his brother he left the land of the Shamrock in 1865 in the ship Sunda for Mornton Bay. Their first occupation was on a sheep… Read More ›
