SUDDEN DEATH. Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Violet Amy Preston, wife of the licensee of the Moreland Hotel, Brunswick (Vic.), died suddenly. She was working in the bar during the morning. Later she retired to a private parlor, where she fell asleep… Read More ›
Courage Beer attempted to break the stranglehold Carlton & United had on the beer market in Victoria with its launch on October 10, 1968. Courage introduced a range of brands and undertook a massive marketing and promotions campaign in Victorian… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERT © WHILE in Melbourne for the tennis, an old mate of mine, Pat Adams supplied a few images and a review of the city’s oldest pub, the Duke of Wellington. Arguably, the most famous of the long-line… Read More ›
A ONE legged barman was charged with stealing £142 from a pub in an inner seaside suburb of Melbourne in 1952. The Melbourne Age reported that the employee was detained by police at St Kilda on January 20 1952 on… Read More ›
Found dead in Melbourne hotel room By MICK ROBERTS © HEARING gunfire, the publican of a Melbourne hotel rushed upstairs to find the body of his celebrity guest lying in a pool of blood on a bedroom floor. The year… Read More ›
Don Baker*, radio comedian, who led a black donkey down Collins st and up the steps of the Hotel Australia on October 21, was fined £3 by Mr Mohr, SM, in the District Court yesterday. But he is £2 in… Read More ›
IT could only happen in Melbourne. The Victorian branch of the ULVA has ordered its members not to serve counter lunches*. More than 50 city and suburban publicans openly flouted the ban today, ordering large stocks of sandwiches. Stated opinion… Read More ›
THE Junction Hotel, at the corner of High and Barkly Streets, St Kilda, was established in 1853. The original hotel, although a substantial building for the time, was a much smaller version than the grand wedge shaped Victorian edifice that… Read More ›
Part of the collection of 14,000 beer labels owned by Mr. Ray Pantano, licensee of the Empress of India Hotel, Fitzroy, Melbourne. Mr. Pantano has contacts all over the world and hopes to surpass the record 125,000 labels owned by an American collector…. Read More ›
The auction of confiscated illegal liquor attracted big crowds, including local publicans, in Melbourne during the 1920s. Liquor that was confiscated by the law during raids on ‘sly-grog shops’ were often brought to auction by the Victorian Government to boost… Read More ›