A certain hotel in Bourke was once noted for its homing frog; it may be there now for all I know. Some of its off-“spring” are doubtless doing the polka along the Darling bank. Well, this particular frog habitually resided under the beer taps… Read More ›
FORMER world bantamweight champion, Jimmy Carruthers, claims that serving beer in a crowded bar is harder than a day’s gymnasium work. Carruthers, who is trying out the hotel business, spent his first full day of work at the Terminus Hotel, Singleton, on Friday. “There was a record crowd for the… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © AT the harbour end of the Pitt Street Mall, in the heart of Sydney’s busiest shopping precinct, stands a five storey reminder of how the city’s colonial pubs developed. There’s no better example of the evolution… Read More ›
A WIDE spread man hunt got underway when a popular young police constable was shot dead during a botched pub robbery in Sydney’s west in 1903. Constable Samuel ‘William’ Long was 37 when he was cold bloodily shot in the… Read More ›
THE Great Western Coffee Palace was designed by Sydney City Architect and built at the corner of Hay Street and Sussex Street, Haymarket in 1914 by the Sydney City Council as a ‘ temperance hotel’. It was located on land resumed… Read More ›
DRINKERS at Paddington can now see up to four different talkie film shows a day with their public-bar drinks. The wife of the licensee of the Rose, Shamrock and Thistle Hotel, Mrs Arthur Alsop, operates a projector. Films also are… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © JAMES Alexander Martin was said to be a modest man. So much so, he managed to keep from an official government inquest in 1914 how he saved the life of a drowning man. Jim Martin was… Read More ›
JOHN Wall said to be the only blind hotel licensee in Australia is happiest when he is doing his hotel chores. He is mine host at the Oxford Hotel, Taylor Square Darlinghurst. When a Truth reporter called this week, Mr. Wall was in the chill… Read More ›
THIS woman went into the main bar of the Australia Hotel, Castlereagh Street, Sydney, last Wednesday afternoon and asked for a beer. Barmaids refused to serve her. She then helped herself to several beers standing on the counter before a group of men…. Read More ›
SWEDISH seaman Carl Bergman, 23, of the motor vessel Polamola, who stands something over seven feet in his shoes, stood at the back of a crowd fighting four-deep for beer in a bar of a Sydney hotel on Saturday, leaned easily over their heads, and got his… Read More ›