NOW a popular pub in the Perth inner city suburb of Highgate, the Brisbane Hotel has traded for over 120 years. The pub, located at the corner of Brisbane and Beaufort Streets, was established in 1898. In recent years, the… Read More ›
Perth Hotels
Perth publican ‘Old Penn’ was a colourful character: A history of the Woodbridge Hotel
By MICK ROBERTS © A LARGER than life character, Jabez Penn made quite an impression during his 20 year career as a Perth hotelier. The son of an English conservative politician, Jabez Penn hosted two pubs and a wine saloon… Read More ›
Three Western Australian publicans from the past
Bob Connell Burlington Hotel, Bunbury Mine host of the remodelled Burlington Hotel, in Victoria-street, Bunbury, Bob has proved one of the most effective workers in the interests of the town and district. No man is better versed in the potentialities and the… Read More ›
Zandra the pub nude made Chloe look like ‘an elderly spinster in a red flannel negligee’
EVERYONE knows Chloe the famous ‘goil – in – oils’ at Young and Jackson’s Melbourne bar. Now in Perth (a short priced city in any pulchritude contest) she’s got a rival. And I mean rival. She’s Zandra, a finely-executed nude… Read More ›
Perth newspaper vendor, Jimmy could make beer run up hill
MEET Jimmy ‘Tich’ McCann (pictured). Jimmy was a well-known newspaper seller and ‘bootblack’ on the streets of Perth, Western Australia, during the 1930s. The ‘old fella’ loved his beer – especially upside down. You see, Jimmy claimed he could make… Read More ›
The Battle for Beer
A Picture story: Back from long war service to the old home city that had nine to nine beer when he last knew it, a post-war John Citizen finds things puzzling, tough. He reads that despite ample malt, hops, labour… Read More ›
Perth’s SP bookies were not only blokes
WHERE pubs were found, drinkers could also find a resident SP bookie. At one SP betting stand in the Perth metropolitan area, not 50 yards from a main arterial road, the principal in this 1953 newspaper picture was a woman…. Read More ›
Boxing champ behind the bar
KNOW YOUR NEIGHBOUR NEVER HAD A DRINK Former fight champion Frank Kirwan (pictured), for 29 years head barman at the Esplanade Hotel’s front bar, has never had a drink of beer in his life. Yet, today, with all the enthusiasm… Read More ›
Perth’s Court Hotel & the O’Briens
Bartholomew Cornelius O’Brien managed the Court Hotel at the corner of Beaufort and James streets Perth for over 35 years, first taking the reins in 1903. After his death in 1938, his sons took control, resulting in the O’Brien family… Read More ›