A genuine Sinn Fein (Irish rebel) flag, over 50 years old, flew outside the Southern Cross Hotel in King William street yesterday in observance of St. Patrick’s Day. The manager of the Southern Cross (Mr. M. C. Flannagan) said the… Read More ›
South Australia Hotels
Percy and the publican, piano and pub
World famous musician, Percy Grainger (B.1882 – D.1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist, who died in the United States of America. In the course of a long and innovative career, he played a prominent role in the revival of… Read More ›
Joey enjoys ‘a drop’ at the Largs Pier Hotel
Young Kangaroo Likes Her Drop Of Beer JOEY, an 18-month-old blue kangaroo doe owned by Mr. W. J. Parsons, manager of the Largs Pier Hotel, Largs Bay, (South Australia), joins her owner in a glass of beer every day-but no… Read More ›
Golfers tee-off with milk and rum before making a strategic beer break
The annual AIF tourney was played at Kooyonga Golf Club, in Adelaide’s west during the 1950s. Players set out fortified by a rum and milk and during the round refreshed themselves from a keg of beer set up in a… Read More ›
Walter sat at the same table in Adelaide’s Exchange Hotel for 42 years
By MICK ROBERTS © WHEN the Exchange Hotel was demolished in February 1960, it ended more than 120 years of Adelaide’s history. In fact, it destroyed the city’s oldest pub. There had been a hotel on the north-east corner of… Read More ›
Esplanade Hotel, Brighton: From pub to guesthouse, and back to pub
SITTING at the foot of Brighton’s famous jetty, the Esplanade Hotel was originally a grand two storey building with a curved front, a dome and iron lace decorated balconies. Originally built as a hotel in the coastal suburb of Adelaide,… Read More ›
Car runs into the bar of Adelaide’s Selborne Hotel
A MISBEHAVED MOTOR RUNS INTO HOTEL BAR. ADELAIDE. Tuesday. The unexplained vagaries of a motor car caused some excitement in Pirie-street today. After capsizing a buggy, it swung across the road, knocked down a cyclist, missed a row of verandah posts by fractions of… Read More ›
Innamincka’s heritage listed ‘dead marines’
NOT many countries can claim to have a ‘pub dump’ – made-up of rum, whisky, gin, brandy and beer bottles – with a government heritage listing. Australia can. At Innamincka, a small settlement 821km north-east of Adelaide – with a… Read More ›
Missing sign mystery: Hotel Victor, Victor Harbour
The missing sign mystery WHAT ever happened to the large Hotel Victor sign that was sold for just $5 at auction in February 1990? Christina Nixon of Allenby Gardens bought the sign off the pub at Victor Harbour, South Australia,… Read More ›