A SELECTION of Sydney drinkers mixed raw eggs with their beers recently, and most of them enjoyed the flavor. A reporter bought a bag of eggs and asked drinkers in hotel bars if they would like to mix one with… Read More ›
Sydney hotels
Bar-room baron
Charles Walker, oldest customer of a Surry Hills (Sydney NSW) hotel, was honored with a “knighthood” yesterday – Daily News (Sydney, NSW) Wednesday 4 January 1939.
Town Hall Hotel, Newtown
ROBBERY IN HOTEL Secreting themselves in the boiler room of the Town Hall Hotel, King-street, Newtown, before closing time yesterday, thieves emerged from their hiding place after the last customer had gone, and stole 50 bottles of whisky, 175 packets of cigarettes and… Read More ›
Shouts for horse
This Sydney carter has the “kindness to animals” spirit. In the terrific heat recently, he had a pot of beer himself and then “shouted” for his horse. – The Longreach Leader (Qld) Saturday 28 November 1936.
Money’s worth?
BUYING beer in schooners and middies in Sydney hotels and then bottling it yourself is an expensive way of buying it, although not illegal, provided you pour the beer into the bottle yourself. To the right is a bottle containing… Read More ›
Cauliflower Hotel, Waterloo
By MICK ROBERTS © DURING the early part of the 19th century, many of Sydney’s pubs had quaint names, accompanied by an indicative sign, swinging from posts or awnings. There was the Black Boy, in George Street, the Brown Bear… Read More ›
Sydney’s beer guzzle: What do you think about it?
We leave you to be the judges: WE ran a story last week about Sydney’s beer drinking standards. This week we tell you the story in pictures – just to drive the point home. Fills you full of… Read More ›
Green Park Hotel, Darlinghurst
Gus Wangenheim, a man about town By MICK ROBERTS © JUST around the corner from Maccabean Hall, built in 1923 to commemorate Jewish men and women who served in the Great War, and where the Sydney Jewish Museum is housed at… Read More ›
Sydney’s smallest pub frontage
WITH less than four feet (1.22m) facing George Street, Scruffy Murphy’s is said to have the smallest frontage of a pub in Sydney. The pub, originally known as the Goulburn Hotel, was purchased by Sydney brewery, Tooheys Limited in 1930…. Read More ›
Side stepping ‘the swill’
TWO regular customers at a Goulburn Street hotel in Sydney discovered how to get quick service “during the peak-hour rush”, reported ‘Column 8’ in the Sydney Morning Herald on August 12 1950. Sydney’s pubs, during these years, were at the… Read More ›