WAY before gaming machines and television screens, pubs had to find other means to attract and entertain customers. Pets of various descriptions were often used to draw custom, and occasionally the talented animals and their pubs gained national and… Read More ›
Theatrics, drama and drinking at colonial inn By MICK ROBERTS © AMID the clanging of pewter mugs, narrating of bawdy poetry, raucous sing-a-longs, and of course, the ale induced bellowing of theatrical recitals, stood Sydney innkeeper, William ‘Bill’ Dind. Dind… Read More ›
DRANK AT LEISURE COMFORT: To celebrate the New Year these men set up their own beer garden outside the old Albury Hotel, which is being demolished under the Oxford Street widening scheme. The hotel is on a boundary. Half the… Read More ›
High on the wall of the Civic Hotel, Pitt and Goulburn Streets Sydney was a screen about 5 feet 6 inches by 4 feet 6 inches with an amplifier where publican Jack Angel regularly showed films to appreciative drinkers in… Read More ›
THESE three barmaids topped the poll in the Popular Barmaid contest held in aid of the Parents and Citizens’ Federation funds, to provide comforts in schools. The winner was Miss Laurie Hawe, of the Oceanic Hotel, Coogee. Second place went… Read More ›
This is what six o’clock closing means to most men — an undignified stand-up battle for an after-work drink in gloomy, unattractive surroundings. This rushed drinking against the clock forces most men to drink too much, too quickly leads to… Read More ›
Middy-a-minute man replaces his sweat Fifty-nine-year-old gasworker Bert Fyfe yesterday drank 12 middies of beer in four minutes. A few minutes before this he drank six middies in a leisurely six minutes. Before returning to work he drank five more… Read More ›
The Molloys once reigned over one of Sydney’s best known bohemian hotels, the haunt of artists, actors, entertainers and journalists, which traded on the south west corner of George and Sussex Streets Sydney. The Molloys had the Newcastle Hotel from… Read More ›