The Marlborough pub in Newtown. Pubs have traditionally been called Hotels in Australia, probably because most used to offer accommodation upstairs. Some in the country still do, but it is much rarer nowadays. I took ths photo just because I loved the neon blue.
The blue is most striking as is the font. I am working on a Saturday Essay on pubs - they are such an interesting part of our culture. First there are the types that still look as though they expect the 5o'clock swill and the clean with the hose. Then there are the types that have been modernised.
ReplyDeleteI like this night photo and the name of the pub as well. very nice.
ReplyDeleteLove both the colour & the style...is it a pub from the 1920s-30s? After spending way too much time in English pubs in my past, i recall I was always so disappointed to come home to Aussie pubs...the only similarities were the name (sometimes ie pub =hotel) & the beverages sold. Pommy pubs always seemed far more welcoming, especially to women.
ReplyDeleteSo true, caba. I was shocked when in England recently to see that many pubs have been sold (for redevelopment) or tizzed up to be unrecognisable, or part of an anonymous chain. I think the Marlborough might be 1930s. It's on the corner of Missenden Rd and King St, Newtown - tyou've prob been past it a million times! I never drank here when I was a student at Syd U, cos we used the White Horse (now part of moore Theological College) or the Forest Inn in Glebe. But the Marlborough has a good restaurant these days.
ReplyDeleteOh, ache! Sally, why do you keep doing this to me? I used to go on walks from Surry Hills to Newtown with my ex and we'd reward ourselves with a schooner of Toohey's New at the Marlborough, sitting on stools and usually watching two different sports on the tvs on opposite walls.
ReplyDeleteHe's in Berlin now having taken up with an old girlfriend, and I'm in Wisconsin, a state with many many bars per capita but no one to drink with!
First the Belvoir St Theatre, now this. Please, Sydneysiders, treasure these places while you are near enough to visit them. And have a schooner for me, please.