Submitted 10 months ago by FireWire400@lemmy.world to australia@aussie.zone
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Super cool location, felt pretty unreal actually being there… shame you can’t actually go inside anymore
Mhhh… Looked up some reviews on Google and the owner’s responses are either hopeful that they can return the place to its former glory, blaming the previous owners for its current state, dismissive of any criticism or completely unhinged…
I hope it won’t close or anything…
Place was OK to visit as a kid, issue is and has always been it’s too far away from anything else.
Like sure let’s go & have lunch I can have maybe two schooners, but the drive there and back on any day of the week is going to consume someone’s whole break (~15 mins each way)
Weekend is the same thing, without a courtesy bus any group without a dessie or two just aren’t going to go. Prices from memory aren’t anything special, there’s little novelty left it’s just a bit sad to see.
Yeah, someone mentioned to me how it used to be next to the highway but then said highway was rebuilt to bypass Albury or something.
It’s still not that far away in my opinion but it’s not exactly walking distance from anywhere.
Went there during a school camp in 1988. I remember there being a huge cage with cockies inside. Signs on the dunny doors read “Blokes” and “Sheilas”.
Unsure if you know but we had one in Queensland up the Sunny coast. Next to the motorway. I think that’s gone.
I’m kinda aware that there were 4 Ettamogah Pubs in total, but I don’t know where and I can’t find anything about the other ones
It is gone. Absolute monstrosity now.
Oh God. I’ve driven past the place since the other one went ( a fair few years I think ) I must say I don’t think I’ve seen that thing. How long has that been there ?
I’ve been there, back in the mid 1990s.
It must’ve been amazing back then. My relatives kept telling me how popular it was with tourists.
I don’t have much recollection of the pub, though I do have a picture of it. I was doing the “Oz Experience” bus tour, so naturally they hit all the tourist spots. It was a great trip.
Etterra@discuss.online 10 months ago
Can somebody please translate the name of this place into Americanese? Because my dumb ass can neither pronounce or understand the word “Ettamogah.”
FireWire400@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s a Wiradjuri word meaning “place of good drink”
Etterra@discuss.online 10 months ago
LOL so it’s an Aboriginal word for “Kick-Ass Bar?”