The original Ettamogah Pub in Albury, NSW

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• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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”.

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  • FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They still had them when I was there!

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• DiaDeLosMuertos@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Unsure if you know but we had one in Queensland up the Sunny coast. Next to the motorway. I think that’s gone.

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  • pmarksen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It is gone. Absolute monstrosity now.

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    • DiaDeLosMuertos@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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 ?

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  • Nath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Perth also had one, but it closed down 20 years ago. Two businesses have since occupied the building, but both have died.

    You can see how the building would have looked with the angular awnings etc. but they were made boring after the Ettamogah closed down.
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  • FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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

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    • TimePencil@infosec.exchange ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      @FireWire400

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettamogah_Pub

      @DiaDeLosMuertos

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• N0t_5ure@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve been there, back in the mid 1990s.

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  • FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It must’ve been amazing back then. My relatives kept telling me how popular it was with tourists.

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    • N0t_5ure@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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.

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• Etterra@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Can somebody please translate the name of this place into Americanese? Because my dumb ass can neither pronounce or understand the word “Ettamogah.”

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  • FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s a Wiradjuri word meaning “place of good drink”

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    • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      LOL so it’s an Aboriginal word for “Kick-Ass Bar?”

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• FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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…

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  • dai@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

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    • FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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.

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