Re: Re: Now & Then.
  Dudley Horscroft

There is (actually - was) also one in Queensland just off the Bruce Highway, somewhere near Cabulture I think.

From Wikipaedia:

The Ettamogah Pub is a cartoon pub that was featured in the now defunctAustralasian Post magazine. The cartoonist Ken Maynard,
loving empty spaces and having nothing around him, enjoyed an area just outside Albury at Table Top, named Ettamogah, thus
christening the name of his now famous pub the "Ettamogah Pub". The first "Ettamogah Pub" of a chain of such pubs was built there
and copies now exist in various parts of Australia including Sydney, New South Wales, the Sunshine Coast, Queensland and Cunderdin,
Western Australia.

There was a dispute about "intellectual property rights" so the Sunshine Coast one has changed its name and removed the cartoon
resemblances. The one in Sydney is basically - from that article - a false front in front of a normal drinking establishment.

No info re the WA one.

Regards

Dudley Horscroft
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Ettamogah is a little north of Albury and used to have a pub complete with dilapidated truck on the roof straight out of “Ned and
His Neddy.” It closed quite some time ago I believe. I am not sure how a pub in the Hills came to be called that. Someone may be
able to enlighten me.
Geoff O.

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Tim Boxsell wrote:

> G'day all, Two pics of the NWRL (taken 18 months apart) as seen from the balcony of the Ettamogah Pub on Windsor Rd.


There really IS an Ettamogah Pub? Well I never! I always thought it was some kind of joke from my childhood days in Melbourne!


david mcl in Wellington, where the second cyclone in a week is approaching :-)