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Nana give me this other day, she found it in me grandfathers old stuff. Got sum funny stuff in it, maybe few you old boys might be able to put few names to these joints. Cant find date on it, is it pre tracey ??

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This one pretty straight foward, called the don in book but looks like modern day cav


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No idea about this one the green room, sum where in darwin is it still alive ??? looks like great place for wineing and dinning :drinking7: :D


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Then you have the koala bar or baechside , maybe its old beachfront ???

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My favorite the good old dolphin bar, just heading down to the dolphin love :D is it still alive ???? maybe the buff club ??

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these couple have not changed to much


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Green room was in the old hotel Darwin...
Next one looks like the old beaches up stairs from where honeypot is now.

Dolphin was were the spot light place is in jape center.. Use to have church service there on Sunday mornings... Beer, prawns and strippers..

Is the old saloon bar from cav st in there too?
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2rods wrote:Green room was in the old hotel Darwin...
Next one looks like the old beaches up stairs from where honeypot is now.

Dolphin was were the spot light place is in jape center.. Use to have church service there on Sunday mornings... Beer, prawns and strippers..

Is the old saloon bar from cav st in there too?
na they where only ones from darwin
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Cartoon on brochure.. Saltbush Bill & muttly..Eric Jolliffe, died in '81..Don hotel/Casino..Green Room,old darwin Hotel..Brewery Bar,Beachcombers, nightclub downstairs, hippie bar out front..Hang onto that stuff PP, it's what we used to call Darwin, till the latte' sippers wrecked it. :x Thanks for remindin us mate. :) Your kids will have a piece of the history. 8)
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Rose Tattoo used to hammer the cr.p outta the Dolphin. Also saw a cabbie getting payment via a favour in the car park there too, there was a line up of punters!!!
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Blinky wrote:Rose Tattoo used to hammer the cr.p outta the Dolphin. Also saw a cabbie getting payment via a favour in the car park there too, there was a line up of punters!!!
olfart wrote:Cartoon on brochure.. Saltbush Bill & muttly..Eric Jolliffe, died in '81..Don hotel/Casino..Green Room,old darwin Hotel..Brewery Bar,Beachcombers, nightclub downstairs, hippie bar out front..Hang onto that stuff PP, it's what we used to call Darwin, till the latte' sippers wrecked it. :x Thanks for remindin us mate. :) Your kids will have a piece of the history. 8)
yer as soon as she gave it to me and i opened it i laughed and just thought of wat it would been like in them days, wild at a guess :drinking5: would been good times to grow up in darwin one thinks :D
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Hi there,

That is great!
I was not yet in Darwin when this "educational" brochure was made...
But I remember in my first few days in Darwin, stoping in front of a big pub with the words: Tits and Prawn or something like that written all over the front of it.
Being new, I was not sure that I fully understood what that was all about and was just staring at it and trying to make sense of it...
When some guys started to ask me What are you looking at from the top of the balustrade, and I quickly continued to walk towards the city...
:bonk:

Not long after, as I was waiting to cross a street, two girls in a car looked at me, laughed and flashed me their breast.
I went back home and told all that to my little darling and said that I started to like this place...
She didn't smile...
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Strip & prawn Regis, Had you gone in, you certainly would not have told your 'little darling, :wink: ' some thing are definitely best left unsaid :lipsrsealed:..However, you may have suddenly become verrry religious around 10 am sundays. :naughty: :naughty:
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"Doesn't mean you get any smarter..just wrinkled and cracked".

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"Govern a Family as you would catch a small fish....Very Gently." (Chinese Proverb)

"Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish." (Rafael Sabatini...1857-1950)

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olfart wrote:Strip & prawn
See, my subconscious made me read it right...
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Blinky wrote:Rose Tattoo used to hammer the cr.p outta the Dolphin. Also saw a cabbie getting payment via a favour in the car park there too, there was a line up of punters!!!
Saw Johnny Siriotis get TKO'd by Ronnie Doo, in a grab for the vacant AUS Light Middleweight Title, back in '89..Boxing used to be a regular thing back then..AHHHH Darwin, Darwin...Wherefor art thou now???? :roll: :roll:
" YOUTH is a GIFT "
"AGE is an ART "
"Doesn't mean you get any smarter..just wrinkled and cracked".

"No angler watches nature in a passive way...He enters into its very existence." (John Bailey...Reflections on a Waters Edge)

"Govern a Family as you would catch a small fish....Very Gently." (Chinese Proverb)

"Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish." (Rafael Sabatini...1857-1950)

I pray that one day God sends me a fish so big that, when talking of it...I have no reason to lie.
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What about the rodeo or mechanical bull at the old berrimah hotel...I am sure thats what stuffed my back..

The don was ok for a cold beer or two..

And the pickled parrot that was next to the green room rocked.. I spent far to many nights a bit under the influence dancing on the piano there... Some times in just glow in the dark boxers :-)

Geez I miss them old watering points.
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What about the night some looneytune charged into Dix and let go at his boyfriend behind the bar with a 303. Don't let anyone tell you fear don't smell like shite, some didn't stop runnin till they were past Yankee Als.
Good ol Jacks..it was a 'tranny' called Phyllis..
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"AGE is an ART "
"Doesn't mean you get any smarter..just wrinkled and cracked".

"No angler watches nature in a passive way...He enters into its very existence." (John Bailey...Reflections on a Waters Edge)

"Govern a Family as you would catch a small fish....Very Gently." (Chinese Proverb)

"Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish." (Rafael Sabatini...1857-1950)

I pray that one day God sends me a fish so big that, when talking of it...I have no reason to lie.
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I remember the day the ex-nam vet went berko in the Dolphin car park and shot up a couple of cop cars. :hunting: :hunting:

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AHHH The Don Hotel ....... Our first casino..and the Dolphin, worked there as a bouncer, never worked so hard or had so many fights in my life !! The local bro,s had their own bar out the back and when there was a band in the white bar they use to pour over the fence like blooby zooloos and we,d have to chuk em back over, the place was run by a bloke that looked like eaddy armin,he was a ex boxer, and nasty as cat,s p..s the cops turned up one night to take him away, as they were told it was him and the Govt was looking for him .old timers would remember that..
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