Sad but true

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Sad but true

03_troopy · Guru

Congratulations to Daughter PhD, and commiserations about the Ettamogah Pub ... mate...

jimbo · Guru

Wonder what happened

Gerty Dancer · Guru

It used to be a popular place in its heyday, and surrounded by other tourist businesses too. It would be a loss to the local community, all those jobs.

Congrats to your daughter Dougwe, shes done a lot of hard work to this stage. Enjoy the proud glow, may it last a lifetime!

Vic · Guru

The one in the Morley suburb of Perth also closed down, but was bought by Fast Eddy's and now trades under that name, but same building.

There is still one at Cunderdin, approx 150 kms east of Perth on the Gt Eastern Highway.

bill12 · Guru

There is one on the sunshine coast in QLD.I ask my sister , who lives there if it is still open. Was open in Feb , 11.Will post when I get news. Bill

NeilandRaine · Guru

Ettamogah Pub closes

MARK RUSSELL AND AISHA DOW

30 May, 2011 01:00 AM

IT was last drinks at the Ettamogah Hotel on Friday night.
Just weeks after owner Leigh 0Brien said he would spend $3 million revamping the iconic hotel, it has been shut down amid allegations Mr OBrien is $9 million in debt.

A sign fixed to the pubs front door yesterday by liquidation company RSM Bird Cameron said it was was currently closed due to unforeseen circumstances.

Two weeks ago, L & D OBrien Holdings was placed in liquidation after Melbourne architecture firm Hayball lodged a Federal Court application to have the company wound up over $375,857 in unpaid fees.

Mr OBrien has also pleaded guilty to stalking after making a series of threatening phone calls and text messages to a female former business associate and has been ordered to return to court next month.

On Friday, Mark Newbery applied to the Federal Court in Sydney to have Mr OBriens Ettamogah Pub (Albury) Pty Ltd, which incorporates four Ettamogah pubs nation wide, wound up over $30,000 in unpaid wages.

The Melbourne businessman, who lives in a Docklands apartment with his son, Trevayne, and drives a red Porsche, bought the worldwide rights to the Ettamogah Mob cartoons created by the late artist Ken Maynard in 1994.

He has denied owing more than $9 million.

What Im trying to do is work through this and get people paid, Mr OBrien said.

He claimed he was owed $10 million from his companies in liquidation.

I am sick to death of everyone going for the jugular and not wanting to work it out.

All the people lose. Im sorry, but all the poor unsecured creditors are the losers. They all should have been paid and could have been paid.

Mr OBrien said he sold his Brighton house for $8 million to pay off money owed to the National Australia Bank, and has also put his Bay Street, Brighton, office up for sale.

He pleaded guilty on April 7 in the Moorabbin Magistrates Court to stalking and using a carriage service to menace.

Happywanderer · The Master

Its a shame to see such an icon go in that way. I had no idea there was one in Albury. I been to two, one on Sunshine Coast, can't remember where I saw the other one now.

AmandaJayne · Guru

wow congrats to your daughter for that... bet your so proud of her :)

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Thanks N&R that cleared that up. I was having a chat to a Albury local that is actually next to me here in the Lake Hume CVP and she didn't even know it had closed. It would be good if someone bought it and kept it as is, if that would be at all possible. No matter how many times I go there I always get a laugh at the signs there, oh well. Looks like we are going to get a bit of liquid come down from the sky soon, still the weather has been great here since Thursday.

Beth54 · Guru

Yep, the one on the Sunshine Coast was still open when I passed by in November. I've only ever stopped in once.

03_troopy · Guru

I've always seen them as something akin to any other tourist attraction that you find in most of the more frequently travelled locations (big banana, big pineapple, big prawn etc). I reckon some of the old pubs you find out in the sticks or well off the beaten track are much more interesting.

pauline · Guru

Have to agree with Troopy.........off the beaten track pubs are great and have such unbelievable characters also.

Geoff n Jen · Senior Member

The one at Sunny Coast is still alive and the best bit is you can all get in touch with your youth like one of the finalist pickies and do Aussie world at the same time - they have a new water slide

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Beth54 · Guru

03_troopy wrote:
I've always seen them as something akin to any other tourist attraction that you find in most of the more frequently travelled locations (big banana, big pineapple, big prawn etc). I reckon some of the old pubs you find out in the sticks or well off the beaten track are much more interesting.

Very true. I don't frequent pubs much, but love the outback ones.