BS: Ettamogah Pub

Subject: BS: Ettamogah Pub
From: Billy the Bus
Date: 12 Jul 04 - 12:20 AM

G'day Oz-cobs,

Thanks to insomnia, whisky and a bad bout of nostalgia, I trawled the Net last night. Among other things, I wamted to find some Ken Maynard cartoons from the Australian Post of the illustrious Ettamogah Pub - alas, I didn't find a single sample of his 40 or so years of pen-scratching...;(

Howsomever, I did find snapshots of several 'replica' Ettamogah Pubs that have been built in recent years. IMHO the 'original' at Albury, where Ken lived should be the ONLY one - trust the Gold Coast to bet in on the act - and I see there's a franchise to build 'em world-wide - grumble, mutter...

Anyway.... can any of you point me to the original B&W cartoons?

Mumble... now I'll have to go and look for Saltbush Bill and Wichety's Tribe - great stuff, weren't it!

And turn off all those blasted searchlights on the front of your road-train - I don't want to get scorched at this distance!!!!!

Cheers - Sam - in Kiwiland

Subject: RE: BS: Ettamogah Pub
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 12 Jul 04 - 12:31 AM

Some of them WERE published in a book, of course I can't remember the name... But you could try second hand places - some MAY have migrated to Kiwiland... or on the web.

There's a pub replica on the North Coast Road in Quensland too - it's one of the earlier ones.

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: Ettamogah Pub
From: JennieG
Date: 12 Jul 04 - 01:30 AM

There's a replica in the wild western suburbs of Sydney on the Windsor Road, can't remember the suburb off hand. It manages to look very kitsch.

Cheers
JennieG - originally from the bush and proud of it!

Subject: RE: BS: Ettamogah Pub
From: Billy the Bus
Date: 12 Jul 04 - 02:44 AM

G'day,

Robin - booklets of Maynard cartoons certainly floated over the Tasman in the 50s & 60s They were soggy and hard to read on arrival. Jollife books seemed to survive better.

Jennie - Even the Albury version of the Pub I posted above looks Kitsch to me - a glossy bright red roof? Which side of the Black Stump do you hail from? Anywhere near Snake Gully?

Whoops - I feel a bout of Gundagai coming on.... It's hell down there as Dennis Bloodnock would say.......

Cheers - Sam

Subject: RE: BS: Ettamogah Pub
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Jul 04 - 04:21 AM

Went to the original, one Tuesday in October 2004, there was me the the SO, and one other guy there, so not much on the atmosphere count. Fun place though, and I've got the piccies.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Ettamogah Pub
From: Billy the Bus
Date: 12 Jul 04 - 04:52 AM

Giok,

You're ahead of me (and the world) - Oct 2004?

Anyway... I assume it was sota-orright?


Cheers - Sam

Subject: RE: BS: Ettamogah Pub
From:
Date: 12 Jul 04 - 05:05 AM

Billy - I have several booklets of Ned & his Neddy & I used to buy Australasian (not Australian) Post back in the 70's for this cartoon & the folklore columns. Unfortunately it changed into a girlie magazine & is still around, and I think it has changed even more since (for the worse, naturally). I also have a Wichety's Tribe booklet, it certainly was a different world in the 50's.

I recently borrowed a book on Stan Cross from the Library - more wonderful Australian cartoons there, too. I also have a few comic strips of his cut from old newspapers years ago.

I'm not sure if I can picture Saltbush Bill - tho the name is familiar. I might have a look in the library when I'm there next.

sandra (all nostalgic)

Subject: RE: BS: Ettamogah Pub
From: Billy the Bus
Date: 12 Jul 04 - 05:46 AM

G'day Sandra,

My 'Saltbush Bill' comment was inspired by the Eric Jollife cartoons - I wasn't thinking of the Banjo Patersonm poems...

Anyway, in my stumble-bumming round the Net, I found this page about the original Saltbush Bill. Ummm.... What a man! Back in my youth I could crack a ten foot stock-whip (just) "Roderick William Mills known as Saltbush Bill." could crack a 65 footer.....

Mumble.... Don't tell Bob Bolton....

Awwww.... Shucks..... Much more to say....

A toast to the Ettamogah Pub and Aussie Cartoonisis...

LOL - Sam

Subject: RE: BS: Ettamogah Pub
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Jul 04 - 10:31 AM

When it's Monday in England it's mostly Tuesday in Oz, but it is still the same year, DOH!! Make that 2003.
Yes it was OK.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Ettamogah Pub
From: JennieG
Date: 13 Jul 04 - 01:02 AM

I have been past the Albury Ettamogah pub but haven't stopped as it looked like a tourist trap. Billy - I'm from north-east of the Black Stump, born and bred in Tamworth NSW but one of my grannies was a Kiwi.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Ettamogah Pub
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Jul 04 - 04:13 AM

Interesting site JennyG, I find it a bit odd that Neville Shute's book 'Beyond the Black Stump' is not quoted among the items associated with/ or derived from the location.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Ettamogah Pub
From: Billy the Bus
Date: 13 Jul 04 - 04:23 AM

Neville Shute?

And the blind cord and bottle tapping out Morse code?

Didn't Tamworth have a bit of a sing-around a few (or more) decades back? Grovelling - waiting for the 'Whizz Bangs"...

Mumble - Sam

Subject: RE: BS: Ettamogah Pub
From: Joybell
Date: 13 Jul 04 - 06:31 PM

JennyG, I had a Kiwi Granny too. Would have been one myself if she hadn't sent her unmarried pregnant daughter back to Australia.

Sam, do you really have a giant sqid?
                                        Joy

Subject: RE: BS: Ettamogah Pub
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 03:11 AM

do you have a comic strip that i could veiw for a school assignmentr

Subject: RE: BS: Ettamogah Pub
From: ossonflags
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 02:42 AM

I met some one who said they came from a place called "Iron Knob" in Australiia, was it a wind up?

Subject: RE: BS: Ettamogah Pub
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 09:03 AM

G'day ossonflags,

No!

(It's a small town in South Australia ... making a living from lots of iron ore concentrated on a nearby hilltop ... called .. "Iron Knob".)

Regard(les),

Bob