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My cousin once went there for lunch and said it had the best food! Next to it is a kind of theme park... but you can't really see it all that well from the highway.
lol My sister went there years ago when it was first built and she said it was great then. Always said I would go, course ended up on the other side of the world, instead. I remember the cartoon in the paper years ago. Lord they were great cartoons. Thanks for a trip down memory lane.. I grew up in Melb .
Actually, I got us lost on the way home. We were on our way to the Bruce Highway and I took Mum the looooong way around!
Is there any other way? :P
Well, we came across this place, 'Australia Zoo' and then had morning tea at Beerwah (which is a really strange place as it's cut into two sections by a rail line). Then, we came across Mt Timbrogagan as well. A great day all in all with great sights all the way home.
I got this off the official site for this building:
Background History
The original creator of the Ettamogah Pub was Ken Maynard who started drawing the Ettamogah Pub in 1959. It was made famous through his regular cartoons in The Australasian Post.
The Aussie World Ettamogah Pub was built in 1989 and the word "ettamogah" is Aboriginal for "place of good drink!" Now one of Queensland's leading tourist attractions it stands at an impressive 18m in height. It's a must to visit due to its quirky shape and caricature appearance. It was opened on 24th November 1989 with most of the furniture inside the pub built from trees cleared from the actual site.
There's a 1927 Chevy truck on top of the bright red roof of the Ettamogah Pub. In the cartoon the theory is the truck was washed up there in the floods of 1946 and none of the regulars could be bothered to get it down. There are also pictures of the cartoons hanging around the walls of the Pub along with other eclectic displays of everything Australian. http://www.aussieworld.com.au/web/ettamogah-pub.html
Is there any other way? :P
Well, we came across this place, 'Australia Zoo' and then had morning tea at Beerwah (which is a really strange place as it's cut into two sections by a rail line). Then, we came across Mt Timbrogagan as well. A great day all in all with great sights all the way home.
Background History
The original creator of the Ettamogah Pub was Ken Maynard who started drawing the Ettamogah Pub in 1959. It was made famous through his regular cartoons in The Australasian Post.
The Aussie World Ettamogah Pub was built in 1989 and the word "ettamogah" is Aboriginal for "place of good drink!" Now one of Queensland's leading tourist attractions it stands at an impressive 18m in height. It's a must to visit due to its quirky shape and caricature appearance. It was opened on 24th November 1989 with most of the furniture inside the pub built from trees cleared from the actual site.
There's a 1927 Chevy truck on top of the bright red roof of the Ettamogah Pub. In the cartoon the theory is the truck was washed up there in the floods of 1946 and none of the regulars could be bothered to get it down. There are also pictures of the cartoons hanging around the walls of the Pub along with other eclectic displays of everything Australian.
http://www.aussieworld.com.au/web/ettamogah-pub.html