Super cool location, felt pretty unreal actually being there... shame you can't go inside any more
Edit: Seems like they made a new website for it! I hope they can turn it around somehow
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Unsure if you know but we had one in Queensland up the Sunny coast. Next to the motorway. I think that's gone.
It is gone. Absolute monstrosity now.
Street view image.
Oh God. I've driven past the place since the other one went ( a fair few years I think ) I must say I don't think I've seen that thing. How long has that been there ?
Years. Not sure how many but a lot.
Edit: this website says 2019.
https://thebananabenderpub.com/about/
Perth also had one, but it closed down 20 years ago. Two businesses have since occupied the building, but both have died.
You can see how the building would have looked with the angular awnings etc. but they were made boring after the Ettamogah closed down.
I'm kinda aware that there were 4 Ettamogah Pubs in total, but I don't know where and I can't find anything about the other ones
Edit: Seems like the only one that's still in operation as Ettamogah Pub is the one in Cunderdin, WA.
As I've mentioned elsewhere the one in Albury seems to have been renamed.... Looks like I need to go to Cunderdin lol
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Interesting that the previous owner of the Pub in Albury had these grand plans of a caravan park and a petrol station, even read somewhere that they wanted to build it into a theme park.
Obviously didn't go too well for them...