Site visit this morning to a really shit pub to be redeveloped. I’ve got a picture of this pub on opening in 1937, a gleaming and modern u-shaped bar with terrazzo floors and chrome rails. That was for the 6 o’clock closing era, when bars were redesigned as machines for serving the maximum amount of beer in the short period between the end of work day and close.
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Which is worse, that culture of high speed hydraulic pump of booze, or the current culture of NSW hotels where the poker machine room sets the tone? I’m genuinely undecided.
Anyway. We do have one specific remnant of that era in our lives, when men [since women could not drink at the public bar] raced the clock to get the maximum number of drinks in: tradies work hours. Sure there are other good reasons lots of them work 7-3, like school pickup, but it’s also a 6 o’clock closing hangover.
Not a lot of good came out of the 1930s, generally. Just a Bad Areas decade for most of the world. But there are a few exceptions: my father, and art deco. Those are cool.
