Lisa sent this in as a sort of not worst, or maybe as a heritage action in case Murray Lodge in West Perth disappears. I do seem to remember that the old motel had been sold or was on the market or was slated for something. In any case, Lisa thought that “9″ was added to Perth phone numbers in the 80′s and yet Hahn Ice was a 90′s beer and this would be a mystery solvable by TWOP fans. Is there still such a thing as Hahn Ice? The font for teh Lodge is magnificent. Alas I cannot add it to TWOP titles as typekit turned out to be a dud. I seem to remember that this wall once graced a giant photo of Cimbali enjoying the seamy pleasures of C-anal Rocks.
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Magnificent font indeed! According to Wikipedia, the changeover that added the 9 in Perth was on 5 May 1997. Hahn Ice was launched in 1993 as a 4.9% beer, but ended up at a watery 4.2% apparently.
Beer test results for Hahn Ice Beer
Ranked no.60 out of 61 beers.
In a blind test, our beer tasters came to the following conclusions:
Aroma/Bouquet: Oily, solvent-like, cabbagey, sweet, pukey.
“Slightly pukey smell with a nutty aftertaste. I agree, it’s not awful, but definitely watered down.”
http://www.tastebeer.com.au/beer/112
If that inspires you it is still available from Dan Murphys apparently
That list is interesting MP.
They have Hahn Ice at 60, but somehow Melbourne Bitter is number 2.
Not sure about that site… though I think they nailed the tasting notes…
Somewhere along the line Melbourne Bitter became the inner-city cool-kid hipster drink of choice. God knows why. It’s probably not even cheap anymore.
You can get really cold king brown’s of Melbourne Bitter over here in Melbourne Meyer’s Place (off Bourke St). Of course they stare blankly at you until you say, ‘you know, a long-neck’.
Serving king browns in a bar is absolute genius.
$10 king browns at Ezra Pound in our very own Northbridge. They even come in a brown paper bag to keep em cold.
It’s not Melbourne Bitter though, so I don’t feel like I’m as cool as I possibly could be.
Does the Republic still sell $5 cans of Swan Draught? The hipster search for authenticity, WA style…
Amplifier used to sell long necks too. Not sure if they still do.
Not too sure Ljuke. Last time I was amps I was blinded by rage at getting my fingerprints taken and my id scanned to see a band. I think its only plastic pints now.
amps is now full of arsehats, hence the private fingerprint scam
amps is shit
WAtching – your avatar:
first concert i ever went too! entertainment centre. fab.
ever went to – blahhhh
Very interesting, mp.
The “Golden Age of Porn.” Wonderful thanks snuff – especially the clip. what a total dude he was.
According to wikipedia he has charted no fewer than 33 top 40 hit singles. Who knew?
Morten Harkett, Scott Baio, Ralph Machio, but NOT Shakin Stevens.
Somebody got there before me, the 9 was added in the nineties. The eighties were three decades ago now. I miss them.
Hahn Ice is like making love in a canoe. I keep having to explain what that means, which I wouldn’t have had to do in the eighties.
What’s a canoe?
We find your American beer like making love in a canoe. It’s fucking close to water. – Monty Python
I can confirm that there are som outposts of Hahn Ice in Perth. Very silly clear bottle. Very Bad Beer.
Ice Filtered apparently. I suspect they filter out the beer.
The font is awesome. I drive past regularly without recognising how beautiful it is.
That is why Murray Lodge is still in business and these guys are not…
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I bought a carton of it while overnight in Guilderton about 7 years ago, from the shop attached to the servo on the hill – was all they had left on a late Sunday afternoon. Drank like mad but didn’t get anywhere near the same result as was experienced at wheatbelt BBQs and parties in early – mid ’90s where it was prevalent. Then looked at the alcohol % and discovered the terrible truth that gobeirne reveals.
90s really? Amusingly, the website for the lodge conspicuously doesn’t have a shot of the exterior.
interesting that they still haven’t painted the bare face brick surrounding the sign that awful shade of green to match.
next time i’m sitting at the red lights there, trying to avoid the scary squeegee men, at least i’ll have something to look at.
I might be mistaken, but doesn’t the front of the building have a large mural about responsible driving – make sure you pick a skipper, or some such words?
I too drive past that building regularly and on first glance it
has the look of a (large) run down brothel.
Speaking of illicit sex; the angle of the bottle, with the foam dribbling out the hole in the top….
i see your point onnie. i went to highschool across the road and never noticed anything untoward back then but things may have changed.
you are a modernian?
they don’t advertise your blog on their publications.
yep curious, i am a modernian – scaling great heights like the others, bob hawke, rolf harris, janet holmes-a-court. no governorship yet though TLA.
when my blog reaches lofty heights and catapults me to the “A” list like TLA, they will be clambering to mention my brilliant work, ……
So you were the Governor General that attended the school that they’re always crapping on about?
I did my first Chinese lessons there, in sight of that sign.
Didn’t the sign at the front of Perth Mod feature on TWOP at some time?
Jeezus Bento, how pathetic to have you commenting at 10pm rather than 10am. Are you getting a lot more done at work?
There are ajust a few short of 1000 posts now, so hard to remember, but don’t think have had that sign. You mean the one where it says 10 prime ministers, 1 000 000 knob floggers, two sex pests, 6 magi, 5 Dalai llamas..?
It is a sad state of affairs, I agree. I seem to be getting a fair bit accomplished, but I can’t see how that can be construed as anything other than merely coincidental.
I had a hazy memory of there being something weird about the sign with the pictures of kiddies, visible when you spend the inevitable eon stopped at the lights on Thomas Street. But I may be mistaken.
world renown blogger……
….the open window adjacent, the two “O”s on the Toyota in the carpark. Such filth. Stains galore.
I remember there was an ad on that building as well for the skippers club. Those guys that would roll up on foldaway scooters and pick you up from your pissed location and drive you home on your car.
… for a small fortune in annual membership fees that on inspection worked out to be more expensive than a cab home and back to your car the next day.
Was this one taken a while ago?
I recognise my car in the PMH carpark.
Hi All
I work at the Murray Hotel. It was under new ownership since 2008 and the new owner has been refurbishing the rooms. The “kermit the frog” green colour will be disappearing this year and we will be completely renovating the front of the building.
The beer bottle is heritage and will be staying. The set of stairs that you can see from Thomas Rd will be enclosed by the end of the year.
The building looks tired because it’s been run down over the years but that’s all about to change :)
Glad the beer is staying. I hope the same can be said for this icon of painting.
Yeh me too, sorry I missed this, I’ve been away collecting great southern alcohol-related worsts…
Glad to be enlightened about the 9, the fate of the lodge (which I don’t think of as a brothel but as accommodating cash-strapped country families of sick kids at PMH, but I’m a bit soft that way) and the continued shitness of Hahn Ice, which tastes not as good as Earthchoice dishwashing liquid.
J.. Maybe the last day of the school term, the 16th or 17th December?
haven’t Marilyn and Jimmy Dean been granted world heritage status yet?
I always worried that this materpiece was not on the wall of the actual cake shop, but on the side of Jessie’s Kitchen, so ownership might be sketchy
incidentally, Jessie’s Kitchen is bloody marvellous – get the small combination plus some rhoti and dahl on the side and you’re laughing. also great idli and chapati and those stringy things that I forget the name of.
Cats?
I like the idea of a materpiece.
you insulting my mother?
Not exclusively.
thanks for the reply tiggletaggle.
i am very pleased to hear the beer sign is staying.
Hi. We brought the Murray Lodge in 2007 and have been having an ongoing battle with the council about this sign since then. There used to be a billboard over the top advertising various things like the skippers club etc. however the council will no longer allow a billboard on this site as, to quote, “3rd party advertising will not enhance the Visual quality of the area”! They asked us to paint over the old sign but I wanted to retain this landmark sign and recently the 1991 approval for the sign was finally found. We will now be updating the sign and I have approached Hahn to see if they want to update the beer! I have read with interest your comments on the logo font and so will take those on when redoing the sign. Thanks.
Excellent. Thanks for that info. Maybe a good update would be a pic of a giant bottle of bare rooted?
Please save the logo font, Kate. It’s excellent.
kate
i love the sign just as it is, and would love to see it stay.
good luck with the refurb.
Gee!
We do love our historical sites, don’t we?
All this heritage stuff.
At least 12 years of antiquity.
i’m sorry? there’s a minimum age threshold before i can find something charming?
Also a certain lack of logic there rolly. If it’s destroyed when it’s 12 years old, it’s not gunna get a chance to be really antiquated with an age that gives it “real” heritage value is it. Like curious, I wonder what the cutoff is and who determines it.
What on earth has logic got to do with anything?
A bit of T-I-C and it all goes over your heads.
As if Mr. & Ms. Average give a tinkers’ cuss about anything very much beyond their daily struggle to out-do the neighbours and to not fall behind in the social acceptance stakes.
Such determinations are made by whoever has the financial and political clout to turn it into personal gain.
Jeezus Xrist on a Crimson Crutch, do I have to explain *everything* to you thickies?
no, not if it’s funny.
The criterion of which is …………. that you are able to get the point without it being explained?
Erm… yes.
Rolly says, as he is a fossil with ossified views.
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story, Eh, DFOC?
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