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I think that it's your shout next time we go in the Lowenbrau PW. Seem to recall getting caught between you Baz and Viv a couple of times lately

I agree that we give the Argyle a run this time around as well.

Wha?!!!!!!

Peter Weyling wrote: Look at all that creaminess!!! It's too bad we're all completely schmozooled by the time we get there!!!!!!! ....... and then we add a few "bucksliding cowboys" , or whatever Charlie calls them ..................

You may have been "schmozooled" Peter, not all of us were. Some of us are made of hardier stuff, you know.

It comes from being shy and innocent and spending all of our off time at choir practice.

Aaaah Phred ..... I see time and distance has already dulled your memory eh?

***GASP***

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Okay..... looks like time for Plan B!

If in fact the Frisco is not reopening, then we may have to trudge a little further afield to The Bells!!

Hmmmmmm ......... I don't know whether I can carry you and Shep all the way back to the Motel from the Bells!!!!

connief wrote: You blokes may have to find a new pub for your Basin Trails. I have heard from a mate that was in Sydney just recently (about a week
or so ago) that Friscos has closed indefinitely. Apparently the new owners figures didn't work out with the renovations he wanted to do.

Thanks for the tip Connie... I just tried to ring The Frisco on the land-line posted on their website and it rang out...

I then noticed an email address for 'Adam' so I put together and sent the following:

"Hi Adam,

I’m part of a group of ex-Navy Apprentices who, for the past 14 years, have met at The Frisco for a friendly get-together on the first
Friday afternoon in November each year, often staying and having a meal thereafter...

Somebody in our group passed on some third hand information that The Frisco is closed until further notice... Is this true...?"

Then, after I sent that off, I noticed a mobile number for 'Adam' so I rang that...

I got onto Adam, who informed me that The Frisco is indeed 'closed for renovations' at the moment, but he assured me that it would
be re-opened before the 4th Nov., as they had a huge function booked for The Melbourne Cup on the preceding Tuesday.

When I asked him if they planned on posting something on their website to advise that their closing was only temporary, he told
me that they weren't planning on doing anything to the website, as that was going to be overhauled as well, "...and besides, we had
to shut down at very short notice..."

Interesting....
Especially after The Frisco featured so prominently in an ABC News story about a 5 year old kid working as a runner for a
local drug dealer...!!! Man who used nephew, 5, to sell heroin jailed... I wonder if that had anything too do with it...

"The court heard the 36-year-old used his nephew, (5) who was staying at the flat, to collect $100 and $200 cash payments at the
apartment for balloons of heroin. After receiving the cash the uncle would hand over the heroin at either Frisco Hotel, Woolloomooloo..."

This is the news story I saw, it wasn't the ABC, it was Channel 7 and features The Frisco...

Drug dealer used five-year-old boy to collect money for heroin

Thanks Rick, that brought the blood pressure down about 25 points!

As to sudden, urgent repairs needed, I wonder if the bar floor finally gave way and when they investigated they found little white beasties in the woodwork? I know I tripped a few times on the floor - and that's before getting pissed!!

Peter Weyling wrote:Hmmmmmm ......... I don't know whether I can carry you and Shep all the way back to the Motel from the Bells!!!!

PW, after reading your comment I got a sudden mental image of an Hunchbacked boilermaker muttering "The bells, master, the bells!!"

................... could have been worse. Could have been on the tumbril, clattering over the cobblestones, among the jeering crowds throwing rotten fruit as it makes its way to the gallows!!!!!!