I was driving on balaclava St and this building caught my attention.
Totally abandoned, empty, and covered in graffiti.
Posted by Rayen_the_buzzybee
I was driving on balaclava St and this building caught my attention.
Totally abandoned, empty, and covered in graffiti.
Posted by Rayen_the_buzzybee
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The old Broadway Hotel
Extremely flammable.
Used to cook your own steaks out the back..
And used to sit out the front watching the boys come out of the brothel across the road and give them a big cheer…YTB
Wikipedia entry is worth a read, particularly the history since the 90s
[Broadway Hotel, Woolloongabba](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_Hotel%2C_Woolloongabba?wprov=sfla1)
The Broardway Hotel. It’s had some fires throughout the years.
https://www.reddit.com/r/brisbane/comments/1q8pkdz/broadway_hotel_fire_woolloongabba_building_burns/
Broadway hotel. It miraculously catches on fire every few years and that is completely and absolutely nothing to do with the fact that the owners want to put high rise apartments on the site but the old hotel is heritage listed and can’t be demolished.
Two completely unrelated things.
Here’s the same location in 1992. The missing “el” from “Hotel” is vaguely prescient
https://preview.redd.it/zu8ww6j3re3h1.jpeg?width=990&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bba13a18ae331eabc54bebcdcc347cdbac3a15d9
Spent a good bit of my first few paycheques as a 17 year old there having some steaks and beers I shouldn’t have been getting lol
The world’s changed a lot in the last 20 years since Kevin Rudd was the PM!!
Before the fires they still had topless barmaids on weekend arvos in the beer garden, this was in the 00s. Absolutely wild.
It’s an attempted insurance job.
Been to a couple fires there 😮.. and not just the cooking your own steak kind
Best place to warm up on a cold night!
There’s a development application in for it. The current new owners appear to be semi-serious about doing *something* to restore it. I believe they’ve already demolished a decrepit extension at the rear, but I’ve not heard of any progress for quite a few months.
The “Highrise but leave the hotel facade in place” development was the previous owners IIRC.
Used to work very close to that pub. $2 Roast Lunch on a Friday if I remember correctly. Good feed for a struggling apprentice.
Disney castle
Cursed.
Rebuild the pub I say – had good steaks there back in the day
Had my 18th there in 2000, joint was on fire that night
ARSON
Steaks were perfect to my liking, coz i cooked the fuker. But yeah was good 🍻
Its a block of flats that people who hate housing and development have been trying to have aborted for years.
It is genuinely disgusting a building like this was able to deteriorate the way it has. Brisbane has such few like this and letting another one get to this point, whilst very on brand for this city, is despicable.
That sir, is the famous Hungry Jacks on Queen Street Mall
It’s a developers fire pit
If owners can’t protect Heritage listed buildings then there should be a prohibition notice issued preventing development on the site for 25 years after the building is destroyed.
https://preview.redd.it/4eiplsnl8f3h1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=52fcf34bc0f34bed769a9a2936bed2c7a5e1e092
Photo from upstairs like December noting to look at really
That there is ye old land bank.
It’s a bank or a pub, bet.
A built….
Broadway Hotel. My ex-girlfriend had her 21st there…25 years ago.
They can’t knock it down because it’s heritage protected, but they also don’t want to rebuild it.
The current plan is for a developer to make an apartment block sprout out of its ruins and rebuild the pub inside it.
The comments are smokin’
Its the broa