Demolished in 1987 to make way for Mincom building (now wework).
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Demolished in 1987 to make way for Mincom building (now wework).
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clearly Brisbane was not a sought after destination if the best hotel was called the “Canberra Hotel” to pretend you weren’t in Brisbane but Canberra which also sucks especially back then
A temperance teetotaller hotel (owned by the Temperance League)
There was this and Lennons to choose from in those days.
The chairs!
Capital idea
The way the women are posed as mannequins
https://preview.redd.it/5qb3b4j7f23h1.jpeg?width=613&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9a72cebab954ccd5bbbb6c3541168a7a181b21f0
Beautiful building — a shame it was ever demolished.
The room rates in 1966….
https://preview.redd.it/139rk2rag23h1.png?width=1806&format=png&auto=webp&s=89bc2f3b24d398f693348d610864fd5896a1237f
Was also fully air conditioned which was progressive for our sub tropical city in the 1940s.
Renowned as Brisbane’s foremost ‘dry’ hotel, owned by the Temperance League (as others have mentioned). Long before he was a teetotalling premier, Joh and Flo Bjelke-Petersen had their wedding reception at the Canberra.
Demolished in 1987 not to make way for the Mincom Building (that came quite later) but for the Central Place high-rise proposed then as the world’s tallest office building. City Council didn’t approve it, Joh’s cabinet members got wind of the developer’s sweetheart deal to provide kickbacks for Joh, so it didn’t go ahead. Joh got turfed as premier by his party and the hole in the ground left by the demolished Canberra Hotel eventually got remade as the Mincom.
No drinking allowed – but smoke all you want!