The Globe Hotel – Coolgardie hotels 2

The Globe Hotel was situated between Ford and Hunt Streets Coolgardie. There is no known photograph of the building which has survived. W M Faahan was the first owner and claimed it to be the first hotel in Coolgardie.

Coolgardie Miner 15 Oct 1936

In 1895 it was known as, Alec Caro’s Wine and Beer Saloon, three months later, when Alex collapsed in the street and died the business was taken over by his brother Emil. Three years later Emil brought the first gramophone to Coolgardie and he invited all music lovers to hear it free of charge for ‘a few night only’.

By the end of the year the Saloon was offered for sale. It was up for sale for a year before it was purchased by Mrs Pat Lynch in 1898 and was renamed the Globe Hotel. Mrs Lynch the later sold the goodwill, stock and lease to Nat Burgess.

In an advertisement in the Coolgardie Press, Nat called the Globe

‘The working man’s main house of call, with the best counter lunches and ales brewed by the Hannans Brewery in the Colony’.

By the turn of the century, the Globe was referred to by the Warden as

‘one of the worst conducted places in town’

a description disputed by Burgess who said those remarks were an exaggeration and likely to increase disturbances at the hotel.

Tom McJannett, who had been Chief Steward at the Coolgardie Club, rebuilt the hotel in 1903 as a single story brick and plaster structure. He offered drinkers ‘spiced wine, mulled strout and wine Tom and Jerries’ in addition to Toorak beer obtained from the cask by a new up to date method. A New Years part was held at the end of 1903 where guests were invited to partake of ‘Whiskey Punch, Partin Taes, Tatties and Harrins, Athol Bros and Haggis’.
(not quite sure what some of these food and drinks is)

In 1913 W J Reynolds was the proprietor:-

Like so many other hotels, the Globe closed down in December 1918 when the owners, The Kalgoorlie Brewery, declined to carry out extensive repairs ordered by the Licensing Court.

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