dannyboy wrote:
AGRO wrote:
In the old days they used to start off at Naughtons.
But I am of the understanding that Naughtons is now closed.
Can someone confirm that?
sadly it was bought and nothing has happened
I say sadly because my office window looks out at Naughtons
nothing sadder than staring out at a pub with no beer
Trinity building?
I walk by up Morrah every morning and every evening.
Naughtons has been struggling for years. The family sold out and when you don't own the building the rent's too high to make it work anymore. They want $177K or thereabouts for a 12 month lease from memory. You need to sell a lot of pots to make that work. Compare that to the average small bar with a rental of about $30K and $6-7 bottled beer. The model's changed and Naughtons didn't see it coming. If you want to do the big pub thing these days you have to have a serious kitchen or some genuine point of difference to make it work. A range of coloured trough lollies just doesn't quite have the pulling power it used to.
The demographic's changed enormously over the last 30-40 years. Every second house was a student household in the late 60s and now there are only about 5 in the whole triangle.
The student population's changed massively too. I used to drink there in the late 80s and it was full of a mix of college kids, goths, bogans, whatever. If you wanted to drink you went to Naughtons or the Clyde (unless you preferred the smell of engineers' vomit in which case you had PA's). Over the last few years some of the college kids continued to use it as a vomitorium but the rest of the uni population's either drinking at one of the city's far more inviting bars, hanging out in the gym trying to line up an internship at one of the big accounting firms or going from shop to shop in Swanston St in search of new Hello Kitty stickers.
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