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The Sticky Coin Craze
The Sticky Coin Craze
A barmaid sticks another penny to the wall in a Sydney pub during the 1940s.
By MICK ROBERTS ©
WAITING for my wife to run a few errands, I waited over a schooner of Reschs at the White Horse Inn Hotel on Crown Street, Surry Hills.
Pulling-up a bar stool, I noticed sitting beside my beer, a tip jar, with a clever spruik for my loose change. Pinned to a tiny tin bucket was a pretty-good likeness of…
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The Copper Derby
The bar of the Bulli Family Hotel – shortened in 2000 – once ran around this concrete pylon. Drinkers used to dip their pennies in beer and stick the coins onto the pylon, which was donated to the Bulli Police Boys’ Club, and later used in the famous wheelbarrow race – the Bulli Copper Derby, which ran annually from 1961 to 1965. The last race was run in 1965 after introduction of decimal…
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