James Ruse Hotel Traditional Cache
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I don't recommend doing this one at night as there may be unsavory people about, especially Thurday, Friday and Saturday nights
Upon this site has been hotel as long as I can remember, it was here before my grandparents moved into the area in 1954.
It was then named the James Ruse Hotel Motel.
It was a drinkers pub, it was made out off bessa blocks, had a tin roof and a drive through window, a modern convenience for its time, out the back was 12 hotel rooms, asbestos fibro in construction with the end room against the chiller compressor.
Am I painting a grand picture? inside was 2 bars, the main bar and saloon bar for the ladies to drink in. the saloon bar had brown carpet and brown wall paneling with brown tables. chrome chairs and stools.
The main bar had 3 pool tables and 3 pool ques, brown carpet near the tables but lino near the bar and tables, the northern wall was mostly glass looking out to the car park where the front car park is today at the Etta.
Out the front where the Etta building now stands there was a "Playground for the kids" consisting of a 12 foot high steel slippery dip, a rotating platform that was banned in the 80's due to to many injuries, and a couple of swings.
The pub was used frequently for "outlaw motorcycle gang" gatherings and often when we drove past some of the front windows were missing.
The James Ruse was demolished to make way for the Etta, when it was bought by the fresh food people in 1999, the Etta opened in 2003 and is a copy of the original at table top and was the fourth to open under the name.
There are now only three operating as the original one was closed in July 2011
How can I describe the "Ruse" so well, I spent many a day here with my parents in the late 60's and early 70's and as it was only 800mts from home, was the site of my first drink at a bar aged ..... well less than 16, ID was never a big thing in the early eighties.
Who was James Ruse and why the hotel was named after him, he was the only farmer on the first fleet and allegedly grew the first commercial crops, but he was a convict at the time so how could it have been a commercial crop?
He had 30 acres in the Hawkesbury for a few years before moving to Campbelltown .
and he wrote his own head stone
My Mother Reread Me Tenderly
With Me She Took Much Paines,
And When I Rrivd In This Coelney
I .Sewd the Forst Grain, And Now
With My Hevenly Father I Hope
For Ever to Remain
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