The pub with a difference - the Ettamogah, Cunderdin, Western Australia
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (381740)
Rockingham, Australia
August 16, 2021 10:57pm CST
For those of you who like to marvel at the names of West Australian towns, on the weekend we drove through Cunderdin, Meckering, Tammin, and went close to Doodlakine. I love Doodlakine. I wonder how it got its name?
Cunderdin’s main claim to fame is the Ettamogah Pub. The original Ettamogah Pub came from the imagination of cartoonist, Ken Maynard. It was built of timber and featured sloping walls and a distinctive architectural style.
Businessman, Lindsay Cooper, took up the idea and built his own Ettamogah Pub just outside Albury in New South Wales. It opened in 1987. This led to a chain of pubs based on the same lines.
The advertising for the Cunderdin model states that Ettamogah means ‘place of a good drink’ but I don’t know if that is authentic or not. Hopefully, you can see how the back wall slopes out.
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
17 Aug 21
I swear, when people were coming up with place names in Australia, the people sat down with a group of their friends and said, "Okay, we're starting a little town here... What's the weirdest thing we can make up as a name for it, just to confuse people later on?" And they sat there throwing out the silliest things they could think of until one of them said, "Ooooh! I LIKE that one! That's it's name!" 
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@Fleura (34927)
• United Kingdom
17 Aug 21
@JudyEv @DaddyEvil At least they are unique - not like the US where so often they just named one place after another place they remembered, and then people from there moved on to a new place and then took the same name. So for example there are 19 Rochesters, 14 Birminghams, 16 Parises.
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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
17 Aug 21
That's a cool looking pub. I like Doodlakine too!
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@BloggerDi (3121)
• United States
17 Aug 21
I haven't kept up with my favorite posters on myLot recently, including you. I was unaware that you'd gained some fans of WA unusual/fun town names. So add me to your list of marvelers! That's a cool pub, too!
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
17 Aug 21
that is so cool (and I learned something today)!
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@RebeccasFarm (91299)
• United States
17 Aug 21
This seems a nice pub. Yes I also love the name.
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@moffittjc (128824)
• Gainesville, Florida
17 Aug 21
You get drunk in a place like that, and you will be questioning whether it's your drunkenness or the sloping walls that have you staggering and falling over! lol
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@moffittjc (128824)
• Gainesville, Florida
18 Aug 21
@JudyEv It would be interesting, that's for sure! Did you by any chance go into the pub, or did you just snap a photo from the outside?
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@JudyEv (381740)
• Rockingham, Australia
18 Aug 21
@moffittjc It looked to be closed so we didn't go across. It was Monday lunchtime so they might have been closed, being such a small town.
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@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
18 Aug 21
That's a unique name. And for people from a different culture like me, such names would be stranger and even hard to remember. 
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@Hanbinandaeyo (3299)
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18 Aug 21
Well, we'll never know... but it was quite unique actually.. The place and the name are catchy
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@Hanbinandaeyo (3299)
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19 Aug 21
@JudyEv Indeed.. It'll be easy to remember for the passerby and tourist as well
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