{"product_id":"middle-park-hotel-suburban-icon-poster","title":"Middle Park Hotel Suburban Icon Poster","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt began with bricks, booze, and Victorian bravado. Built in 1889 and licensed the same year by John Mahon, the Middle Park Hotel has long stood as a stately, boozy cornerstone of the community on Canterbury Road. But don’t let the wood panelling fool you. This place has seen it all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBack in the day, the Middle Park Hotel was a centre of local politics, kindergarten committees, bowls clubs, and any other gathering that needed beer and a backroom. It was where men made speeches, women ran the show, and nobody left sober if they could help it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Mahon, the hotel’s original leading lady, was a local legend in lace. One newspaper in 1905 lovingly described her as a thoughtful hostess, meaning she probably served afternoon tea to lady bowlers at 4:30, and probably poured gin into it by 4:31.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis was also the golden age of the “smoke night”, a post-dinner revelry of singing, storytelling, and tobacco-fuelled tomfoolery that sounds like a bachelor party hosted by your local football club and emceed by Banjo Paterson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen came the 1950s, the decade of destruction. The urns were removed. The windows bricked up. The building went from Victorian-era swagger to late-20th Century disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2009, a renovation brought the old girl back to glory. Victorian elegance was stitched together with modern design: a relaxed front bar, a dining room clad in English oak salvaged from the MCC Long Room, and enough charm to lure both history buffs and Sunday brunchers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToday, the Middle Park Hotel stands as a bayside icon with beer taps and battle scars, and this Suburban Icons print captures it in all its weathered, whiskey-soaked glory. It’s a tribute to a place where ghosts drink quietly, the past lingers in the wood grain, and the present toasts them with a pale ale and a medium-rare porterhouse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHang it in your home, your bar, your shed, anywhere that could use a bit more character and a lot more boozy history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Suburban Icons Travel Posters","offers":[{"title":"A4 (21 × 29.7 cm)","offer_id":58224292790575,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3 (29.7 × 42 cm)","offer_id":58224292823343,"sku":null,"price":75.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2 (42 × 59.4 cm)","offer_id":58224292856111,"sku":null,"price":100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1 (59.4 × 84.1 cm)","offer_id":58224292888879,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0985\/8629\/6623\/files\/middle-park-hotel-suburban-icon-poster-artwork.jpg?v=1784343302","url":"https:\/\/suburbanicons.com.au\/products\/middle-park-hotel-suburban-icon-poster","provider":"Suburban Icons Travel Posters","version":"1.0","type":"link"}