num_pages: 149
description: Hotels at times have been a hot topic in Canberra especially as a location for spying on the nearby Soviet embassy or when ALP leaders waited outside for the 36 faceless men to tell them their future. This is a book about these events and more combining scholarship and readability. Here are tales from nineteenth-century pioneering days to the modernising 1980s when sedate planning gave way to go-getting marketeering. There are characters aplenty and incidents bizarre as well as plain facts about the buildings in which many people lived drank and got to know Canberra.
language: English
title: Canberra's Early Hotels: A Pint-sized History
publisher: Canberra & District Historical Society Inc