PART THEE - Franklin Street End

Young Street seemed like a good location. It was in the CBD, and not far from Adelaide's
majestic King William Street and Victoria Square; just a postman's walk from the Adelaide
GPO, with its ornate Victorian architecture and splendid skylight roof interior.

This photo, from 1918, looks down Franklin Street. Young Street is on the right (at arrow).
Note the electric tram car. Horse and motor vehicles are about equal in number.

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[Image: State Library of South Australia]

The next photo [Photo 2 in my Mud Map] looks from about where I placed the red arrow in the previous photo.
It shows what Scott Bonnar would have passed every morning. It's the Bristol Hotel ['B' on my Mud Map].
Eliza Street is first on the left; Young Street just after. The building immediately behind the hotel is the
Eliza Street end of the Detmold's Building.

The building on the left is being demolished. It would shortly become the new premises for Reo Motor Sales,
who also sold Dennis Lorries (of motor mower fame). The building on the right of the Bristol housed the
Bristol Billiard Saloon, a music teacher, a dressmaker, and a butcher. All very respectable.

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Today, the key buildings in the above photo survive. All have a heritage listing.
The Bristol is now the Franklin Hotel. Would Scott Bonnar have drunk at the Bristol?
I guess, highly likely: manufacturing work can get mighty hot in an Adelaide summer. Of course,
there was also the Lord Raglin at the other end of the block. He would have to had been
quick though - a 1915 referendum led to laws requiring hotels to close at 6 p.m. This
became know as the infamous "6 o'clock swill".

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[Image: 2015 Google Maps]

TO BE CONTINUED ...