The Snug Public House, Melbourne

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An Irishman with a Tom Waits smoke-and-whisky voice sung about dirty towns and working-class struggles: big families in small houses, coal towns in deep dark valleys, all black and shades of grey, no colour.

The Guinness drank well and the Jameson quelled any desire to ever leave. The Snug is an alcove, in central Brunswick, for both trucks and trailers, for stout and whiskey, and memories of dirty days in dirty towns far away.


Location: 68 Sydney Rd, Brunswick VIC 3056, Australia

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