Capital gain

With its distinctive shape, the original Ettamogah Hotel, in Albury, regional NSW, has been listed for sale by Leigh O’Brien, the cartoon-esque pub’s owner since 1987 who is now looking to retire.

It comes with a price tag of about $50 million and includes 1500 original artworks and video footage.

While it looks like its about to fall over, the pub sits at 561 Burma Road in Table Top, in the Murray region, and is based on a pub that featured in the late Ken Maynard’s cartoons published in The Australasian Post for almost 50 years from 1959.

An Albury local, Maynard named the pub in his cartoon after a local watering hole that he used to cycle to called Ettamogah, an Aboriginal word meaning “place of good drink”.

The landmark hotel was built and opened in 1987 as a theme

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