Great news

 

Well the old place was always a dump, even way back in the 1980s when I first went there as a kid. So while I'll be sad to see it go for nostalgic reasons, almost any replacement will probably be a lot better for the drinking public.

 

my memory

 

Staying in the bunk rooms was always different.................

 

Had some great night's there when I was working at Buller. Easy stroll back up to Faulty Tower'.

 

Stained stinky carpet??

 

Maybe you could bid on that for the flat?

 

How appropriate.

@CarveMan

 

Bet his family sold much product over the years straight from the mens room vending machine

 

Ziggy Zaggy !
Ziggy Zaggy !
Oi oi oi !

 

Sorry, Buller in-joke. I grew up with Marty and we've had many messy nights at the Hoo Ha. But yes he copped a lot of shit for that surname as a kid.

He "married well", I'll leave it at that.

 

Most 'Marty's' are great guys.
Just the very best type of people.

 

Most - not all....

 

Repost of old Kooroora shots from the 50's before it burned down.

Kooroora Chalet Entry



Kooroora Chalet



Kooroora Deck



Kooroora Entry



Kooroora with Icicles



Kooroora Chalet

 

Found these one a while back

Was when it still had a swimming pool next door

Here

http://www.victorianplaces.com.au/taxonomy/term/1190

 

Place always smelled like stale beer and vomit to me, but I only did two seasons at Buller, at the Whit actually which always smelled of mildew and mould to me.

 

All caps? Really?

 

*cough* *choke*.... mmmm.

 

True fact

 

This Marty 'in joke' is intriguing. Who is Marty? #je suis Marty

 

Well, before most of you were born, I was skiing Buller. Big, big dump. 1981. July I think. Stayed at the the UniMelb lodge.

I am not sure if the Roota is in this shot, I took one day. It is from a hopelessly underexposed (dark) slide I took then, scanned and forced to look somewhat respectable. Snow hit 3.5m that year, about 2.3m here in this shot. Of which 1 metre fell in the two and half days I was there.

 

oh, bugger it. Another one. Looks like I reversed the slide.

 

Sorry I'm not sad to see the old Koroora go. With due respect to all K devotees, It's a visual blight on the Village square area and really should have been dozed a decade or two ago. I can only hope the accopanying Backpackers is modernised or rebuilt with it. Our budget skiers deserve better.

But this a great development for the mountain - I look forward to the grand opening. ASAP!

 

Maybe they'll keep the urinal for that authentic Hoo Ha smell, that seems to have expanded from only near the toilet doors into the entire middle third of the venue lately.

The news of 'Prestige apartments' sounds like bad news to me. With the YHA gone, there's no options for those who just need a cheap bed to crash on overnight. Sad. Buller was always more chill to me, and Hotham for the rich and snobby. Looks like they are determined for that to change.

EDIT: I should add that I am well aware Buller Backpackers is the worst accomodation in Australia and way overpriced for what it was, but if you didn't bring luggage or plan on showering (or getting that much sleep) it was adequate for it's purpose.

 

My husband worked at Koorora in the bar for a season, around 1971 I believe He maintains his bed was a mattress in a cupboard!

 

Working in property development at Buller, have to assume he married into the familia.

 

Hoo Ha was a ****ing dog turd baked in the sun on a cow pat. The single redeeming feature was the circular fireplace, but in later years they were so ****ing tightass to put wood on it that it was always barely lukewarm. Everything else about the place was an actual tip. I reckon they'd be able to use the floor as some sort of pressure-sensitive superglue. The mix of resin from the timber, beer, sweat and puke from the patrons, over the course of about 30 years seems to have resulted in a substance with exceptional tack. For all I care they could bulldoze it and put a carpark or a playground there. Actually, they could move the rubbish dump to that site and it would make the site smell better than it did when the hoo ha was standing.

It's hard to put into words how much of a shithole the hoo ha was. Perhaps i've been burnt too many times in there, chatting up 'babes' on the slopes only to see them without helmet, goggles and beanie on and realise they're uglier than me, that my dislike for the venue is so high.

 

Was dimly lit in there for exactly this reason.

 

Gave you a chance...

 

That and tons of alcohol

 

Happy hunting ground for TOFF back in the day.

 

True story

But imagine what they were thinking...

 

I kinda feel i'm a 'you know what you're gonna get' guy. Not many surprises, one way or the other. But shit, i'll be the first to admit i've been stooged at least once on the slopes.

Could be worse, a mate of mine banged some chick early on one of the seasons he was up there, then stuck with her for the season because she was a hairdresser and he got free hair cuts. She was not great.

 

Translation:

I tried my guts out but didn’t pick up at Kooroora once.

 

True. But it didn’t stop me from putting a couple of house deposits over the bar.

 

Would have had to be one of the most profitable businesses on the hill during ski season. Packed every Friday and Saturday nights.

 

Gosh, Verm, tell us how you really feel.

This.

Perhaps this required:

 

Stayed at the YHA backpackers....once...

 

I had a ‘visit’ there after the Kooroora one night

 

You know I wish that was the case. I really really do.

 

I reckon I didnt spend that much there, as the lodge was so close and you would drink up before heading over and most of the time the beers I bought there were just to keep me going, not fill me up. Even the beer didnt taste 'right' there most of the time.

 

It was just another pub. A bit special because it was "at the snow" amongst people with shared interests but really not unlike any other boozy joint full of boozy Aussie shenanigans.

No offence intended but I recall you being a pretty shy kid when I first met you. It doesn't surprise me if you found it overwhelming.

I man whored to ridiculous levels at Kooroora one season as a bet with another douchebag off here. It was good fun. Some of it I'm not proud of. There's lots I do and don't remember but I wouldn't trade any of it.

"Gotta slay a few dragons before you find your princess/prince charming" and the Hoo Ha was a fun place to embark on that quest.

 

Now you're taking it way too seriously.

 

Every place with a soul needs a dive like this pub was, Buller will be less without it.
Would be like taking the Corner Hotel out of Melb

 

Buller needs a pub. Here’s hoping whatever goes in has at least a halfway ‘pub’ vibe about it.

 

Thanks. Much more succinct than my dribble.

Or killing the Espy front bar.

Oh wait ...

 

My favourite story is that a certain well known magnate who had an apartment nearby would get so pissed off with the noise emanating from the Hoo Ha in the wee small hours on a weekend, that he would go over there and pull their fuses.