For those that know me well, V8’s, outback pubs, Australia’s pioneer past are some of my great passions in life, beside family & friends which goes without saying (hang on I just did, but there you go). So when you have a Mad Max film car parked out in front (granted a bit worse for wear but it is a harsh climate out here) of an outback pub – being Silverton Hotel, and if those walls could talk, you just can’t help combine the lot. Can you believe Mad Max 2 was shot back in 1979, and the photos of Mel in the pub are definitely the younger version – mmmm. There were 10 pubs in Silverton during the height of the mining. When the ore declined buildings came down, brick by brick and transported to Broken Hill and rebuilt there via camel and donkey trains 25km away. On one of the signs in town it is quoted as “..buildings and ruins that remain are a testimony to the men and women that settled, worshipped, educated, served, paid rates, drank their share, went to court, goal but most of all worked” so I think they made a great use of the pubs, wouldn’t you say.
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