Category talk:Pubs in Sydney

Historical pubs with societal links to Sydney's greater history?
Just wanted to suggest to the editors of this category that they consider 'poverty point' (The Criterion hotel, cnr Pitt and Park) and that pub around the side of Town Hall and behind QVB. Both have EXTENSIVE links to Sydney's history. The latter being the location of many political groups, including Anonymous during the Project Chanology operations and later spawning into a larger free speech movement that fought the government legislation to censor the internet in Australia and led to tens of thousands of people marching on Australia's capitals repeatedly in opposition, for nearly a decade political dissidents met at that location where the owners reserved an entire floor of the four storey hotel (usually the roof top) for their near nightly activities. The prior being a less political but rich cultural hot spot stemming from the cheap rooms and food at one point for the poorer class of Sydney which often included actors, writers, and the like. Over many decades the Criterion was a hot spot for Sydney's who's who of the great social mobility sprint. For a time it became incredibly popular with magicians, with one of Australia's largest magic circles gathering there to meet, drink, and pull rabbits out of each others arses. In 1975 there was a rather notorious gangland character who frequented the place until he was shot outside while getting into a cab. There's just a whole rich cultural history around the THS/QVB region of Sydney city that is sadly becoming a verbal history and oral tradition which means lower accuracy and the risk of it ceasing to exist one day. We Aussie's should know what a bad idea oral traditions are given that many of the indigenous peoples inhabiting this rock have lost theirs because one day, somewhere, someone will just plum forget to pass it on! 121.211.56.55 (talk) 02:46, 14 July 2015 (UTC)