{"id":17636,"date":"2017-05-07T09:43:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T14:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=17636"},"modified":"2022-06-05T10:38:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T15:38:27","slug":"arm-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/arm-leg\/","title":{"rendered":"An Arm and a Leg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I stumbled upon Joe Batt’s Arm again. I first became acquainted with Joe Batt and his arm when Twelve Mile Circle investigated Mundane First Name Places<\/a> about a year ago. The settlement grew along an inlet, colloquially called an arm, that formed a part of its name. It still amused me all these months later when I came across it once again. However, I couldn’t repeat what I’d already reported so I decided to find additional appendages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Towns featuring Arms appeared all along Canada’s North Atlantic coastline, although particularly in Newfoundland and Labrador. Joe Batt’s Arm fell within that category, of course. Sporadic instances of Arms could be seen in other parts of the world although not nearly enough to create a trend. Well, except maybe in Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There, another concentration of Arms appeared on the eastern edge of New South Wales and Queensland so I decided to concentrate my efforts there. I could have selected any number of Australian locations, however I focused on Taylors Arm for a particular reason. It featured The Pub with No Beer. Paradoxically, the Pub with No Beer (map<\/a>) not only served beer, it even brewed its own beer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sydney Morning Herald explained the odd designation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The history of The Pub With No Beer dates back to 1943, when farmer Dan Sheahan went to the Day Dawn Hotel in Ingham, north of Queensland, only to find American soldiers had drunk the pub dry of beer. With a glass of wine in hand instead, he penned A Pub Without Beer. Country singer Gordon Parsons adapted the song to A Pub With No Beer, basing it on his own local at Taylors Arm, then called the Cosmopolitan Hotel. When his friend Slim Dusty recorded the song in 1957, it became an Australian chart-topper.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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