Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Flamin' Myer

At the risk of incriminating myself, I was in the Hobart Myers last saturday and left disgruntled as they didn't have what I was looking for. I was also reminded how daggy and outdated the store was. It hasn't been re-decorated since the 70's.

An hour later it was evacuated and not long after the whole building burnt to the ground.

From Ains' mums house in West Hobart we had a good view of the spectacle as we partied on to celebrate Ains's birthday.

At about 6pm:


Then, about 30 mins later it started to fireball:


Luckily no one was hurt. However the heritage listed exterior of the building was totally destroyed. The nearby small stores would've been affected by the fire from smoke damage, ash and water damage from the firehoses.
The cities only comic shop is situated right next to Myers (it shares a wall)- so it's a good chance thats trashed!
One of my friends owns a custom culture clothing store nearby too. The CBD was closed down and lots of people are now out of jobs.

The cocktail bar had a special drink that night called "A Flaming Myer". It was pretty tasty.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have forwarded this to the Commissioner for investigation. You may be hearing shuffling noises in the walls by now. Don't worry it isn't those cocktails wearing off, there really are people in there ;>

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