Young and Jackson Hotel

Sepia photograph of a two story brick building on the corner of a street. Outside stand two men next to a horse and cart, while another man leans in the doorway.

Photograph - 'Princes Bridge Hotel, Swanston Street, Melbourne', ca. 1864-1875, State Library Victoria

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This early photograph shows the hotel before Henry Figsby Young and Thomas Joshua Jackson took over the licence and christened it Young and Jackson Hotel in 1875.

Two scenes are depicted in this print - on the left hand side is a scene of two well dressed men in suits, standing outside a brick building motioning to go inside the hotel. On the right hand scene is a group of men sitting at a table in front of a bar. They have beer glasses held in the air and barrels are lined on the shelf behind the bar. One man is lying on the floor inebriated.

Print - The Melbourne Punch, 'Evening Service', 1856, State Library Victoria

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Hotels such as Young & Jackson were frequently depicted as rough and disreputable places. In this cartoon from The Melbourne Punch in 1856 drinkers carouse in breach of strict Sunday trading hours.

Street scene of a wide intersection with brick buildings of differing heights lining both sides of the street. People walk through the scene and horse and carts turn in various directions on the dirt roads.

Photograph - 'Swanston Street, Melbourne', ca. 1900, State Library Victoria

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The site opposite St Paul’s Cathedral and Melbourne's main railway station has always been busy. Young and Jackson Hotel is on the left.

Sepia photograph of an aerial view of a busy city intersection with construction on St Paul's Cathedral taking place on one corner. Cars can be seen heading in all four directions of the intersection.

Photograph - Airspy, 'Corner of Swanston and Finders Streets', ca. 1927-28, State Library Victoria

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An aerial view of the Flinders Street/Swanston Street intersection in 1928 shows clearly the busy intersection with construction work underway on the spires of St Paul's Cathedral opposite Young and Jackson Hotel.

Photograph taken from a tall building looking down on a busy streetscape - lots of pedestrians walk in front of the brick buildings and cars and trams drive down the centre of the road. Captions are placed over the top of the photograph, stating 'Bank offers area here for square' and 'Shops already owned by bank'.

Photograph - Herald & Weekly Times Ltd., 'Yesterday's picture of the proposed site for the L-shaped Commonwealth Bank and "half-moon shaped" garden - where Young & Jackson's Hotel now stands', 1960, State Library Victoria

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By the 1960s the hotel had become extremely run down and there were a number of proposals for redevelopment and 'improvement' to the site. However, this proposed development did not go ahead.

Black and white photograph of a busy streetscape, with small two story brick buildings on the street front and tall glass towers dwarfing them in the background. People walk across the intersection and cars drive down the centre of the road, some stopped at traffic lights.

Photograph - Herald & Weekly Times Ltd, 'Elevated view of Young and Jackson's Hotel, corner of Swanston and Flinders Streets, Melbourne', 1960, State Library Victoria

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Black and white photograph of a three story brick building on the corner of a busy intersection. Large neon light letters are perched on top, stating ' Taubman's Paints Spectrocolor'.

Photograph - Herald & Weekly Times Ltd, 'Neon lights give the Flinders Street face of "Y & J's" Young and Jackson's historic hotel a fairyland effect at night', 1967, State Library Victoria

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Young and Jackson hotel has been a prime site for advertising signs since the Second World War and the facade has been covered with a variety of neon and other electric signs for many years.

Magazine article mainly made up of columns of black text and two photographs - one a scene of four men standing around a bar drinking and smoking, while in the background a woman looks at the painting of 'Chloe. The other image is a woman studying the painting of Chloe in close detail, a pen and clipboard in hand.

Magazine - Jim Keep, 'Chloe meets the girls', 1 June 1967, State Library Victoria

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"Once upon a time, not even a suffragette would have dared to enter the bar at Young and Jackson's hotel, Melbourne, to view the famous nude Chloe."

This article gives an amusing picture of the changing attitudes both to Chloe and to women entering bars - traditionally men's territory.

Article from Australasian Post June 1, 1967 pp.14-15.

A naked woman stands with one hand on her hip and the resting on a nearby stone. Her face is turned to the side and a painted backdrop of a river and trees stands behind her.

Magazine - Jim Keep, 'Chloe meets the girls', 1 June 1967, State Library Victoria

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Article from Australasian Post June 1, 1967 pp.14-15.

Black and white photograph of a three story brick building on the corner of a busy intersection. Tall skyscrapers stand behind the building, short by comparison, and cars and pedestrians across the intersection in front.

Photograph - John T. Collins, 'Melbourne - Princes Bridge Hotel also known as Young and Jacksons Hotel, cnr Flinders & Swanston Sts.', 29 May 1977, State Library Victoria

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Young and Jackson Hotel, corner Flinders Street and Swanston Street, 1977.

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