FLOATING TEA ROOMS
On the big ferries which ply between Sydney and Manly, and which are known to all visitors, for they all make a point of taking a run down to the great watering resort known popularly as "the village," there is some talk of establishing tea-rooms. This has set old-timers' turning back the pagea of the past and taking their minds back to the 'fifties and the famous Hot Potato Club of the old Phantom, long before there were ferries of the type now seen about the harbour. It was only when a sufficient number of residents of "the village" expressed a desire to go to Sydney at night that the old Phantom was commissioned. She would reach Circular quay about 7.30, and leave again at 11 for Manly. On reaching the Quay for the return journey early arrivals used to roast potatoes in the furnace of the Phantom's engines. So popular were the roast potatoes that there came into being the Hot Potato Club. Thus was the journey to Manly, often occupying two boun, enlivened with supper and song and itory. The story goes that passengers were sometimes called on to carry sandbags from one side of the old Phantom to the other, in order to balance her, esi pecially when pissing the Heads on i dirty nights.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 50, 27 August 1925, Page 9
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221FLOATING TEA ROOMS Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 50, 27 August 1925, Page 9
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