| R.I.P. Johno's Blues Bar |
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Johno's Blues Bar, Cairns Tropic Jazz Club and the Yachtee were host to all the great travelling performers back in Australian and Cairns history. Back in the pirate-bar days when Cairns was uncharted waters to carpet-baggers and sooks from the city.
Goodbye Blues Bar & Hello Johno Johnson!
Next to Joh Bjelke - and the Fitzgerald Inquiry - Johno' is prolly the most famous person in Queensland. For 20 odd years In their tens of thousand tourists national and international flocked to Johno and the Blues Bar .
Making people laugh and play, how we all loved the inspirational Jack and Lil. Every Sunday at the World Famous Gong Show
Ahaha- wonder if Robert Barret bought one when he wrote Goodoo Goodoo... Johno's shirts are nearly as coveted as the original Dotties Bar/Pirate Bar shirt -the no. 1 actually been to Cairns souvenir.
ABC.NET.AU Audio-file by Tony Hillier talks to Ric Montgomery and Phil Emmanuel
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