How a movie 星／主役にする actress returned home to run historic Sydney pub Hollywood Hotel for 42 years and serenade drinkers from behind the 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 - as it goes on sale for $10million after her death at 89

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An irreplaceable piece of Sydney's nightlife could be ripped out as the historic Hollywood Hotel goes up for sale after four １０年間s as the heart of an inner-city neighbourhood.

Nestled on a 静かな street corner in Surry Hills?a 石／投石する's throw from 非常に高い 超高層ビルs, the 80-year-old art deco building - one of only three of its 肉親，親類d left - is a 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 like no other.

Inside the welcoming 二塁打 doors was not only a retro 内部の and glittering disco ball, but its charismatic publican, former movie 星／主役にする Doris Goddard.

Comfortable both serving pints, serenading patrons, or regaling 正規の／正選手s with tales of Hollywood's golden ages, she brought an unforgettable old-school atmosphere to a gentrifying 郊外.

But her death in July 2019 老年の 89 signalled the end of an 時代 and an uncertain 未来 for the once timeless drinking 会・原則 with 入札者s lining up to （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 the $10 million 概算の price.

An irreplaceable piece of Sydney's nightlife could be ripped out as the historic Hollywood Hotel goes up for sale after four １０年間s as the heart of an inner-city neighbourhood

Nestled on a 静かな street corner in Surry Hills a 石／投石する's throw from 非常に高い 超高層ビルs, the 80-year-old art deco building (pictured soon aftwer it was remodled from the 1878 初めの) is a 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 like no other

Former movie 星／主役にする Doris Goddard ran the hotel for 42 years after returning from her 事実上の／代理 stint in Hollywood in 1977 with her husband?Charlie Bishop (left) and moving in upstairs

Selling スパイ／執行官 HTL 所有物／資産／財産 said the pub and nine-room hotel is 生成するing more 利益／興味 than the 会社／堅い has seen in a １０年間, 含むing 可能性のある 買い手s from Singapore and every 資本／首都 city.

'It's fair to say say we have more on this we have on any other hotel sale over last 10 years,' said HTL director Sam Handy.

'We put that 負かす／撃墜する to a lot of history and romance and its place in the fabric of Sydney.'

The Hollywood is a historic building, dating 支援する to 1878, when it was first li censed. It was rebuilt in 1941 and run by Tooth and Co brewery.

But the romance （機の）カム from Goddard and her second career 行為／法令／行動する as a beloved publican after?a １０年間s-long Hollywood career, which she repeated in Australian film in the 1970s.

With her pub walking distance from the city it was a magnet for thirsty 労働者s 長，率いるing home.

It was 平等に an escape for people Sydney's gay and lesbian scene who 手配中の，お尋ね者 to drink somewhere with a little いっそう少なく razzle dazzle than Oxford Street.

Goddard famously serenaded her 顧客s from behind the 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 of the Hollywood Hotel in between 注ぐing pints and mixing cocktails

Even as Surry Hills changed around her, Goddard kept the doors of her 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 open for 正規の／正選手s every day and swelling punters on the 週末

Inside the welcoming 二塁打 doors was a retro 内部の, glittering disco ball, and 井戸／弁護士席-worn carpet

The Hollywood's eclectic mix of patrons became 井戸／弁護士席-known and a big source of its 控訴，上告 - you didn't have to identify with any particular tribe to belong.

You didn't even have to buy a drink.

Ms Goddard opened the doors to Sydney's homeless - no questions asked - when the nearby 避難所s were 十分な, Hollywood Hotel licensee and 経営者／支配人 示す Symons 解任するd.

'Doris would open the stairwell to upstairs and let them sleep on the steps,' he told The Sydney Morning 先触れ（する）. 'She was just reaching out to people, giving people some sort of 解除する up. That was Doris' spirit.'

Whether it （機の）カム 直接／まっすぐに from Doris or not, the Hollywood was also one of the few city pubs that didn't hassle smokers who were 軍隊d outside after the smoking 禁止（する） in 2007, from taking a half-empty schooner outside to wash 負かす／撃墜する their dirty habit.

Although it was a 非，不，無-scene pub, it was without 疑問 a longtime 同盟（する） to the LGBTQ community, which was after all 権利 on its doorstep.

The Hollywood 反抗するd wave after wave of gentrification around the city and in the end its stubbornly unpretentious vibe and decor became its best d rawcard - next to its indefatigable publican.

The Hollywood 反抗するd wave after wave of gentrification around the city and in the end its stubbornly unpretentious vibe and decor became its best drawcard - next to its indefatigable publican

With her pub walking distance from the city it was a magnet for thirsty 労働者s 長，率いるing home

Hollywood 含むs a nine-room hotel upstairs along with a 居住（者） for the 経営者／支配人 which Goddard 住むd for much for her time running the 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業

にもかかわらず 存在 surrounded by chic restaurants like Chin Chin and Poly & Butter, the old-school four-storey Hollywood doesn't just fit in, it 錨，総合司会者s the neighbourhood - one of the last remaining boozers of the old working class Surry Hills.

It could yet remain a pub - it is 存在 sold with a 3am アルコール飲料 licence and space for 10 pokies.

But how long it can stay that way is up for 得る，とらえるs - and 負かす／撃墜する to 買い手s. HTL point out the four-storey building could become just about anything.

They say it has '範囲 to ３倍になる the size of the 貿易（する）ing 足跡 and 活動させる／戦時編成する a rooftop 最高の，を越す beer garden with CBD and 地区 見解（をとる）s'

It also has 'mixed-use repositioning 可能性s 含むing 居住の, 商業の and 小売'.

It could also be redeveloped, 'を強調するd by B4 Mixed-Use zoning, 18m 高さ 是認 and 床に打ち倒す-space 割合 of 3:1.'

HTL 所有物／資産／財産 is selling by 表現s of 利益／興味 until May 20.

Comfortable both serving pints, serenading patrons, or regaling 正規の／正選手s with tales of Hollywood's golden ages, she brought an unforgettable old-school atmosphere to a gentrifying 郊外

Goddard had dreams of stardom in her teens and in her 早期に 20s, took a punt that she could make it in Hollywood, so she saved up and took a boat there

Hollywood Hotel's last licensee and 経営者／支配人 示す Symons told her: 'You don't need to be behind the 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業, Doris. You need to be out here, to look after the punters'

Who was Doris 'Hollywood' Goddard?

（頭が）ひょいと動く Hope and Doris Goddard in The アイロンをかける Petticoat (1956)

Doris Goddard and the Hollywood Hotel went together like Bondi Beach and aviator shades.?

You couldn't imagine one without the other.

Ms Goddard was born in 1930 and grew up at Forest 宿泊する next to Glebe in Sydney.

She had dreams of stardom in her teens and in her 早期に 20s, took a punt that she could make it in Hollywood, so she saved up and took a boat there.

Unfortunately at 175cm (5 feet 9 インチs) she was seen as too tall to become a big 星／主役にする, so she tried to make it in cabaret.

Her fortunes changed when a call （機の）カム in for a tall actress to play opposite 193cm lead 法案 Travers in the 1955 film 少しの Geordie.

She then 得点する／非難する／２０d a 役割 as a ロシアの 秘かに調査する in The アイロンをかける Petticoat in 1956, which also starred Hollywood 王族 Katharine Hepburn and （頭が）ひょいと動く Hope.

After moving 支援する to Sydney, Ms Goddard decided to 投資する in buying Sydney pubs, which she bought with her husband Charlie Bishop.

Ms Goddard and Mr Bishop bought the West End Hotel in Balmain and The Marlborough in Newtown and is 報告（する）／憶測d to have said she took to running pubs 'like a duck to alcohol'.

She?得点する／非難する／２０d a few 役割s in Australian film and TV - 含むing と一緒に a young Jacki Weaver, Jack Thompson and Mel Gibson - all on their way to becoming Australian cinema 王族.

At age 47, in 1977 she bought another pub, The Hollywood Hotel, for $178,000, によれば the ABC.

Ms Goddard 公然と （選挙などの）運動をするd against the lockout 法律s, which were introduced in February 2014 and 攻撃する，衝突する the 発生地 hard

Ms Goddard owned and lived at the pub for 42 years, often playing guitar and singing for her punters. One photograph shows her standing on the 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 singing.

She 生き残るd her husband, who died in 2004.

Into her 70s and 80s and にもかかわらず 苦しむing dementia, Doris Goddard continued to sit with punters and enjoy a glass of red ワイン.

Ms Goddard also 公然と （選挙などの）運動をするd against the lockout 法律s, which were introduced in 2014.?

'She was a diva,' said the Hollywood Hotel's last licensee and 経営者／支配人 示す Symons.

He told her: 'You don't need to be behind the 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業, Doris. You need to be out here, to look after the punters'.?

She?lived upstairs from the Hollywood until 18 months before her death.