The Larrimah Wayside Inn, also known as the Pink Panther Pub, is up for sale for the first time since the popular two-part series was released in 2023.
The show explored the disappearance of pub regular, 70-year-old Paddy Moriarty, who went missing.
The Irish-born man was one of the town’s only 12 residents. He was last seen with his kelpie cross Kellie, leaving the pub on December 16, 2017.
The pub was bought from Barry Sharpe back in 2018 by publican Steve Baldwin.
Now, the property has been listed for $795,000, described as a “true blue Aussie Bush pub!”
It is a popular stopover for travellers and tourists as it is situated along the Stuart Highway, about 500 km south of Darwin in the Northern Territory.
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The property, which will be 100 years old in about five years, also has resident emus and crocodiles and will come with an outdoor beer garden, fire pit and entertainment stage, as well as an endless collection of “eclectic bits and bobs.”
The crocodiles Sneaky Sam and Agro live out the back of the hotel and are fed Baldwin.
“We say we are selling the crocs and we’ll chuck in the pub,” Baldwin told NewsWire.
The pub is also “noted in history with the Old Railway line and military involvement during World War II.”
“We’re at the end of the railway line from Darwin, where a lot of troops would come from down from, then go south to Alice Springs and then to Mount Isa and end up back here on the train.
“They built an airstrip here after the bombing in Darwin.
“There were nearly 10,000 people here, which is huge, now there is eight.”
Baldwin told NewsWire that he wanted to sell the pub so he can “slow down a bit and retire.”
“It’s a good opportunity for a low level entry into a good business that has lots of opportunity going forward.
“You don’t often get a 100-year-old building here in the tropics, or in the Territory, or one at the centre of a Netflix series, and he still hasn’t been found.
“There was a reward of $250,000 to find out what happened to Paddy Moriarty, and in the budget last week the treasurer upped it to $500,000.
“I don’t know it will ever be solved, and the old publican has died.
“Fran still lives here, she’s 81 years old now, she’ll stand on the balcony or come in here and say, ‘He’s leaving, don’t go missing now’.” With AAP.
