- Gus's
Gus's cafe is a well-known cafe located in Civic,
Canberra ,Australia . It opened in 1969 and later became the first outdoorpavement cafe inCanberra . It is one of the oldest and best known cafes inCanberra and one of the firstEurope an-style cafes inAustralia . It has both outdoor and indoor dining areas.The cafe was established by Augustin 'Gus' Petersilka (1919-1994) who
emigrated to Australia fromAustria in 1951, and arrived in Canberra in 1962. Petersilka had difficulties with introducing this new style of dining to Canberra as it was against the regulations of the time for people to sit outside in a cafe or restaurant and he had several well-publicised clashes with bureaucrats. [Condolence motion on the death of Mr Gus Petersilka at cite hansard | url= http://www.hansard.act.gov.au/HANSARD/1994/pdfs/19941108.pdf | house=Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly | date= 8 November 1994| page_start= 3771| page_end= 3774 . During the debate Mr Stefaniak said: "Gus went through various jobs and businesses until he went to his famous Cafe Gus's on Bunda Street. He had a lot of fights with bureaucrats there. One morning he found that his tables and chairs had been taken away on the back of a Department of the Interior truck. As a result of the public outcry, those tables and chairs were returned. .... In 1974 he had further problems with the department in relation to some awnings and some poles which did not have the correct approval. Again, the department did a raid; this time, I understand, a pre-dawn raid. Again, there was an outcry; and those goods were returned."]A plaque on the pavement outside Gus's cafe marks the occasion of Gus Petersilka being made the Canberran of the Year for 1978. It reads:
Petersilka has additionally been commemorated with a street named after him in the Canberra district of
Gungahlin . [cite web|url = http://www.legislation.act.gov.au/ar/2002-1/20021119-3266/pdf/2002-1.pdf| title = Schedule: Public Place Names 2002, NO. 11 (Street Nomenclature - Gungahlin) - Division of Gungahlin: Australian Industrialists and Aspects of Industry, Gungahlin Pioneers|format = pdf | year = 2002 | publisher = ACT Government |accessdate = 2008-03-06]References
External links
* [http://www.guscafe.com.au/ Gus' cafe site]
* [http://www.miettas.com/restaurants/guide2002/act/gus_cafe483602.html Review]
* [http://www.truelocal.com.au/business/guss-cafe/canberra Cafe customer reviews]
*cite hansard | url= http://www.hansard.act.gov.au/HANSARD/1994/pdfs/19941108.pdf | house=Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly | date= 8 November 1994| page_start= 3771| page_end= 3774
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