The Captain has fallen.
Today we lost a stalwart of the Fremantle late night eatery scene. Back in her glory days she was the entire late night eating scene for Fremantle. She sat there on the edge of the port, waiting for you when you needed her the most. The pedestrian bridge from the Port Terminal ended right next to her, for some arriving folks she was the first thing they saw.
The US Navy used to come to Fremantle for R&R and on those days she was overflowing with sailors, so so very drunk sailors. In 1981, the U.S. Seventh Fleet stopped here and after that they didn't come so much, not a fleets worth at least. Heck I even had a run in with he US Navy in 2006. But I digress...
For a whole bunch of years now Captain Munchies has been going down hill. My last visit was in 2020/21, I went in there thinking they'd have something to eat for lunch, for old times sake, but she was a sad shell of her past glories. I left foodless.
Soon after that she closed for good and today, the 13th day of October in the lord's year 2025, a date which will live in infamay (apologies Mr Roosevelt sir), she was felled, wiped away as easily as you wipe a smeared bug from your windscreen.
I could go on for ages about all the times we spent at the Caps, sitting in a car with a doobie, then wandering inside with the actual munchies. The times we staggered out of a pub and headed there to get that thing that sobers you best, greasy anything, then smash it down. It gave you something to throw up on the way home other than beer.
Almost everyone who lived in Perth or Frementle during the 80s and 90s has a story to tell you about the joint. But the 2000s were not kind to her. She changed owners a few times, they hung the front door back on its hinges, and stripped her of it's 24 hours always open motto. It was the beginning of the end. And today was that end, she is no more.
Vale old friend
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