Doo Town
| Doo Town Tasmania | |
|---|---|
 Doo Town on Pirates Bay | |
| Population | 230 (?)[citation needed] |
| LGA(s) | Tasman Council |
Doo Town is a Tasmanian holiday village within the locality of Eaglehawk Neck, near Port Arthur, where the house names contain “doo”.
43°02′S 147°56′E / 43.033°S 147.933°E
History
[edit]Located 79 km southeast of country's capital Hobart, Doo Town was established in the 1830s as an unnamed timber station which eventually developed into a shack community. In 1935 a Hobart architect, Eric Round, placed the name plate Doo I 99 on his weekend shack. A neighbour, Charles Gibson, responded with a plate reading Doo Me, then Bill Eldrige with Doo Us. Eric Round's shack was later renamed Xanadu or Xanadoo.[1][2]
The trend caught on and most of the homes have a plate that includes the name 'Doo'. Some shacks play on the theme, with 'do' and even 'du' variations.[3]
House names
[edit]Af-2-Doo, Da Doo Ron Ron, Didgeri-Doo, Doo-All, Doo Come In, Doodle Doo, Doo Drop In, Doo For Now, Doo Fuck All, Doo I, Doo-ing it easy, Doo Luv It, Doo-Me, Doo Nix, Doo Not Disturb, Doo Nothing, Doo Often, Doo Us, Doo Us Too, Doo Write, Dr DooLittle, Gunnadoo, Humpty Doo, Just Doo It, Love Me Doo, Make Doo, Much-A-Doo, Rum Doo, Sheil Doo, This Will Doo, Thistle Doo Me, Wattle-I-Doo, Wee-Doo, Xanadu, Yabba Dabba Doo.[4][5][6]
Interestingly, the list does not yet contain the names Doo Hast, Baby Shark or Scooby-Doo.
The one non-conforming house has a plate that reads Medhurst.
In popular culture
[edit]In 2004, Off Planet Films made a pilot for a television cartoon series set in and named after the Tasmanian town, the cartoon portrayed a "backwater" town full of dodgy characters, rednecks, aliens, strip-clubs and gratuitous nudity.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ Doo Town Archived 26 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine MSN Travel
- ^ Doo Town Archived August 3, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Discover Australia
- ^ "Doo Town | Off the Track 4×4". offthetrack.blog. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
- ^ Doo Town Archived 23 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine Totaltravel, Destinations, Tasman Peninsula & Port Arthur, Doo Town.
- ^ "Doo Town Information and Attractions". Archived from the original on 29 August 2011. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
- ^ "Doo Town | Off the Track 4×4". offthetrack.blog. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
- ^ Off Planet Films Index Pilot episode of Doo Town
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