Reg Colbran's own words, the day he leased the old Franklin Street creamery and never looked back.
A working building first
Built for milk, kept for cards
“I’ve driven a cream run further than most,” Reg Colbran used to say, “and this was always the easiest delivery.” Built in 1938, the creamery took deliveries from farms right across the district, weighing cans before dawn most mornings.
The co-op wound down through the 1950s as bigger operators took the trade, and by the time Colbran hung up his keys in 1961, the building had sat mostly quiet for months.
He signed the lease that same year, put the first table down on the old weighing floor, and you can still ask any of the regulars how the name stuck.
1938
Built as the district creamery, weighing cans from local farms.
1961
Reg Colbran leases the building and deals the first hand.
Now
Six tables, two rostered dealers, a counter that stays out of the way.
Then and now
What the old creamery became
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This website describes a card lounge in Traralgon where every seat is filled in person, and you will be asked for photo ID at the door.
