Doo Town

Doo Town is a Tasmanian holiday village within the locality of Eaglehawk Neck, near Port Arthur, where the house names contain “doo”.

Doo Town
Tasmania
Doo Town on Pirates Bay
Population230 (?)
LGA(s)Tasman Council

History

Located 79 km southeast of 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 neighbor, Charles Gibson, responded with a plate reading Doo Me then Bill Eldrige with Doo Us. Eric Round later renamed his shack 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]

Doo-Little

House names

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 Little, Doo Luv It, Doo-Me, Doo Nix, Doo Nothing, Doo Often, Doo Us, Doo Us Too, Doo Write, 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]

The one non-conforming house has a plate that reads Medhurst.

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
  1. Doo Town Archived 26 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine MSN Travel
  2. Doo Town Archived August 3, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Discover Australia
  3. "Doo Town | Off the Track 4×4". offthetrack.blog. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
  4. Doo Town Archived 23 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine Totaltravel, Destinations, Tasman Peninsula & Port Arthur, Doo Town.
  5. Doo Town Information and Attractions
  6. "Doo Town | Off the Track 4×4". offthetrack.blog. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
  7. Off Planet Films Index Pilot episode of Doo Town


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