Right at the spot C/4.2 on 1 Santo Parade is the spot where the Colac Hotel stood in 1929 on the wharves of the South Australian Company Basin. It still stands in the same place but the basin is radically changed in shape and there is no longer a bridged creek across St Vincent's Street. The basin from the Gawler Reach is a long rectangle which now laps Ocean Steamers Road, as that part of St Vincent's Street is now called.
The Colac belongs to the Labour Party in South Australia. It has had a long, long association with working men and women in Port Adelaide. The ALP Trades Union has closed the hotel for trading.
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