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Melbourne's Arcades « Previous | |Next »
December 20, 2007

This photograph is outside the Koko Black Salon in Melbourne's 19th century Royal Arcade. I was waiting on family at the time and watching the chocolatiers work couverture into an array of truffles, moulded pralines and bars, in the European tradition.

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Gary Sauer-Thompson, Dorothy, Melbourne, 2007

How did this these kind of arcades survive the gung-ho development ethos of the 1960s and 1970s? Presumably, height restrictions in this part of the CBD. Or so Elizabeth Farrelly argues.

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 5:59 AM |