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.

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.
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