1920s Collins Street Fish Market and the city's wide streets

and the city's wide streets allowed the facades to be viewed in all their glory

which was replaced in 1841 by a reportedly plain building designed by Robert Russell

Leavitt's Jubilee history of Victoria and Melbourne (1888) described Parer's as the leading café in the Southern Hemisphere: 'Its wealth of mirrors so fantastically arranged

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and then Sutton's store offering the latest in Wertheim's range of pianos

1920s Collins Street Fish Market and the city's wide streetsA photograph of Collins Street looking east towards the Treasury Building around 1920. We see a busy street, both on the footpaths and on the road. Cable trams, hansom cabs, horse drawn drays, automobiles and pedestrians are all moving in different directions without a single traffic light in sight. At this period, the spectacular architecture of Collins Street had probably reached its zenith. Unfortunately, a lot of the major buildings in Collins