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peeling back the years

I’ve been watching the artwork on the side of the Union Club Hotel deteriorate and it’s reached the stage where its imperfections are now as iconic as the historical images in the art.

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Other posts you may find relevant and interesting

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This entry was posted on Thursday, January 8th, 2009 at 12:11 pm and is filed under Fitzroy, Gore St, Webb St, art. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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