1930s Melbourne Vista SQ with multiple setbacks to relieve

with multiple setbacks to relieve its great bulk

The magnificent "Grand Hotel" (later renamed as "Hotel Windsor") is in the centre of the image

and some information and statistics about the theatres that those units were engaged in

Hanton's butcher shop on the ground floor (with a butcher in a traditional striped apron standing outside the shop on the edge of the pavement)

and on the far right is the western part of Flinders Street

1930s Melbourne Vista SQ with multiple setbacks to relieveA view of Melbourne during the 1930s, looking across the Yarra from its south bank. This image contains some of Melbourne's most iconic buildings and landmarks, including the Yarra River, Flinders Street Railway Station, St. Paul's Cathedral, Scots' Church steeple, the turret of the Metropolitan Gas Company, Ball and Welch Building, the T&G Building tower, Forum Theatre and Princes Bridge. All text HotPress Photograph attributed to the Victorian