Port Phillip Arcade, city.

I used to go through here a lot. The Flinders Street end smelt of canvas, from the tents and such sold in the army surplus store that was there. The coin and stamp dealer always looked like it was on the skids, with dust and dead flies in the windows. At the far end, on Flinders Lane, was the electric buzz of the old Missing Link Records store, my main reason for going here.

It looks somehow different in this picture, taken when it opened in 1969. That sculpture is a beauty.