Tivoli Arcade, Bourke Street Melbourne

I'm going to be looking at a few city locations over the next couple of weeks. First up (for no real reason) is the Tivoli Arcade. This is the back aspect, walking up from Little Collins Street:

I like the way it once had a cafeteria and a cafe & bar. And a copy centre, too.

The actual entrance is not too flash. Something about this reminds me of airport signage:

The arcade itself is mostly Asian-oriented these days, with a smattering of beauty parlours and a couple of Melbourne's ubiquitous cheap curry places making up the numbers:

The front entrance, off Bourke Street:

Until destroyed by a fire in 1967, the site was occupied by a theatre- built in the 1860s and called the Opera House during it's early years, it became the Tivoli in 1914: