Tag Archives: bars

The Marble Bar c.1969

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Kathy Hackett

96/44/1-5/4/129/2 Neg 4025 as used on page 126

This photograph, from the David Mist archive, shows the elegant Marble Bar in the Adams Hotel in Pitt Street, Sydney. In the late 1960s the times were changing rapidly,… More

Adams’ Marble Bar

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Kathy Hackett

This lavish interior depicted in this retouched black and white photograph is that of The Marble Bar in Tattersall’s Hotel, Pitt Street, Sydney. The hotel’s… More

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