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    Watswool Wool Brokers

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    A towering warehouse in West Footscray, with its decayed WATSWOOL WOO(L) (B)ROKERS sign, was constructed for Australian Estates wool brokers.
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    TARAX, Newport

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    This advertisement in Newport reading 'BOTTLES & CANS! TARAX', is hidden behind the jagged teeth of a wooden fence on a former milk bar erected in 1952 as Whitehurst’s Delicatessen.
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    GRAHAM CAMPBELL FERRUM CO IRON FOUNDRY

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    By the 1950s it was one of the largest foundries in Melbourne’s western suburbs.
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    THE NEWPORT COFFEE PALACE

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    In the 1880s Melbourne's temperance movement spawned grand coffee palaces, alcohol-free alternatives to hotels.
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    DRINK CINZANO VERMOUTH

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    The Cinzano sign was most likely painted in the late 1950s, when Mr. E. S. Jean ran the grocery.
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    GHOST SIGNS

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    The Yarra Coffee Palace, a 1914 icon in Yarraville, exudes charm with its brick facade, vintage tobacco advertisements, and a grand hand-painted Coffee Palace sign. 

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