DARWIN 1947 CHRISTMAS CARD



Northern  Territory Archives  Service  photograph .
 

Taken from a water tower, in the foreground is  the Vic Hotel in Smith Street , now a mall ,  The Star  Theatre  across the road , Cashman's Store, still  there , and  far right  is  part of  the Bank of New South Wales ,  bombed  by the Japanese , some  damage  seemingly apparent .  Cavenagh Street  is the parallel road in which the two storey building could  be what  became  the  Don  Hotel with its  infamous Bamboo Lounge  in the l950s.  Behind  the building , slightly to the right at the back of  the snap, could be the  Chinese  temple , looted during  the  war .