I just love this building on Manly's beach front. It is on the corner of the Corso (the trashy pedestrian mall that runs from the harbour side to the beach side). The 'Ocean Beach Tea Rooms' is now a surf shop, but every day when I walk home, I wonder about what it may have been like in 1898 when fancy tea rooms graced the building. It's easy to imagine the women in their totally-inappropriate-for-such-warm-weather clothes sipping tea and eating scones with jam and cream whilst watching the ocean. I wonder what those same sophisticated ladies would think of today's Manly?
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