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“Melbourne’s largest dance palais” this building’s exterior once declared, and it was, by all accounts, the place to be in 1920s Melbourne. For almost six decades, the site in Greville Street, Prahran was the home of Leggett’s Ballroom, where people from all social strata came to drink and dance and make the most of the night-time hours.

While a fire in 1976 drew Leggett’s to a close, skip forward a couple of decades and the site reclaimed its title as a pillar

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