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Main Beach Pavilion

The lovely but somewhat shabby Spanish Mission–style Pavilion (1934) is a remnant from pre-boom days. Inside there's a cafe, toilets and changing rooms, and some fabulous old photos of the Gold Coast before the skyscrapers.

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