Once a throbbing part of Darwin, the Heritage listed Vic Hotel , where pioneer aviators stayed , was again forced to close its doors this year due to cash flow problems. This writer , who spent his first night in Darwin in 1958 in a room at The Vic , recently made a slow, melancholy inspection of the building and its arcade constructed in later years . Glancing out the door of that room , believed to be one of those upstairs in the photograph below , the next morning all those years ago , Kite Hawks could be seen flying overhead , spicy odours assailed the nostrils similar to those experienced a t the Taiping Chinese Café at the Haymarket in Sydney .
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Closed, as quiet as Tut's tomb , full of treasured memories .
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