• PHOTO: Michael Leonard set out to preserve as much as he could from the original structure.
OVER THE last eight months, a former icon of the Coonamble main street has slowly been returning to life with the Monterey Café now almost fully-restored to its original appearance.
While the initial motivation for the restoration has now passed, the future for the historical space is yet to be fully determined.
The Monterey first opened in the mid-1930s in the aftermath of the 1929 fire which tore through many buildings . . .
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