These pictures were all taken in 1959 in London’s Soho. The picture above shows the 2i’s Coffee Bar, known as the birthplace of British rock and roll.
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Thanks to Wasleso.
Colour photographs of Soho coffee bars, 1959
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These are a little bit special (: Lx
look at pic 5 and then look at this link
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=EN&f=q&q=darblay+street
hope it works:) its the same corner now in google maps street view. Place is still a sandwich shop! sort of:)
link is a bit vague its number 8 darblay street
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&rlz=1B3GGGL_enGB307GB307&resnum=0&q=8%20darblay%20street&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl
better link
1st picture looking down frith st. here’s google maps view:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&rlz=1B3GGGL_enGB307GB307&resnum=0&q=8%20darblay%20street&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl
Brilliant stuff. Love it!! Makes me want to be in Soho right now. Its my favorite area of London
Why is there a bloke straddling the lampost in the Sam Widges (No.5) shot?????? (I guess we’ll never know).
yep, pic 5, you can still see the post the guys sitting on: http://tinyurl.com/349m4td
I was 18 at the time and I used to go to the 2 Eye’s Coffee Bar as well as the wonderful Le Macabre coffee house full of coffin shaped glass topped tables with skeletons. Note there were no yellow lines – you could park anywhere!
Visited them all (23 at the time). But where’s the Cat’s Whiskers (Kingly Street)?
Tony, not only could you park anywhere, but you could actually drive your car around due to the lack of cars driving around. That’s what always strikes me about photos of any city in that era–the space that isn’t filled in by cars.