111528
- TitleSeries 01: Lincoln Coffee Lounge & Cafe, Rowe Street, Sydney / photographed by Brian Bird
- Call numberON 180/1-55
PXA 684/1-55 - Level of descriptionseries
- Date
1948-1951 - Type of material
- Reference code111528
- Issue CopyDigitised
- Physical Description55 negatives - 6 x 6 cm.
55 photographic prints - gelatin silver - 21.5 x 16.5 cm. - Scope and ContentShows cafe scenes of artists & local identities, talking, socialising & performing, downstairs in the Lincoln Coffee Lounge.
1. Dick Gooding (on right of door)
2. Clive Hunter, worked at State Library (facing camera) ; Betty Gotch (top of stairs)
3. Betty Gotch (top of stairs)
4. Betty Gotch
5. Betty Gotch ; unknown ; Roger Cox (actor)
6. Betty Gotch ; unknown ; Roger Cox (actor)
7. John Barry, proprietor (standing at rear)
8. Edwin ‘Ted’ Morrisby [?], journalist, friend of Murray Sell [Sayle?], involved in scandal at Sydney Uni (centre)
9. Piers Bourke, artist (extreme left) ; [Maggie Meagher (extreme right)]
10. Piers Bourke (at rear, to right of corner) ; ‘Johnno’ Robert Johnson, student (to left of corner) ; Robert, Frenchman (with hand to chin)
11. Michael Hourihan, in safari suit (near doorway)
12. Roger Cox
13-14. Willy Russell (extreme left) ; Jim Southwell, architecture student (collecting plates)
15. Jim Southwell (collecting plates) ; Zdenek Weiss, Czech student (on right)
16. Anne Barrett
17. Anne Barrett
18. Piers Bourke ; John Barry
19. Piers Bourke ; John Barry
20. Mrs Barry (John Barry’s mother) ; Mary George (Georgiadi’s), father ran George’s restaurant, Pitt Street, Sydney
21. Jean Grenet, Frenchman ; Mrs Barry
22. Unknown ; Margaret Meagher
23. Margaret Meagher, nurse at Sydney Hospital
24. ‘Johnno’ Robert Johnson ; unknown
25-27. Unknown
28. Jane Gardner (centre)
29-31. Unknown
32. [Piers & Maisoni?] ; Jane Gardner (in background) ;
33. Danny Russell, cartoonist & student
34. Dick Gooding, journalist ; or Leonard Teale [?]
35. Mary [George] in Lincoln Inn, Greek girl in coffee shop, July 1950
36. Mary [George] in Lincoln Inn, Greek girl in coffee shop, July 1950
37. Martin Haberman, medical student (organiser of song book) ; or Martin Edie
38. Ede Cohen (usually on cash register) ; or Martin Edie
39. Martin Haberman
40. Martin Haberman
41-55. Dick Preston, radio, film-maker, April 1951 - Copying ConditionsOut of copyright: Created before 1955
- Description source
Photographs identified by Graham Stone, a Lincoln regular, 2002 - General note
The Lincoln Coffee Lounge is said to be the birth place of the "Sydney Push" movement in its early days, just after the war. A popular meeting place for artists & writers, it comprised a mixture of university students, lecturers, Bohemians & Libertarians.
References:
`The Push Revistited', Sydney Morning Herald, Oct 22, 1983, p.33
Sex and anarchy: The life and death of the Sydney Push / Anne Combs. Ringwood, Vic : Viking, 1996
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