Cafes Gallery

Horn & Hardart Automat, New York City, USA

Horn & Hardart Automat, 57th Street and 6th Avenue, New York City, USA, one of a large chain of cafes and restaurants serving over half a million people per day. Date: circa 1930

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Musical group in an Arabic cafe in Egypt

Ensemble of male and female Egyptian musicians in western and traditional dress. In the back, men are holding traditional Arabic instruments such as a traditional lute (oud), a zither (qanun) and a tambourine (riq). In the front, a woman is smoking from a hokkah pipe. Date: circa 1908

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Cranks advertisement 1966

Advertisement for Cranks Shop and Crank Salad Table - part of a small chain of wholefood and vegetarian restaurants and cafes that started by Daphne Swann and David & Kay Canter in in London in 1961. Cranks continued to be a successful business in the 1980s and published popular cook books. At the time of writing, only one Cranks restaurant remains in the UK - in Totnes in Devon. Date: 1966

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