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Here's what the kids are into now: coffee bars

Darren Atwater | Monday 23 January, 2012 13:24

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Über-Londoner Peter Watts at The Great Wen has found an amazing collection of the old Rank Organisation film series, Look at Life, that takes the viewer into such underground scenes as highrise living, private members’ clubs, and, above, the coffee bar, circa 1959. Click here for the collection.

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