It was for a most expensive business—namely, to provide a coffee bar, dancing and other facilities for young people.
The call for more experiments has occasionally led people to think that a coffee bar on its own, for instance, is enough.
He spoke about coffee bars and implied that his main object of attention was the all-night coffee bar.
The youngsters we must start to attract are those who hang around the street corners and the lower type of coffee bar.
What alternative has youth but to resort to the coffee bar, the dance hall and the street corner?
Frith notes that although coffee bars were originally aimed at middle-class art school students, they began to facilitate an intermixing of youths from different backgrounds and classes.
Their first exhibition included tiles and walls panels, as a result of which they were commissioned to decorate several coffee bars, which were then new and fashionable.
Newland's style went out of fashion in the 1960s and most of his work for coffee bars has been lost.
