Lincoln Coffee Lounge & Cafe, Rowe Street, Sydney / photographed by Brian Bird

Brian Bird photographs of Sydney cafes, ballet and social life, 1948-1952

Shows 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

Lincoln Coffee Lounge & Cafe, Rowe Street, Sydney / photographed by Brian Bird

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