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The Daily Grind: Wellington Café Culture 1920–2000


INTRODUCTION

OVERVIEW: 1920–1950

OVERVIEW: 1950–1990

DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY

INFLUENCES

MUSIC

SIGNIFICANCE

PERSONALITIES

SOURCES

SOURCES

 

Newspaper and magazine articles

Aldridge, Val, �Harry Loved Theatre and Cafés�, Dominion, 13 October 1994, p. 9. [Harry Seresin]

Coughlan, Kate, �Café Queen�, Evening Post, 3 January 1998, p. 9. [Suzy van der Kwast]

Du Fresne, Karl, �Glory Days at the Monde Marie�, Evening Post, 13 July 2000, p. 5.

Du Fresne, Karl, �Walking Back to Happiness�, Evening Post, 2 October 1993, pp. 13,16. [former Wellington coffee bars]

Jones, Frances, �Coffee Time�, Evening Post, 24 December 1993, p. 10. [history of coffee, and of Wellington cafés]

Kitchin, Peter, �Émigré Helped Transform Capital�, Evening Post, 13 October 1994, p. 7. [Harry Seresin]

Longmore, Mary, �Café Pioneers�, Evening Post, 1 July 1997, p. 25. [espresso]

Lowe, Sarah, �Log on with a Latte�, Southern Skies, June 1996, pp. 29�30, 33.

O�Shea, John, �Restaurant Pioneer Dies�, City Voice, 13 October 1994, p. 4. [Harry Seresin]

Saker, John, �The Flight of the Parrot: The Story of a Wellington Landmark�, Wellington City Magazine, August 1985, pp.19�22. [The Green Parrot]

Sanders, Linda, �Business Built on a Good Cup of Coffee�, Evening Post, 6 June 1992, p. 15. [Otto Tiefenbacher, Casa Fontana]

Stuart, Michael, �Making of the Monde Marie�, Evening Post, 28 August 1996, p. 23.

�Found: A New Pleasure�, New Zealand Listener, 12 July 1957, p. 8.

�Jazz at the Coffee Club�, New Zealand Listener, 28 March 1958, pp. 6�7.

�Kiwi Coffee Culture Better Latte Than Never�, Hospitality, Vol. 33, no.7, July 1997, pp. 12�16.

�Milk Shake Not Milk�, The Evening Post, 10 July 1937.

 

Film

Carmen, produced and directed by Geoff Stevens for VIDCOM, 1989.

 

Oral histories

Cappuccino Oral History Project, Oral History Centre, Alexander Turnbull Library of New Zealand:

Boswijk, Eelco, interviewed by Dinah Priestley, Nelson, 12 and 13 December 1993, OHC 7316.

Jones, Sir Robert, �The Rise and Fall of New Zealand�s Coffee Bars in the 1950s and 60s�, interviewed by Dinah Priestley, 18 November, 1993, OHC 4729.

Seddon, Mary, interviewed by Dinah Priestley, 24 September 1991, OHC 7320.

Seresin, Harry, interviewed by Dinah Priestley, Wellington, 27 November 1992, OHC 4878�4881.

Van der Kwast, Suzy, interviewed by Dinah Priestley, Wellington, 20 July 1993, OHC 7319.

 

Unpublished papers

Gore, Ross, Kirkcaldie & Stains Ltd�A History, Wellington 1964. (unpublished typescript)

Arthur Singleton papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Ref. no. MS-Papers-1977.

Harry Seresin Papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Ref. no. 91-304.

Wellington City Council, Index books to WCC Building Permit Registers, OC, A, B1, B2, B3, B4.

Wellington City Council, Town Clerk�s file 43/368 Pt 1&2. Milk Bars: Price Of Milk Advertising Scheme.

Wellington City Council, City Engineer�s File 8/1385. Coffee Houses.

Wellington City Council, Minutes of the Advertising Sub Committee of the WCC Milk Committee, 1937.

 

Web sites

�Café magazine�, http://www.blackapollo.demon.co.uk/

Dalley, Bronwyn, �No Pavlova Please: Images of Food and Drink in Twentieth-Century New Zealand�, http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/Gallery/food/index.htm

Fumagalli, Ambrogio, Coffeemakers, (précis), Hhttp://www.cs.su.oz.au/%7Ebob/Coffee/timeline.html

Hamilton Beach products, http://www.hambeach.com/ [milkshake makers]

Rubin Chris, �Vienna�s Cafés�

 

Secondary works

Coffee places

Burton, David, and Sheehan, Grant, Character Cafés of New Zealand, Wellington, 1994.

Clayton, Pauline, Eating Houses in Wellington, Wellington, 1980.

De Polnay, Peter, Aspects of Paris, London, 1968.

Everts, Ali, Wellington�s Café Culture: A Visual Guide, Wellington, 1999.

Lillywhite, Bryant, London Coffee Houses: A Reference Book of Coffee Houses of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, London, 1963.

MacGregor, Rob, Around New Zealand in 80 Cups, Auckland, 1960.

Nestlé Ltd., The Magic of Coffee, Auckland, 1970.

 

Biography

Duckworth, Marilyn, Camping on the Faultline: A Memoir, Auckland, 2000.

Edmond, Lauris, Hot October: An Autobiographical Story, Wellington, 1989.

Findlay, Mary, Tooth and Nail: The Story of a Daughter of the Depression, Auckland, 1989.

Hyde, Robin, Journalese, Auckland, 1934.

Rupe, Carmen, Carmen: My Life, (as told to Paul Martin), Auckland, 1988.

 

Immigrants to Wellington

Beaglehole, Ann, A Small Price to Pay: Refugees from Hitler in New Zealand, 1936�46, Wellington, 1988.

Burnley, I.H., �The Greeks�, in K. W. Thomson and A. D. Trlin, (eds.), Immigrants in New Zealand, Palmerston North, 1970, pp. 100�124.

Elenio, Paul, Alla Fine del Mondo�To the Ends of the Earth: A History of Italian Migration to the Wellington Region, Petone Settlers Museum, Wellington, 1995.

Hutching, Megan, Long Journey for Sevenpence: Assisted Immigration to New Zealand from the United Kingdom, 1947�1975, Wellington 1999.

Lochore, R.A., From Europe to New Zealand: An Account of Our Continental European Settlers, Wellington, 1951.

McGill, D., The Other New Zealanders, Wellington, 1982.

Meikle, Phoebe, Accidental Life, Auckland, 1994.

Verivaki, Maria, and Petris, John, Istories ellenikon taxidion�Stories of Greek Journeys, Petone Settlers Museum, Wellington, 1991.

 

Wellington from 1920

Barrowman, Rachel, Victoria University of Wellington 1899�1999: A History, Wellington, 1999.

Bioletti, Harry, The Yanks are Coming: The American Invasion of New Zealand, 1942�1944, Auckland, 1989.

Ebbert, E., When the Boys were Away: NZ Women in WWII, Wellington, 1984.

Johnson, David, Wellington: A Pictorial History, Wellington, 1995.

Lawlor, Pat, Old Wellington Hotels, Wellington, 1974.

Millen, Julia, Kirkcaldie & Stains: a Wellington Story, Wellington, 2000.

Parry, Gordon, Retailing Century: The First 100 Years of the D.I.C. Ltd., Dunedin, 1984.

Phillips, Jock, and Ellis, Ellen, Brief Encounter: American Forces and the New Zealand People 1942–1945, Wellington, 1992.

Stewart, Graham, Around Wellington by Tram in the 20th Century, Wellington, 1999.

Taylor, Linda, �Modernity Arrives: Massey House� in John Wilson (ed.), Zeal and Crusade: The Modern Movement in Wellington, Christchurch, 1996.

Wall, K. and Norris, P., Wellington: The City Guide. Wellington, 1998.

Watkins, Roger, When Rock Got Rolling: The Wellington Scene, 1958�70, Christchurch, 1989.

Wellington City Council, A Brief History of the Municipal Milk Supply, Wellington, 1923.

 

Social background

Bailey, Ray, with Earle, Mary, Home Cooking to Takeaways: Changes in Food Consumption in New Zealand During 1880-1990, 1st edition, Palmerston North, 1993

Barrowman, Rachel, A Popular Vision: The Arts and the Left in New Zealand, 1930�1950, Wellington, 1991.

Cameron, Bruce J., �Liquor Laws�, in A.H. McLintock, (ed.), An Encyclopedia of New Zealand, Wellington, 1966, Vol. 2, pp. 316�318.

Coney, Sandra, Standing in the Sunshine: A History of New Zealand Women Since They Won the Vote, Auckland, 1993.

Dix, John, Stranded in Paradise: New Zealand Rock'n'Roll 1955�1988, Wellington, 1988.

Dunstall, Graeme, �The Social Pattern, in W.H. Oliver (ed.), The Oxford History of New Zealand, Auckland, 1981.

Jones, Lloyd and Foster, Bruce, Last Saturday, Wellington, 1994.

Lewis, Peter, The Fifties, London, 1978.

McGee, T.G. �The Social Ecology of New Zealand Cities�, in John Forster (ed.), Social Process in New Zealand: Readings in Sociology, Auckland 1969, pp. 144�180.

Mitchell, Austin, The Half-gallon Quarter-acre Pavlova Paradise, Christchurch, 1972.

Oliver, W.H., �The Awakening Imagination�, in W.H. Oliver and B.R. Williams, (eds.), The Oxford History of New Zealand, Wellington, 1981.

Orsman, H.W., ed., The Dictionary of New Zealand English, Auckland, 1997.

Phillips, Jock, A Man�s Country? The Image of the Pakeha Male�A History, Auckland, 1987.

Ritchie, Megan, �Shaken but Not Stirred? Youth Culture in 1950s Auckland�, Auckland University MA thesis, 1997.

Southwick, L.H., Dormer, Alan, and Halford, G.R., The Liquor Laws of New Zealand, Wellington, 1983.

Yska, Redmer, All Shook Up: The Flash Bodgie and the Rise of the New Zealand Teenager in the Fifties, Auckland, 1993.

 

Fiction

Gee, Maurice, Live Bodies, Auckland, 1998.

Hilliard, Noel, Maori Girl, Auckland, 1960.

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