Adelaide - Coffee Taverns and Palaces
A meeting held to consider opening coffee taverns is reported in the Observer,
3, 10 and 31 May 1879, pages 3b-13a, 12d and 13c,
14 June 1879, page 14c,
Register,
29 May 1879, page 6a; also see
6 June 1879, page 4d;
Advertiser,
31 May 1879, page 4e,
Register,
1 May 1879, page 2f (supp.),
6 June 1879, page 4d for an editorial on the subject,
26 September 1879, page 5b,
1 November 1879, page 5b,
Express,
21 June 1879, page 3b,
20 January 1880, page 3d,
13 and 14 April 1880, pages 2b and 3c,
Chronicle,
20 December 1879, page 7b,
Observer,
4 October 1879, page 11a,
8 November 1879, page 12d.
Also see Observer,
7 February 1880, page 229e,
Register,
6, 13 and 14 January 1880, pages 4f, 4f, 4e and 4f-6c,
17 February 1880, page 5a,
13 April 1880, page 1a (supp.),
6 May 1880, page 4g,
Advertiser,
14 January 1880, page 5e,
14 April 1880, page 4e,
5 May 1880, page 5d,
Chronicle,
17 and 24 January 1880, pages 8e an 11e,
Register,
6 May 1880, page 4g,
Express,
11 November 1880, pages 2b-3c,
Advertiser,
8 May 1880, page 4e,
2 March 1881, page 4e:
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The workman who aims at his own social and moral elevation will brook no patronage
and will touch his hat to no social and moral reformers... As a commercial
speculation the whole thing has been a disappointing failure.
Also see Register,
6 and 11 November 1880, pages 5b and 5f,
4 May 1881, pages 5d-1b (supp.),
18 June 1881, page 6g,
Advertiser,
4 and 5 May 1881, pages 6c and 4e,
Observer,
7 May 1881, page 820b,
9 October 1886, page 12d,
9 April 1887, page 30c,
Express,
18 June 1881, page 3d,
Chronicle,
25 June 1881, page 7d,
Register,
4 May 1881, page 5d,
20 August 1881, page 6f,
26 September 1882, page 5a,
Express,
29 September 1883, page 2c,
24 September 1886, page 2g,
13 June 1887, page 2b,
21 August 1888, page 2d,
23 March 1889, page 3c.
The opening of the Grand Coffee Palace is reported in the Register,
11 March 1891, page 6h.
Also see Research Note 809 in Mortlock Library.
"Coffee Room for Young Ladies" is in the Register,
26 February 1881, page 5a.
A proposed Oriental Coffee Palace is discussed in the Register,
24 September 1886, page 5b,
the Grand Coffee Palace on
5 October 1886, page 5a.
The opening of the Grand Coffee Palace is reported in the Register,
11 March 1891, page 6h. Also see
Research Note 809 in Mortlock Library,
Register,
7 October 1886, page 5b and
Observer,
5 March 1892, page 38c,
Register,
25 February 1926, page 5d.
"New Coffee Palace" is in the Chronicle,
16 April 1887, page 8f.
Information on Jackman's Coffee Palace is in the Observer,
18 June 1887, page 29c.
A fire at the Adelaide Coffee Palace is reported in the Advertiser,
23 March 1889, page 5c; also see
Express,
11 March 1891, page 7f.
Information on the Victoria Coffee Palace is in the Register,
3 October 1889, page 5b,
Observer,
5 October 1889, page 29e.
"Thefts at a Coffee Palace" is in the Chronicle,
18 July 1896, page 15c.
Information on M.C. Billiett, proprietor of the Grand Coffee Palace, is in
the Register,
23 July 1906, page 4i,
Observer,
28 July 1906, page 38b; also see
23 November 1906, page 4f for the "Coffee Palace - Cyclorama Case".
Information on Grayson's Coffee Palace, opposite the railway station, is
in the Advertiser,
4 July 1917, page 6e.
The Critic,
14 August 1918, page 20 (photograph).
Information on Baier's Coffee Gardens [of the 1880s] in the hills and biographical information on Mr S.V. Pizey are in the Chronicle, 29 April 1937, page 47a
