These thinkers photographed in the Lincoln Coffee Lounge & Café by Brian Bird between 1948-1951. Before most of Rowe Street became the MLC Centre, the Lincoln was the unkempt, unofficial quarters of the Sydney Push and smokers alike. “I was a Lincolnite…it was scruffy down-at-heel bohemia. Edie, the red haired woman who ran the Lincoln Musicians there, said you went down 20 steps physically and socially when you went [there]” (Kenn Barta – Remembering Rowe St)
Photos from the State Library of NSW This one’s for Kelly.