The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #14270   Message #1031663
Posted By: Steve Parkes
08-Oct-03 - 05:38 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Proper Cup of Coffee
Subject: RE: Need Info: Proper Cup of Coffee
Joe, I've no idea what a tea-bar is, I just type whatI hear! Well ... in the first pace, it rhymes ... I'd always assumed it meant a bar where they only serve tea; we had a lot of milk bars (where they only served milk, naturally) over here in the 1950s, so that's a kind of precedent, I suppose.

(Not a few well-known performers started out in milk bars, BTW: Tommy Steele at the Two Is in London, for instance; and didn't the Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group do similarly? This is a case for Roger the Skiffler!)

Steve