Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...English pub stands by its tipplers through everything from trouble with the missus to trouble with the telly. Now it is being called to higher duty to buck up Britain's exports. Packed in crates and complete with everything from dartboards to mullioned windows, prefab pubs are finding a ready market overseas...
They are the proud invention of London Furniture Manufacturers Leslie Costick and Ralph Shafran, who last year found that Britain's deepening recession was drying up their once lively business of producing, among other things, such pub parts as oak bar tops and brass rails. If the home market had gone sour, they wondered, why not look abroad, where English-style pubs seem increasingly popular. After all, says Costick, in some U.S. pseudo-pubs, "they even have a tartan in the act, because they are not sure what is England and what is Scotland...
Setting things right, Costick and Shafran have so far shipped off four pubs (among them: Brussels' Old Irish Inn, the John Bull Pub in Cascais, Portugal), have 14 others (minimum price: $500,000) in the works, and are negotiating a contract to build 200 for the U.S. market. The crated pieces can transform a Laundromat into a passable pub in ten days. Most popular are the Tudor-style pubs, which feature white walls, oak beams (hollowed to save shipping weight), and wrought-iron fixtures. But they can also be had in Regency (striped wallpaper, glass chandeliers) and Victorian (crimson...
Angling for the youth market, Watney's experimented with a swinging "discotheque pub" in London called the Bull Sheen in 1966. Since then, the company has opened six more, plans to set up others. And Grossman has found a ready market for the English pub-dart-board, half-pint mugs, Watney-Mann beer and all-overseas. Düsseldorfs Victoria was opened last week in a sort of tip-for-tap deal with local owners (Watney's supplies advice on "authentic" details, the pubs buy Watney-Mann's beer); more of them are planned for Madrid, Florence...
...Telephone Association of Canada, with its Walt Disney-made movie, prosaically titled Canada '67, which uses a 360° to tal-involvement screen to project the spectators into the middle of a furious National League hockey game. Early-form favorites among the bars are the English pub, the Bavarian beer garden, Trinidad-Tobago's lively pavilion where steel bands and limbo dancers perform all day, and Ontario's pyramided pavilion. Most popular restaurant: Canada's Atlantic Provinces pavilion, where diners can feast on excellent sea food chowder while watching shipwrights at work building a wooden-hulled...