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Lemming wrote:Nice work!
After reading this thread, late last night, I dug out my old copies of Mellow Pages. I think one of the copies I have is the same one you refer to. Great nostalgia trip. I also did a search on Google and found that Amazon are offering used copies of MP for $237.72!!

Cheers
I know about Amazon £ 200 , I got my copy off there for £8ish with postage

Lemming wrote:Incidentally, I think Jet Set is now Amnesia.

Think you may be right & that they may have just moved the entrance

I would liked to have tried 1 of the boats

ftcarer wrote:I would liked to have tried 1 of the boats

Utrecht still has the Culture Boat.

https://www.coffeeshopdirect.com/CultureBoat.html

Enjoy
FlyByNite

I would love to see pics from this era, my first trip was 1992 for a full month! ISo much has changed in my trips through the years that I'd love to see pics of the old long gone and renamed shops..Pink Floyd

spidergawd wrote:Have you tried the Amsterdam city archive, the licensed premiises dept ? need to be a speaker of the Dutch no doubt. .

I agree with Spidergawd, if you can find someone that reads Dutch, the archives are probably going to be your best bet for finding additional information to the already useful facts provided from the other posts in this thread. I've used municipal and national archives in Mexico and the US for some historical projects of my own and they're almost always the best source of information. Another possibility for finding out the info on early coffeeshops might be online newspaper archives. Many of these have collections that go back decades. Here is a short list of Dutch newspaper collections that have online archives dating back to at least the 1970s and are free to consult. Unfortunately, I can't read Dutch, otherwise I would look up the information you're seeking. The search engines in most of these makes it really easy to find.

http://www.archiefleeuwardercourant.nl/index.do
http://leiden.courant.nu/
http://archiefeemland.courant.nu/

High All Great bit of info from ftcarer interesting to note no pre 1980 dates mentioned and only 3 for 1980.
very interesting .

best wishes to all
bedge