imminent bankruptcy forced the coffee palaces to convert into licensed hotels
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Witness Melbourne's entrepreneurial spirit, from the days of coffee palaces, market gardens, in-house roasters and the origin of the city's cafe culture.
Most of his coffee palaces were forced to convert or close.
At this point the hotel was known as the Grand Coffee Palace and for a brief period, under the influence of the Temperance Movement, banned liquor from its premises.
Many of Melbourne's coffee palaces were built by the property tycoon, politician and temperance advocate.
The hotel was originally a coffee palace then a pub and is now a back-packer's hostel.
Coffee palaces had virtually disappeared by the 1930s and 1940s, though some of the buildings were adapted for other purposes.
The coffee palace was an American concept introduced to Melbourne in a number of places.
I felt as if I had come into a coffee palace and I was the coffee king.
The wooden shop adjacent was once a Coffee Palace, one of a chain of temperance hotels throughout Victoria.
The movement encouraged the establishment of temperance hotels and coffee palaces, which proliferated in the 1880s.