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Re: The Long Gone Coffeeshop Thread
Posted: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:14 pm
by avfc-herbalist
Very cool montages!!
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^^^^^ that montage was put together by old ACD member CHELSEA_SMOKERS_SOCIETY
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South manny T wrote: Wed 13th Aug 2025 01:30 am
Wow forgot about Homegrown fantasy 'cheese'
Betty boop...Rockerij....La Canna...Baba's when it was on the corner at warmostraat...coffeeshop Anyday....
Big D and Adventures in Europe! What a great YouTube channel that was back in the day. Thanks for sharing that HitTheNorth
Re: The Long Gone Coffeeshop Thread
Posted: Wed 13th Aug 2025 12:42 pm
by avfc-herbalist
Thanks very much for this HitTheNorth, I’ve never seen this video before! The upstairs at Pink Floyd was so much more spacious than what Dampkring did with it when they took over in 2007.
By the way is that a mother fucking grow room
next to the toilets at 45 seconds??? A grow room inside a Coffeeshop! Fucking amazing
Here’s some photos I found on an old Pink Floyd forum. I think they're early 90s
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Re: The Long Gone Coffeeshop Thread
Posted: Wed 13th Aug 2025 01:58 pm
by HitTheNorth
Amazing photos. It really was a work of art, it's a travesty what it's ended up like, hence why I couldn't bring myself to go back in.
Same with Noon - just how I remember it. Like a Bedoin tent.
Cushions on seats! Imagine that now!
Re: The Long Gone Coffeeshop Thread
Posted: Wed 13th Aug 2025 02:55 pm
by brufy
aye, lovely young ladies that worked there too!
they once made a space cake before my very eyes!
Re: The Long Gone Coffeeshop Thread
Posted: Wed 13th Aug 2025 03:12 pm
by free_phil_spector
Love these. Anyone know the name of the coffeeshop at 2.46? I love their door policy - over 18s only "and don't fuck around"
Re: The Long Gone Coffeeshop Thread
Posted: Wed 13th Aug 2025 03:27 pm
by HitTheNorth
free_phil_spector wrote: Wed 13th Aug 2025 03:12 pm
Love these. Anyone know the name of the coffeeshop at 2.46? I love their door policy - over 18s only "and don't fuck around"
That's "Double Reggae" I believe
Re: The Long Gone Coffeeshop Thread
Posted: Wed 13th Aug 2025 03:42 pm
by HitTheNorth
Re: The Long Gone Coffeeshop Thread
Posted: Wed 13th Aug 2025 03:58 pm
by HitTheNorth
Re: The Long Gone Coffeeshop Thread
Posted: Wed 13th Aug 2025 04:04 pm
by avfc-herbalist
free_phil_spector wrote: Tue 12th Aug 2025 03:25 pm
Nice thread. I can add two I visited in the late 90s, both on Nieuwendijk...
Blues Brothers. Bar on ground floor serving drinks (almost certain this included alcohol but distant memories and all that). We spent an afternoon chilling in here and it was very nice. We bought hash from the budtender located upstairs and then plotted up on some bar stools downstairs where we spent an enjoyable couple of hours drinking (beers?), smoking hash, chatting with the bartender and listening to some excellent 60s/70s rock. A fine time. The bar itself wasn't Blues Brothers themed but I'm damn certain (with no evidence other than my dodgy memory) that the toilet was decked out in the graffiti advertising the Blues Brothers show which you see in a toilet in the movie (if that makes sense).
La Canna. Polar opposite of BB. Large, loud, brash and just all a bit too 'America pool hall' for me. It was three storeys! Don't think I ever bought weed in there but it was so stand-out noticeable on that street that we popped in a couple of times to rest our aching legs, grab a beer and smoke some pot. A nothing place really, but I guess kind of handy in its own way.
Blues Brothers
https://www.coffeeshopdirect.com/bluesbrothers.html
I loved Blues Brothers Coffeeshop. Could smoke your own stash very easily if you could get a seat downstairs.
I remember sitting downstairs at the back of the shop one morning watching cartoons on the telly on my first trip. I also liked sitting at the front window on the stools, people watching. It was a great location.
I was gutted when I found it closed as it wasn't on the school closure list or the red light closure list, so I presume the council just didn't renew their licence so they could get rid of another coffeeshop on Nieuwendijk. It turned into a crappy pasta place. No idea what it is now.
Here’s a photo of a very run down looking Blues Brothers Coffeeshop in the mid 90s
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La Canna
https://www.coffeeshopdirect.com/canna.html
Here's some old pics for you @free_phil_spector
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They even advertised on the trams back in the day!
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Re: The Long Gone Coffeeshop Thread
Posted: Wed 13th Aug 2025 04:21 pm
by HitTheNorth
From around 23.40 possibly Big Fun coffeeshop. It's certainly representative of a typical coffeeshop back in 1993
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Re: The Long Gone Coffeeshop Thread
Posted: Wed 13th Aug 2025 04:25 pm
by free_phil_spector
Hahaha fucking hell I forgot they had goddamn palm trees in there
Re: The Long Gone Coffeeshop Thread
Posted: Wed 13th Aug 2025 04:30 pm
by avfc-herbalist
Great video that is HTN. Love that they have Mushroom Tea on the menu
anyone know what year mushrooms were banned from being sold in coffeeshops?
History:
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Some old pics:
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This photo says they had been there since the early 1960s??
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@Lemming, they used your directory photo for their website!
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T-Boat advertisement poster
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Re: The Long Gone Coffeeshop Thread
Posted: Wed 13th Aug 2025 04:39 pm
by free_phil_spector
HitTheNorth wrote: Wed 13th Aug 2025 03:27 pmThat's "Double Reggae" I believe
Ah! It's what became this one then...
welshmans_beard wrote: Mon 11th Aug 2025 08:33 pm't Reggie Bar on Nieuwendijk - straight up, wasn't even a legal Coffeeshop haha, was the first stop off the train for half a dozen Welsh lads on their first ever visit in 2016. We wandered past and popped in for a pint, only for the Barman to start pulling deals out of his bumbag! Massive red flags, but we neither knew nor cared. Closed within a few months of our visit I believe.
Re: The Long Gone Coffeeshop Thread
Posted: Wed 13th Aug 2025 05:08 pm
by HitTheNorth
free_phil_spector wrote: Wed 13th Aug 2025 04:39 pm
HitTheNorth wrote: Wed 13th Aug 2025 03:27 pmThat's "Double Reggae" I believe
Ah! It's what became this one then...
welshmans_beard wrote: Mon 11th Aug 2025 08:33 pm't Reggie Bar on Nieuwendijk - straight up, wasn't even a legal Coffeeshop haha, was the first stop off the train for half a dozen Welsh lads on their first ever visit in 2016. We wandered past and popped in for a pint, only for the Barman to start pulling deals out of his bumbag! Massive red flags, but we neither knew nor cared. Closed within a few months of our visit I believe.
Pure speculation here...
Perhaps they chose alcohol over weed when the time came it was one or the other. But carried on knocking it out under the counter. Got rumbled and shut down?
Re: The Long Gone Coffeeshop Thread
Posted: Wed 13th Aug 2025 05:42 pm
by free_phil_spector
Really enjoyed watching through these videos this afternoon. Mixed emotions. It was great to reminisce about those places but also made me sad to recall what we've lost. It's so easy now to forget just how many coffeeshops there were and how long some of them had been part of the fabric of Amsterdam. It's a snapshot of a world that no longer exists. Nothing lasts forever and it was inevitable that Amsterdam as it was in the 80s, 90s and 00s would never last but I feel privileged to have been around to experience it. What a fantastic time to be alive that was.