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This is the page for 88 Cowley Road. | This is the page for 88-90 Cowley Road. | ||
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== | == Date? - present == | ||
This is | This is Rick's Café, which along with G&D's opens from early morning to late into the evening, and and is a popular spot with students and locals. | ||
== 2001 - 2004 == | == 2001 - 2004 == | ||
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and see photo in Cowley and East Oxford Past and Present by Malcolm Graham & Laurence Waters</ref> | and see photo in Cowley and East Oxford Past and Present by Malcolm Graham & Laurence Waters</ref> | ||
== | == 1980s - 2000s == | ||
This was | This was the Futon shop, established 1989 <ref>https://citikey.uk/display/better-made-futon-Q00NF</ref>. A photo of the shop after it closed can be seen here: [https://flic.kr/p/gqQmZP https://flic.kr/p/gqQmZP] | ||
Futons Better made last appeared at No 90 in Thomsons Directory 2004. | |||
A photo of these premises "from June 1999" shows that it was once the Trident Discount Centre, along with Nos 88 and 86. This bargain shop caused controversy by opening on Sundays. However Thomsons Directory 1984 has Trident Superstore at No 86, while Thomsons Directory 1995 has Futons Better Made Stylish Unique Furniture at No 90 so the correct date of the photo is probably 1980s.<ref>Marilyn Yurdan, The Changing Faces of the Cowley Road</ref> | |||
Thomsons Directory 1991 No 90 Wise Employment Ltd and Seekers estate agents | |||
== 1900 - 1971 == | |||
Kellys Directory 1900 to 1971 Nos 86 to 90 F Cape & Co department store | |||
== 1900 - 1971 == | == 1900 - 1971 == | ||