City - St Kilda State - VICTORIA Country - Australia
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This image was made back in 1996 of a 1954 three group Gaggia espresso machine in Melbourne at one of my favorite cafes The Galleon Coffee Lounge, now closed down. Gaggia was the man who improved the lives of many with his compression method of creating espresso coffee. Previously coffee machines were more like high pressure boilers where boiling water at a high tank pressure was forced through the coffee grits. This actually spoilt the suttle flavours and took away much of the aroma. With the Gaggia method, used by all espresso machines since the late 1940s, compressed water at 90 - 92oC is pushed through the coffee grits contained in the "group" thus creating a better flavoured coffee.
That's right Andrei it could have been taken in the 1950s, perhaps on Kodachrome. However I was born in the late 1960s! There is ONE! thing in this picture which says it's NOT taken in the 1950s - can you guess what it is, and it's not the girl either!
Trouble is a lot of people who operate these machines should be arrested, locked up and the key thrown away. I was in Winton North Queensland and actually saw someone putting instant coffee in this type of machine!!!! Naturally I was within my legal rights to shoot them on the spot :)
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