Budapest, 1967. Budapest is home to many wonderful coffee houses, including the iconic Gerbeaud in downtown Budapest. In addition to serving coffee, they offer a variety of delicious cakes and desserts, all set in a very grand and elegant atmosphere. In the late 1990s, I used to pop in here for a coffee on my way to language classes in Buda. I always felt lucky—and so sophisticated!

Source: Fortepan [138303] / Zoltán Szalay

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Budapest, 1957. Patrons sit outside one Budapest's famed cafés, the Gerbeaud. It's been on this site since 1870 and is where they invented the famous cake of the same name. (It's delicious!) But what were these people in the photo thinking, and talking, about, only a year after the revolution when Soviet tanks rolled through these very streets?

Source: Fortepan / Bauer Sándor

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