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regularly, I feel comfortable there....theres a bohemianism in this place and its full of memories of mine since I was a lad". A print of the painting is hanging on the cafe's wall.
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Bar Italia in its present form was opened as a café in 1949 by the
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Bar Italia inspired the song of the same name by the band
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Randall's London Portraits - Video Documentary.
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