https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2011/09/21/quadrophenia-as-sponsored-by-sanka/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 06:42:08 -0400<![CDATA[Between the World War II-era tone of the narrator and background music, and the look and mannerisms of the folks actually onscreen, you can see the British culture and counterculture of the late &#8217;50s and early 1960s clash over coffee in this amusing Rank Film short on British coffeehouses of the early 1960s, found via the mid-century modern Ultraswank Website (which is worth exploring in depth in its own right). Long before this year&#8217;s riots, the British counterculture depicted in the clip below would be eviscerated several times over, first by the mods of the mid-&#8217;60s, then the hippies of the late-&#8217;60s, and then of course, the punks of the mid-1970s:]]>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 02:38:27 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Driscoll]]>https://pjmedia.com/ed-driscoll/2011/09/21/quadrophenia-as-sponsored-by-sanka-n137059