absence of safety improvements, Coffee People, the soul of the neighborhood, is threatened with closure. What will decide Annie and Catherine, the two sisters who operate it?.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Kaiser V. Anthem 2010
Pallice ROCHELLE - The Popular is threatened
absence of safety improvements, Coffee People, the soul of the neighborhood, is threatened with closure. What will decide Annie and Catherine, the two sisters who operate it?.
absence of safety improvements, Coffee People, the soul of the neighborhood, is threatened with closure. What will decide Annie and Catherine, the two sisters who operate it?.
http://www.sudouest.fr/2011/02/05/le-populaire-est-menace-310200-1390.php
Catherine and Annie, two sisters, the two lovebirds, who exploit this magical place. XAVIER PHOTO Leoty is one of those places where, as in the English inns, it brings you directly to the small red shift on the table at lunchtime, in welcoming you.
What will become of the popular coffee, the soul of Pallice?
The establishment opened in 1890, along with the commercial port of La Rochelle, is now threatened with closure for lack of implementation of safety improvements.
Annie and Catherine, two sisters, two inseparable that exploit this wonderful place, tell. "Firefighters and security committee are passed. We need to build such a firewall on the floor for three hotel rooms we operate. We also need standards to the kitchen ... "
Invest or close?
What will decide the two sisters? Investing for the few years that separate their retirement? Or put the key under the door and deny La Rochelle this magical place?
Today, the cafe-restaurant is more than a century. And his story is amazing.
Ideas vanguard
In 1890, great-grand-parents of Catherine and Annie leave their natal Deux-Sevres. "Their furniture and stones for the construction of coffee arrived by water, along the Sevre Niortaise then channel Marans, shows Annie. Our great-grandparents opened a cafe called the Flow popular and was then installed on the south quay behind the submarine base that did not exist yet. There were long tables crowded by pints of red and card games. We served the soup to the workers of the port ... "
The school was then sold the coffee and small grocery. The great-great-grandfather Catherine and Annie worked hard. It still took the time to campaign and participate in the creation of the dockworkers' union. "It was a very advanced in his ideas, shows Annie. Ideas of avant-garde ... The whole family has always been communist and we stayed in the same current of ideas. "
In the fifties
The rate will remain popular south shore until the last war.
In 1952 it moved to its current location on Market Square, and took the name Coffee People. A small hotel with five rooms on the floor then opened, to accommodate workers on the move, people shipyards and low-income families.
is the time of the father and the mother of Annie and Catherine, René and Alice. Alice is a party in 2008. At an advanced age but still valiant. She remains in the memories of the neighborhood as this elegant old lady with sparkling hair that night where coffee gave a cabaret, beat time to music with his shoe under the counter ...
Fourth generation
In 1977, Annie takes over. Her sister Catherine, a teacher, joined her at the cafe when he retires.
Today this place myth comes alive in two stages. Sunday with the huge market and tremendous Pallice in the week with regulars who come to lunch at People's that always come back.
Because we eat, including a quarter of wine with cheese and dessert, for just over ten. And detail is important, the excellent roast beef teams up some garlic slivers. As for fries, Christine, the waitress, the guarantees in a huge smile, they are "home."
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