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Elaine
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   posted 28 February 2002 12:09 AM     Profile for Elaine     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote


Hello David,

Yes, the cafe that I worked at was on the prom, but the Brucianni family had more than one cafe. They t/a P. Brucciani, and the one I worked in was managed by Bruno Brucianni and his mother.
My memories of any of the coffee bars in Morecambe are very vague, the memories are mainly with the friends that I had at that time, and what we used to get up to! I once went to the Flying Dutchman in Milnthorpe, situated in the town square. It was so without atmosphere we climbed straight back into the car and headed further up the A6 to Kendal!

Best wishes, Elaine.

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David Peddle
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   posted 27 February 2002 09:04 PM     Profile for David Peddle     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote


To Elaine.
Are you sure it was P Brucianni you worked for. We lived next door to R Brucianni, Rico can't remember his wife's name. There were three children who will be in their forties now. Carl, Mark and Lisa, they were much younger than I was. His father ran a similar cafe and there may have been one other.

The Sportsman's was the one above the Wimpy bar ? a narrow lane ran behind, new three floor building. Didn't the fellow who started that return from America shortly before it opened and bring back a convertible Ford with huge tail fins. A horrible light green color. At the time it would have been ones idea of heaven to own it.

I am amazed no one has come up with anything on the Festival. At that time I thought the world centered on the Festival. I will endeavor to produce something. The place at Glasson Dock became popular after I had left and I heard about on visits back in the mid sixties. Another place of minor note was The Flying Dutchman in Milnthorpe. One knew it but can hardly say it was loveable. It was more a cafe tarted up a bit to be a coffee bar. It had instant purchased bits of character such as fish nets, bottles and nautical pictures. I should be more kind to the place as we were pretty impressed at the time. There were so few cars available in that era, or people old enough to drive, that the most frequented places had to be within walking distance.
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Elaine
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   posted 27 February 2002 12:44 AM     Profile for Elaine     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote


Hello Mike,

I worked at P. Brucciani (how DO you spell it?) one summer, after my proper job at RLI, helping out when they were short-staffed. Lovely family. I can't remember a coffee bar opposite the Pier, though. Mind you, by the time we arrived at the pier for the dancing, it was always very late, and pitch dark, driving rain, howling gales etc.

Best wishes, Elaine.

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Mike Mayor
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   posted 26 February 2002 05:54 PM     Profile for Mike Mayor   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote


i agree with Elaine you hit a memory with the Sportsman. Don't forget people there was Bruciannies's ( I don't know if that's how you spell it). Does anybody remember a Coffee Bar right across from the Central Pier, I think it was next door to the Central Pier Pub.

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   posted 26 February 2002 12:48 PM     Profile for Cloggy     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote


The Dixieland was next to the Wintergardens,up the stairs,and the Coral Reef was downstairs at the front,and had Palm trees!
(Graag gedaan,trouwens!).

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   posted 26 February 2002 01:19 AM     Profile for OurColin     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote


There was a place inside the Winter Gardens with Palm Trees etc called The Dixieland (or was it that the Coral Reef Bar was inside/alongside the Dixieland)?
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   posted 25 February 2002 05:49 PM     Profile for mpprh     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote


I think that was it !

round the corner from the Bath hotel, by winter gardens.

thanks, or dank u vell

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   posted 25 February 2002 01:10 PM     Profile for Cloggy     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote


The Coral Reef Bar?

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It wasn't the Tropicana (I worked there in the early 70's) - that was a restaurant above the amusement arcarde opposite the west end pier. Posts: 44 | From: Lancs/Yorks border | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged

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Tropicana


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   posted 18 November 2001 08:17 PM     Profile for mpprh     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote


hi

i know the place you mean !

it had plastic palm trees and was called the ??.

It was a tropical name, something like Shangri La.

I used to drink there occasionally.

Someone with more grey cells left help us !

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Yes I remember the Trapdoor on Skipton Street, down in the basement.I left school in 1976 and seem to remember one of my english teachers taking some of us down there for a coffee "treat" before we left school, very grown up we felt. It later became a restaurant but I can't remember what it was called then.

Does anyone remember what the place was called next to the Winter Gardens? There was a fresh seafood shop/stall outside and inside was a large dancehall and bar. I did some waitressing there once for what seemed to be a lot of coach parties having lunch and I seem to remember Discos being held there on Friday nights but just can't think what it was called.
I also worked as an usherette in the Winter gardens for a few pantos and summer seasons.
Does anyone remember The New Faces, Black and White Minstrels. Come to think of it I must have worked my way around around Morecambe (sounds bad) doing most of the seasonal jobs, it's good fun thinking of the "olden days"!!!
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   posted 17 November 2001 02:19 PM     Profile for mpprh     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote


It seems Brubecks (50's)was earlier than the Trap Door (60's).

Anyone remember the Trap Door ?


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