THE CONTINENTAL CAFE, ARDROSSAN

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Da Prato family had Central cafe Glasgow street, and did Matroni have chippy top of Glasgow street, down from Plazza
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Unicornheart,

That was Marroni's, usually called the "TOP MARRONI'S". The "BOTTOM MARRONI'S" was the Castle cafe opposite the Gospel Hall.
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Was the Continental Cafe not part of the "Deep Sea" chippy at the bottom of Glasgow St ?
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I remember going to the Central cafe on one Sunday in every month to collect the church collections from the Motroni's. Poppy
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I already settled this one for you before, PT, when we were " walking " up Glasgow Street; the 1967 phone book has the cafe at 63 Glasgow Street down jointly as Motroni & Da Prato.

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after i posted it i realized that one was a chip shop +(restaurant) and other was a cafe on other (like shops joined to-gether,) i worked in chip shop when i was young,and they were owned by in-laws matroni in cafe and da-prato on chip side, and top Glasgow street was maronis (memories) so you correct down south, i should have remembered.
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Rowanside wrote:Was the Continental Cafe not part of the "Deep Sea" chippy at the bottom of Glasgow St ?

Two different places Rowanside the "Deep Sea" was owned by the Singleton's Continental Cafe was further up the street and was run by Ezzy or Izzy.
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That would be Ezzi. Mrs Ezzi died in 1960 as far as I know. The buisness would have been sold on.
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Ezzie cafe was always known as a place `the ladies of the night`would frequent whenever a ship docked in the harbour.

Eugenes cafe wasn`t it called the Windsor Cafe. If memory serves me right he also had a fish and chip bar next to the cafe section. Macdonalds the stationers next to Murchies shops bought the fish bar and turned it into a Sports Shop. I believe his daughter ran it.
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Mrs Ezzi was well educated and could speak several languages,including Russian. Russian sailors, amoungst others, would frequent her cafe to hear their mother tongue drink russian tea or coffee.
This would certainly attract certain "Buisness ladies" which would have caused not a little comment and or consternation amoungst the locals and would be "tolerated" rather than encouraged. As long as they spent money in the cafe!
The photographs I have of her show her of a stern matronly appearance and a demeanor that suggests she was brought up to expect much more out of life.
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was there not a café by the name of the Mecca café in Ardrossan I think it might have been the café that old Ezzy worked in that it belonged to old Aldo Agostini of the castle hill vaults my dad always called it
emmersons and that is when old Aldo owned it my dad was a regular in Aldo's in the 1950's.
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Mrs Ezzi had the Cafe from before the war. She owned Land and Properties surrounding it too. The Cafe was reduced in size during the War as part of it was requisitioned by the Food Office. It was returned in poor condition though and not used as a business premises thereafter. The Cafe and Land was sold off to the council during Mrs Ezzi's illness although the Cafe remained derelict for some years in the sixties.
I remember being there as a child.
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