#groppi

Local ‘ahwa somewhere in Islamic Cairo vs chocolate mocca in a very elegant cafe Groppi in Heliopolis. Same city, two different worlds. Which one would you choose? 

Seen in @downtowncairo : The famous #neoclassic #groppi #building in #talaatharb #square. The famous branch of #egypt’s most famous #restaurant and #chocolatier is still under restoration work . It has been two years or more 🥺 شوهد في #ميدان #طلعت_حرب عمارة مطعم #جروبي الشهير. فرع جروبي الاشهر لغاية دلوقتي بيتم ترميم. هم بقالهم سنتين او اكتر في ترميمه #downtown #cairo #thisisegypt #eypte #egipto #architecture #architecturephotography #mobilephotography #shotoniphone #femalephotograher #mideast #northafrica #cairowalks #africa (at ميدان طلعت حرب) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQt05p9rraj/?utm_medium=tumblr

The 1920s and 1930s were definitely the Groppi golden days. The Second World War didn’t disrupt business too badly – British officers still had to have cream teas – but in the 1950s the coffee house got caught up in the Egyptian Revolution, when Gamal Abdel Nasser moved to abolish the constitutional monarchy and establish a republic. On March 20, 1954 a bomb was placed,actually inside the coffee house. While the detonation caused widespread panic, no one was hurt. The Groppi experience came to an end in 1981 when descendants decided to close the business for financial reasons, with the ice cream section being sold to Swiss multinational Nestlé. But Maison Groppi and parts of the Art Deco interior of the café have been preserved. Copied from.. http://www.swissinfo.ch/ #egypt #cairo #photopiadtour #photopia #thisisegypt #downtown #groppi

#مصر #جروبي #Egypt #Cairo #groppi

 and so were the old days

Down on the Hank Aaron Trail... I saw in the Shepherd that there is a walk along the Hank Aaron Trail today to view the public art, so I thought I’d add a piece to the work on display. I hope this version of my Great Grandfather’s dove doodle will ride for a long time, like the one in Bay View. The paintings mounted on the fence commemorate the fair housing marches of the late 1960′s. I was a baby back then, and my parents had a hard time finding housing on the East Side because people didn’t want to rent to families with young children. They were asked to leave the apartment in which they lived because they displayed the sign of a political candidate in their street-facing window. My parents and my mother’s family were active in James Groppi’s movement. I rode above the marchers on my father’s shoulders. I remember passing by an abandoned building bearing the sign of the Youth Commandos when I rode the #60 Burleigh bus to Jackie Robinson Middle School in the early years of school desegregation. Now I shop at Groppi’s in Bay View. The Milwaukee River rolls by the trail and under the 16th Street Viaduct, our own Edmund Pettus Bridge. Many many rivers yet to cross. Hank Aaron Trail Walk http://npaper-wehaa.com/shepherdexpress#2015/08/13/?article=2578793 The Itals - Roll River Jordan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHVxlL_jQa0