Dear Roland Your post on Dhobitalao was well written. For most Goans who came to Bombay, Dhobitalo was the first point of entry, mainly cause of the Goa buses and the trains at VT.
Although I was in Bandra, I used to visit my aunt in Marine Lines..that is Dhobitalao. I think the restaurant is Vienna and not Venice Resturant, and bang opposite there is Picnic bakery and a store of Joe Rose (i think), it has another restaurtnt Snow Flakes, closer to Bastani Restaurant (which has closed down) but Kyani is still operating. I used to collect my copy of konkani (romi) weekly 'Goa Times" by Dr. Simon Fernandes and Cine times by Elly Bros. I dont know if he had Goan tribune also. Another important place for Goans in Mumbai is the Cross Maidan, where the feast is still celebrated. Most of the Goan families from Dhobitalo have now shifted to Borivili and Mira Road, but the Clubs are still there. Dev borem korum Edward Verdes Mumbai/Chinchinim > The neighborhood that this Church served was primarily a lower-middle class > Goan majority one. There were a couple of pork butcher shops (an unheard of > business in the rest of Bombay), a few Goan restaurants - C.D'Souza's and > Venice being prominent and even a few candle making stores. Why candle > makers I don't know, Bombay had electricity. The 'hood consisted of rental > apartment buildings where Goan families small and large, lived in 'studios' > -if one uses a fancy name- of no more than 300 to 500 square feet, often > sharing that with a visiting relative from out of town or a 'shippy' friend > passing through to Goa. Quite of few of those families had bread winners > who were absentee husbands and fathers working either on ships, or in Aden > or Bahrain. > _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
