Fifty to sixty years ago this was the place everybody went to after a trip to the Margao market.
Loja Moosa for canned provisions, Marchon’s right there in the old market for alcohol or perhaps Casa Filu a little distance away and following that Longuinhos for a midday beer and snacks. The late chubby owner Elloy was on the cash counter presiding over a noisy, dingy interior. Always used to wonder why the guy never improved his establishment even though money was rolling in, but later on the mental pieces fell into place when he opened a new place on Colva beach. David’s (pronounced Daveed) was a classier place a short walking distance away, nicely air conditioned and well kept. The hoi-polloi went to L’s and the local blue-bloods went to D’s. Margao was a quaint little district town then. The only traffic comprised of Mercedes private cars and taxis, Saab, Volvo, VW Beetles and Ford Anglias. On the drive southwards you would pass through the tracks onto Harya Bandh which was an acess road to Navelim, Benaulim and the Catholic dominated villages. If you go northwards from the Jardin (garden and town plaza) to Panjim, you would pass through narrow roads flanked by grand old landlord’s mansions in the typical Goa-Portuguese style, getting a peek right into the hall (sala) large enough for a wedding, with an old man rocking on a chair with the standard overreaching armrests that were used instead for leg rests. Panjim was always the beautiful cultural town, Margao and Mapusa merely bustling commercial and market towns that served the Salcete and Bardez hinterlands. The Catholic upper classes in Panjim were liberal and friendly, in Margao they were snooty, always conscious of caste considerations, while in Mapusa the upper classes had a much lower profile than the other two. Roland Francis Toronto. > On Feb 4, 2018, at 11:26 PM, Con Menezes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > memories of Bar Longuinhos in Margao. fifty years ago. > > https://www.tripadvisor.com.au/Restaurant_Review-g1152662-d2341420-Reviews-Longuinhos_Bar_Restaurant_Confectioners-Margao_South_Goa_District_Goa.html > > --- >
