zaterdag 23 april 2016

The Bulldog

The "Bulldog Palace", this lively Grand Cafe was opened on April Fools Day 1985, to play a joke on the city of Amsterdam as nobody would believe that the former cop-shop had turned into the Bulldog. It houses namely also a coffeeshop with a separate entrance, where you can buy soft drugs. Rather peculiar for a former police station of which you can still see the sign on the facade.
Anyway they placed recently this glass facade in front, that caught my attention for James' "Weekend Reflections"

14 opmerkingen:

  1. There is a standing joke here in North America about police hanging out at coffee shops. So I got a chuckle that the police station is now a coffee shop.

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  2. Cute name for a coffee shop. I like the new glass facade, makes it nicer to sit "almost" outdoors if the weather isn't good.

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  3. I think Amsterdam must be a little more relaxed about 'soft drugs' Marianne :)

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  4. Rather odd for a coffee shop, too, although I guess you could call caffeine a soft drug. :-)

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  5. The cop shop converted to a drug shop could only be opened on April Fool's Day.

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  6. Zoiets kan alleen maar in Nederland :)

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  7. It's a little ironic about being a former police station and now selling pot.

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  8. Police and drugs .. just in Amsterdam :)
    But the reflection is nice.

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