Cor-rupt was a long and narrow café with relatively little daylight and dark wooden panels on the wall. A kind of modern ‘brown café’. That didn’t really affect the conviviality but creating a different kind of atmosphere was difficult. Decorating for a birthday or a holiday required a lot of imagination and especially a lot […]
All in it together
Regulars of the Brainbox Bar
Having many foreign guests we often went to Schiphol. Hardly anyone had a car and taxis were expensive butwe always had an old car (for moving beer barrels). We collected people from and brought people back to the airport. It was nice to pick up family of friends or people who came back every year. […]
Opening Cor-rupt during Anti-Nuclear Weapons demonstration
In ’83 I think, there were large demonstrations against nuclear weapons in the Netherlands. That led to many interesting (political) discussions in the bar. Cor and I wanted to join at least once so we had announced that on one Saturday we would not open the bar until 6pm. However, a few regulars always played […]
Matchmaking
I first met my husband-to-be on a very drunken Saturday afternoon in Cor-rupt. I was usually an after-work client, but a friend from The Hague was in Amsterdam for the weekend. Her partner was returning from Saudi the next day, and she was collecting him from Schiphol. Many vieuxs on my part and many biers […]