Olivais-Sul Neighbourhood began to be built in 1959. Of municipal promotion, it includes an area of 186 hectares destined to 38250 inhabitants, in most in regime of social house, distributed by 7996 fires. Just as in the Discharge of Lisbon, he wanted heterogeneity the neighbourhood with buildings for to return to the lodging and others of free sale. With base in the ideals of the Letter of Athena, with quick alterations to the more purist and predecessor Olivais Norte, he tried to do a neighbourhood where the built groups were linked by the green structure, with streets of restricted access for each block linked to a main road outline. The quality of the residents' life was one of the town planners' of the project main concerns, the architects Rafael Botelho and Carlos Duarte. However, it is habit to say that the project failed." In http://www.viveraltadelisboa.org /? p=251
In our area, close of the street City of Vila Cabral the first coffee appears. Initially of small dimensions, but due to the great affluence of customers fast grows with a considerable esplanade. His interior also increases and he is born an enclosure with billiards and game of soccer of puppets of iron. The coffee didn't have name, he didn't have sign to identify it, and we gave him a, the one of her proprietor's name, Coffee of Frederico. Her fame was such in the roundness that it stole customers of other coffees. However an another appears in the proximities, there the some four hundred meters of distance of Frederico's Coffee. It was considered luxury because a person badly dressed was not able to in him to enter. He had very beautiful luminous announcement: COFFEE THREE DOORS, because he had three entrance doors. He excelled for the absolute silence, an ideal place to study, to meditate and to change ideas… without anybody that inconvenienced.
An important investment. Many of us left Frederico's Coffee for revenge, because as only her coffee existed, he treated us as well he understood, and even with contempt in some situations. We convinced like this ourselves that he would go to the bankruptcy. The Three Doors in little time it began to fill up, and Frederico to leak. The weeks went passing, and suddenly all began to return for Frederico. The Three Doors were the flies, and it ended for failing for customers' lack. Reason? This era the subject that all commented on. But I believe that it was easy to explain: in Frederico it was comfortable, in an atmosphere without ceremonies, with simplicity, with rusticity.
Besides Frederico, they also worked in the coffee, her wife, her daughter, and at night Antunes, that made odd-job after her daily service as employee of coffee. He had about fifty years, it was very nice, very educated and playful. When some of us didn't have money to pay the expense, there were not problems, it could be paid the other day. Of course existed in our circle somebody more daring than understood once in a while to upset him. One of those, Luís, of immoderate height, arrived, he sat down, Antunes approached and he asked him that wanted, and Luís:
- The newspaper today and the one yesterday, a toothpick for the teeth, a glass of water and a cloth to clean the table!
- And doesn't your excellence want anything else?!
- Yes, ignite the cigarette please!
- Is it satisfied? Does he want more some thing?
- Yes, what time is it?
- Is everything?!
- No, inform me when it begins to rain.
Image: «Street Cidade de Vila Cabral, Olivais Sul. Let to tell you to me, that the neighbourhood of the Olivais groves marked my life to the days today, I always lived in "My fantastic neighbourhood", with a lot of green area without construction excesses, the buildings very well "arranged", with plenty area of walking on foot, everything very well structured and thought so that the people could live in a spacious and green calm atmosphere. Probably tends in view the future. Together enclosure (in my opinion) the best business card of "My Neighbourhood.»
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