Archbishop Valdivieso view to the west.
Currently, we have associated the tradition of neighborhood bars around the cemeteries mainly the perennial "Take Punishment", now located at the corner of Avenida Recoleta with Archbishop Valdivieso, just in front of the subway station and access to General Cemetery. However, there was a time when this side of the neighborhood recoletano was ruled by another famous bar-restaurant, also close to the category of being master of the same neighborhood now determined by the "Remove Punishment", "La Carmencita" 1 and 2, "Santa Rosa de Pelequén" or "Bar the Americas."
It was "La Posada, a former restaurant that existed in Recoleta pass just to the processions to the cemetery and was the first of several bars that could be faced with the long block from the cemetery. Proprietors by Don Saturnino Vera. According to testimony from neighbors and some references in the press, the renowned popular bowling ranked first facing Union Street and the Cerro Blanco, reaching standing there "when even the dead were afraid to cross in their neighborhood spirit" , in his own words Satu journalist Don Juan Ruben Valenzuela, confessed in September 1979 to a report in the newspaper "Las Ultimas Noticias."
was therefore the time he said "stab and regrind" dominated the landscape around the mountain, something that just came to change to the seventies but never left at all. Several animitas of rather recent bill and pointing violent deaths around the cemetery, a reminder that the finger of death still haunts sometimes out of the graveyard, yet. However, in the same interview, the owner also commented: "My clientele is very quiet and peaceful today, and that there is no shortage amusements . And the people who come to the bars of the cemetery district is quite particular, as we know from experience, reminding us that ancient chimbera Recoleta before the time of the party locations, boîtes or theaters, this describes lucidly the 1900 Lautaro Garcia in his "Novelario" ... Thing is this, after all.
At the time, "La Posada" was attended by a heterogeneous public where journalists and intellectuals were not lacking, as memories of a flower merchant who knew her there, but especially the public rejoiced more popular than ever was native to the La Chimba, since the time of the Chinganas and eateries even when Recoleta never said that was characterized by so much uproar, like that there was on the side of the Cañadilla (Independence) and the other edge of the Mapocho.
His name was written on a large sign outside on the front, and others announced the offering of its famous native food: "curanto with chapalele", "Mussels," "grills chimichurri" , among other delicacies. Offered as input Sanguchito of pork or wound, and wines of the house. " Don Satu , as they called the skipper, was a tenant beloved in the neighborhood, by the way, and knew a lot of stories around the neighborhood of the cemeteries, so that many visited his site attracted also by the pleasant and attentive trader who attended in person in "La Posada".
Recoleta industry toward the front of Cerro Blanco.
Archbishop Valdivieso industry where he ended his days "La Posada".
Although we know very well that, sometimes, the memories neighbors can lead to errors (memory is as fragile as the same neighborhoods, often), they assure us that, later, the bar-restaurant would have moved to a colonial-looking old house, almost in front of the birth of Puma Street, near Avenue Peru, into Archbishop Valdivieso. This is about two blocks north of the edge of the street, right in the last of the many processions that traveled to the Catholic Cemetery, located just a little further west, or entrance to the Recoleta cemetery, at the end of the street.
"La Posada" was, therefore, a symbol of the sector and place of departure of many decedents who entered the final break. These funeral processions had become particularly common on the streets since the cemetery opened his front door into the forties Recoleta. As you may recall, the "Remove Penalties" did the same for many years in its former location of the street from the Pantheon, Professor Zañartu today, but the restaurant was changed later to the corner of Recoleta where it is today, even before the transfer of " Posada "the Archbishop there near Valdez. Nevertheless, he remained extremely popular and busy, although not the most famous restaurant of all present.
Unfortunately, "La Posada" as venerable and respected, not survived that decade. They say here that the consequences of the economic crisis of the eighties (then hear the same thing), forced to stay on the road. Many will remember with shame, as well as missing the establishment, the last ancient house was demolished without pity. His place is now occupied by a bland building that has been home security companies and graphic workshops.
"La Posada", then went to sleep well with their dead.
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