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Mar 19, 2012

A Story from Glendon

The stories which people are sending in seem to be very popular judging by the comments which are been left, here we have another story today from Glendon and again it involves a gun!

I worked in Lloret 1972/3, Las Cuevas/Western Saloon/La Cala/Londoner/ Also DJ Garbi Park Disco around April 72. End of the season 72 October I was working the top Bar at the Londoner, around 9pm a big Spanish guy started ordering brandy (103 Black if I remember correctly), as the night came to a close around 2am, I gave him his bar bill..,he pushed it back to me, I started to cash up the till, he asked me to give him the takings for the evening, I said no thinking he was a little drunk and tried to have a joke with him, he then pulled a pistol from his belt and threatened to shoot, not at me, but anybody who was ready to confront him (I dived on the Floor under the bar), within a few minutes a large black Limo pulled up outside the bar where Edgar Bach then one of the owners was whisked away, the Guardia then turned up and escorted the gunmen out of the bar, the staff had a nightcap in silence trying to make light of the incident. The next day I was walking to work and I saw two Guardia parading up the main drag, I recognized one of them was the gunman from the evening before, he looked at me nodded his head, with a certain smirk on his face, of course this was in the reign of Franco, when I understand that no Guardia could do no wrong, I wonder if Alan (A.A. Excursions) remembers the incident.
Has anyone heard from the tall  Guy Louis from Liverpool,he was somewhat older than us at the time,but as mad as they come,or even Chris who managed many of the bars/Clubs for Edgar/Geoff. Fond memories  of my time in Lloret.

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good story and I remember it well, we also had a similar incident in the Londoner some years later when two German "Gangsters" came into the bar with a rifle and demanded the takings, the rifle was actually an air rifle but they look the same at a distance and when you are looking at the barrel. They also got caught outside the bar where the staff from La Cala were battering their car. Jimmy the under manager got stabbed and I took him to hospital it was not as serious as initially thought. Chris Stanley.

John Stanley said...

Similar thing happened to me in the Beach Boys Club when a guy pointed a pistol at me and demanded a free drink,I told him where to go, he fired the pistol at me and I got soaked but I also had a water pistol behind the bar and got the bastard back.
Chris are you still in Mallorca?

Anonymous said...

Hi John yes still here and eating. You may be interested to know that Dave Heritage has turned up back here again and is opening a small bar opposite the Ikebana restaurant. Where are you now? I was told you had moved to another resort but they did not know where.
Chris

John Stanley. said...

Chris,have a bar on the costa del sol,Fuengirola.
So Boats is back,hope it goes well for him.What happened to Roy,is he still there?

Anonymous said...

Hi John,
Roy went back to the UK at the back end of last year due to lack of health and customers, Dave took over the same bar !!!!.

Wish you all the best in the new venture in Fuengirola, I know the area quite well from my tourism days, it should go well for you there.
All the best
Chris

Billy Fraser said...

John,Roy's living in Suffolk somewhere according to Stitcher.
Chris, how's things, hope all is well.

jill said...

Hi Chris, hope you are well, how old is Lisa now, are you a grandad yet? Jill

Anonymous said...

Hi Jill,

Which Jill are you ?, I am now a grandfather of three, Lisa twins then a boy, she is now working in the Ministry of Defence.
Best
Chris

Anonymous said...

Hi Billy,
I am doing well considering the current climate, still in Pollensa.
Hope all is well with you, maybe stop by there this year when we drive up to Nice.
Best Regards
Chris

Anonymous said...

Hi Billy Hayes here is this Chris Stanley who I worked for in the Londoner ?

jill said...

hI CHRIS, I am the jill that was married to Albie. Congratulations on your grand children, I often wondered how Lisa was getting on, she was only a little girl the last time I saw her. It seems strange that she is all grown up now. Hope you are keeping well too I did know that you were in Majorca, been a long time x

Anonymous said...

My friend and I worked in the Londoner in 1972. Many, many happy/funny memories. The following year 1973; I was working in Majorca and there was Louis the Liverpudlian who worked at the western saloon in lorret in 1972.I remember the 2 American guys Rick and ? who worked at the Londoner.