Club Nautico
British Club 1908
Las Palmas Golf Club 1891
12.What was the Canary Islands Review?
This newspaper eventually disappeared
13. When was the bread for sandwich introduced in Las Palmas?
In 1972 as a forerunner of a type of activity that later tried to follow many other
businesses but that has always been separated from the rest by their good ideas,
the quality of their product and, above all, by that intimate and familiar treatment
with which their human team receives each visitor.
There were like perfect hosts Don Tomás, Ana, Natacha and the rest of the staff
receiving and attending the many friends that were invited to the celebration, in
which this family remembered the effort with which they started, when the
showcases had only eight varieties of sandwiches prepared with cream cheese,
anchovy, tuna, ham, pâté, sobrasada and salmon, and the evolution that for four
decades has been shaping one of the most popular and loved places of the
commercial area Triana.
14. Who was Alfred L. Jones?
This is a story that runs between different places and different times, that
progresses from the uppercase to the minuscule and that transits between History,
literature and the plates of a street. The places are Belgium, England, the United
States, the Congo, and the Port of La Luz. The times from the end of the 19th
century to the present. The History is that of one of its most ignominious chapters:
the slavery and extermination of almost half of the population of the Congo,
between 1885 and 1908. The literature appears with one of his masterpieces, The
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad . And the plates of the street, in short, are
those of a road of Las Palmas: Alfredo L. Jones.
15. Who was Olivia M. Stone? When did she visit our islands?
What is the title of her famous book about the Canary Islands?
On September 5, 1883 the British Olivia M. Stone arrived in the Canary
Islands with her husband, John Harris Stone, well-known London