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Café de Hansen

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  1. 1869

    Open from 1869Sources disagree

  2. 1877

    Open from 1877Sources disagree

  3. 1912

    Open until 1912Single source

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  • Juan HansenPerson
  • Anselmo TaranaPerson

Café de Hansen: Juan Hansen, Anselmo Tarana, restaurante, and two successive premises; the first was a casilla.†

Plano de Buenos-Aires (Paz Soldán, Atlas geográfico argentino), 1888 · BnF, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

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Opened
1877founded by Juan Hansen in 1877 (one document gives a 1869 licence); tango heyday 1903-1908
Closed
1912demolished 1912

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Open from 1877

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Open from 1869

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Notes4

Described as Juan Hansen

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Described as Anselmo Tarana

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Restaurante

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Two successive premises; the first was a casilla

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Open until1

Open until 1912

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Located in1

Located in esquina este de Avenida Figueroa Alcorta y Sarmiento

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Park restaurant in Palermo where the tango crowd gathered at night around 1900; remembered in Canaro's 'Tiempos viejos'.

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Avenida Sarmiento y Avenida Figueroa Alcorta

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  • Palermo

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