2009-02-09T17:10:00.000-08:00

This is a photo of the restaurant , circa 1960-61 the window above the sign was my bedroom window . the sign of a person drinking beer was from the famous bierre Pecheur that we use to sell .

Le bapteme de l'air

2009-01-18T13:12:00.000-08:00

This primitive watercolor was painted by Nita as a child , the house where she was born . Le Bapteme de l'air was a cafe -bar- restaurant in a small town called Saran in the outskirt of Orleans , France, right across from the airfield and runway of a small airport ," LAerodrome Orleans Saran "
It was always a cafe, probably was established in the early 1930' , the airport dates somewhere around 1913 , many stages took place to established an airport, Aviation was fairly new , one thing was the cafe was so close to the runway , it had a red light on the roof so when you landed it was a guide . The name Bapteme de l'air means Your first flight, baptism in the air . As a child I witnessed countless of individual take their first flight , after that experience they would come to the cafe and celebrate , in the early days it was a real treat to be able to go on a plane , but many couldn't go trough, it was scary , also expensive to do , the planes were small piper cub . My family lived above the restaurant , our whole life was being with the costumers who were affiliated to the airport .

This is my first chapter of this blog and many more to come , I am writing this for my children and Grandchildren .

Les Memoires du Bapteme de l'air

Le bapteme de l'air