The Historian · Femke · Amsterdam
Café Chris
This is where I explain the Jordaan: a working district built to house the poor while the rich took the canals. The workers drank here.
The Jordaan's oldest bar, pouring since 1624. Local lore says the masons building the Westerkerk collected their wages across this counter.
— Femke, The Historian
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