Caffé Paszkowski

The most “all-female-orchestras”

In the 1920s, the Caffè Paszkowski in Florence was the first large establishment to present a café-concert with an all- female orchestra, a very rare thing at the time, as we see in a period photograph.

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The most difficult to read

It is the Caffè Paszkowski in Florence (pronounced “Pascovschi”), nicknamed “pazzoschi” by the Florentines because of the somewhat eccentric characters who frequented it in the early 20th century.