{"id":4026,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4026"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:01:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:01:30","slug":"the-ace","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-ace\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ace!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Ace!<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on July 28, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/Ace_Cafe.html]<\/p>\n<p>With ton-up ghosts forever riding by<br \/>\nThe sound of engines revving everywhere<br \/>\nAnd petrol clouds left hanging in the air<br \/>\nThe Ace Cafe where bikers come to die<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Machinery to gladden any eye<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 With all night rock and all day bacon rolls<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 A transport cafe where angels lost their souls<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The Ace Cafe where bikers come to die<br \/>\nNow back beneath the North West London sky<br \/>\nAnd home to cars and bikes of every age<br \/>\nThose ancient rockers still appear on stage<br \/>\nThe Ace Cafe where bikers come to die<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 With ton-up ghosts forever riding by<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The Ace Cafe where bikers come to die<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nOn my way to and from work I frequently pass &#8220;The Ace Cafe&#8221; famous through the<br \/>\nfifties and sixties as an all night transport cafe on the North Circular Road<br \/>\nwhere bikers came to boast of doing the ton, rock and roll was live on stage at<br \/>\nany hour and all were always welcome. It went downhill fast in the 70s and<br \/>\nclosed in the 80s I think, but now it has been back in almost all its glory for<br \/>\nthe last ten years or so, hosting numerous car and bike clubs, and some bloody<br \/>\nloud music.<\/p>\n<p>It is still most famous for bikes, as it has been for seventy years!<\/p>\n<p>Pronunciation guide, it is the &#8220;Ace Caf\u00e9&#8221; with the \u00e9 pronounced but the &#8220;Ace<br \/>\nCafe&#8221; is a transport caff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ace! by cricketjeff on July 28, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/Ace_Cafe.html] With ton-up ghosts forever riding by The sound of engines revving everywhere And petrol clouds left hanging in the air The Ace Cafe where bikers come to die \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Machinery to gladden any eye \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9742,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4026","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7482,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4026\/revisions\/7482"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}