Chips* stand Molenstraat
It is just a small building. And modelwise there is not much to tell. Except that this fries stand has of course been handmade, from cardboard and paper mainly. But the building has long gone. That is, why it is nice to include it here.
We found out about it, while researching for the villa Ledeboer/Kleiboer. On a black-and-white photograph on Facebook (se photo on the right) it is prominently visible, directly next to the gates of the villa.
In further explorations we found, that the building was not part of the villa Kleiboer, but of the property more to the right. Originally this villa was a residence too, of textile baron Stroink. But at least from 1951 onward that villa shows up on photographs as Hotel Café Restaurant Twente. It is quite possible, that the conversion into a hotel was due to the opening in 1951 of a new station building opposite of the villa, on the other side of the railway tracks; the current NS station Enschede.
Photo of the original chips stand of Hotel Café Restaurant Twente in winter.
The only photo available of the fries stand was the one mentioned above. So the colours, and the elevations of the side- and backwalls are pure fantasy. Only later we found a photo of hotel Twente that also features the fries stand. From this second photo we learned, that the right hand side wall did not have a door. And that the chimney did not stand on the roof, like in our model, but rises out of the backwall. But for now we leave it like it is. Stricktly speaking the stand should not be on the club layout at all. Because that shows the situation around the station in 1970. And hotel Twente had already been demolished in 1962, so most likely the fries stand too. But the building looks quite cute on a furthermore still rather bare part of the layout. And it evokes font memories in older residents of Enschede.
*) Dutch people do not eat the standard combination of fish-and-chips. Therefore these kind of stands generally only serve fries, and other fried fastfood (and ice-cream in summer!); but not fish. For fish you go to specialty shops that sell all kinds of fish, from fried cod to raw fish like the famous Dutch herring.