Anwar Sadat dies, riddled with bullets during a military parade. Pemán dies at the age of 83 in Cadiz and Joseph Plá dies at the age of 84. On January 29, Adolfo Suárez resigns, for reasons that have not yet been clarified. On February 23 at six twenty-two in the afternoon, 200 civil guards under the command of Colonel Tejero, burst into the chamber, when the second investiture vote for Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, who would later be elected President on February 25, was being held. It was the year of rapeseed oil that would cause thousands of victims, of the arrival of Pablo Picasso's Guernica to Spain and of our entry into NATO.

In this year of 1981, Croché was born and he did it without arrogance , without petulance, in a simple way, without wanting to give himself importance, as if wanting to reach this world without fuss. That's why he didn't want to be Café, well, it would be petulant to try to emulate those old, dilapidated and chatty cafés of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, and he stayed in Cafetín , using a diminutive so as not to disturb History; so that, like children, you can see him grow up healthy and maybe when he's older we can call him Café, but you know, no matter how they give you a diminutive, you'll carry it all your life. Was Manolo inspired by those “Levante”, “Pombo”, “Comercial”, “Lorencini”, “Príncipe” or “el Gijón”?

Jesus Sainz from Los Terreros
“To Cafetín Croché on its 20th anniversary.”

Cafetín Croché is located in San Lorenzo de El Escorial , in the block of three buildings called “Casas de Los Doctores”, designed by Juan de Herrera, at number 6 San Lorenzo street, a street that ends with number 6, It begins in the Plaza de La Constitución and ends in the Jacinto Benavente Gardens, popularly known as the “Jardincillos”. Its schedule is uninterrupted from 12 noon until 3 a.m. It does not close any day of the week .

The Doctora Charanga and Juan Tamariz participated in the opening party, who started the tradition of the “Night of Magic” every Friday at eleven o'clock at night “Witching Hour” that continues today. In addition to Tamariz, internationally renowned magicians - world champions in magic - such as “José Carrol”, “Antonio Romero”, “Camilo”, “Anthony Blake”, “Julio Carabias”, “ The magician Migue", "Donald", "Miguel Gómez", "Agustín Leal", "Luis Boyano", ... and a long list of more than fifty illusionists, who fill Croché's Fridays with magical and fun shows.

It is also worth highlighting, in the early years, the performances of the “Gran Wyoming”, singing cuplés accompanied on the piano by his inseparable “Reverend”.

The decoration is decorated in an early 20th century style, with Parisian charm. On its walls hang period prints ( Alphonse Mucha -Sarah Bernhardt, Theater de la renaisance-,Gustav Klimt,...), postcards, photos -chronicle of time-, old banknotes, old radios, canes, and other objects from those years.