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A maggio uno dei simboli del quartiere Ticinese ha chiuso i battenti. Sei mesi prima se n'era andato Pietro Rattazzo, che l'aveva aperto nel 1961.

Si andava a mangiare in Trattoria Toscana e poi si passava dal Bar Rattazzo.

In quegli anni migliaia di studenti (futuri sessantottini) arrivavano a Milano da ogni parte di Italia per frequentare l’università e il Ticinese li accoglieva con i suoi appartamenti a buon mercato.

E' stato tempio della controcultura meneghina ed ha attraversato epoche e stagioni. 

👉Lo storico “Bar Rattazzo” (trasferitosi in via Vetere da qualche anno, da quando lasciò la sede di corso di Porta Ticinese 83) era un bar popolare nei prezzi e nei modi, punto di riferimento per persone di tutte le età, dai giovani che bevono in strada o al Parco delle Basiliche agli anziani del quartiere. 

Dall'intervista rilasciata alla "BBC Travel" nel 2010:

«"When I opened Bar Rattazzo with my wife in 1961, it was just an enoteca (wine bar). We served grappino (small glasses of grappa) and other wines I got cheap from the farms in Piedmont where my family worked. Junkies were snatching necklaces right outside my shop. It was a scary time. Things are much better now," Rattazzo said.»

👉Lo stesso servizio della BBC proponeva la seguente ricostruzione storica:

«His father had also run an enoteca, so it made sense to continue the family business. His experience paid off and business was good. The small shop continued in much the same way until the mid-1960s, when dramatic social changes transformed Bar Rattazzo from humble neighbourhood bar to the unofficial speakeasy of Milan's counterculture. (BBC Travel, 2010)

In the 1960s, the young generation of Italian students and workers was rejecting the status quo, demanding new rights and better education and threatening revolution. At that time, local governments in northern Italy were overwhelmed by an influx of workers from the south who came to work in factories churning out cars and machinery for companies like Fiat. Meanwhile, unions were losing their influence and leftist splinter groups were beginning to form. Unauthorized strikes were commonplace. The unions scrambled to reassert their influence by bringing the new groups into the fold, but the chaos continued.

By 1971, Bar Rattazzo was well known as the unofficial speakeasy of Milan’s far-left movement. Throughout the ‘70s, anarchists, socialists, and communists met to write manifestos over beers and cheap eats. Revolutionary writer Mario Capanna, street artist Davide Tinelli and Anarcho-punk author Primo Moroni are just a few of the legendary Ticinese residents who became regulars at Bar Rattazzo.

As the 1970s came to a close, the idealism of the era lost focus during the heroin epidemic of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. The parks and piazzas near Bar Rattazzo became increasingly dangerous; muggings were a constant concern. Most famously, the fugitive gangster Renato Vallanzasca, “Il Bel René” (the pretty boy Renè) began to lurk in Parco delle Basiliche, bringing with him the air of lawlessness that permeated the time.»