During the 2nd world war my father stayed with his sister in Zwolle and went there to dance classes. Something just a few people did. He liket that so much that, after the war, he decided to attend dance teachers training in Vught. With success, in 1947 he received his diploma and began to give dance classes. During one of the lessons he met a nice girl, Addy van den Broek, he let her asist him and soon she became his bride! Together, they gave dance lessons and later they bought the cafe from her father, Carel van den Broek (now in Volkel Sense Fusion) and they went to live there.

They had 2 children, Bert and Arnold. Mid fifties they had the opportunity to buy a cafe from my uncle, Jas van Zutphen, on the market in Uden. Because my fathers grandfather, Tummuske, and his son Bert Verhoeven (my grandfather) had lived on the Market, he loved to live on that striking piece Uden. So my parents moved from Volkel to the market in Uden. Back then it was a little farm, like 't Stulpke, but soon enough it was rebuild and there was a Hall added. Thereafter, the farmhouse was demolished and the current building was built. During the conversion another son was born, Hans. For years there were many dance classes and at the weekend 'Verhoeven' was the place to be when it came to dancing and entertainment. In the 60s they had another two children, me and then finally a daughter, Sandra. They had a rather hectic life and decided to not to live at the firm anymore, they built a house on the Maasstraat.

In the early '70s Mom and Dad wanted to do it a little calmer, and was successively an uncle and aunt came into the firm, Paul and Thea de Waal, then my brothers, Bert, Arnold and Hans, and after them Sandra and me. The front of the building was converted to 'Disco Verhoeven'. When the whole family was out of here was also found a new destination for all those empty rooms: Hotel Verhoeven. Eventually we purchased the business in 1992, Sandra the hall, I the disco and the hotel. In 1995 I decided to stop the disco and continue as a cafe with hotel, because a disco cannot be combined with a hotel, due to the loud noise. Then Looney's came into place. Meanwhile, the hotel was extended from 7 to 11 rooms. In that same year I married Cindy and now we have a daughter, Silke. Quite recently, we bought the Hall from Sandra, and we want to realize more hotelrooms in the future. All in all, now 4 generations later, the Verhoeven family still is active at the Markt in Uden. On the 5th generation ...

Robert & Cindy Verhoeven