Glenn Panka

Glenn Panka - since 2015 volunteer walk-in centre Ondro Bong (now Zeeburg), from 2019 guide at Amsterdam Underground

"I came here as a twenty-two-year-old male in 1977 and what do you do first? Look for your friends from Suriname. I saw they were making a lot of money on the Zeedijk, which was really the center of the drug trade back then. I became a drug runner; I made sure that the drug tourists arriving at Amsterdam Central Station, often American military stationed in Germany, came to the Zeedijk to buy heroin. That's how I made money. Everyone came there, Herman Brood and even Mick Jagger! Who came into Casablanca in the middle of the night, laid a line on the bar and grabbed the microphone. Those were the good old days, yes!"