Abstract: A support apparatus for a café umbrella has a support arm pivotally attached to a generally vertical pole. In a preferred uneven-arm arrangement, a canopy-supporting end of the arm is further to one side of the pole than a second, actuator-connected end of the arm is to the other side of the pole. An actuator mechanism connected between the pole and the shorter portion of the arm and can be used to raise or lower the canopy supporting end of the arm by moving the second end of the arm respectively toward or away from the pole. A cable assembly runs along the length of the support arm so that one end hangs beneath the canopy supporting end of the arm where it can retain a removable canopy. The other end of the cable assembly is attached to the pole so that when the actuator draws the arm toward the pole and raises its canopy-supporting end, the free end of the cable moves downward so as to collapse the canopy.