Re: [Cz-L] Motor cars in Czernowitz

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Glynn" <glynn_at_spontini.co.uk>
To: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>
Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 11:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Motor cars in Czernowitz

> My mother Erica would tell of the "one and only traffic lights in
> Czernowitz" in her childhood (1930s). This was where the Neuweltgasse
> crosses the Siebenburgerstrasse (Stefan cel Mare). It was not actually a
> set of traffic lights, but some sort of mechanical pointer system.
>
> David
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>
> To: "CZERNOWITZ-L" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 12:50 PM
> Subject: [Cz-L] Motor cars in Czernowitz
>
>
>> http://pics.livejournal.com/edward_tur/pic/002xeqed
>>
>> Who said there were no cars in old Czernowitz ?
>> Here is to prove the contrary.
>> There were cars on the streets of Czernowitz !
>> Not on all streets at the same time ,that is.
>> Petrol stations I dont recall but you could buy gas in cans at
>> some downtown shops. There were some Osin hand pumps later .
>> Water for the radiator and air for the tires were free !
>> ( Even in the Ceaucescu Rumania of 1980 Bucharest, the capital had
>> only 4 fuel stations with the newly invented air compressors .)
>> There were no paved roads in the countryside anyway.
>> In the late 30-ties there were regular bus lines to provicial towns.
>> The Opel Blitz line with its terminal at the beginning of
>> Russischegasse,
>> off the Ringplatz.
>> Hardy
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