[Cz-L] About Cz for Lisa from andy halmay on 2012-05-11 (The Czernowitz-L Archive)

From: andy halmay <andy_venivici_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 05:05:13 -0700 (PDT)
Reply-to: andy halmay <andy_venivici_at_yahoo.com>
To: Czernowitz Genealogy and History <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>

Lisa:
I was going to pull your leg and tell you that we all had servants with strong backs who gave us piggyback rides. In reality in pre-WW II days (20s and 30s) we had everything you had in the Americas - cars, mail, telephones. But in the city we had something you didn't have which was fiacres, carriages pulled by horses. The name comes from Paris and the Hotel St. Fiacre where the use of these lovely carriages was supposed to have originated. In the winter they would exchange the wheels for sled runners.

The following links take you to pictures of these great carriages which you'll still find in different parts of the world.

http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Europe/Austria/photo269979.htm

http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Africa/Egypt/Muhafazat_Aswan/Idfu-2009804/Transportation-Idfu-TG-C-1.html

http://www.vienna.cc/english/fiaker14.htm

Cheers,
Andy Halmay

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