Re: [Cz-L] Backyards

Not so.
This photograph was taken this year, not before 1945-46, when most of
us left.
It shows a building which probably has not been painted in over 10
years.
It also looks as if balconies were added haphazardly.
In our time, buildings were maintained.
Certainly there were poor people in Czernowitz. But were they the
majority?
My father's family were very poor, they lived in Manasteriska, in a
house,
my grandmother built from slats of wood and clay.
It is a very small house and my grandparents had 8 children,
but it still stands and seems to be cared for.
By our modern standards, apartments and houses built before 1940,
were mostly small, had inadequate kitchens and bathrooms, no air
conditioning,
no central heating, no running hot water, etc.
But many of the public buildings were very beautiful and the public
gardens,
like the "Volksgarten" and the "French garden" in front of the theatre,
were and still are wonderful.

Look at some of the photographs I took of Czernowitz at:
> https://picasaweb.google.com/MReiferTaylor/
> CzernowitzChernivtsi20092010

Mimi

On Aug 14, 2012, at 11:00 PM, HARDY BREIER wrote:

> http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/whasup/9748234/6198668/original.jpg
>
> Czernowitz 2012 - E. Hauster photo.
> Not much has changed since our times.
> Most Czernowitzer lived in similar houses.
> Czernowitz may be object of our affection
> but these were the conditions.
> Nothing is more objective than a camera lens.
> Hardy
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