Men with shovels work a torn up roadway, a wheelbarrow beside them and a deep trench open across the foreground. Apartment blocks of the 1920s and 1930s stand along the far side, among them a rounded corner block, with hoardings at the kerb and a bicycle propped against them.
About this place
Queen Mary Boulevard was cut through the eastern edge of the old town in 1928 as the approach to the new Prince Tomislav bridge, and it is the street now called Bulevar Mihajla Pupina. Making it meant clearing the ground between the centre and the river: the church of St John Nepomuk, which stood at Brukšanac, the small work that had guarded the pontoon bridge, was pulled down for it. The boulevard took its name from Queen Marija, consort of King Aleksandar I, and lost it after the Second World War, when it was renamed for the physicist Mihajlo Pupin. It opened the line along which the city finally reached the Danube.
- Date
- circa 1963
- Coordinates
- 45.25370, 19.84297
- Source
- Nase prvo stolece. 100 godina javnog prevoza putnika u Novom Sadu, JGSP Novi Sad, 2011
- Licence
- unknown
- Size
- 1600 × 1200 px
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