A crowd presses towards a bus at the barriers of the suburban bus station by the Fish Market, men in caps and women in headscarves among them, the bay numbered 9 on a plate high on its post and again on a board lower down. The buses are two-tone, a light upper panel over a dark skirt, with roller destination boxes above their windscreens, and more stand in a rank under the canopy at the left. Tubular steel rails channel the queue across the setts, a street lamp hangs out over the stand on a long curved arm, and a two-storey house with a shaped gable and roof dormers rises behind.
About this place
The fish market keeps its own small square on Trg republike, at the point where the old centre of Novi Sad runs into Podbara, with Miloša Bajića and Žarka Vasiljevića streets on its other sides. The ground here was low and wet before the town spread over it: an account of the bishop's palace describes it facing a stagnant arm of the Danube in the direction of the present fish market, and complains of the stench and the noise of frogs. The photograph in this archive was taken in 1959, with the square dug up and new blocks of flats standing behind it, during the rebuilding that gave this edge of the centre its present form.
- Date
- 1970s
- Coordinates
- 45.25746, 19.85108
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1600 × 1152 px
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