A bunch of racing cyclists sweeps toward the camera down a broad cobbled street on a wet day, the stones dark with rain and the gutter running. The leaders are strung across the near side of the road, heads down over dropped handlebars, in dark jerseys and shorts with light cotton caps, and the field stretches back behind them into the distance, thinning to single riders far down the street. A row of tall plane trees in full leaf runs along the right hand pavement, and beyond them a line of buildings recedes. On the left a plain four storey block of flats with balconies stands close to the roadway, a low fenced enclosure and a small flat roofed building in front of it. A handful of onlookers stand on the right pavement and a man in a coat watches from the kerb.
About this place
Futoška street is the old road running west out of Novi Sad toward Futog, the settlement some 7 km away that Hungarian sources call Futak and German ones Alt-Futok. It was once a single long street reaching from the town centre out to the Futog road, and its inner end became Jevrejska street when the boulevard now called Bulevar Mihajla Pupina was cut through; in the 1930s the whole length, Jevrejska included, was renamed for King Peter II. The building at Futoška 17, put up in 1912 as a Hungarian gymnasium, still stands and houses the Mihajlo Pupin electrical engineering school. The Futoška market on the street remains one of the busiest in the city.
- Date
- 1961
- Coordinates
- 45.24966, 19.82826
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- unknown
- Size
- 700 × 434 px
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