by August 1941Hotel Queen Mary
A Shopping Street With a Hotel Sign and Passersby, 1941
A long row of houses lines a street laid with tram tracks under a web of overhead wires, the upper windows set in carved frames above a band of ornamental panels. At the near end a sign reading SZALLODA, hotel, projects over a café terrace with iron railings and folding tables, where a man in a white coat stands among passers-by. Shops with awnings fill the rest of the row, two cars stand in the street, a cyclist rides on the left, and a taller corner building rises further down the street. The card is from the first year of the Hungarian occupation, which began in April 1941.
About this place
The Queen Mary was a single storey hotel built in the classicist manner, with a summer garden that the archive photographed in 1935. This archive's catalogue records that it went up in 1854 for its owner Johann Eigler and first traded under the name Elisabeth, and that it was renamed the Queen Mary Hotel on 9 May 1922, after Marija, consort of King Aleksandar I of Yugoslavia. That change of sign is the ordinary pattern in Novi Sad after 1918, when Habsburg names on streets, squares and businesses gave way to those of the new royal house. Nothing further about the building has been traced beyond the archive's own record.
On the card
Ujvidék / SZALLODA
Novi Sad. Hotel.
- Date
- by August 1941
- Coordinates
- 45.25447, 19.84507
- Source
- Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum – képeslapok
- Credit
- Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2330 × 1498 px
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