A row of shopfronts lines the ground floor of a modern building, signed Kristalimport, Industroservis and Produktna banka, with window displays reading Prodavnica Budimpesta and Novi Sad. A man in the long black robe and tall hat of an Orthodox priest walks past with shopping bags while two others look into a shop window. The source names the building as Bulevar Mihajla Pupina 8 to 12 and dates the photograph to 1973.
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.
On the card
Kristal Import | INDUSTROSERVIS | Kristal import | Prodavnica | BUDIML[…] | Novi Sad
Two large fascias above the arcade, Kristal Import set in individual letter boxes and INDUSTROSERVIS beside a logo. Below, in the window fascias: Kristal import again, Prodavnica meaning shop, a name beginning BUDIML, and Novi Sad.
- Date
- 1973
- Coordinates
- 45.25370, 19.84297
- Source
- Fortepan
- Credit
- Fortepan / Chuckyeager tumblr
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Size
- 2941 × 1960 px
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