A city bus stands at the kerb with its destination box reading 4 LIMAN, the route to the Liman district on the drained ground south of the old town. A man in a light jacket leans out of the open centre doorway, a man in a dark suit and broad tie walks past the front of the vehicle, and a young woman carrying a folded coat crosses the foreground. Behind them the white marble tower of the new main post office, built to Dragiša Brašovan's design between 1958 and 1962, rises over the older shopfronts. The bus has the flat two piece windscreen and roof mounted destination box of the TAM city buses supplied to Yugoslav operators from the late 1960s, and is very likely a TAM AS 3500 CM.
About this place
The street running off Liberty Square, named for King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and carrying the name still. The archive's cards look along it toward the spire of the Name of Mary Church, with the tram in the roadway and shop awnings down the left side. Under the occupation of 1941 to 1944 the street carried Adolf Hitler’s name, and the archive’s wartime photograph of it is filed here under that period. Under socialist Yugoslavia the street carried the name Ulica narodnih heroja, which a separate street about 120 m south-west carries today, so a caption using that name has to be dated before it is placed. The pin is the OpenStreetMap line of the street itself.
- Date
- 1970s
- Coordinates
- 45.25418, 19.84435
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1440 × 918 px
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