A colour view down a long restaurant room with a low white ceiling crossed by heavy dark beams and hung with red globe lanterns on cords. A waitress stands at the centre in a costume of white blouse and embroidered red waistcoat over a dark skirt with a white apron, red lace up boots to the calf, carrying a bottle and glasses on a tray at her hip. Beside her a double bass player in a white shirt bows his instrument and a second musician stands forward playing a clarinet, both in white shirts and dark trousers. Diners sit at cloth laid tables along both walls, men in short sleeved white shirts with bottles and glasses before them, one leaning back to watch. A waiter in a white jacket stands at the far end and a row of tall windows with pale curtains runs down the right side, with potted plants at the near corner and framed pictures on the left wall.
About this place
The Orient was a three storey corner hotel in Grbavica, then the southern edge of Novi Sad. Its name was painted across the shaped gable in two languages at once, Hotel Orient and Orient szálló, with shops along the ground floor and tram wires strung across the street in front. Grbavica made sense for a hotel: the town's first railway station of 1882 stood on its southern boundary, where the Liman market is today, and travellers arrived there until the line was moved north and the old station pulled down. Another postcard in this archive, captioned Petőfi-utca, shows the same corner from further down the street, so the hotel stood on what was then Petőfi street; the catalogue identifies that street with the present Ulica Lasla Gala and records that a Hungarian restaurant, the Piros csizma, later occupied the site.
- Date
- 1975–1989
- Coordinates
- 45.24620, 19.83780
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- unknown
- Size
- 720 × 556 px
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