Prague

[micromontenegro]

The haziness of age by Aguaitacaminos, on Flickr

 

[Freakscene]

Outside Kavárna Slavia on Národní, Praha, 2009.

 

[Freakscene]

In the metro. Undated (2000s?).

 

[Joao]

Prague, National Theatre - if I remember correctly

Reflection by João Avelar, on Flickr

 

[p.giannakis]

More Prague scenes photographed with a Rollei 35S:

Woman in black by Steve Macfarlane, on Flickr

So beautiful lady. Great picture.

 

[jpressman]

Fantastic city! iPhone 12

 

[Freakscene]

Prague, National Theatre - if I remember correctly

Reflection by João Avelar, on Flickr

Yes, it’s the new stage (Nóva scená) of Národní Divadlo, the National Theatre, by Karel Prager (1983). Thirty years ago the locals used to call it “Xmrzlý moč“ - the “frozen piss“ building, but it seems now to be lauded as a triumph of modern design.

 

[Bingley]

So beautiful lady. Great picture.

Thank you!!

 

[Joao]

No reason to be hungry in Prague

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And no reason to be thirsty

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Ond carpenter’s bench got a new life as a bar table

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[dexdog]

Restuarant near the castle, underground in location of old monastery





Part of old city wall

 

[dexdog]

I saw lotsa these guys in the square near City Hall selling smoked ham. Very good, but it seems like the standard serving is about a kilo or more.

 

[Freakscene]

Lapidárium Národního muzea, Praha, 2009.

 

[Joao]

Antique’s shop window – just in front of my hotel

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Dobra Catovna

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[Freakscene]

Pražský hrad, undated, 2000s.

 

[PRJ]

I was in Prague in the late 90s. I just remember the cameras. So many of them in all the little camera shops. I bought a Hasselbladski which really stunk, and some Zeiss lenses for it which were fantastic. I still have the Patent Etui I bought in a little shop. The guy said in German that it was for a woman which cracked me up. I'm sure all those little camera shops are gone. Probably all a McDonalds by now.

 

[PRJ]

Someone didn't appreciate the "gentrification" I guess you'd call it after the velvet revolution.

 

[PRJ]

 

[Freakscene]

Someone didn't appreciate the "gentrification" I guess you'd call it after the velvet revolution.

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To be fair, those cameras you saw in the little second hand stores in the 90s would mostly have been sold by people who had gone from having a pretty comfortable, if limited, existence, to being functionally poverty stricken overnight. The economic situation is good and improving now, but the transition following the revolution of 1989 was very rough for a lot of people.

 

[Out to Lunch]

the transition following the revolution of 1989 was very rough for a lot of people.

As in all the countries under former Soviet influence & control. The US and EU did not have the foresight nor the will to propose a Marshall Plan to them.

 

[PRJ]

To be fair, those cameras you saw in the little second hand stores in the 90s would mostly have been sold by people who had gone from having a pretty comfortable, if limited, existence, to being functionally poverty stricken overnight. The economic situation is good and improving now, but the transition following the revolution of 1989 was very rough for a lot of people.

Yeah, that was what my McDonald's comment in the other post was about.