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A intresting, bud sad article. Installing a tv antena in Bucharest, year 1957
From newspaper "Informaţia Bucureştiului" ("The information of Bucharest") - since 22nd of Dec. 1989 "Libertatea" ("The Freedoom"), year IV, no. 1139, Saturday 23 the of May 1957, page 2, an article about tv antenas intallation.
The article sayes "A new speciality The tv antenas are starting to enter in the image of the city. In the same time, a new kind of job appeared: tv tehcnicians, meaning specialists in istalling, checking and reparing apparates (devices) with screen. Our image is taken from the roof of the house from no. 5 [V.A.] Ureche Street, where 2 days ago a tv set was installed. The one who is installing the antena is technician Valeriu Peterescu, from the team of specialists of "Radioprogres" craftsmen cooperative". The 1st public broadcasting of the Romanian television was less then half of year before, 31st Dec. 1956/1st of Jan. 1957 and acording to statistics (I don't know when they made them) there where 2,588 people possesing a tv set in Bucharest (13,831 in 1958... by 1963 I think there where around 100,000). A tv was very expensive in the begening, a small "Rekord" costing 4,488 Romanian Lei ("Lions") in Feb. of 1957. Wages (sallaries) in Feb. 1957: 220 Lei (minimal - 350 starting from 1st of May), 619 Lei (avarage). Up untill around 1994-1995, "Libertatea" (an Bucharest issued newspaper) had a heading called "Informaţia Bucureştiului" when talking about Bucharest... in the memory of old days. The article is sad if you compare the 2 maps. A park is now there because the street was wiped out during the '80's to make room for the plans of the horrible couple. The street was going from near the point where Bogan Petriceicu Haşdeu (Hashdeu) Street meet the qauy of Dâmboviţa and went down to Izvor (Water Spring) Street. 1973: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CTGBDSbdxZ...anus+Izvor.jpg And now: https://www.google.ro/maps/place/Str...41!4d26.084178 Last edited by Telecolor 3007; 04-04-2018 at 05:11 PM. |
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Look at the craziness going on now. The city, I lived in for 56 years got rid of streetcars in 1958. Now they're spending millions building a new short route streetcar line. I guess that's progress! |
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What city?
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Then the just recently built and opened the Q-Line, a streetcar that, lo and behold, follows the same damn routing as the old Woodward streetcar line. Stupidity. |
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Rio de Janeiro got rid of the streetcars in 1963 ( which I and many other people think was a pretty stupid decision ) and four years ago, for the World Cup they spent millions building a shorter route modern version that goes through downtown.
By the way: many of the original street cars Rio de Janeiro had in the 50's are now... in the United States. Why? Because when they were put out of commission, the stupid authorities started to destroy them. Since they were built in the USA, American street car enthusiasts stopped the destruction by buying them and bringing them back to America. |
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin!
I heard they sold the streetcars to some south or central American country. They ran the trolley buses until around 1963. IIRC, the same thing happened to them. I didn't start driving a car until 1964, long after these modes of transportation were gone. |
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Hippie-fairy-tale-nonsense.
The loss of the much romanticized street car was mourned by no one. For cripes sake it runs on a fixed route that cannot be altered without millions of dollars in infrastructure tear ups. (Unlike a bus that can change routes everyday for $.00) They're being brought back as curiosities because developers have purchased every piece of real estate within walking distance of a stop, then they finance guilt-campaigns so that tax-payers will fund their reconstruction. They're a gimmick that will never be a serious part of a mass transit strategy, especially not in a horizontally oriented modern city.
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From Captain Video, 1/4/2007 "It seems that Italian people are very prone to preserve antique stuff." Last edited by Carmine; 05-07-2018 at 09:42 PM. |
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Most towns over population 10,000 size in PA had streetcars.
Some civic minded-folks have made over some busses to look like them complete with bad ride quality and rattles, but routes are still confined to post-industrial urban areas where concentrated populations live without stores-jobs. Getting them out to the suburbs where all the service jobs are seems to be the only thing accomplished by our regional transit companies. These downtowns are dead zones except where they can re-invent themselves as tourist destinations. But without the easily-found park-and-ride lots and light rail Maryland has, the busses and fake-trolleys are actually a detraction to tourists in PA. If not for Amtrak, were screwed for mass transit. Europe's rail networks make most of the US look isolated. We can thank General Motors and the Grumman body works for the bus system in these towns today, a limited mass-transit system barely worth the subsidy it gets..
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"When resistors increase in value, they're worthless" -Dave G Last edited by DavGoodlin; 05-08-2018 at 01:57 PM. Reason: finish rant about PA's rotting downtowns |
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https://la.curbed.com/2017/9/20/1634...general-motors
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From Captain Video, 1/4/2007 "It seems that Italian people are very prone to preserve antique stuff." |
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