Advertising postcard published by Foto Luba, Ciessyn (1930s).
The building housing this establishment was constructed in 1935. During the Second World War, it was confiscated by the German occupiers, and after the war, it became a recreational center for factory workers. It served as a center for workers from Silesia until the 1990s. Subsequently, it returned to private ownership and now operates under its current name, Villa Lotos.
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Postage stamp issued un Sweden in 2006.
The rälsbuss—a self-propelled rail vehicle resembling a bus—gained popularity in Sweden starting in the 1930s (thanks to manufacturers such as Hilding Carlsson) and saw widespread use during the 1950s and 1960s by the state-owned railway company Statens Järnvägar (SJ); the company began withdrawing them from service in 1979, after which they were moved to museums and are now used for tourism purposes.
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Advertising postcard published by Hauser y Menet, Madrid (1930s).
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Postcard published by Verlag M. Rudolf (1930s).
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Advertising postcard (1930s).
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Coaster.
Floridita or El Floridita is a historic fish restaurant and cocktail bar in the older part of Havana (La Habana Vieja). It lies at the end of Calle Obispo (Bishop Street). The bar opened in 1817 with the name La Piña de Plata (The Silver Pineapple) in the place it still occupies. The Catalan immigrant Constantino Ribalaigua Vert started working in the bar as cantinero (bartender). Constantino, nicknamed Constante, became the owner in 1918. Constante is credited for inventing the frozen daiquiri in the early 1930s, a drink that became linked to the fame of the place. Ernest Hemingway wasn't the only famous customer of the bar: the establishment was frequented by many generations of Cuban and foreign intellectuals and artists as Ezra Pound, John Dos Passos, and Graham Greene.
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Reprint of a postcard from 1930s piblished by Izdavač DARS.
Photo: M.S. - ZAJ, Rijeka.
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Postcard published by Creaciones Especializadas de Artes Gráficas, Barcelona, Nº 101 (1964).
The Hotel Colon, built in the 1930s, is a unique building considered of local interest in Argentona.
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Postcard published by JDP, Valencia (1930s).
On 23 June 1876, Valencia's first tram, powered by horses, linked the city with its Grau port. The construction work on the first tram infrastructure in Valencia was carried out between 1887 and 1888. The first line that was put into service, on 21 November 1891, connected the Empalme station in Burjassot with Bétera, with a length of 14.7 km. On 7 July1892, the second line was inaugurated, between the current Pont de Fusta and Grau stations, with a length of 5.8 km. The tram network was successively expanded. In 1917, the Compagnie Générale des Tramways de Valence (Spain) Société Lyonnaise, known as La Lionesa, and the Sociedad Valenciana de Tranvías, which had been established on 16 January 1885, merged and the Compañía de Tranvías y Ferrocarriles de Valencia (CTFV) was born. The rise of Valencian trams occurred in the 1940s and 1950s and their decline began in 1957 as a consequence of the great flood that affected the city, and from then on the progressive disappearance of the tram as a means of urban transport began. In 1986 FGV (Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana) began to operate the city's new trams.
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The inaugural trip of Asunción's first electric tram took place on 7 July 1913. Previously, since 3 May 1872, a steam tram line operated between the Plaza Uruguaya railway station to the port. The tram network reached its peak in the 1930s with seven lines in the central area and suburban lines to Port Saxony and San Lorenzo. The Paraguayan capital's trams were abolished in 1997.
Source: La Nación, Asunción, 28.05.2023.
Painting by Guillermo González de Aledo (1923-2000).
The steamship Mallorca, the fourth and last ship with this name, was built at the Odero shipyard in Sestri Levante (Italy) in 1914, commissioned by the Isleña Marítima company. She measured 90.60 meters in length, 11.76 in width, 8.10 in depth and draft 5.8 meters. Its displacement was 3,850 tons and it had 2,204 gross register and 1,198 net register, its maximum load being 955 tons. She was equipped with a triple expansion steam engine with four boilers and 12 furnaces. Her maximum speed was about 17 knots. She arrived for the first time at the port of Palma de Mallorca on 3 December 1914, but until the summer of 1915 she was not transferred to Barcelona, where she was laundered before returning to Palma, being then assigned to the Palma-Barcelona line. After the First World War it remained in the hands of the Trasmediterránea Company. In the early 1930s she was shifted to secondary duty as a reserve ship. When the Spanish Civil War broke out, she was assigned to the navy of the rebel side as an auxiliary ship and transferred to La Spezia to arm her as an auxiliary cruiser: she was fitted with a 120 mm cannon, another anti-aircraft gun, 76mm. and two 13 mm machine guns. He was then assigned to the naval base of Palma, and participated in various actions (transporting troops and war supplies and, sometimes, as a surveillance and repression unit for ships transporting weapons and supplies for the government of the Republic). In April 1937, with two other ships, she carried out the transfer of a large contingent of troops from Palma to Cádiz. At the end of the war she took part in the conquest of Menorca by the national troops, as a troop transport. After the war she was returned to the Trasmediterránea, and she was initially moved to the port of Cádiz, where she underwent extensive repair and renovation. She returned to Palma and was assigned to the Barcelona, Valencia and Alicante routes. Between 1950 and 1953 it underwent another profound renovation in the Nuevo Vulcano workshops in Barcelona. She was decommissioned on 10 October 1973 and in 1974 she was acquired by a Valencian company, which sold it for scrapping on 11 December of the same year.
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Postcard published by Ediz. M.C.S., Torino, Nº 8717.
Photo: 24.08.1986.
These trams were built between 1930-1934.
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