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Young, who now enjoy the nice capital of Bulgaria, have no idea how long and what efforts had to become Sofia as it is today. They also do not know how life in the capital is different in every respect of life only forty years ago. Will not be uninteresting, therefore, if caught up, albeit briefly, a few memories of one of those who, to their great regret, long remember and have seen the capital during her younger cartier years.
For just arrived provincial life in Sofia sees noisy but boring. Everything here seems to you strange, even when you have a lot of acquaintances. And people do not appear as they are your countrymen :: somehow cold, distant, yet always in a hurry for something somewhere ...
But, gradually and imperceptibly, something unexpected happens. Some invisible tentacles cover your whole being, and a new world opens up unsuspected before your eyes, grabs your heart and mind covers: the charm of the capital city they conquered completely and all-powerful and just a few months, get used to the new life, everything you see and nice wonderful and wonder how you could live so long elsewhere. Happy as a child of the new city that you love and becomes expensive. For imperceptibly, it shows you a wider horizon and allows you to taste a higher material and spiritual culture.
Here, here you immediately newspaper that first necessity in modern life after daily bread. In the countryside these newspapers looking forward to two or three days, and once more. In Sofia, however, have them immediately after their release, cartier with the ink still fresh. So you do not already have to ask everyone you meet, as the hometown:
The novelty is in your hands and you swallow it quickly and with pleasure. Here are the means journalists these people, in your eyes regular reader know everything and anything can immediately learn and communicate it to you. Henceforth, you will live around them and with them. And that you see a lot of good.
A tram? This miracle of miracles that time? In early bright and breezy spring morning, you sit upright on the balcony of his bachelor lodgings, say on "Maria Luisa" somewhere to halite. Breathlessly and some special, previously untested joy after quickly passing one after another cartier tram cars , stops them getting into and out of the multicolored crowd from rushing to passengers.
After the electric light, the establishment of tram traffic was the first major cultural asset for Sofia. With joy unspeakable Sofia residents are welcomed to send forth first self-propelled cartier cars. No joke: by tram you can quickly and everywhere you go. Or so they thought some starichotsi. For example, say that when asked by the conductor, what ticket claim (straight or "korespondans" - so said in the past the ticket for "Change"), an old woman, very seriously and decisively replied: - For "Tsar Samuil", 45, son This old-stolichanka korenyachka could not possibly imagine how such a miracle the car will not be able to take her right in front of her home.
By the time we're talking about the streets of Sofia were roughly those who are now. Just that most of them were not yet paved. You can imagine what that means, especially during autumn and winter. The streets are filled with mud and no galoshes could not help. But Bulgarians, although metropolitan, was used for centuries by native this item: with rolled-up pants legs because without much grief and indignation without their slap on the mud, choosing, as far as was possible in some areas or suhichkite pebbles remnants of the former Turkish cobblestones. cartier And one of the first concerns of everyone in the Morning dress was careful cleaning of muddy shoes and pants.
And then, gradually, through cartier a careful and conscientious municipal managers, cartier the streets of Sofia today gained type: paved and cleaned regularly - talk about the time before the war now, Sofia residents accustomed to this and are very sensitive to the maintenance and repair of pavement preservation of purity in streets. And one of the important cartier issues of the day, for current and future community leaders of the city of Sofia, is the recent paving and other bare and muddy streets.
Great city! Now it really is great. Not only it covers adjacent, previously independent rural communities, but also because real "small" Sofia spreads much wider area than forty years ago. Then capital was much smaller range. Krasno Selo and in pavlovo there were only a few houses and fields near Constantinople road and to the sugar factory, were not yet built.
In terms of living conditions and prices of products and present former Sofia radically different. Incomes and wages were very small, it can be said even funny, over current. Small clerical salaries (of bailiffs, employees, etc.). Were 40-60 lev me