Odessa againMapSeptember 9–11, 2005 This was my second trip to the city, hence I felt compelled to make a thorough tour. First, the food joints.  The Godfather Bar  Soup kitchen  I love you (written in Ukrainian) Next — monuments.     After that — the decor on the walls. You no longer see the names of the residents on display in our capitals — they’re classified, as are their telephone numbers. Whereas here there’s a full list.  There are also family names on the letterboxes in every stairwell.  An extraordinary find down a backstreet: pre-revolutionary bicycle store ad.  Entrance (the hard sign on the end of the word dates this back to before the 1917 spelling reform) A rare instance of appropriate use of ellipsis. 
Teetotallers’ Ordinary life at last.  Nowhere else will you find courtyards like these in our day and age.  I discovered a fantastic well-type stairwell inside one of the houses. The residents promptly pointed out that this well makes a cameo appearance in “The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed”, a classic Soviet miniseries from the 1970s.  One floor up an Odessite in tracksuit pants appeared and then immediately yelled into his own doorway: “Masya! Come quick, they’re filming!” Of course we’re filming, how could we not.  
Keep this place clean 
Drivers — attention! |
