Glimpses of a long lost world

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This is something I have had for over 20 years, closer to 30 actually. The pictures were taken with a cheap pocket camera and much much later scannend for safe keeping.

Those are images from my birth place a town at the foot of the Sudeten mountain chain that separates Poland from the Czech Republic. It's great skiing and beautiful landscapes.
The snapshots are of the winter of 1991/92 showing the crumbling walls of the iron curtain and the changing landscape.
This place as it is in these images is long gone. In its place there is a city shaped by cheap chains and filled with traffic. I mourn that time, not because everything was better or such nonsense but because this was a time when somehow there was time. And people lived more and remembered more instead of simply running.

Anyhow - bear with me for the quality and enjoy my memories of a City long lost - Jelenia Gora 1991

Cieplice Śląskie-Zdrój
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Pomnik nieznanego żołnierza
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plac Ratuszowy, Jelenia Góra ( before 1945 it was Hitler Platz)
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Wzgórze Grota-Roweckiego Stefana
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Getting there ...
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