(photo) The restaurants and cinemas where the residents and tourists of Chisinau went during the interwar period

On the Facebook page of the former director of the Agency for Inspection and Restoration of Monuments from the Republic of Moldova, Ion Ștefăniță, a post appeared containing a series of photos, taken from the Chisinau Yearbook from 1940. The images reflect the activity of people in the capital in the interwar period and the places where they rested. In the publication distributed by Ion Ștefăniță we can see the tourist infrastructure from the interwar period of Moldova. Both Chisinau residents and guests of the city could enjoy numerous hotels, restaurants, cafes and cinema halls. Source: Facebook/Ion Ștefăniță There is also a world travel organization active in the capital, called Wagons-Lits Cook. It offered citizens and tourists train tickets to Romania and other countries, ship and plane tickets and issued visas for passports.

In the department store on Alexandru cel Bun boulevard, you could buy rare household items for those years – radios, typewriters and electronic items. On the same street there were up to six hotels, eight cafes and four restaurants, Moldovans report. Residents and tourists of the capital could also spend time at the confectioneries present in Chisinau. Source: Facebook/Ion Ștefăniță Even at that time, the inhabitants of the city had the opportunity to enjoy films in the cinema halls present in Chisinau or to dine at a restaurant in the center of the capital. According to the Chisinau Yearbook from 1940, there were six cinemas in the city that broadcast films for Chisinau residents during the interwar period.

Source: Facebook/Ion Ștefăniță In this material you can see some photos of the leisure places and shops in Chisinau from the year 1940. .