Strada Blanari 2 years ago and in the 1960s

 

Strada Blanari in the old town was a slum when I first saw it in 1998 and still is, despite the semi gentrification of the rest of the area. It is so because the Communists in the Ceausescu era wanted the old town to be a slum. It was not in the early 1960s. Then it looked like this.