Wow, very nice catch! It says: "Do not step off the sidewalk when the traffic lights are red and yellow!"
It is must be from the early nineteen-fifties and the wording is very old-fashioned. Noone calls the sidewalk "gyalogjáró" anymore, it is "járda". Also for "színjelzés", which means "color-sign", but today it is just simply "sign". ("Színjelzései" is plural, "színjelzéseinél" is "at the color-signs of". Not an easy language to learn.)
What is more interesting is the hidden communist propaganda. "Közösségi Élelmiszer" means "Community Food". "KÖZÉRT" was the name of the state-owned food shop chain back then. (KÖZösségi Élelmiszerkereskedelmi RészvényTársaság - Community Food Trading Joint Stock Company.) It was established back in 1948, three state, and city owned companies have been merged. It had about 360 shops in Budapest and about 30 at the countryside.
"Állami Áruház" is "State (owned) Store".
There is something else there: The bus looks like a MÁVAG Tr5/Tr3,5. It was manufactured between 1948-1950 - that is why I think this poster is from the early 1950s. Some say that was the very first self-supporting body bus in the world.
thank you! I look everywhere for the stuff I post, and find things that are from other countries particularly interesting, because it's not just more of the same stuff I'm used to from my country. Why limit a blog about car stuff to a focus on only one make, one model, one country? Boring. Oh sure, the Porsche people are touched in the head, and unaware the rest of the planet never joined the clic of snobs wasting money on the 911s. Seriously, how is that a better car, or better looking, than all the other cars that perform better, and look better, and cost less? Anyway, Porsche people especially seem to be in their own world, with their own magazines, websites, races, car events, etc etc Well, Steve McQueen owned a variety of cars, and they weren't simply a variety of Porsches. Back to the poster, it's great vintage art too!
Wow, very nice catch!
ReplyDeleteIt says: "Do not step off the sidewalk when the traffic lights are red and yellow!"
It is must be from the early nineteen-fifties and the wording is very old-fashioned. Noone calls the sidewalk "gyalogjáró" anymore, it is "járda". Also for "színjelzés", which means "color-sign", but today it is just simply "sign". ("Színjelzései" is plural, "színjelzéseinél" is "at the color-signs of". Not an easy language to learn.)
What is more interesting is the hidden communist propaganda. "Közösségi Élelmiszer" means "Community Food". "KÖZÉRT" was the name of the state-owned food shop chain back then. (KÖZösségi Élelmiszerkereskedelmi RészvényTársaság - Community Food Trading Joint Stock Company.) It was established back in 1948, three state, and city owned companies have been merged. It had about 360 shops in Budapest and about 30 at the countryside.
"Állami Áruház" is "State (owned) Store".
There is something else there: The bus looks like a MÁVAG Tr5/Tr3,5. It was manufactured between 1948-1950 - that is why I think this poster is from the early 1950s. Some say that was the very first self-supporting body bus in the world.
thank you! I look everywhere for the stuff I post, and find things that are from other countries particularly interesting, because it's not just more of the same stuff I'm used to from my country.
DeleteWhy limit a blog about car stuff to a focus on only one make, one model, one country? Boring.
Oh sure, the Porsche people are touched in the head, and unaware the rest of the planet never joined the clic of snobs wasting money on the 911s.
Seriously, how is that a better car, or better looking, than all the other cars that perform better, and look better, and cost less?
Anyway, Porsche people especially seem to be in their own world, with their own magazines, websites, races, car events, etc etc
Well, Steve McQueen owned a variety of cars, and they weren't simply a variety of Porsches.
Back to the poster, it's great vintage art too!