The Central Street

In the late 60s, there was no bypass road around our city, so all transit cars drove along the central street. Quite often we went out to the main street to look at foreign cars because they were different from the Soviet "Moskvich" and "Volga" and looked better. There were many cars from France and Holland, fewer from Germany, but they were there too. Two guys from our yard, who came from Kyiv to their aunt every year, once said that there were also foreign cars in Kyiv, but they were scattered all over the city, and here they were all in one place, driving along the main street, so it seemed that there were more of them. Once, in a haberdashery store, I saw French tourists who drove up to the store in a beautiful car. They were a man with a girl who was a little older than me. She looked about 15-16 years old. The girl had unusually large eyes. Maybe that was the fashion in France at that time. Now I don't remember the brand of car that the French tourists were traveling in, but I still remember for yet that girl's eyes. ---- #Dubno, #Cenralstreet, #retrospect