Period scenes: Kraków · stop 1 of 1
At the barber's by St Mary's Square, 1881
In 1881, in the Pod Murzynami house opposite St Mary's Church, Tadeusz Wiskida ran a hairdressing business “for Ladies and Gentlemen”, with a salon for shaving, haircutting and hair curling. On Friday 25 November 1881 the city signed a contract for a horse-drawn railway known as the tramway. The first line opened on 31 October 1882 along the old omnibus route, through the gate and along Floriańska Street, past the church. The illustration shows Floriańska Street in 1862, seen from under St Florian's Gate. The Pod Murzynami house stands at the far end, by the church.
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We are standing on the corner of Floriańska Street, opposite St Mary's Church. This house bears the historic name Pod Murzynami, after a sixteenth-century relief that advertised a pharmacy here long ago. In eighteen eighty-one, Tadeusz Wiskida had a hairdressing salon here for ladies and gentlemen. On the twenty-fifth of November that year, the city signed a forty-five-year contract with Belgian partners for a horse-drawn railway, called the tramway. The rails were to run right past here, beside the church and through St Florian's Gate, without damaging the gate. The conservatives around the newspaper “Czas” were against it. The tram started running in the autumn of the following year, along the old omnibus route: from the station, through the Market Square, all the way to Kazimierz. In those same years Jan Matejko was painting “The Prussian Homage”, this very Market Square in the time of Sigismund the Old. An obituary from eighteen ninety-seven calls Tadeusz Wiskida a soldier of eighteen sixty-three, in other words an insurgent of the January Uprising.
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