Jazzy Age Romania - vintage photos

[Harry's Place]

While i'm researching into interwar architecture and lifestyle in Romania, i'll share with you the most interesting photos i'll find.

mid 30s Eforie Beach Resort, the dorms of the military school



Villa Aviana, mid 30s, Arch. George Matei Cantacuzino, Eforie Beach Resort



Tatu Apartment Building #2, Constanta, Arch. Harry Goldstein, 1937



Radu Arma Villa, Constanta, Arch. Harry Goldstein, 1935



Goldfeld Villa, Mamaia Beach, mid 30s, Arch. Harry Goldstein



Carlton-Continental Hotel, Constanta, mid 30s, Arch Harry Goldstein



1937, Weiny Apartment Building, Constanta, Arch. Harry Goldstein



Late 30s, villa , Constanta, Arch. Harry Goldstein

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Baneasa Rail Overpass, Bucharest


Ford Car Factory, Bucharest

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Malaxa Train and Tram Plant, Bucharest. Mid 30s. Arch. Haralamb Georgescu and Horia Creanga

[Docta_Love]

Very interesting .. Romania in the early and mid 20th century was Europe's largest oil producer excluding the Soviet Union. Constanta if I recall is Romania's center of oil production it's cool to see what i'm assuming are effects of the "oil boom". I've also heard that Bucharest was one of the most cosmopolitan cities in central or eastern Europe during the interwar years unfortunately Nicolae Ceaușescu fancied himself an urban planner and knocked down 1/4 of the old city to make way for the 2nd largest administration building in the world (planned to be the largest but the revolution of 1989 halted construction).

Palace of the Parliament


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace..._Bucharest.jpg

[Harry's Place]

^^ The oil centers were Bucharest, Constanta and Ploiesti. In the 30s the main industries were focused on trains, trams and cars. Also agriculture had a big part in the economy. A big part in the economy had the many US companies and the Romanian-US joint ventures

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1936. Constanta. The largest abbatoir in Romania, used only for export. Architect Nicolae Nenciulescu





1937, Marila TB Sanitarium, arch. Grigore Ionescu



Dunarea Hotel Bucharest


Grivita Hotel Bucharest


1937. Otava Villa, Constanta


1934 Sun Fire Office Bucharest, arc. Herman Clejan


1934. Wald villa, Constanta. Arch. Harry Goldstein


1933, Woodrow Wilson Office Tower Bucharest, arch. State Balosin


1939. Giulesti Soccer Stadium Bucharest, arch. Gheorghe Dumitrescu


Late 30s, Constanta, Home for disabled veterans. arch. Ioan Capsuneanu

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At the end of 1800s on a field outside Bucharest (that was used for public executions) they started to organise the cities weekend fair. In the 20s on the site is build a permanent fun park called Luna Park. It had the 1st roller coaster in Romania.













In 1936 the park is demolished to make space for the largest shopping center in Romania. It was planed to be executed in 3 stages: shopping center, storage area and an office tower wit a sky bar. Saldy due to WW2 and communism only the 1st 2 stages of the shopping center were finished and thet functioned only as a market. The building has a gorund surface of 24.000 sqm / 258.333 sqf







Arch. were Horia Creanga and Haralamb Georgescu, known in USA as Harlan Georgesco. He left Romania for USA in 1947 and established itself as an architect in Palm Springs CA.

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1937, Malaxa Apartment Building, Bucharest, arch Horia Creanga


mid 30s, arch. Harry Goldstein, Constanta


mid 30s. arch. Ioan Capsuneanu, Constanta

(picture is from the 50s when Romania was udner soviet occupation, hence the soviet star on the building)

sadly this no longer exists, picture if from the 70s, the villa was built in the late 30s, Constanta


1935, George Hurmuziadis apartment building, arch. Harry Goldstein, Constanta


1936, Mioritza Fountain, arch. Milita Patrascu, Bucharest

[Docta_Love]

I'm digging this one the juxtaposition of the modern art-deco high-rises make with the gilded age - early 20th century buildings of the intersection in the foreground.

The Telephone Palace & Victory Ave. Bucharest 1935


https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fi%C8%...lace,_1935.jpg

[Harry's Place]

^^Finished in 1934, at 52,5 m it was the highest building in Bucharest untill the 70s. It was built after the plans of dutch architect Edmond Algi. To build this and another 4 smaller phone exchanges the romanian government took a loan from the US trust American Morgan and created a joint venture with International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation. The new company was SART - Romanian Telephone Company Inc.

At the top floor was a nice restaurant, sadly i couldn't find any pics of it.

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may 1935. Zodiac Fountain, Bucharest Romania, arch. Octav Doicescu & sculptor Mac Constantinescu

[ethereal_reality]

Wow!

I am mesmerized by your photographs of Romania Harry's Place.

Do you have a vintage photograph of the abandoned Constanta Casino on the Black Sea? ..........................It has always been one of my favorites.

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[Harry's Place]

In the 30s Constanta was a Romanian version of Atlantic City with 4 casinos in the city and other 3 in resorts outside of it. The ones in the City:

[ethereal_reality]

Thanks Harry's Place.

The large rounded window in the Constanta Casino always reminds me of fanned peacock feathers. [top foto]

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Mid 30s. Gabriel Marinescu Villa, Mamaia. Arch. Ioan Capsuneanu

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1938, a US company builds the 1st glass fiber bridge in Romania

[McBane]

Is this Bauhaus architecture? Reminds me of Tel Aviv, some of them.

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It's a mix of art deco, modernist, bauhaus sometimes with some mediteranean revival or romanian traditional elements.

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1938, Mamaia Lake, powerboat competition



Late 30s. Roma in the port of Constanta, it was one of the 5 ships that operated on the line Constanta - New York

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1938, one of the buses used by the national rail company (they also had airplanes)

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Late 30s Mamaia Pier


1934 crematorium, Bucharest