I remember the noise and tumult of “Browar” very well. This was a large factory, with many workers, principally Ukrainians. The beer produced there was good and delicious, and praised in all Galicia.
Behind the factory was a river, in which all the townspeople bathed. Those going to the river were obliged to pass by our house, and they turned aside to our place to saturate their thirst in the warm summer days. No one who asked to drink was surprised when, in place of water, he received beer.
The “Browar” was, in the days of my childhood, the only place in the city in which a turbine produced a current of electricity. Therefore, our house had electrical lighting, as well as warm water in the bathtub. All my friends came to our place to enjoy the warm water for bathing. One year when I came home to visit, I found out that in “Salinah” (the salt mine), natural gas had been uncovered, and in each house in Kalush they used gas for heating and cooking. Even the synagogue was heated with gas. However, as several years passed, the natural gas disappeared, as if it had never been. Meanwhile, they began to produce a current of electricity in the city, so there was electrical lighting in each house.
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Тема: Історія Калуша в обличчях. Корінні калушани. (Прочитано 106136 раз)