During one of my walks through Warsaw downtown after attending Polish language classes, I saw this Winnie the Pooh thing on a wall. Above an Anarchy sign. Winnie the anarchist I thought, made a photo but never shared it online. There are more pretty places to show.
Coffee talk
Months after,while having a coffee at Kasia's mum...I cannot recall how we got to the subject, but it was about this street in Warsaw downtown. Ulica Kubusia Puchatka actually is Polish for Winnie the Pooh street. It took me a while to realize that, I just thought it was only that sign.
Newspaper competition
The story behind it...Imagine a post war Warsaw, growing very fast after almost being bombed completely during the ww2.
I envision this office of the Warsaw infrastructure department, the city growing so fast as Varsovians worked their socks off to rebuild the city. They were just out of street names, their brains were just fried. Then one of them came up with the brilliant idea of letting Warsaw inhabitants proposing a street name.
So here we go.
1956, newspaper competition. We have a winnerrr. Reality might be slightly different, but I like this version.
Winnie the Pooh street 😁
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