afterthoughts

By afterthoughts

Saturday shopping, Lehel Csarnok, Budapest.

This photo was taken in Lehel Csarnok, a market hall in Budapest. Prior to 1990 the place was known as Élmunkás tér...which Wikipedia translates as "top worker hall". Google, bless its heart, gives me "workers lives". I must check that out with a Hungarian friend of mine but given the time that was in it I expect the towering achievements of the socialist worker are at the heart of it.
Either way it brings me to Lehel, an important company engaged in the manufacture of appliances here in Hungary before being bought out by Electrolux around the time the hall received its new name.

Lehel was also, as it happens, the name of a Hungarian chieftain and warrior. Lehel , "one of the brilliant military leaders of Prince Taksony of Hungary, the descendant of Árpád." During military campaigns at that time there was a common saying that went: "A sagittis Hungarorum, libera nos Domine" (Lord, save us from the arrows of the Hungarians").
As to the photo I may have overdone the post-processing a bit but I'll leave you to decide on that.

All quotations:Wikipedia.

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