Line of cars, trams and crowds thronging the sides of the road. We are in the early 1930s: this is the period when Viale Regina Elena discovered traffic jams and began to take on the chaotic and frenetic appearance we are used to today.
The shot, dated exactly 1 January 1933, belongs to the Atac pole museum archive and is taken from the volume “Come Eravamo Nomentano” by Typimedia Editore: an extraordinary story in images of the district, composed thanks to the contribution of its inhabitants.
If at the beginning old carts and buggys were the most common means of getting around the city, with the birth of the district the first cars and motorbikes spread. But the most widely used means of transport is the bicycle. In the early 1920s, the first tram lines appear and, in time, arrived also public transport by Atag (from 1946, Atac).
In the series ‘Come Eravamo’ (How We Were), Typimedia Editore has also published volumes dedicated to the districts: Trieste-Salario, Montesacro, Monteverde and San Lorenzo
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