They also sold soda water, the ?Aurora? or ?Lamiita? which tasted like lemon - a sort of lame lemonade, one was transparent, the other sort of yellowish. (114)

They brought one sort of spirits to every neighborhood at a time. Every neighborhood stank of one sort of booze for a whole week, and from one neighborhood to another, the smell changed. (C. M., 84)

The vodka we drank was called ?Saniuta? (The Little Sleigh). The plum brandy (?tzuica?) was of two sorts: ?Doua prune? (Two Plums), later called ?Ochii lui Dobrin? (Dobrin?s Eyes), because Dobrin the goalkeeper had blue eyes and that was his time of glory at the FC Arges football team; and the ?Old? plum brandy, which was more yellow and stronger. There was also a sort of wine brandy, which tasted like ?tzuica? and had a label with a bunch of grapes.

The wine was wormwood wine, it cost 5 lei and was really made of wormwood or of sawdust ? it had bitter taste. There was also ?Niculitel? ? that one was sweet. There was also refined alcohol, which you could use for the cherry liqueur. Many added caramel and orange peel, too. (M. V., 121)

Every Sunday, father used to send me to that restaurant near ?Materna? to stand in line for beer. It cost 6 lei and 50 bani a bottle and had no label, but it was beer all right. (114)

Our square yard had a terrace with a few trees, 19 benches; you could play chess, it was very agreeable for the neighborhood. After the demolitions, first they cut off the trees, then the benches disappear; the world stopped gathering because they couldn?t; the school and the monastery were left, but the terrace was pulled down by ADP two years ago and on the waste land they planted some flowers that get wilted. So much about social space. (I. P., 37)

The square formation was assembled every morning in front of the school or the high school. Every pupil was supposed to participate in the square formation. The esthetical aspect was very important. Meaning that the girls were supposed to have their hair bands, their uniforms and their long socks, while the boys had to wear their suits and caps. All the pupils were sorted according to their height. The pioneer scarves could not miss as well as their administrative numbers, without which there was impossible to get into the school.