Period 91SITES OF MEMORY

Gintaras Vitulskis: The first victory.

Liucija: I remember, when my friend and I, we would go to the Picture Gallery to visit the exhibitions.

The first building of Garrison Officers' club during the Interwar period was in a two-storey building designed by an unknown architect at the corner of Laisvės Alėja and A.

The funniest part was to spin circles around the monument with my Nikon, which was used but still great.

The ice rink in front of the State Institute of Physical Education was a favourite place for the youth of Žaliakalnis

Indrė Žakevičienė: The most memorable event for me was the commemoration of February 16 in 1989 in Santaka Stadium and the “analogue” of the Baltic Way 25 years ago in the Museum of War.

Alma: It is very nice to remember how people would gather in the Oakwood Park.

Alvydas Vaitkevičius: A note on the monument of Salomėja Nėris: I remember it standing there.

Mindaugas Kavaliauskas: It was a rally to support the Act of March 11 and show our unity.

Aleksandra: “I lived just next to Laisvės Alėja.

Gintaras: Žalgiris Stadium was not only a place of sports events; people were also interested in the shows by stunt drivers from Czechoslovakia.

Asija: “The most important place for me was the Sobor.

Lili Kristina Vaičekauskaitė-Čepauskienė: If someone is collecting historical material, there is an interesting episode.

Tadas Ivanauskas High School

1 photographPovilas (first to the right) and Vandas (second to the left), Tarnauskas, restaurant "Versalis" shareholders, festive visit to Nemunas.

D.B.: Even though that for most residents of Kaunas, Picture Gallery seems as located in a Bermuda triangle, to me it has probably become a symbolic place, where I made the decision about my profession.

Gintaras Vitulskis: After the war, when the wooden cinema Lyra (Lyre) burned to the ground, and Taika (Peace) cinema theatre had not been built yet, the Methodist church was nationalized and turned into a cinema theatre.

(Saulius Eduardas Pauliukonis, actor of Šiauliai Drama Theatre, former actor of Kaunas Pantomime troupe, who worked in Kaunas Drama Theatre with director J.

1 photographLili Kristina Vaičekauskaitė-Čepauskienė (2014): Me and my mother in the Oakwood Park in1947.