The intersection of Belostokskaya Street and Teatralnaya Street

The intersection of Belostokskaya Street (Bialastockiej, now Sovetskikh Pogranichnikov Street) and Teatralnaya Street (Teatralnej, now Sverdlova Street). The nightly equine patrol departure from the yard of the Polish Security Service building (dyfenzywy*) for the night watch. The performance is fascinating: the armed horsemen with burning torches, the clatter of horseshoes. The regulars of the Sarver Theater (the Sarver cinema), where the restaurant used to be, had an opportunity to admire the performance. Opposite the theater in the shade of a chestnut tree, there was a chain of horse-drawn cabs for those who were having fun.
After 1939, the Sarver cinema was turned into a cinema-theater named after Gorky. Like before, there were cab drivers on the street and there was a buffet inside the building (albeit, it was a Soviet buffet). From 1944, the Gorky Cinema-Theater reopened and was working until 1946, when it was closed. The cinema “Smena” took its site. The new cinema facility on Karl Marx Street opened inside the former Lutheran church.