Description
Any person travelling to Prague in the 1960s or 70s may remember the bench which was ubiquitous in the city, then capital of the communist Czechoslovakia. A few of the once-so-typical benches are left in the Czech capital, and the yellow- and red-striped version has largely fallen into oblivion. But then again some children might recognise it from the Czech animator Zdeněk Miler’s 50 world-famous cartoons about the mole (krteček), which are still very popular. Large portions of the film “The Mole and the Lollipop” from 1970 revolve around this exact version of the bench. Although the bench is now hard to find in Prague, it seems to remain very present in the collective memory.
