What's in a Prague street name

Originally published on Twitter on 27 September 2022.

Olšanské náměstí was built in 1910.

For the story of Olšany, the village that was once located here, I’m going to take you to https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2022/11/22/prague-3-day-73-olsanska/.

Until 1930, the square was called Radešínovo náměstí, after Vilém z Radešína, who owned Olšany from 1546.

For the story of why it looks so damn 1970s round here, I’m going to take you to https://twitter.com/ed__ley/status/1571098077066567680… (not technically part of this series, and so not on the website).

I don’t want to accuse this square of being uninteresting or anything, but Czech Wikipedia, trying to list important landmarks, mentions two addresses, and one of them is a branch of Tipsport.

But it looks like the area might be about to get a bit of a kick up the ass: https://cc.cz/zanedbane-olsanske-namesti-ma-chytit-novy-dech-s-opravou-dvou-panelaku-pruchod-jednoho-doplni-obchody/.