 The banks of the river Black Drim in 1937. (Click for a larger photo)
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 The old "Daljani" (a dam like net made out of wood and cane for fishing eels) in the Northern neighborhood of the town. (Click for a larger photo)
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 The banks of the Black Drim after the downtown bridge. (Click for a larger photo)
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The acacia trees along the river blossomed spreading their smell throughout Struga The crying willow trees bursted into leaf adorning the Drim with green fringes |
 The popular "Korzo" or "charshija" (main street of the town) on the beginning of the 20th century. (Click for a larger photo)
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 A man working on a watermill on the river in the outskirts of the town. (Click for a larger photo)
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I remember the Drim and the Lake were like the sky and Struga was like the sky |
 Fishermen coming back from fishing on the Lake at sunset. (Click for a larger photo)
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 Galeb restaurant, Brothers Miladinovci school and the mouth of Black Drim viewed from Mashka beach. (Click for a larger photo)
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See the clear lake stretching white Or bluely darkened by the wind Look you at the plains or mountains: Beauty everywhere divine. |
 Children playing on the bridge and in the river during summer. The old downtown bridge was a hanging bridge. (Click for a larger photo)
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 The clock tower and its neighbourhood close to downtown Struga. The tower together with all of the old houses on this photo does not exists anymore unfortunately. (Click for a larger photo)
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Drim neither sets nor rises, but flows eternally together with the lives of the people of Struga |
 Fishing nets hanging from long wooden poles attached on trees along the Lake shore. (Click for a larger photo)
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 Fishermen in a small boat ("kajche") just taking off. Their nets hanging stretched on poles on the beach. (Click for a larger photo)
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The Lake
with every wave or just a ripple whispers to him constantly, it whispers to me: With you I exist Without you ... like I'm gone |
 Another view on the banks of the river in the old days, on the beginning of the 20th century. (Click for a larger photo)
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To have a shop in Struga
to sit on the “kepenci”-lids on the shopping windows ... potters,
goldsmiths, fishermen, blacksmiths, furnace bakers, saddlers, tinmen ... |
 An old street with old houses in old Struga, which also does not exist anymore. Note the typical old Macedonian architecture. (Click for a larger photo)
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