CHAPTER 30
CHAPTER 30
CHAPTER 30Visible text2 paragraphs
FROM OUR suburb of Kerem Avraham you could reach the wide world by taking either the No. 3A bus, which stopped in Zephaniah Street, next to Mrs. Hasia's kindergarten, or the No. 3B bus, which stopped at the other end of Amos Street, on the corner of Geula Street at Malachi Street. The wide world itself extended along Jaffa Road, down King George V Avenue toward the Ratisbonne Convent and the Jewish Agency Buildings, in and around Ben Yehuda Street, in Hillel Street and Shammai Street, around the Studio Cinema and the Rex Cinema, which were down Princess Mary's Way, and also up Julian's Way, which led to the King David Hotel.
At the junction of Julian's Way, Mamilla Road, and Princess Mary's Way there was always a busy policeman in shorts and white armbands. He ruled firmly over a little concrete island sheltered by a round tin umbrella. From atop his island he directed the traffic, an all-powerful divinity armed with a piercing whistle; his left hand stopped the traffic and his right moved it on. From this junction the wide world branched out and continued toward the Jewish commercial center beneath the walls of the Old City, and sometimes its extensions reached as far as the Arab parts around the Damascus Gate, in Sultan Suleiman Road, and even into the bazaar inside the walls.