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Where Vesterbrogade begins.

of bad looking, tem porary ba­ zar-buildings, which, it is to be hoped, before long, will be replaced by a better building, more worthy of the city. * * * Vesterbro?ade begins at Trommesalen (see Chapter 10) and is continued through the suburb of Vcsterbro. Ve- sterbrogade is, as Osterbroga- de and Norrebrogade, one of the big thoroughfares directly connecting the capital with its trib u tary country. The traffic, especially on the first part, before Frede- riksberg All<5, is quite conside­ rable, day and night, and a number of fine shops line the street, resplendent with elec­ tric light during the evening. But a few steps only brings

one from the electric sea of light into the many side- streets w ith their long, te­ dious looking and dreary rows of houses, where the poor classes live. This is the real Vesterbro, where one si- de-street has a population more numerous than many a Danish provincial town. Crossing these side-streets, parallel with Vesterbrogade runs Istcdyadc w ith its live­ ly trading on the street. On Satursday evenings the life on the street here is both lively and charachteristic, when the working classes are out buy­ ing- in the first p a rt of Vesterbrogade are situated a num ­ ber of popular hotels as f. i. Provinshotellet (No. 22), Ho­ tel Royal (No 23), Hotel iS'ci-

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