Jiří Jiroutek: I no longer shop at Ještěd

We'll meet by the matches, 
go for peanut brittle "at the milk bar",
for coffee "behind the beads",
for fries "under the stairs",
for boiled pork "in the boiler room"...

A place not just for shopping, but also for meeting people, wandering around and looking in shop windows - this is how I remember Ještěd department store. The building encased in yellow ceramic tiles among the grey surrounding buildings was one of the features of Liberec. It has been gone for ten years, and here is its story...
- JIří Jiroutek