The way we were...

Bucharest's infamous Casa Poporului (the House of the People, or Palatul Parlamentului) under construction, circa 1987.

Queuing for cooking oil in the 1980s, on Str. Ion Campineanu (opposite Sala Palatului in central Bucharest). The Braserie is no longer there.

There is more of this kind of thing on the site of the US Library of Congress.