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50 Poznań Essential City Guides and Counting!

City GuidesPoland IYP EditorJuly 5, 20181

We have reached the 50th issue of Poznan In Your Pocket and we are proud to be in this beautiful city. We hope we have inspired your travels as much as we feel inspired by Poznan and Poland. “Sto lat!” Sorry, tylko pięćdziesiąt.

City GuidesPoland IYP EditorJuly 5, 20181

Poznań In Your Pocket no.50

The latest issue of Poznan In Your Pocket is out! We have reached the 50th edition and are proud to say…

In some respects, the IYP universe used to be a stranger place than it is now. Here is some bizarre, outdated, and even controversial content from issues past.

IDEA-IYP VOICE SERVICE

Some time in late 2002 IYP teamed up with the mobile phone service provider IDEA to create a voice service, where for ‘a very reasonable rate’ readers could call for recorded bar and restaurant reviews and address/telephone information (after switching their service provider to IDEA, of course). It is unclear how many people actually used this wondrous invention.

VICE ADVICE

Early IYP issues were aimed primarily at the bored male business traveler. As such, it was apparently considered prudent to squeeze information about the best places to seek out sex workers (with pricing) between the restaurant listings and flowery descriptions of the wonders of the Old Town. Well, what can we say – the times have changed, the team has changed (as has the target audience), and those interested in such information must now do their own research.

SOME VINTAGE PICS

2007 bird’s-eye view, an endeavor which back then required getting on an actual plane.

A common sight on the streets in 2002: the Polish FIAT, aka ‘Maluch’.

Vintage picture of the Fair Trade grounds – not much has changed here.

A common sight on the streets in 2002: the Polish FIAT, aka ‘Maluch’.

THE BEST OF LOCAL NEWS

Early IYP used to enjoy following the local news, notifying readers of the most important developments, like the aforementioned cash-for corpses scandal, followed by a cash-for-stray-cats scheme and ‘Putin’s pub crawl’. Over to our Pulitzerworthy reporting:

“In the first visit by a Russian president to Poland inalmost nine years, Vladimir Putin visited Warsaw and Poznań in January 2002. … While the visit was welcomed as a watershed in Polish-Russian relations, many Poles remain unsatisfied. … While in Poznań he stayed at the Mercure, and In Your Pocket spotted him slinking with his entourage into Dom Wikingów.”

(Issue 4, 2003)

“[L]ocal paper Gazeta Poznańska reported that the local government was cashing in on Poznań’s stray cat population by selling the creatures across the border. A programme of sterilization during the 90s saw Germany’s cat population plummet, with the number of rats and rodents increasing accordingly. Now officials in Poznań are making a fortune from selling strays to the Germans for as much as 40 euro a head.”

(Issue 12, 2005/2006)

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