The organised weekend. Trade-union recreation, state hotels, mountain chalets with hot soup — leisure was planned like steel output, and the mats make it look wonderful. Honestly, sometimes it was.
The state hotel combines
A snowflake and an alpine flower for the Giant Mountains; a gear wheel for Šumava, because even a forest hotel enterprise needed to look industrial; and a log camp on the Jizera drawn like a woodcut. The mountains, nationalised.
EV.Č. 094 · KRKONOŠSKÉ HOTELY · VLOČKA
EV.Č. 095 · KRKONOŠSKÉ HOTELY · KVĚT
EV.Č. 096 · HOTELY V KRUŠNÝCH HORÁCH
EV.Č. 097 · ŠUMAVA · ŽELEZNÁ RUDA
EV.Č. 098 · LIPNO · KRUMLOV · KAPLICE
EV.Č. 099 · SRUBOVÝ TÁBOR · ROKYTNICEThe White Wolf of Strakonice, Friendship in Chrudim, and a Savoy in Kolín — the grand-hotel name democratised down to a county seat. The Otava of Karlovy Vary promises good food and good drink; Kutná Hora simply draws its cathedral and rests its case.
EV.Č. 100 · HOTEL BÍLÝ VLK · STRAKONICE
EV.Č. 101 · HOTEL DRUŽBA · CHRUDIM
EV.Č. 102 · HOTEL SAVOY · KOLÍN
EV.Č. 103 · HOTEL OTAVA · KARLOVY VARY
EV.Č. 104 · RaJ PŘÍBRAM · DOBŘÍŠ
EV.Č. 105 · KUTNÁ HORA
EV.Č. — POSLEDNÍ VÝZVANAVŠTIVTE OPĚT NÁŠ KRAJ — 'visit our region again.' A red sun over blue water, four printed words, and the entire tourism policy of a country that rarely let you visit anywhere else. It is, in its way, the most optimistic object in the file.
Closing entries: Turnov's diamond for the Bohemian Paradise, Mladá Boleslav styling itself 'town of good hospitality', a health toast, and the file's only square mat — Jednota Příbram, breaking the circle at the very end.
EV.Č. 106 · TURNOV · ČESKÝ RÁJ
EV.Č. 107 · MĚSTO DOBRÉHO POHOSTINSTVÍ · ML. BOLESLAV
EV.Č. 108 · AŤ SLOUŽÍ KU ZDRAVÍ
EV.Č. 109 · JEDNOTA · PIVO
EV.Č. 110 · JEDNOTA · PŘÍBORY
EV.Č. 111 · JEDNOTA PŘÍBRAM · ČTVERECCase chronology. Filed 1948, closed 1989 — and the physical evidence, all one hundred and fourteen exhibits, survives in better condition than the state.
The investigation finds as follows: that a state which controlled every printing press spent forty-one years printing courtesy; that its best artists hid in the beer-mat department, where nobody important ever looked; and that the evidence, being cardboard, was left on tables in full public view — where two foreigners with pints eventually collected it. Case closed. Na zdraví, Glene.
