Galleries, exhibition centres and theatres are also public spaces. Streets have no entrance fees! It is a very important thermometer of the city. You have probably noticed that: just visit several cafes in any city and you will feel its actual temperature. But there were so little of them. Kaunas had its own charm, its own colour. This was a large amount: when I worked as an architect, I earned around 95 roubles.
After arriving to Kaunas, my son was born, and daughter afterwards. A four-person family [to live on] roubles! We had to be careful with our expenses. I moved to Kaunas in They were only memories. So, it took place somewhere around They were naughty guys, prone to shenanigans, and the director of Tulip decided to pull a prank on them: when they came for lunch, instead of a broth, they served them vodka sprinkled with dill. It looked like broth!
All staff was looking from around the corner how was this going to proceed. Later he remembers little: his screens went down. He only remembers standing in the window-cases which were very modern and acting as frozen mannequins. There was quite a large basement. We created the entire interior, furniture. Used a lot of iron it is possible that it was the first use of iron-steel of this kind in Lithuanian interiors. I created their own-brand and sign. For a year, I also worked as an artist-typographer.
Back then, interesting bands visited Orbita, like my friends from Estonia there was this heavy metal band Metalist. No one played such music in Lithuania back then. A lot of people visited Orbita: youth, people from the music world all sorts of Pugachevas , a lot of them came from Russia.
So, after our reconstruction, Orbita became very famous across the Soviet Union. I've heard that all Georgians arrived, because there was a variety show in Orbita with half-naked women dancing , maybe because of that But, of course, there were day-time meetings, lunch and things like that here as well. Why did we go there? I cannot tell. Many people used to go there, like Patackas and the like. It was more of a daytime bar for drinking coffee.
