Jana Gelnarová

"Woodworking Gelnar-Šimko. I still have a photo of it, so he and his brother-in-law built it from scratch... like a small factory. Then it expanded, and after the '48... the uncle was taken away from the house and locked up in the square where the police station was - that's what the family said, that he was locked up there with his brother-in-law and the factory was taken away. He was an expert in interiors. The factory was in Klimkovice - then later on, it was Interiér Praha... it belonged there - and they did all the tiles, top-quality work, those craftsmen-cabinetmakers. They did the čedok in Ostrava, the airport in Bratislava, the wooden facings and all that. And then my uncle worked there again, somewhere in the Interior. They invited him to work there again, so he worked in that Interior for a long time. He wasn't in a high post, but a specialist."

"Where the Mexiko restaurant is today, there was just a little house where my dad's parents lived. Daddy [of her father] had an accident on the mine shaft, so he was quite young, I don't know how old he was, and he became an invalid, and they lived in that little house. They had a little field, some housekeeping, and the people that came down from Mexiko from up in the fields, they would come down and have a drink there... pump, water, etc. And then the old man actively started buying some lemonades, sodas, and then a keg of beer, and it became a pub. The second in line of those kids, Uncle Alfred, then picked up the house and lived there and actually established the pub. Then he added a small wooden hall, then a big hall, and today it's a beautiful place to visit."