This neighborhood once housed fishing families, living in poor, dirty shacks. It was razed, reorganized, and sanitized during the construction of the Bridge Nin I, to provide low-cost accommodation for the cohorts of carpenters, stonecutters, joiners, laborers, and other masons who were responsible for its realization.

At the end of the work and after the departure of the construction workers, most of these dwellings were taken over by modest workers (servants, staff) coming from the Prosperity who could not find decent housing with their employers. They benefited here from larger, renovated and affordable housing.

This new population, coming from affluent neighborhoods, changed the very appearance of the place, which consequently became different from the rest of the Lakeshoe. The lifestyle of the Prosperity somehow rubbed off, with flowers in the windows, bright colors, and even shops selling frivolities and other “non-essential” goods…

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