Pomiędzy Szuflandią a Kingsajzem. Małomiasteczkowość Kleczkowa na początku lat sześćdziesiątych XX wieku

This article offers a reconstruction of Wrocław’s Kleczków, a housing estate encompassed by Korzeniowskiego, Zegadłowicza, Trzebnicka and Kleczkowska Streets and an area largely mythologised in the early 1960s. The architectural tissue of the quarter, its urbanised structure characteristic of the previous social activities and material artefacts were not destroyed during the Second World War. This contributed to the development of adaptive behaviour strategies among newcomers settling in these lands and the creation of the time-space typical of a small town rather than Wrocław’s downtown. The autoethnographic reconstruction is documented with photographs from that period. Selected behaviour types emerging in the local community marked by a strong social and cultural identity are discussed. The contemporary culture of Kleczków emerges based on both a collection of examples of urbanised conduct and a somewhat archaic (face-to-face) private-public discourse, serving as a testimony to the coexistence of authorial acts of communication and content created through individual actions occurring in the community’s visual field and preserved in one form or another (as gossip, anecdotes and photographs) in the collective memory.