Borbón Garages

🎙️ Collective documentation

These photographs show the former Borbón Garages, a site previously occupied by a soccer field where the father of one of the participants often used to play. The large number of buses that brought life to the Borbón garages generated a lot of noise, smoke, and odors: "At night, buses kept arriving, arriving... some of them left with the starter on and there was: boom bububummm... And then, at 6 in the morning, they would leave. One of the entrances to the garages was right next to my room and that was, unbearable, infernal." The garages affected the quality of life of the neighbors, generating complaints and discomfort. Another more pleasant aspect was that sometimes children would hide and play in them.

When it rained a lot, the part of the garages facing Avenida Borbón (currently Avenida dels Quinze) and Cartellà Street would flood as they were natural streams. One participant mentions that her mother used to play when there were streams, another highlights that panels were placed on the goalposts to prevent water from entering the houses. The floods did not stop until the area was transformed and collectors were built.

The data provided by Ricard Fernández Valentí's blog, El tranvía 48, has been useful in describing the transformation of the Borbón Garages.

👥Authors of the documentation

Mercè, Neus and Carmen

⚙️ Methodology

Photograph documented collectively by participating neighbors in the group Fem Memòries del Canòdrom

📸 Assignor

AAVV del Congrés-Indians