Interesting Facts about Mestia, No. 6

This is the 2nd street you'll find when you enter Mestia from the south, and it leads to the main Square, which also has an interesting name, as my next post in this series will demonstrate.  I do wonder, with all the renovation going on, whether Stalin St. will be changed by presidential decree - Misha had the misfortune to be born on Stalin's birthday...
The other thing is that all of the nice new street signs in the whole town are made of cut-&-stick vinyl, which I used to work with in Canada in the 1980s, instead of being screen printed.  Bad choice!  I realise that each sign must be unique, which makes them a poor choice for screen printing, which is primarily a mass-production method, as opposed to cut vinyl, which is ideally suited to this one-off need.  But there's just too much temptation to worry those letters until they come off!  And this vandalism - not to mention the ravages of a harsh summer-winter climate - is visible on many of the signs already.