The article evokes several scenes from the interwar time, such as the modernization of Bucharest since 1920 and the appearance of some new edifices or parks, representative until today; the passion for cars in the royal house and in Romanian society and the type of cars that circulated in Romania at that time; Balchik and Queen Mary’s castle, or the philosopher Nae Ionescu’s villa in the same city. All this captures the atmosphere of those years, later destroyed by the communist regime.