You are now at the Public Garden, established in 1863, from which the street took its name—Garden Street. On the right is Trgovski Dom, designed by Max Fabiani in 1904 as the headquarters, as the name suggests, of Slovenian trade associations. It later became the Casa del Fascio, formerly the headquarters of the Finance Department and other public offices. The facade of the buildings on the left has radically changed since the postcard era, with the construction of a skyscraper; the Venetian-Gothic building from 1903, not visible in the image, and the 19th-century Town Hall remain.

In 1908, the Edison opened on the corner of Corso Verdi and Via Dante, one of the first buildings in the world to be built as a movie theater. The first film was shown at five o'clock on the evening of December 8, 1896, with a Lumière program, on the veranda of the Dreher pub at the Hotel Centrale, on what is now Piazza Battisti, across from the UGG gym. The Edison Cinema used newsboys to attract audiences, but also featured the groundbreaking innovation of an outdoor screen (without a screen in the postcard) on which the first few minutes of the film were projected. In the mid-1920s, it was transformed into the renowned Gremese barbershop, now a perfumery.