Batiar

Batiary, to dzieci so lwoskij ulicy Wysoły, z fasonym, skory du kantania: Na takich gdzi indzij mówiu "ulicznicy" Co ni wytrzymuji jednak purówniania.

A typical batiar in common imagination was usually financially challenged, but honest and generous urban citizen with a great sense of humor.

Among most famous batiars, there were such names as radio personalities Kazimierz Wajda (Szczepko, Szczepcjo) and Henryk Vogelfänger (Tońko) of the highly popular Wesoła Lwowska Fala radio show, as well as football star Michał Matyas, who played for Pogoń Lwów and the national team of Poland.

Rather, batiars, they fought with the robbers ("evil-deeders"), they called them "kinders", banishing them out of their district, punched them, and all the rest.Batiar could let himself to his top hat to wear a tie and to a checkered kamizelka [waistcoat] to wear a nice bow tie, and, of course the lyaska [cane] - that was as an attribute.A woman of a batiar could not have been called a batiarka, manners didn't allow.

At the time of the rise of batiar's culture, Lviv's Polish-Jewish poet Emanuel Szlechter wrote lyrics for a song that became well known in Poland, Tylko we Lwowie ("Only in Lwów"; from comedy film The Vagabonds) which became the anthem of batiars,[6] and the accompanying music was written by another ethnic Jew, the Polish Henryk Wars.