Copernicusplein/ Valkenboslaan
In the past, the Polish astronomer after whom the square was named had a statue on top of the facade of the house at No. 9.
The image was special enough to be drawn by Lijntrekker (Jan Bouwman) who made a reader’s puzzle of it in the Volkskrant on 11 April 1959; “Where is the astronomer in a gutter close to the stars?”
Nowadays we ask; “Who knows where the statue of Copernicus went?”
Source: Het merkwaerdigste meyn bekent (1960), p. 92.
Lucky, or Sander van de Pavert, lives in Galileïstraat, who is best known for Lucky TV as seen in De Wereld Draait Door. He became world famous with a video in which he let US presidential candidates Trump and Clinton sing a duet. In the Netherlands, his parody of the royal family (“Willie”) is very popular.
Source: Martin van Wallenburg
