1920 A textile branch and a Slovak town hallPobočka textilky a slovenská radnica

Austria-Hungary collapsed in 1918 and the valley became Czechoslovak. For Rajec that meant, first, schools and offices working in Slovak for the first time, and second, a little industry: a branch of a textile factory opened in 1920, adding to the breweries, oil presses, paper mills and distilleries the town had long run on. It was not much — the interwar republic put most of its investment into the Czech lands — but the branch line was there, and what could be made in Rajec could now be sold anywhere in a state of some thirteen million people.V roku 1918 sa Rakúsko-Uhorsko rozpadlo a dolina sa stala československou. Pre Rajec to znamenalo po prvé školy a úrady, ktoré po prvý raz fungovali po slovensky, a po druhé trochu priemyslu: v roku 1920 tu otvorili pobočku textilky, ktorá pribudla k pivovarom, olejniam, papierňam a liehovarom, na ktorých mesto dovtedy stálo. Nebolo toho veľa — medzivojnová republika investovala väčšinu peňazí do českých krajín — ale lokálka tu bola, a čo sa v Rajci vyrobilo, sa dalo predať kdekoľvek v štáte s trinástimi miliónmi obyvateľov.