Shopping Spree - Part 1
Postcards from various shopping centers, malls and department stores in Sweden from the 1960s and 1970s. Pay attention to the various plants, swank architecture and lovely colours.
Frölunda Torg. Gothenburg, Sweden, 1970's
Tempo. Skutskär, Sweden, 1960's
Femmanhuset. Gothenburg, Sweden, 1970's
Frölunda Torg. Gothenburg, Sweden, 1970's
Tempo. Skutskär, Sweden, 1960's
Femmanhuset. Gothenburg, Sweden, 1970's
Posted at 1:30 AM | 4 comments | links to this post 
My name is Chris and I live in Sweden. I love the 50s and 60s lifestyle and design. I am very fascinated by the architecture of the period too, for instance googie, modernism, the work of Joseph Eichler, John Lautner and Arne Jacobsen's international style. I have a large archive with space-age, library, bossa, cocktail, retro soundtracks and exotica music. I also believe that things were better in the old days.
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I'm surrpised they had places like this in Sweden during those years, just seems so much an American phenomenum for it's time.
Neat blog!
January 30, 2006 3:16 PM
Actually, the "Frölunda Torg" mall was built in 1966 and was by its completion the biggest mall in Europe. It is obviously not the biggest one today, but it has expanded over the past decades and there are over 100 stores located there today. You can find their current website here: http://www.frolundatorg.se/
January 30, 2006 3:28 PM
Thanks for the info! My city's first mall had to open around 1969, though it was on the far-east side outside of town. A mall would eventually open up in Toledo a few years later. At one point, we had four enclosed malls in the vincinity, but one had closed up a few years ago, and a few others are on their last leg, and one apparently is doing fine and dandy under the "Westfield" branding.
February 2, 2006 6:28 PM
The all-in-door-shopping concept is perfect for a cold and ever weather changing country like ours. They probably understood that quite quickly. If I ever happen to get to Luleå I'll be sure to visit Erskine's shopping mall!
April 27, 2006 1:54 AM
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