Retro Stockholm
Since it is summer and very warm outside I am feeling kind of lazy. But I thought I would post two summer inspired photos depicting how Stockholm looked back in the late 1960s / early 1970s. It looks pretty much the same today, except the color of the train station which has been replaced. Enjoy!
Stockholm, Skärholmen (suburb)
Stockholm, The main train station
Stockholm, Skärholmen (suburb)
Stockholm, The main train station
Posted at 7:34 PM | 6 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.
6 Comments:
and the lack of traffic!
June 8, 2007 4:27 AM
What is the red car? A DAF?
June 8, 2007 6:22 AM
Yes not alot of traffic, the photos were probably taken early mornings or on a sunday. Not sure about the car, it looks European though. Could be a Trabant or Fiant.
June 8, 2007 2:48 PM
Hey Chris, I don't know if this is proper etiquette or not, but I'd like to invite you and those who read you blog to take a look at mine http://TelstarLounge.blogspot.com and see my evolving mania around mid-century Bakersfield California. I write under the pen name of "Charles" (my middle name) and I tend to be snarky. If me posting my blog address is not permissible, please delete this post. I don't intend anything untoward.
June 10, 2007 4:06 AM
The red car is an Opel Rekord...
If you want a good look at the gloomy concrete architecture of Skärholmen, check out Jan Halldoff's bizarre exploitation movie "Stenansiktet" from 1973, about a gang of teenage delinquents who is hired by a disillusioned social worker to murder the bureucrats and architects who built the suburb.
June 12, 2007 11:35 PM
Oh yeah 'Stenansiktet' I have it on tape. The movie is such a trip, weird but entertaining. Really makes you see how depressing the concrete suburbs of Stockholm built in the 60s and 70s are. But also, interesting in a way.
June 13, 2007 5:51 PM
Post a Comment
Links to this post:
Create a Link
<< Home