1932, looking up towards Torgallmenningen from where Finnegårdsgaten is today. Fish market on the right.

Oh, and would you look at that, a #tram passing towards #Bryggen! Hm, don't know why I mentioned that. Oh well.

Photo by Atelier KK, via University of #Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-kk-pk-2524b.html
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From the bike #workshop of F.G Amundsen – a #Bergen store for "everything", like bikes, motorbikes, radios, sewing machines, ovens, kitchen appliances, and so on, at #Bryggen.

They manufactured their own brand of bikes – called "Jones", with some homemade parts and the specialty pieces from Øglænd, who made the more famous DBS bikes.

Photo by Norvin Reklamefoto via University of Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-nor-a-0164.html
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Kalmarhuset in #Bergen, drawn by local architect Leif Grung, built in 1936, image likely from just before WWII. One of our prime examples of #functionalism, of which Grung was a Norwegian pioneer. The curved front was drawn to accommodate a bend in a planned highway towards Nøstet, which was fortunately never made.

Grung had many projects and ideas for socially developing a city, and also contributed to future infrastructure. He had ideas of a tunnel under Ulriken, and a bridge across Puddefjorden, both which became reality, and he praised the modern #bus: "They command respect, not only because the product is excellent architecture, but also because it offers what one today demands from a means of transport."

One of his more controversial thoughts – at least in retrospect – was to demolish #Bryggen, and replace it with glass and concrete functionalism, perhaps something that could have become a tourist attraction in itself.

And I haven't even mentioned that he was a double agent during WWII, and in constant fight with some of Bergen's other star architects.

Photo by Atelier KK, through University of Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-kk-n-420-091.html
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