Is it a horror movie? No, it's Christmas spirit in #Bergen!

Nothing reminds a bergenser about the Yule Miracle like cold, snowless streets with holiday decorations. Here in 1928 for a surprisingly dry(?) late-year shot.

Keen-eyed viewers will recognise the street as Vaskerelven (The Washing river), named so due to the creek that used to run here long before this picture was taken. Had it not been for the haze, you could probably almost have seen the city theatre, Den Nationale Scene in the distance.

Photo by Atelier K. Knudsen, via University of Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-kk-n-310-018.html
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Lille Lungegaardsvann (Small Lake Lungegaard) in 1930, a few years after it was artificially made into a lake by filling the "empty" landmass seen in the background, but before it was built to be the park we know today.

On the left, the #Bergen Public Library, in the middle the city power converter station, and on the right the art collection building of milling industrialist Rasmus Meyer – still a historical art gallery today.

Photo by Atelier KK, via University of Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-kk-pk-2405.html
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Lilleborg factories around the time the horses were replaced by trucks. Lilleborg produced a variety of items, but is perhaps most well known for its soap production at this time.

Year: 1920

Photo: Teigen fotoatelier / Norsk Teknisk Museum (CC BY-SA)

https://digitaltmuseum.no/0210111806135/lilleborg-fabrikker

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Everyday life during WWII.

Friends sitting in the "sun wall" in spring, outside the Ole Bull Cinema in #Bergen.

Ole Bull ran from 1937 to 1981, but the same building is still used as stage venue and theater.

Photo by Rolf Norvin, via University of Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-bs-ok-22289-002.html
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King Haakon VII of Norway, on a visit to Haukeland hospital in 1945, just after WWII. Some years later the Faculty of Medicine was established in #Bergen. This marked Norway’s first dedicated medical school outside Oslo.

Photo via University of Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-bs-ok-04715-001.html
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A building is demolished in front of Hotel Viking (later Sara Hotel and Hotel Royal Christiania).

Year: 1962 (October)

Photo: "Timmie" Thorbjørn Skotaam / (CC BY-NC-ND)

https://digitaltmuseum.no/0210113980986/hotel-viking-senere-sara-hotel-og-hotel-royal-christiania-en-gammel-forretningsgard

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Absolute #Cinema!

This is Konsertpaleet (The Concert Palace) sometime in the years after the war. "Notorious" by Alfred #Hitchcock is showing, and drawing a crowd.

Konsertpaleet is still a cinema, now combined with its adjacent Engen Kino, but was opened as far back as 1918, as a venue for concerts. The #Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra played most of their concerts here until the opening of the Grieg Hall in 1978.

Photo by Norvin Reklamefoto, via University of Bergen Library: https://www.adlibris.com/nb/produkt/spill-labyrinth-junior-ravensburger-sefinodk-23949099
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The metro being built with "cut and cover" at Sørligata (street).

Year: 1960 (26. November)

Photo: Unknown / Oslo Museum (CC BY-SA)

https://digitaltmuseum.no/0210111643186/t-banen-bygges-i-sorligata

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Colosseum cinema in the winter of 1957. It burned to the ground in 1963, but was rebuilt and reopened in 1964.

Year: 1957

Photo: Arbeiderbladet / (CC BY-NC-ND)

https://digitaltmuseum.no/0210113569284/colosseum-kino-pa-majorstua-fotografert-vinteren-1957-kinoen-apnet-januar

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The #Bergen train station, opened in 1913, four years after the Bergensbanen to Oslo was completed, replacing the old station on the southwestern side of Lille Lungegaardsvann.

The building is set on top of the old "cholera graveyard" from the 1848 epidemic, which gave some unexpected consequences – in 2016, two skulls were found when doing maintenance between the tracks of the station.

Photo by Enoch Djupdræt, via University of Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-dju-bx-0533.html
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