Old, Lost & Found

[joamox]

Originally Posted by wolkenkrabber

if you mean the buildings by the side of the bridge they're old bazaars, and if you mean the metal tower it's "Telefontornet" it was town down in 1953 after a fire, but it was headed for demolition anyways.

Phone tower you say? I guess that explains what this is too then.



Ive been wondering about that for some time. By the way, this is Oslo

[GlennHGSD]

Sorry to barge in on your thread, joa, but i found a closeup of Telefontornet in Stockholm




The phone mast with 4000 phone wires in 1890

[Boscorelli]

And all those houses on that photo are compleatly gone!

[GlennHGSD]

And here's some more.

[Boscorelli]

The district Klara on that picture above really looked different, now it's mainly really large buildings from the 1960's.

[LoveCPH]

Someone has read København før nu og aldrig bind 1

I have never read that CF Hansen was inspired by French Empire, but Classicism.

[dancle]

Copenhagen's "Telefontårnet":

[satama]

Found another painting of Turku before the fire.

[joamox]

Some stuff from Narva after a quick google search





image hosted on flickr

[christos-greece]

That thread has some very nice historic paintings of Oslo, but one of them is really unique :

[Litaufen]

Lithuania,Klaipeda

[IceCheese]

Originally Posted by christos-greece

That thread has some very nice historic paintings of Oslo, but one of them is really unique :

I have though of so many fun ways to reply this, but I guess I just have to jump in it: This is not Oslo. Hence why joamox wrote "Copenhagen" in the post. I fact, Oslo is barely represented in this thread at all. Hence the names of all the other cities in all the other posts.

But cheers. Nothing wrong in being wrong!

[Boscorelli]

Hötorget in Stockholm. Taken from an exhibition called Hötorgscity 1959-2009.

[Köbtke]

what purpose did those telephonetowers serve? i mean i get it had something to do with telephones etc., but what was their exact purpose since they exicted in almost the same form in all 3 major cities?

EDIT: found a bit about it on berlingske.dk:

http://www.berlingske.dk/kultur/det-...lefonen-ringer

I 1896 havde man for længst passeret de første 5.000 telefonbrugere i København og op langs Strandvejen. Her lå borgerskabet på landet i sommertiden, og så var det praktisk, at grossereren ikke nødvendigvis måtte ind til hovedstaden for at forhøre sig om forretningens drift. Samme år åbnede »Verdens største Telefonbureau« i Jorcks Passage med et gigantisk telefontårn højt oppe over gadevrimlen. Det var udsmykket med løgkupler og lignede et maurisk palads, men det tog ingen anstød af.

Luftledninger var imidlertid udsat for vind og vejr, og i 1904 gik det helt galt. En snestorm væltede de mange tagstativer. Ingen kunne ringe i flere uger. Derefter begyndte man at lægge telefonkablerne under jorden, og det mauriske palads blev revet ned i 1912 og solgt som gammelt jern.

so you actually had the wires running from this tower to the people using the phones? that seems ridiculous! ha. btw, for people who read anish, i like the little remark about the "maurian palace" look of the tower, and how noone was upset by that. bit of a go at people who scream over mosques etc. today i reckon

[Boscorelli]

Norra Bantorget
Stockholm

[GlennHGSD]

Here's some from Haugesund in the past:
What it looked like roughly a decade years after it was founded in 1854:


The original winning proposal for the layout of the city:


Rejected proposal:



Haraldsgata 1934:




Smedasundet 1905 compared to the 2000's.





Maihaugen in the 1880's, with the ships:


The switchboard central:



Indre Kai (Inner Quay)



Some buildings in 1910 along the seafront:

[jkk]

Some pictures of Tallinn have surfaced taken by a visiting german guy in 1972.

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Would be great if anyone took modern pictures from the same places

[joamox]

An image from 1860 showing how Hotel d'Angleterre in Copenhagen looked back then.



Nowadays



The hotel first opened in 1755.
Here is another image, dont know from when

[Boscorelli]

Nice post! And quite nice to be able to say that the present hotel is the nicest!
Although the others wern't bad!

[joamox]

Some images from Bergen before the fire of 1916



The area that burnt down and the new regulation plan.



Torvalmenningen / Ole Bulls Plass



The Holberg statue & Torvalmenningen



Torvalmenningen 1905



Metropole Hotel 1904



Torvalmenningen after rebuilding