Residents of Hlinsko didn't mess with the occupiers: "We'll drown you in beer" was written on the facade of the pub (During a soviet led invasion on Czechoslovakia). Source: Městské muzeum a galerie Hlinsko. Czechoslovakia - Pardubice Region, Hlinsko, 21 August 1968. Now Czech Republic ❤
Man filling up his motorbike at a "Mack" brand gasoline pump in Stockholm. "Mack" is still a slang word for gas station in Sweden. Sweden - Stockholm, circa 1924 [6966x4809]
It's a rainy day and two women try to avoid getting wet by holding newspapers over them. An advertisement is clearly visible for the Belgian moped Flandria Sport. Photo: Sjöberg / KG Kristofferson. Sweden - Stockholm, 1953
67 years ago... Children look through and press their noses against a shop window. Photo: Sten Didrik Bellander (1921 - 2001). Sweden - Stockholm, 30 October 1959
A Swedish singer Lill-Babs Svensson (1938 - 2018) wearing a white light coat and high-heeled shoes sitting on the rack of a bicycle. A young man cycles away with her along a Stockholm street. Source: Sjöberg Bildbyrå AB. Sweden - Stockholm, 1961
The Battle of the Elms... Stockholm's Citizens physically blocked city workers from cutting down 13 large elm trees in Kungsträdgården to build a metro station entrance. The protest forced the local government to back down and relocate the subway. Sweden - Stockholm, 11-12 May 1971
Two women talking in the metro station in Stockholm. Photo: Karl Heinz Hernreid (1912 - 1988; was a Stockholm-based reportage photographer). Sweden - Stockholm, circa 1967
Brunkebergstorg med Telefontornet. Photo: Åke Thomssen. Sweden - Stockholm, 1952 (Telefontornet was an 80-meter-tall iron tower built to hold about 5,500 telephone wires. It became obsolete by 1913 as cables moved underground, suffered a severe fire in 1952, and was torn down in 1953)