April fools day.
The April Fool's joke was that Vinmonopolet (state owned wine store monopoly) was out of bottles, so they were selling red wine cheaply to those who had brought something to put the wine in. Many people fell for it. It is said that on this day there were buckets and pails everywhere in the streets, people were embarrassed to have been fooled and left them everywhere.
Some have suggested that the picture is from 1950, when Aftenposten's April Fool's Day joke was about the same thing, and not from 1969. In 1950, however, photographer Henrik Ørsted was just 12 years old and living in his native Denmark. Our photo is dated to 1969 by him. The photo is probably an arranged illustration photo for a mention of the case from 1950.
Year: 1969
Photo: Henrik Ørsted / Oslo Museum (CC BY-NC-ND)
https://digitaltmuseum.no/011014287373/ko-ved-majorstupolet
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