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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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St. Hallvard's bridge. Photographed in the Gjøvik Line tracks seen towards the Østbanen (today Oslo S, the central station). The two tracks of Hovedbanen (the main line which still run between Oslo and Eidsvoll) to the right. The building in the upper right corner is Schweigaards gate 99.

Year: 1926

Photo: Anders Beer Wilse / Oslo museum (CC CC0 1.0)

https://digitaltmuseum.no/011014880024/st-hallvards-bro

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When I biked past this building today, they were refurbishing those balconies!

This is Allégaten around 1900. Today the street is known for the huge brutalist natural sciences faculty building (Realfagsbygget) on the left-hand side of the street. Before 1977, the Nygård park stretched all the way to Allégaten instead, which is what we see here.

Photographer unknown, via University of Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-bros-00570.html
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