We
received an email from Norway that reads as follows:
Sending you some pictures of
Blabon as it was about 1900. My great grandparents
did own/run a grocery store/pool saloon. The moved
back to Norway about 1915 i think. Nice site you've
got here :)
Greetings from Norway!
Øyvind Sætrevik
Much thanks to Øyvind
for the fantastic photos (pics four and five on
the right and main street photo bottom center)
Give close examination
to the full-size version of the Main Street photo
below and you'll notice a couple of interesting
things... a little girl walking away from the
camera in the center of the photo, horse poo in
the street, and in the second building from the
right, a shape that looks like someone peering
out the window.
The pictures from Mr. Satrevik
arrived after we made our first trip to Blabon.
After seeing them, we decided to make a return
trip to Blabon for the purposes of trying to pin
down exactly which street was the main street
we see in the photo, with the intention of taking
a photo from the same spot.
Our idea was, since the trees
in front of the store are the only trees visible
in the photo, it stands to reason that if those
trees still exist, they'd probably be the tallest
and most prominent trees in present-day Blabon,
which would enable us to use them as a landmark.
That rationale proved flimsy however when we tried
to actually correlate the two time periods based
on the trees.
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