The year 1976 with the vocal track Arrival by ABBA with pictures of Stockholm in the background. The year 1976 was the peak year for the band as they released their best album Arrival. As for Sweden itself, blinded Swedes made their own current fate by choosing the left that ruled Sweden all these years, which brought millions of emigrants who have destroyed and are destroying this beautiful country.
@@beorlingo Det är taget. Ändrade namn för 13 år sen. Men bodde i både Bastuhagsvägen Stureby (som lite mer vuxen)och Björksundsslingan i Bandhagen. (Som barn)..
Thank you for these wonderful and nostalgic photos from the Stockholm of my youth, it hurts to see what it looks like on the streets and squares today, but I am still happy to have experienced that time. 👍👋
This is Sweden how my mom had visited it back in those days. She went on the ferry from Northern Germany in her Volkswagen Beatle. It happened to her once that her car was searched. Germany had left wing terrorists (RAF) and she was at the age (in her mid 20s) of those terrorists and from Germany. Well, she said the Swedish border control troopers were very kind and since she had nothing to hide and cooperated, they had even put the car back together. The troopers even recovered one old half a pack of cigarettes that her buddy, a mechanic, had left between the seats. Awesome days! During her stay together with some of her buddies from Germany, they also had booked a flight with a Cessna. She remembered how one of her friends would shout during the flight: "Hey look, there is our camping site of Bödasand!" - hence the pilot took it as a challange and did a knife-edge flight over the site, making everyone on board feel compressed like anchovis in a can. My mom as well as her buddies have always found the country to be extremely clean, polite, open-minded and they were amazed how child friendly Sweden was. The daddys back then would let their kids climb up and down on the Volvo cars. Back in 1976, my mom and their friends had seen Midsommer in Sweden. They all said they hve never thought people could actually drink that much. Mom and her buddies were even shocked to see patrols with machine guns, searching cars for alcoholic beverage. Mom told me how the troopers would let them pass and comment: "You Germans know how much you can handle. We don't need to search you." Sounded a bit like Obi Wan's mind trick (you don't need to see his ID, these aren't the droids we're after). Must have been so awesome to have been in that country before it changed.
@@BALI891 Many countries have changed forever. My home country Germany is unrecognizable. The country I knew in my childhood (1980s and 1990s) does no longer exist. I have my little Germany in exile in Cyprus. It is a shame what those countries like Sweden, Germany and others in Europe have become.
Downtown Stockholm looks after 45 years the same today, not much has changed, some new shops of course, but more or less the same houses. But it is a much more dangerous city today because of the disastrous politics, in particular the last 10 years. Spend your holiday elsewhere, in Tijuana, Caracas or Detroit, for example.
Thank´s. What do you mean with hard time? That was one of the best years in Stockholm. My son was one year and most of the we partied and had fun. Today´s Stockholm is a Ghetto and unpleasant place.
I was looking for a job for a month (as a newcomer from Poland, I did not have a work permit) and spent spent all the money brought. Finally I found a undeclared job and worked hard for two months from morning to night (restaurant, handing out leaflets). I saw daylight only on Sunday.
@@nyepiscandinavia The money I earned back then in Stockholm helped me finance my trip to Canada the following year. Without this money, with the earnings in Poland at that time (about 10-15 times lower than in Sweden), this trip would have been rather impossible.
