Arnold and Newlin: Skansen 1970

Skansen is an open-air museum of Swedish historical culture on Djurgården island in Stockholm that we visited frequently during our stay in 1969–1970. These photos are from May and June 1970.

Andrew and Eric playing on Djurgården

Newlin, Andrew, Eric, and Hazel at Skansen

Andrew, Allan, Joel, Newlin, Eric, and Hazel outside the Solliden Restaurant, Skansen

Hazel, Allan, Joel, Eric, and Newlin lunching at the Solliden Restaurant, Skansen

Joel, Allan, Newlin, and Eric at the Terrassen Café, Skansen

Andrew, Eric, Newlin, Newlin, Joel, Allan on Djurgården

Allan, Joel and Newlin at Skansen

Allan and Joel at Skansen

Newlin, Eric, Andrew, and Hazel Newlin at Skansen

Also on Djurgården was the Nordiska Museet (the Nordic Museum):

Eric and Andrew with 16th Century throne, Nordiska Museet

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Arnold and Newlin: Stockholm 1970

We drove down to Stockholm numerous times during the year — it was just an hour's drive from Uppsala — to visit the museums (open-air museum Skansen, Moderna Museet, Prins Eugen's Waldemarsudde art museum, Nordiska Museet), Gamla Stan (the Old City), the royal palace, the battleship Wasa, Gröna Lund amusement park, and the NK department store.

Andrew and Eric in Stockholm

Newlin, Eric, Allan, Andrew, and Joel in Stockholm

Stockholm viewed from the top of City Hall

U.S. Embassy in Stockholm

Allan, Newlin, Andrew, Eric, and Joel in Gamla Stan

Eric in Gamla Stan

Eric, Newlin, Andrew, Joel, and Allan in Gamla Stan

changing of the guard at the royal palace

Stockholm harbor

Kaknäs Tower is a communication tower near Stockholm:

Kaknästornet, 2012 image by kallerna via Wikimedia Commons

Eric, Newlin, Andrew, Allan, and Joel picnicking near Kaknästornet

Eric and Andrew with sheep in a field near Kaknästornet

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Arnold and Newlin: Mike and Sally Haynes, June 1970

Mike Haynes married Sally in Uppsala that summer.  Arnie and Newlin hosted a reception in the apartment.

Arnie at the party

Arnie and Newlin with newlyweds Mike and Sally Haynes

Mike and Sally

newlyweds Sally and Mike cut the cake

Allan, Mike, Andrew, Sally, and Joel

Mike, Eric and Sally

Arnie, Mike, Sally, and Newlin

Joel, family friend, Andrew, and Allan

Newlin and Allan on the right with reception guests

 Andrew, Sally and Mike Haynes, Eric, Joel and Newlin walking the countryside outside Uppsala

Andrew in the countryside

Sally, Mike, Eric, Joel, Andrew, and Newlin walking in Upland countryside

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Arnold and Newlin: Uppsala, June 1970

The first photos are from early June or even May, when Hazel was still visiting us. We have our spring jackets on.

Hazel pushing Eric on the swingset in front of our apartment building

Hazel and Eric at play

Hazel and Eric

Joel and Andrew with neighbors in the yard of our apartment building

Eric on the swingset of our apartment building yard

Newlin and Eric with neighborhood friends

Arnie could not sleep in the morning after the sun rose, so he frequently arose at 3:00a in our part of Sweden, where the sun dipped below the horizon for just a few hours in the summer. Restless, he would go for long walks in the city and take photos of the empty town at the early hours:

Uppsala Cathedral (from 1435) viewed from Castle Hill

Uppsala Cathedral viewed from our rooftop

another rooftop view of Uppsala Cathedral

Uppsala Cathedral and the Fyris River viewed from our rooftop

Uppsala Cathedral viewed from our apartment building rooftop

Uppsala Cathedral and the Fyris River

Uppsala Cathedral and the Fyris River

Uppsala Cathedral and the Fyris River

Uppsala Cathedral and the Fyris River with our apartment building (3 Götgatan); we lived on the fourth floor

Our apartment building at 3 Götgatan, Uppsala

Joel and Andrew biking in Uppsala

The University of Uppsala Main Building (with Erik Gustaf Geijer Statue)

This is one of the bells in the Cathedral. It may be the one called Thornan, taken from Toruń, Poland, as war booty in 1703 by Swedish forces of King Carl XII (Charles XII) during the Great Northern War (1700–1721). 

Thornan Bell, Uppsala Cathedral

Uppsala University's Main Building viewed from a Cathedral tower

The River Fyris (Fyrisån); out apartment building is one of the white buildings in the upper left, near the bridge

Uppsala Castle (from the mid Sixteenth Century, rebuilt after a 1702 fire)

Eric on a cannon at Uppsala Castle

Uppsala Castle

Gunilla bell tower (Queen Consort Gunilla donated Gunilla Bell to the castle chapel in 1588. In 1702  the original tower was destroyed by fire, so the bell was recast in 1759 and moved to this wooden bell tower)

Castle cannons aimed at the Cathedral

Uppsala Cathedral

the Cathedral viewed from the roof of our apartment building

Uppsala Cathedral

Uppsala Cathedral

Uppsala Cathedral with former Academy water mill (now the Uppland Museum) on the Fyris River

Andrew, Newlin and Joel at an unidentified dam and lock in Sweden

Gamla Uppsala

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