Wednesday 29 April 2009

Good ol' days



My building looks like this from the outside and the red square is the window to my bedroom :) As you can see, the building was not built yesterday. This becomes a lot clearer when you come inside my castle. The elevator makes you feel like Humphrey Bogart is just around the corner - or - running the actual elevator, as some strange post-acting retirement job. The elevator is "fra før krigen" as we say in Norwegian, "from before the war". And when we speak like this there was really only one war; WWII. This is not something out of my imagination, there is a plaque posted in the elevator with the year 1939. Enjoy the images below and envy me my Humphrey B lifestyle - I am of course Lauren Bacall........

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  1. Den heisen er jo pinadø skumlere enn den du hadde på bislett!

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  2. Du bør alltid ha med telefon, ei flaske vann, litt mat, ei god bok og et pledd når du reiser med den heisen. Ikke godt å si hvor lett det er å grave fram en heismontør med 1939-ingeniør-skills i disse dager.

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  3. Det er hva naboen også mener om den heisen Erik :) De har det desperate blikket, blandet med irritasjon over hele sulamitten. Mens jeg blir helt romantisk...

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