Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1951-08-13

Carlton Appelo, subject of an
article in the last issue for his
Scandinayian-boost ventures in
Southwest Washington, is a L. of
Washington graduate, now resid-
ing in Deep River.
There is a great exodus of AM
orleans travelling to Scandinavia
this summer and they will notice
surface differences between our
land and the land of the vikings.
1t might be interesting to COM
pare your impressions with mine.
The following lines were written
to express the observations 1 re-
corded after spending six weeks in
Stockholm. Il was attending grad
uate classes at the American Col
lige vid Stockholm Hogskola at
the time).
I suppose the first major dif-
ference we Americans notice i'm
mediately as in England, is the
left-handed traffic This applies to
sidewalk traffic also as one learns
after people give you a dirty look
because you are walking against
them. II applies to swinging doors
as those of US learned who have
had tug-of-war with some Swede
who is trying to come through
clockwise and we the opposite
way. II applies to traffic circles
which have arrows outlining
clockwise course. And we also
learned that bicycles have more
rights than automobiles, both from
the pedestrian standpoint (just
try crossing Skeppsbron around 5
?. m. some evening" and a motor
vehicle operators view. The only
thing that will stop them is one
way street (which is indicated by
a sign showing a horizontal red
bar crossing a yellow circle or
the kings carriage.
No Hamburger, Quick Order Shops
The next thing I noticed were
the different names for shops jar
naffar. snabbkop, blomster handeD
and neon signs with strange words
with occasional letters having UNI
lats above them, "a became known
to the class as double shot a. and
is "a" with a football on top). We
learned that a konditori is the
nearest thing to a short order joint
except all they serve besides cof-
fee-plenty strong, tea and choco-
late) are pastries (weinerbrod) &,
cookies, and rich cakes. 1t is not
the place to go if you are in a
hurry because the Swedes like to
relax when they have refresh
ments. A cafe is a beer parlor
which serves token meals just to
comply with Swedish law requir-
ing food be served with liquor. 1t
can always be identified by a
policeman standing out front
whose main job is to evaluate how
much the individuals in the queue
have had to drink already and Tor
how much capacity they have left.
The Swedes don't like to have
DRINKS wondering around clutter
ing up the landscape. If one wants
70 eat regular meal he must go
to a restaurant which also serves
hard liquor with the food. There
really isn't a place like a ham,
burger joint or quick-order shop
where one can get a meal in hur-
~. They do have mjolkbarer
milk bars and Nornas which
serve cafeteria style but these are
located only in the larger cities
- plain milk shake or malt does
not exist any place here, one can
buy ice cream but unfortunately
Scandinavia has not learned the
gentle art of ice cream making. 1t
seems. rather odd because there
seems to be a great abundance of
milk here. Perhaps they cannot
reach mass market when they
charge from IL to 20 cents for our
5-eent scoops. As for hamburgers
no soap. But they do have its
cousin. You just search out the
warm kory man and get yourself
a nice hot. juicy weiner covered
with mustard and be sure to ask
for bun because that isn't stand
ard equipment.