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Today I stopped near the university, the university's movie house and the old telegraph station. I walked to Falcon Street and I took pictures. The old telephone booth used to be on th main square in Reykjavík when I was a child. I hope you come with me for a walk
This street looks like it used to. It has a birds name too like all the streets in the neighborhood.But we are not yet in Falcon Street.
The old telegraph station . Now a museum.
This is on the old telegraph station, the Iceland Falcon
Near Falcon Street. This movie house that looks like an accordion was the biggest in Scandinavia in the 60's. Here they still have symphony concerts.
On the way to Falcon Street. They said that this old universities sports house was haunted. I heard a lot of such stories when I was a child.
You see the Pearl from every where.
They stood there waiting for the bus. If I had been going the same way when I was a child I would have stood on the other side. We had left hand driving then but right hand driving now On this corner was a candy shop and if grand dad gave me money I would go there.This is the corner of Falcon Street.
Falcon street to day. when I was growing up it was a gravel street.
The red house is on the lot where Johns house was. The shops were going well in the 60's but not now. I am standing on the other corner now.
Looking down the street where Johns house was, I saw the ocean out of grannies window. How I loved to see the sun go into the sea. That is how I saw it when it was setting.
The fortuneteller Jósafína and her family lived in the yellow house. They are the characters of the book The devils island.
The streets name in Icelandic
Here was the co op. There is a bakery there now.
The name of the house is still there.
I had to go into a private garden to get here. In the corner there Halldór sold his fish. He is one of the characters in the book The Devil's island but this is his real name. I don't remember the name in the book. There we bought fish. We had fish almost all days then.
Here was the milk shop. We had special milk shops then. Once there was a ration. I think that there was a strike and only children would get milk. I remember the pink tickets we got and how proud I was that I was getting my little family milk.
