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My early years 1972 to 1986 In Köping
3 years ago
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Howdy. I thought that why not talk a little about myself and who i am and some history. Yeah Cool!! At least thats what i hope people will say.
So, I was born in 1972 in the small swedish town Köping. Its a rather small town in Västmanland. Here is the wikipedia link for the town : https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6ping
As a young, growing up in Köping was ok. We had an Ikea store there and some other nice shopping stuff. A rather good ice Hockey team as well.
However around 1983 Ikea said they were going to close down the store. This was dramatic stuff for us because they had never before closed down a store. They closed the store in 1984. There were crazy lines of people going to the store a last time. The nearest road there were really jammed with cars. Some time later they opened a store in Västerås, a much bigger cithy than Köping. Also. It was said that the Ice Hockey rink would be replaced with a new one but it never happened sadly.
Also on Tv famous swedih thriller writer Jan Guillio made a program called Rekord-Magazinet (In English record magazine). In this program they should show swedish most boring town. Can you guess what town they used in the first program? Yes, of course it was Köping. We were ridiculed from that day. Some of the Ice Hockey teams we played with no longer come to Köping. And when they did we always lost to them.
Then a very interresting person entered. His name was Han Göran Petterson often called Hasse P. He had strange thing going on. When Ikea closed down he bought all the plastic balls in the kids room and had plans making a playroom for kids in the city. However this didnt get as planned. He also made some cool shoes that you could kinda pogo jump with. They were nice but sold very badly. Hans was well known for drinking alot of alcohol too and some said he always was drunk. I dont think thats really true.
Han however had an idea how to bring back Köping to a good point again. He said "why dont we make the longest Sandwish Cake in the world" and this happened. It was the famous cafe Bivur who made thiscake and in the end it become the longest one 510 meters and its in the guiness book of records. This was in june 1985 i think and the town was crowded with curious people. After he had gotten the price they sold the cake at the town and a cup of cofee/tea and everyone was happy as they could be. Including me and my family.
Next year (1986) in June, a disaster happened. My familys house burnt but not to the ground but still. It was the electricity wires malfunction that started the fire. Luckily we saved most of our stuff before it smelled to much smoke. The first time after the fire we lived at a cheap hotel. It wasnt very easy but we lived it through. There were plans to build up the parts of the house that was in bad shape but after some talk my family decided to move from Köping to another place. I wasnt very happy with this because i had my friends living close to us but we moved to Norrköping instead. More about that in next text.
So, I was born in 1972 in the small swedish town Köping. Its a rather small town in Västmanland. Here is the wikipedia link for the town : https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6ping
As a young, growing up in Köping was ok. We had an Ikea store there and some other nice shopping stuff. A rather good ice Hockey team as well.
However around 1983 Ikea said they were going to close down the store. This was dramatic stuff for us because they had never before closed down a store. They closed the store in 1984. There were crazy lines of people going to the store a last time. The nearest road there were really jammed with cars. Some time later they opened a store in Västerås, a much bigger cithy than Köping. Also. It was said that the Ice Hockey rink would be replaced with a new one but it never happened sadly.
Also on Tv famous swedih thriller writer Jan Guillio made a program called Rekord-Magazinet (In English record magazine). In this program they should show swedish most boring town. Can you guess what town they used in the first program? Yes, of course it was Köping. We were ridiculed from that day. Some of the Ice Hockey teams we played with no longer come to Köping. And when they did we always lost to them.
Then a very interresting person entered. His name was Han Göran Petterson often called Hasse P. He had strange thing going on. When Ikea closed down he bought all the plastic balls in the kids room and had plans making a playroom for kids in the city. However this didnt get as planned. He also made some cool shoes that you could kinda pogo jump with. They were nice but sold very badly. Hans was well known for drinking alot of alcohol too and some said he always was drunk. I dont think thats really true.
Han however had an idea how to bring back Köping to a good point again. He said "why dont we make the longest Sandwish Cake in the world" and this happened. It was the famous cafe Bivur who made thiscake and in the end it become the longest one 510 meters and its in the guiness book of records. This was in june 1985 i think and the town was crowded with curious people. After he had gotten the price they sold the cake at the town and a cup of cofee/tea and everyone was happy as they could be. Including me and my family.
Next year (1986) in June, a disaster happened. My familys house burnt but not to the ground but still. It was the electricity wires malfunction that started the fire. Luckily we saved most of our stuff before it smelled to much smoke. The first time after the fire we lived at a cheap hotel. It wasnt very easy but we lived it through. There were plans to build up the parts of the house that was in bad shape but after some talk my family decided to move from Köping to another place. I wasnt very happy with this because i had my friends living close to us but we moved to Norrköping instead. More about that in next text.
