A photo of Austurstræti, one of Reykjavík’s oldest streets, taken at Christmas in the mid- to late 1950s. The cars on the right are parked where the Hótel Ísland used to stand. When it opened in 1882...
Depending on where you come from, Tjörnin is either a small lake or a big pond. Calling it a lake might confuse people because “Tjörnin” really just means “The Pond”. Once upon a time a small brook u...
A VW Beetle crawls down a snowy and hard-to-pronounce street in Reykjavík. Note the Christmas decorations. Photo: Sigurður Úlfarsson
An Icelandic television crew at the creation of the volcanic island of Syrtlingur in 1965. (Anything happening now?) Photo: Ari Kárason
The first espresso bar opened in Reykjavík on 9 January 1958. From a newspaper that day: “The coffee there is made with an Italian method using steam pressure and is supposed to be very strong and up...
Sigríður Einarsdóttir Magnússon playing guitar in Reykjavík at the beginning of the twentieth century, long before Iceland Airwaves. On her left is a spinning machine known in Icelandic as a “rokkur”.
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