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A neighborhood with a tradition of wine, gunpowder and bowling
Norrköping
It was a venerable neighborhood, who had experienced both Russian ravages in 1719, and large urban fires. Well into the 1950s, it was almost like a rural idyll.
Later it would become, first through a new office building, with shops on the ground floor. Then got older houses make way for Textile Association's own office building.
From the 1700s
The older pictures of the neighborhood Gripen out to Auditorium hill tell of a time when the intersection had no traffic to speak of.
Corner towards the Auditorium slope consisted of older two-story house, dating from the 1700s. An escaped watchmaker Fritz H. Petersson, who had a clock on the facade out towards Queen Street. Then a red wooden house with a distinctive sloping roof. The next house was found sporting house Hultman & Åderman with its famous facade symbol in the form of a ball and a leg, the latter dressed in a Football boot.
Sold the gunpowder
Hultman & Åderman were in the neighborhood since 1933, when the company had moved from 37 Queen Street, opposite the Auditorium Park.
The company had a long history, even with the privilege of selling gunpowder. They own dynamite stockpiles existed at Prytz Hill in Klingsberg and Ljura farm lands. The company included the main supplier of the dynamite to the mills in Finspång and Skärblacka.
Well into the 1900s began Hultman & Åderman as a company to change character, as the sport began to grow.
Now the man with novelty that sell sporting goods. To begin with a smaller range of actual sports performance.
In the early 1930s over the company went to the family Kalin and that was when they moved to Repslagaregatan and Hill Auditorium. And as a sporting goods store came Hultman & Åderman to become a concept.
