Man, Stockholm has lost a time portal. This old plumbers shop I was lucky to stumble on, I discovered the first time about a year ago and now soon it will be gone for good lost to the progress.
I don’t know much about the late Rör Firma of Södermalm except that the first time visit I had to quick take pictures, which I am including here, I snapped these while I wondered in to the unmanned shop standing open.
I was running around looking fro pipe fittings for fixing a silent compressor fashioned from a refrigerator compressor, so that’s what brought me there. I did come back later that day and got to meet the owner and he directed me to a refrigerator repair shop down the street.
Now it was about a week or two ago, Piki Rods Mike and I where walking by the place again and seen that the place was beeing gutted out so told Mike we had to stop and see what was going on. I got pictures of the place, and we where told that the owner had died. It turns out he had been working there since he was a teenager. The place had already been sold to an architecture firm and no doubt will be remodeled, it is a sad shame. when entering this place I felt like I was entering a temple, a testament to the life of a worker. It was a beautiful site and hopefully these photos will relay some of the experience.
The Tudor Batteri Sign was handed down to me by a guy who works next door, He said it had been in the shop since the owner started selling Tudor brand batteries, 60 years ago..
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