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Volvo Photo Locations Part 135 Kvarnpirsgatan is a street in the Eriksberg area in Göteborg. Eriksberg is an area on Hisingen in Gothenburg where Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstads AB had their shipyard until bankruptcy in 1979. For over a century the area was dominated by shipbuilding but a crisis in the 1970s destroyed the industry. Since […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 134 Särö is a locality situated in Kungsbacka Municipality, Halland County, Sweden, with 3,165 inhabitants in 2010. It is located south of Gothenburg on the Särö peninsula, and is famous for its golf and tennis history. Geographically, the peninsula marks the transition from the Bohuslän archipelago in the north and the […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 133 Nääs Fabriker was a cotton factory with textile industry near Lake Sävelången. Today the Nääs Fabriker is a hotel, restaurant and conference center on a short distance from Göteborg. The history of the area started on 6 October 1773, when Nääs Fabriker’s founder, Peter Wilhelm Berg, first saw the light […]

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 131 Ocean Beach is located in the community of Ocean Beach. This is a wide beach, approximately one mile long, broken up by several rock jetties. A volleyball area can be found near the north end of the beach. Dog Beach, San Diegos only 24 hour beach for dogs, is […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 132 Gåsevadholm is a castle in Töölön parish in Halland, now in Kungsbacka. The present castle building was built in the late 1700s. It has a pink color and is located on an island in the middle of Rolfsån. Owner is Baron Niclas Silfverschiöld, married to the Princess Désirée. Unfortunately, the […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 131 The Älvsborg Bridge is a suspension bridge over Göta älv in Gothenburg, Sweden, which connects the north and the south part of the city. It was built in 1966 and designed by Sven Olof Asplund. The total length of the bridge is 933 metres and distance between the towers (“main […]

Photography by Peter Gehrke. (source)

Volvo Photo Locations Part 130 Åsgatan 12 is located in Falun, a city and the seat of Falun Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden. Falun forms, together with Borlänge, a metropolitan area with close to 100,000 inhabitants. Falun was originally famous for its copper mine, and is today an important service and industrial city even though […]

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 123 From Stanley Park Dr on Stanley Park, you get a wonderfull view on downtown Vancouver on the west coast of Canada. The two buildings seen on the photo from 1959 are the Marine Building (more information) and Hotel Vancouver (more information), now know as Fairmont Hotel Vancouver. The little […]

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 118 Treasure Island is an artificial island in the San Francisco Bay between San Francisco and Oakland, and an emerging neighborhood of San Francisco. The island is entirely within the City and County of San Francisco, whose territory extends far into San Francisco Bay and includes a tip of Alameda […]