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Postcard Bergen Norway Ulriksbanen Cable Car Telecabine Chrome c1960s Unused
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Chrome · 1963

Postcard Bergen Norway Ulriksbanen Cable Car Telecabine Chrome c1960s Unused

Bergen, Norway1963ChromeExcellent

Suspended in clear Norwegian sky above one of Scandinavia's most dramatic urban panoramas, two gondola cars of the Ulriksbanen — one canary yellow, one tomato red — cross paths on their cables high above Bergen, the city's intricate fjord-laced geography unfurling below in extraordinary detail: the Puddefjord, Byfjorden, Nordåsvatnet, and the dense urban peninsula all visible in a single breathtaking frame. The Ulriksbanen aerial tramway opened in 1961, connecting Bergen's city center to the 643-meter summit of Mount Ulriken, the tallest of Bergen's famous "Seven Mountains," and this chrome card — almost certainly published within a few years of opening — captures the tramway in its vivid original two-tone livery. The aerial perspective transforms Bergen into a map of itself, water threading between land in every direction.

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PC-04773 · Knut Aune Kunstforlag
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