Calle Lindström

Trained as a stucco worker, Lindström eventually left that line of work to become a bondkomiker (peasant comic) and bygdemålstalare (dialect storyteller).

A common practice in Swedish variety halls, the performer would stand behind a photographed foreground and slip his head through an opening in the picture for comic effect.

He is impressed by the stockyards and the elevated railway, but perhaps even more by the fact that "at night it's just like daytime, there are so many lights" — and "everybody smokes cigars instead of chewing snuff."

[3] The humorist Albert Engström coined the word "Grönköping" in 1895 as a caption for some of his drawings, thereby inventing the fictional Swedish town of the same name.

[6] More than a half century after his death there continues to be interest in Lindström's recordings, which are sold in the original vinyl format and as digital downloads [4] or posted on video-sharing websites.