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By Reykjav\u00edk pond in 1908<\/p><\/div>\n
Here is another videoclip by American Hal Linker<\/strong> and his Icelandic wife Halla<\/strong>, who made this great footage in the 1950\u00b4s, \u00a0the time after the 2nd WW when Iceland was prospering in its newfound independence from the Danish Rule in 1944. \u00a0Reykjav\u00edk as can be heard on the video clip had reached a population of 55.000,- \u00a0Today 190.000 are living in Reykjav\u00edk.<\/p>\n A lot of construction in Reykjav\u00edk in the 1950\u00b4s. Here roads being build at the corner of \u00c6gisgata and R\u00e1nargata in Reykjav\u00edk 1940-1950<\/p><\/div>\n The Americans which at the time still had a base in Keflav\u00edk brought with them wealth and money, and everywhere roads and houses, Iceland\u00b4s infrastructure was being built. \u00a0You can say that these times were sunny for Iceland and Icelanders.\u00a0See the video clip by\u00a0CLICKING HERE:\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n A little later, a.o. because of encouragement from Americans stationed at the Keflav\u00edk base the golf course in Keflav\u00edk was established some 50 years ago, in 1964. \u00a0This golfcourse is the closest to the only international airport in Iceland, in Keflav\u00edk. So if you want a quick round of golf just before arriving or departuring Iceland, GS (The 18 hole golf course of The Golf Club of Su\u00f0urnes) in Keflav\u00edk is the ideal one to play (along with the other 18 hole great golf courses close by Kirkjubols course in Sandger\u00f0i and the 18 hole golf course near by the Blue Lagoon in Grindav\u00edk)<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A little earlier today we here on Golf 1 posted a video clip of Reykjav\u00edk in 1926. \u00a0The inhabitants of Reykjav\u00edk were 21.ooo,- at that time. Here is another videoclip by American Hal Linker and his Icelandic wife Halla, who made this great footage in the 1950\u00b4s, \u00a0the time after the 2nd WW when Iceland was prospering in its newfound independence from the Danish Rule in 1944. \u00a0Reykjav\u00edk as can be heard on the video clip had reached a population of 55.000,- \u00a0Today 190.000 are living in Reykjav\u00edk. The Americans which at the time still had a base in Keflav\u00edk brought with them wealth and money, and everywhere roads and Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":104066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","cat-7-id"],"acf":[],"views":1786,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"http:\/\/www.golf1.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/kan2-300x205.jpg\")