Wästerlunds konditori, Heritage bakery and café in Lunde, Sweden.
Wästerlunds konditori is a two-story building at the southern end of Sandöbron bridge in Lunde that operates as a bakery and café. The establishment has indoor seating for around 30 guests and outdoor space accommodating around 60 people.
Wästerlunds konditori opened in the 1940s and has changed little since. Around 1960 the interior was fitted with leatherette, copper sheeting, tables and chairs. The building was put up inside another house, which is why it has a flat roof, and it was built as a hotel with numbered doors to ease a building permit applied for afterwards.
The neon sign on the roof, in place since 1952, shows a pastry chef pouring coffee and serving a cake; four metres tall, it cost 52,000 kronor and was once Norrland's largest privately owned neon sign. The café appeared in the TV series K-märkt, and its interior was fitted around 1960 with leatherette, copper sheeting, tables and chairs.
The café is privately run and open only in summer, so plan a visit between late spring and early autumn; outside the season the building stands closed. It sits at the southern abutment of the Sandö bridge in Lunde, on the Kramfors side of the crossing, with the flat-roofed structure and its rooftop sign visible from the road.
This is one of the few preserved 1950s establishments along the Höga Kusten coast that still functions in its original way. Finding a place where both the design and the daily use have remained unchanged over decades is quite rare in this region.
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