PUB (Stockholm)

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PUB is a major department store in Stockholm, Sweden, located in two buildings at Hötorget. PUB was opened in 1882 and rapidly expanded. The name PUB is for the initials of Paul U. Bergström, the founder of the store, who owned a great deal of buildings and business in the area.

In the late 20th century, the upper 4 storeys of the department store was converted into a hotel: the Rica Hotel, Kungsgatan.

Trivia

In April 1917, when the Russian Bolshevik leader Lenin traveled through Stockholm, the Swedish Communists Ture Nerman and Fredrik Ström took their comrade to PUB where they bought him a new suit so he would look good coming back to Russia.

Also Greta Garbo worked at PUB for a while in the 1920s before she became a successful actress.

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