The zookeeper, all our own, Jonas “Skansen-Jonas” Wahlström is 72 years old and a bit past retirement age. But he still does not plan to let go of Skansen, with which he has had a relationship for a full 64 years – there will be more.
Even the marriage with the wife Christina Ollén have been a long-standing one. For over forty years the couple has been married.
This week Jonas visited News24: p podcast”The flow“, where he took a stand on the question of who should pay on the first date, and told what happened when he met his future wife for the first time. A situation that happened to be their first date.
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As I said, the couple has been married for over forty years and when they met, Christina was working as a journalist at Expressen. She had on several occasions written and reported on Skansen in a positive light and was sent to do a media spread about the new aquarium, which Jonas had helped build.
Christina Ollén and Jonas Wahlström
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At that time, spring dinners were organized for employees and people who had benefited Skansen, to which Christina was invited.
The incident on the first date
– We ended up next to each other at dinner with about a hundred people, he says and goes on to tell us that nettle soup was traditionally served at Skansen’s spring dinners.
– She dropped one of her contact lenses in the nettle soup, and while we were looking for the lens in the soup, something happened. After dinner we walked hand in hand along Strandvägen and ended up at Bäckahästen to have a glass of wine after midnight.
He tells us that he then, in a gentlemanly manner, took the bill for both of them.
– That’s the way it is, says Jonas.
Married in Las Vegas
Jonas and Christina tried to have children together but did not succeed the biological way. So in order to adopt, they needed to be married.
– Then we went to Las Vegas and got married and society accepted that.
Today they have two adopted children.
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