En lille multi her på Lakolk Butikstorvet eller Pomfritt Straße som min far plejer at kalde det. Fordi der i tiden løb er blevet langet enorme mængde pomfritter og softice ud af lugerne af de små butikker her omkring til turister fra fjern og nær, men primært nok fra Tyskland.
Omkring år 1900 begyndte driftige erhversfolk at gøre Lakolk til et badested for tysketurister. Rømø var på det tidspunkt en del af Tyskland. På det tidspunkt var der ingen dæmning så man skulle med færge fra fastlandet til Rømø og stykket fra østkysten ud til vestkysten blev fortaget i hestetrukket jernbane.
Efterhånden skød der flere hoteller og ferieboliger op. Da jeg var barn husker jeg dette butikstorv som en samling tilfældig opslåede træbarakker i mange farver. Inden man fik lavet de nuværende lidt mere strølignede butikker.
A multi here on Lakolk Butikstorvet or Pomfritt Straße as my father used to call it. Because over time, huge amounts of french fries and soft ice cream have been poured out of the hatches of the small shops around here for tourists from far and near, but primarily enough from Germany.
Around the year 1900, enterprising business people began to make Lakolk a seaside resort for German tourists. Rømø was at that time part of Germany. At that time there was no dam so you had to take a ferry from the mainland to Rømø and the stretch from the east coast to the west coast was done by horse-drawn railway.
Gradually, more hotels and holiday homes sprang up. When I was a child, I remember this market square as a collection of randomly displayed wooden barracks in many colors. Before you made the current slightly more litter-like shops.