Allan Pettersson grew up in Skånegatan 87 (near Vita bergen park), Södermalm, Stockholm.
For thirty years, Allan Pettersson and his wife Gudrun lived in two rooms in the fourth floor of an old apartment building in Åsögatan 127, Södermalm, Stockholm..
In October 1976, both moved to State living quarters in Södermalm's Bastugatan 30.