The midsummer continued. And so did my tour of old places I’ve found earlier but not yet accessed. This one here I found way back in 2020. After that I’ve manage to discover more about its history.
The building was originally a co-operative store. Built in a functionalistic style in the late 1930’s, it was enlarged in 1952 to feature more business space and apartments upstairs. When the co-operatives merged into larger ones, smaller stores were closed. At this point a local entrepreneur started to run it in competing colors.
According to a history document, the shop was open until around 2000. This is, however, not the case, as you will soon find out.
Another view. The original roof line and height of the building can be seen to the left.
The logo of the company looked like that until around 2015. This is a piece of my childhood.
According to the window, the store has sold groceries, agricultural items and construction equipment. That’s a lot for such a small village.
Ok, wow, my childhood really is back. The online ads by the national betting company mean almost real time submission of tickets meaning, that you could bet almost until the beginning of the lottery.
But in my childhood most shops like this had already vanished, at least from places where I used to go to. I think my home village had one left still in the early 1990’s.
Age old lottery commercials.
These shelves have once contained all kinds of stuff that the villagers needed.
And so have these.
That color board is interesting. I don’t think it fits the colors of neither the S-group or K-group.
There has been a sale.
This was very funny in my childhood. The brand of laundry detergent advertised with a TV ad, where a call center person answered calls from people who had messed up their clothes and needed help. They always answered the phone “Omo info, how may I help you.”
You know, what kids turned that into. Funny in the 1990’s, perhaps, not anymore.
Old tickets to harness racing events.
The cash register.
Several telephone books from 1996. This is when I believe the place to have been abandoned.
The checkout.
A cassette made for this brand of stores from 1990. One of the songs is a hit, but I seriously doubt that most of them were of any quality.
A reminder from a time, when cigarettes were still openly displayed.
A tabloid from 1996 further strenghtening my beliefs about the date of abandonment.
One end of the store explored. Let’s see, what’s in the other one.