Again I randomly found an interesting location by accident when arriving to a small and remote city in the middle of nowhere.
Back in 1965 a pulp mill was opened here, and it gave a lot prosperity for the place for the coming four decades until being closed. The very same year, 1965, this shopping center was built just outside town.
It must have been revolutionary back in the days, but time passed it. Several of the spaces were empty already back in 2011, when the earliest Google Maps photos are from.
There are open doors. So let’s see what was sold here. The first one is called Beer House. I don’t need to be too smart to guess that it was a bar.
There’s a lot of beer foam on the logo.
So this is it? The Beer House has been an incredibly small bar. It has probably served a small but loyal group of customers, who came in every day to waste their lives.
There were windows with beer brand logos at the back.
The small toilet.
The bar seen to the other direction. More than 20 people can’t have fit in at once.
Next we have a barbershop.
A local map and calendar from 2005. I wonder, if the place has been closed for that long.
The barbershop was about as small as the bar. The only thing that is left are ads.
This kind of hair actually was fashionable in the first decade of the 2000’s. Maybe the place has been shut for that long.
The ads of this brand are literally in every barbershop in Finland.
Wonder, how many customers hit their head on that.
There was even something for men.
And next door we have another barbershop.
It was equally small, but some renovations had been done here. I wonder, how the customers chose between the two.
The owner of the place hasn’t cleaned up as thoroughly as their neibhbour.
The Siwa grocery stores closed in 2017. That logo wasn’t used after 2014, though.
Even they have left the ads. The funny thing is, that they have advertised inside on the windows, not outside.
Wonder if I’ll find another barbershop next door. The competition must have been fierce.