Well, this looks interesting.
This obviously is a former store. The older, wooden part first appears on aerial photos in the early 1950’s, the brick part is from the 1960’s or early 1970’s judging by its looks.
According to Google Maps most of the building was empty already back in 2009. There was a flea market in one section of the building in the 2010’s, but it was gone by 2019.
It was a bit difficult to find any information about the place, but I eventually succeeded. There was another store of the same owner on this lot before it was demolished in the early 2010’s.
In 1927 a local man bought a small house on the lot and founded a paper store. He soon started selling lollipops and doughnuts and eventually got the permission to start a bookstore. He built a new building, the one, which is already gone in the picture.
Eventually he built one of the biggest retail businesses in the whole town expanding constantly. When he retired in the late 1950’s, his two sons took over continuing the expansion.
This part of the building was a hardware store.
The entire building was surrounded with fences.
There were several ways in, but that would have required access behind the fence. That was the hard point.
The issue were the local youth. It was evident, that I wasn’t a local, and this place really doesn’t like unknown people. I had toured almost all of Finland, and never had I seen such dirty looks. It was as if everybody was wondering, whether they should hit me or not just because I happened to be there.
The joke: my mother is born here although they moved away soon afterwards. Technically that makes me a local.
I couldn’t climb the fences. Every person I saw had stopped and was staring at me. Quite the contrast compared to this location.
The store had belonged to the K-chain.
There were some spare fence elements on the yard.
A desperate attempt to see what was inside. A bad quality photo, but the answer is evident: nothing.
An interesting location, but entrance was just a dream this time.