The final location of the day was this beautiful, functionalistic old co-operative store designed by architect Erkki Huttunen. I had already discovered it the previous autumn, but back then there was no way in.
As you can see, there now is a gap between the fence and the broken window. But let’s first see what kind of threats the sheet on the door contains.
Surprisingly it doesn’t forbid anything. Instead it says we are responsible for ourselves. Well, this is an invitation, if something.
So let’s hop inside.
The store has been closed for a long time, but the apartments upstairs still had curtains way back in 2011.
Letters and numbers. For what?
A small kitchen and an even smaller vault. Or then a very vintage freezer.
An overview of the store.
The bread ads have lost their color.
The dairy product shelves.
Old phones?
“Last day to sell is not the last day to use!”. Wow.
A freezer and lots of renovation materials. This isn’t again one of those locations, which started with good intentions until they failed?
Something has been sold in this rack.
The place is a bit funny. It looks like a mixture of a hardware store and a very old grocery store.
The cash register surely is vintage.
The main entrance to the store is blocked.
As was the back window.
Another point of view towards the cash register.
And the point of view of the shopkeeper.
The total comes to 556 marks and 11 pennies, a little under 100 euros in today’s currency.
Surely that is marks. I mean nobody used cash registers like this during euro time.