The following morning I stopped in the following town. One of my so many Tinder matches featured in this blog was working the summer in the tourist office of her birth town. When I arrived, we had coffee and as her lunch break came, we went to lunch. That was when she casually mentioned, that she had phoned the local newspaper the previous day and told that an adventurer in their old Volvo is on the way.
So after the lunch I drove to the offices of the local paper, gave an interview and posed in a photo shoot. After that I got my reward, coordinates to an abandoned building in my match’s home village.
She told me that it had been a bakery, but when I saw the building, it was immediately evident, that originally it had been a local village store.
There now was a forest growing in front of the facade of the building, but in old Google Maps photos even traces the name of the co-operative can still be seen. The co-operative went bankrupt in 1995, but the name on the wall was from an era before a large merger, which took place in 1984.
The windows were already boarded shut in the 2011 Google Maps photos. They’ve probably been that for even longer.
Modern ventilation equipment.
The back wing, which has probably been built later than the store itself. The wing furthest behind is the central storage of an earlier co-operative consisting of three stores.
I wonder, where that points to.
The back of the store with the loading dock.
The bathroom was surprisingly modern.
Staff lockers.
Low hanging fruits?
Other backroom spaces.
The ceiling has started to give in.
I still can’t help but to wonder the modern state of affairs here.
Because all the rest was from a completely different era.
If E. Gullström is what I think it is, it’s a large and traditional vegetable wholesale company.
And this is something completely different.