Next to the other store was a smaller old business building, which already appears on aerial photos from 1948. According to Google Maps photos from 2011 its upstairs apartments still looked inhabited. The other side. It’s possible that even the downstairs business premises had been converted into apartments at some point. After business use ended,Continue reading “Stores Come In Two Sizes Part II”
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Stores Come In Two Sizes Part I
This time I find myself by the old main road in a small regional town. My friend, who has tipped me about several locations in Finland was visiting her relatives in the area and told me about an old store, which sat abandoned. The main building and storefront were clearly abandoned, but there might haveContinue reading “Stores Come In Two Sizes Part I”
Trainspotting Failed
You already know the story, as I’ve told it so many times. I travel a lot by train, and I mean a lot. Until the spring of 2023 I did it weekly, and I accumulated around 60 000 kilometers on the tracks yearly. After that the mileage dramatically decreased, as I stopped going to myContinue reading “Trainspotting Failed”
Yet Again Unchanged
Moving on to the next location, which I have already previously documented. This time it’s about the railway station residential area, I photographed in 2022. Since then two houses have been demolished and several renovated, the one I managed to enter still stands empty. Along with the one abandoned one still standing, which I didn’tContinue reading “Yet Again Unchanged”
Looks Like A Write-Off
The following yearly check up was to a former mental asylum, which I had discovered back in 2021. I visited again in 2022 only to find out, that the former staff apartments had found new inhabitants. Since then it had been on the news, that the owner plans Airsoft games to be played in theContinue reading “Looks Like A Write-Off”
Another Result Of Trainspotting
It was another day in the life of an an urban explorer and it looks like it was beginning with freshly made eggs. Just kidding. I was actually approaching another house, which I’ve seen through train windows. It was right next to a very small regional railway station, which closed decades ago. The village remainedContinue reading “Another Result Of Trainspotting”
The Doors Would Never Open
The following location from my neverending Excel. It is the village store featured here for the first time in photos from 2022. According to the sign in the window, the place is still for sale. No buyers have appeared, though. It looks like even the for sale sign has lost its hope. This end ofContinue reading “The Doors Would Never Open”
At Least The Soil Is On Sale
Welcome yet to another familiar location. This here is the co-operative store featured earlier in 2020. Maybe this view is more familiar. How can there be trees growing on the balcony? The building seen from the other side. And the back of the building. There’s been another building attached to this part of it, justContinue reading “At Least The Soil Is On Sale”
The Train Still Doesn’t Stop, But At Least I am inside
So yet another one of the closed railroad stations, which I’ve featured during the previous days. There’s even a train of the latest model of Finnish locomotives passing at this very moment. Like the previous ones, this building was completed in 1886. Passenger traffic ended in 1990, much later than at the others. And indeedContinue reading “The Train Still Doesn’t Stop, But At Least I am inside”
The Margarine Scandal
Back in the 1960’s there was a big scandal in Finland. It was revealed, that several companies produced margarine using grease coming from where it wasn’t supposed to come from. It came from offal and sometimes even slaughtered cats. The case is known as the Margarine Scandal. The grease was produced in several factories aroundContinue reading “The Margarine Scandal”