Like I promised in the previous post, let’s go upstairs. There was a large space with lockers. Perhaps it was a former dressing room. And a corridor with some empty rooms. All in all the upstairs was pretty boring. The back side again looked like production facilities. And the roof there had collapsed, so IContinue reading “Not For Everybody – Actually For Nobody Part IV”
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Not For Everybody – Actually For Nobody Part III
The next room I found was a large auditorium. Probably used by the surgical textile factory to entertain foreign visitors and state guests. Somehow this is just a blast from the past: a remote factory with a large room entirely dedicated to visitors. This large room probably used to be the factory canteen. The plasticContinue reading “Not For Everybody – Actually For Nobody Part III”
Not For Everybody – Actually For Nobody Part II
After visiting the caretaker’s house, my tour around the factory continued. The backside was pretty much a wasteland with some loading bays. There were even some burnt out cars parked there. Don’t go, the writing says. Do you really think I would believe that? As I assumed, the place was mainly about empty halls. NoContinue reading “Not For Everybody – Actually For Nobody Part II”
Not For Everybody – Actually For Nobody Part I
My tour next took me to a very remote corner of Finland. And right in the middle of probably one of the strangest business ventures that ever existed in this country. Back in the days of president Urho Kekkonen, it was very customary for the state to found industries in remote corners of the country,Continue reading “Not For Everybody – Actually For Nobody Part I”