There was a small lobby behind the store with doors to many directions. Old food ads. A small back office – with a safe. A hefty amount of files from different years. The shift from the S-group to K-group probably happened in the 1980’s. More files and brocuhres here. Stickers with important numbers everywhere. MostContinue reading “A Midsummer Date Part XVIII”
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A Midsummer Date Part XVII
That was one corner of the store area. Let’s see what’s in the other direction. A collection of receipts by the cash register. The last one dates back to October 1996. Another suggestion about the date of abandonment. The shelves are empty. I believe, that there have been fruit or vegetables here. And also hereContinue reading “A Midsummer Date Part XVII”
A Selection From The Past Part IV
A broken record? Lovely vintage shelf paper. There was one more apartment at the end of the corridor. This one was smaller than the previous one, just one room and a kitchen. The card was addressed to the same person, whose English notebook I found in the earlier post. The small kitchen was quite aContinue reading “A Selection From The Past Part IV”
A Selection From The Past Part III
The shelf seen in the previous picture contained school books. Here we have at least material for a Swedish lesson. A sixth grade English notebook. I’ve removed the name, but the owner is alive and well. And how do I know this? Well, wait and see. There was also a Chistmas Greeting card addressed toContinue reading “A Selection From The Past Part III”
A Small Selection
While looking for something completely different, I spotted this small old grocery store hidden behind bushes. An old coffee company ad was on the wall, but I was more interested in the store’s chain. The T-markets were launched in the 1970’s and were rebranded as Spars way back in 1993. This means, that the placeContinue reading “A Small Selection”
A Close Contest
Welcome to the tiny municipality of Oripää and to the heart of the village. Yes, this is one of the most central locations there. And this is also my first planned location of this roadtrip. The building up front is a former workers’ co-operative headquarters. It features the old grocery store, which later became hardwareContinue reading “A Close Contest”
Beauty Beneath Ugly Covers
Another small rural town, another former co-operative store. This is again the very distinct work of the architects of SOK. many similar examples once were the main source for groceries and other stuff for inhabitants in these towns. I spotted this building for the first time in 2009 or 2010 and it has been inContinue reading “Beauty Beneath Ugly Covers”
Mining Village Grocery Store
This already seems like a too familiar story, but let’s tell it all over again. In 1948 a copper mine was founded in a very small village of a very small municipality. In addition to a mine, the company built an enrichment plant, two very spectacular blocks of flats and other infrastructure in a location,Continue reading “Mining Village Grocery Store”
The Pearl of the Station Village
When touring Eastern Finland, I saw a lot of villages, where the last Hope had taken the last bus and left for good. There were closed grocery stores, closed village schools, closed banks, closed petrol stations, closed everything. By the way, here’s a petrol station. This village is located some kilometres from the main villageContinue reading “The Pearl of the Station Village”