And here we go. Basically the apartments were a dark mess. The sign to one of them says private event. Maybe a part of them were offices. Again I was a bit too visible for comfort. This was a fairly strange thing. The ad has been addressed to an inhabitant to this building, but theContinue reading “I Missed Fine Dining, I Missed Cheap Beer Part II”
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I Missed Fine Dining, I Missed Cheap Beer Part I
Welcome to an overgrown backyard. Faithful followers have been here before, way back in 2020, when I first found this place. The history of the building has been featured there in more detail, now I’m just content with telling you, that this is the former headquarters of a workers’ co-operative. Originally there was a storeContinue reading “I Missed Fine Dining, I Missed Cheap Beer Part I”
From Serving Customers To Permanent Customers Part III
A look at the kitchen shelf reveals a collection of canned everything. A text commemorationg the 40th anniversary of the inhabitants moving from one place to the current location. I believe, that they have made this after the abandonment of the building. Otherwise this makes no sense. Names and location info have been removed. AnotherContinue reading “From Serving Customers To Permanent Customers Part III”
From Serving Customers To Permanent Customers Part II
This post begins with a lovely vintage chair. I’d really like to have one of those, just black. In the corner we have a small dining table with election ads. Whoever lived here, loved harmonicas. Eggs, porridge flakes and more sausage. A very basic breakfast. An ad magazine from 2009. This is the first suggestionContinue reading “From Serving Customers To Permanent Customers Part II”
From Serving Customers To Permanent Customers Part I
Another unexpected discovery. I can tell its story just by looking at its architecture. This is a former village store with one or more apartments upstairs. And when I started googling the place, it turned out I was right, almost. The small wing, which is to the right, has contained an entrance to a café.Continue reading “From Serving Customers To Permanent Customers Part I”
Instagram Tips Part II
As this Instagram follower of mine had watched my stories closely, they knew, that I loved functionalistic architecture. They tipped me about a small functionalistic business and residential building on the outskirts of the city center, which had been scheduled to be demolished for years, yet nothing had happened. Once again they couldn’t promise aContinue reading “Instagram Tips Part II”
One Yard, Two Homes Part II
Time to explore the second house on the lot. It looked older than the first one, and knowing something about traditional family life back in the days in Finland, I think I can provide an explanation. Back in the days it was common, that when you grew up and got married, you built your ownContinue reading “One Yard, Two Homes Part II”
One Yard, Two Homes Part I
As one of the interviews I was doing was in a small town, where my friend lived, I stayed at her place. She was on a business trip, and not at home. She left me a key in a flower pot outside, filled the fridge with food and said that the apartment was all mine.Continue reading “One Yard, Two Homes Part I”
To Go Or No Go?
As I was moving deeper and deeper into rural and sparsely populated areas, I encountered more and more buildings, which looked like they possibly could be abandoned. But were they? A traditional old village store, where the store is in one end of the building and the store owners have lived in the other end.Continue reading “To Go Or No Go?”
A Millionaire’s Useless Second Home
The final location of the evening was the one, which I didn’t previously know about. While having dinner with my hosts, they told me, that right in the heart of the town on a hill overlooking a large lake was a Russian millionaire’s house, which was empty. Back in the days before Russia’s attack toContinue reading “A Millionaire’s Useless Second Home”