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”
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Swiping My Way To The Local Paper Part II
Moving deeper inside the building past a boat engine. There was a way upstairs, where there probably had been apartments, but the downstairs ceiling was in such a bad shape, I decided against going there. Moving towards the former store. All kinds of random stuff was stored there. I think the decision to skip theContinue reading “Swiping My Way To The Local Paper Part II”
Swiping My Way To The Local Paper Part I
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, thatContinue reading “Swiping My Way To The Local Paper Part I”
Killed By Authorities
Already during my previous visits to this village, I’ve noticed this old store. Judging by some of the color choices still visible, it has belonged to a chain called Siwa. An old Google Maps picture from 2009 confirmed this. When I started searching for the store’s closing date, I ran into a surprising reason asContinue reading “Killed By Authorities”
Sometimes They’ve Vanished While You’ve Been Gone
Like I’ve already stated numerous times, I’ve been touring Finland so much by now, that I have a massive Excel file with abandoned buildings. The summer of 2023 was all about touring places listed in that Excel. So far I had been disappointed by the amount of successess. Apart from the old town hall, IContinue reading “Sometimes They’ve Vanished While You’ve Been Gone”
A Private Assignment Part III
Even the third building of the weekend is familiar from earlier posts. It’s the business and apartment building featured in this gallery. A note stating, that there will be no electricity on June 6th. I doubt there has been any electricity in years. Another year has passed since I last visited. The detail plan isContinue reading “A Private Assignment Part III”
Business Took Me To A Friend Again Part IV
A table. Original use unknown. Gardening gloves and stuff. Everything was left as it was when the garden closed. And even a bag of soil. Wonder, if something would still grow out of that. Another table. A calendar from 1998. There were even cold rooms. And a box of flowers to be protected from theContinue reading “Business Took Me To A Friend Again Part IV”
Business Took Me To A Friend Again Part III
The third location of our evening adventure was again a trip I had received from Tinder. My former date and current friend told me that there was an old market garden just next to her grandparent’s home. She gave the coordinates, and off we were again. And there it is. Opened in the late 1940’s,Continue reading “Business Took Me To A Friend Again Part III”
Driving A Lot But Getting Nowhere Part VI
Entering the first apartment. The use of wood reminds me of the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. A room with more gym equipment and a bookshelf. A box of 11 cheese blocks. Although I am an avid cheese lover myself, this seems a bit too much. The bookshelf. A lot of nonfiction, it seems. AnContinue reading “Driving A Lot But Getting Nowhere Part VI”
Welcome In
One of the so many lovely, functionalistic co-operative stores probably designed by famous architect Erkki Huttunen and in an awful shape. The co-operative has left ages ago and a private entrepreneur has run the store. It has been located in a more modern building at least since 2008, probably even earlier. The back of theContinue reading “Welcome In”