That must be the door from the pub to the terrace, which I saw earlier from the outside. The wall to wall carpet is a blast from the past. The children’s menu and the drinks. A nice fit! The use of wood in the interior is striking. It was visible everywhere except for the floor.Continue reading “Mambo No 5 Part III”
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Mambo No 5 Part II
The back door opened directly to a dark corridor with cold rooms and meat boxes. As every single window of the building was nailed shut, this would become a dark and messy exploration with very bad quality photos. Sorry for that, not sorry. The cold room no longer contained food. It contained china and glasses,Continue reading “Mambo No 5 Part II”
Mambo No 5 Part I
Back in the early 1960’s something important in the history of Finnish highways happened. In 1964 route number 3 from Helsinki to Vaasa via Tampere had finally been rebuilt according to modern standards. A year earlier the Sääksmäki bridge, one of the five big suspension bridges on Finnish highways was completed. As soon as theContinue reading “Mambo No 5 Part I”
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”
The Cottage By The Old Highway Part II
A second bookshelf, this time with no furry strangers. Random stuff, what looks like an old sewing machine and a pillow from the 1990’s. A cupboard in one corner of the room. Another bottle of alcohol. There were loads of them here. Nice, flower themed paintings on the wall. And suddenly I’m upstairs in someContinue reading “The Cottage By The Old Highway Part II”
The Cottage By The Old Highway Part I
This looks like an old, manual well. And this looks like the house it has served. And this looks like an open door. The owner’s music collection. And the local newspaper from 2012 indicating the date of abandonment. What looks like an electric chainsaw. Welcome to the kitchen. Luckily the china has stayed intact. TheContinue reading “The Cottage By The Old Highway Part I”
Still Searching For My Urbex Dream
And here I am, back yet at another familiar place. This former dairy processing plant has been my ultimate goal since spotting it back in 2011, when it was still partially in use. Well, it seems, that it is no longer in use. The signs claim, that it is guarded. Well, I don’t think so.Continue reading “Still Searching For My Urbex Dream”
So What Will Happen With It?
I spent a whole lot of time travelling the Åland islands and the Turku Archipelago. I didn’t expect to find anything, I didn’t find anything. My next stop was in a village all too familiar. Our family friend had lived in there back in the early 1990’s, and there was an old school building there,Continue reading “So What Will Happen With It?”
A Gloomy Institution Part XI
Going downstairs in one of the ward buildings. The nerd center. Well, there is another room. The basement of this building really seems like a computer center. I mean, what is this place? A small lobby downstairs. And a sauna downstairs in the building. A floor plan of the building. And another lobby. And anotherContinue reading “A Gloomy Institution Part XI”
A Gloomy Institution Part X
And now we are in a storage looking room with safe curtains. Moving on to the deeper parts of this building. Looks like a cleaning closet in the ward building. “The clothes of the inhabitants will be washed in the ward until the move.” A plastic bed. A lobby in the wards. A very smallContinue reading “A Gloomy Institution Part X”