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HELSINKI BITES – A Guide to the History of the City

Welcome to a journey phere of the times. You can take a walk home and listen to the radio. You can through the fascinating through the streets of the 1930s and also pop into a to play hits on the history of Helsinki! This check out window displays or spend time jukebox or peer into the secret world of journey will take you through various on the beach trying on swimsuits. If you an inner courtyard. Helsinki Echo will eras and lets you experience the atmos- feel tired, you can have a rest in a 1950s show you the way, take it with you!

Vibrant City of the 1930's

Leisure Time

At Home in the 1950's

Grief and Drama

The Chang- ing Face of the City

Nostalgic 1970's Bar

The Care- taker's Realm

A Skate- boarder's Keen Eye 2 | ALONG THE STREETS Helsinki echo | 3

The Café Brondin at Etelä- Wäinö Aaltonen, Rudolf Koivu and having a permanent place to stay since 20 becomes a popular meet- Eino Leino. One of the “Brondinistas” student days, and every member of our ing place among artists in the 1910s. is named Ponkki. “Ponkki was no art- coterie felt it their duty to put him up The regulars include such names as ist. He had no speciality, but he under- when he turned up at your doorstep.”* Jalmari Ruokokoski, Tyko Sallinen, stood everybody. No one recalled him * Vilho Nenonen: Tavattiin Brondalla.

Spreading like Elanto Shops of the Elanto Cooperative were a familiar sight in Helsinki. In 1935 it has a total of 239 corner shops around the city, among them:

101 shops selling bread and milk 39 shops selling meat and cold cuts 52 grocer’s shops 27 drugstores 5 shoe shops 7 fabric and clothing shops 3 shops selling suits and dresses 4 shops selling household goods 1 tobacco shop

Winter’s day at Johanneksenkenttä Ritarihuone Park, 1930s. playing field. When Temperature Merivaara's Plummets, Aho & Soldan, 1933. Film. functionalist furni- home, too, everything so simple yet fashioned, with old, heavy mahogany Archives. ture was high-end design in the 1930s doubtlessly very expensive, those in the drawing room, a tall mirror, a Ice-cream seller at the corner of Sturenkatu and Mäkelänkatu streets. Sakari Pälsi, 1932. and thus not found in every home. In straight, fine lines, the black fabric brown grand piano and candle-sticks, his book Appelsiininsiemen, Mika and nickel-plated tubes of some Dutch plates on the wall above the Waltari describes the interior of a flat chairs, opal glass plafonds. Next to sideboard, old framed lithographs in Travelling A 1934 Helsinki guidebook , and flying in in Töölö: “If only it were like this at this, our home seemed very old- Father’s study.” particular, is still a rare luxury. makes a souvenir recommendation: Inauguration of the Malmi airport handicrafts that are appreciated by in December 1936 signals the end of Finns as well – fabrics made by local Talking movies make their breakthrough the era of floatplanes and the marine women. “When the paterfamilias in airport at Katajanokka. Towards the Helsinki comes of a certain age, his in the early 1930s. Cinemas have to update their equipment, end of the decade, it is possible to fly wife will in good time start making and Piccadilly in Kluuvikatu street reopens on 30 August from Helsinki to Tallinn, Stockholm, a wall rug for him or perhaps an 1931 under the name Maxim. The cinema auditorium, built Kaunas and Berlin. Domestic flights Oriental carpet.” A gift like this is in 1909, is among the oldest in Helsinki. Sound increases connect to Turku, Maarianhamina, “a masterpiece that bears testimony the popularity of Finnish cinema, and actors become stars Tampere, Vaasa, Viipuri, Imatra, down the generations to the maker’s in Hollywood style, led by Tauno Palo, Ansa Ikonen and Oulu and Kemi. diligence and skill”. Regina Linnanheimo.

A couple on Heikinkatu street. Sakari Pälsi, ca. 1930. Trams on Kaisaniemenkatu street, 1930s. 4 | Town view Helsinki echo | 5

Bird's eye view of Helsinki. view of the city. The pictures are Panoramas Photographer Eugen Hoffers has had taken skilfully and are elegantly the novel idea of climbing up to the stitched into a single panorama. are wide landscape images could still be seen from a tower of the St Nicholas’ Church and The entire panorama costs 72 that are made by taking high-enough vantage point. photographing our capital from that marks, individual plates are four photographs from one High panoramas show the high angle. This produces a new, marks, and they are available point in all directions of whole of Helsinki from enchanting, full-circle bird’s eye from Mr Hoffers’s studio. the compass. Stitching the a perspective that people Cover of Hoffers’s original panorama portfolio. pictures together produces do not have access to. The an unbroken 360-degree boundaries and structure view. When the earliest of the city can be seen at a panoramas of Helsinki were glance, as if on a three- made, the entire built city dimensional map. Travelling to the Capital

Hotel Torni under construction. Olof Sundström, 1930. - Recording old Helsinki the first skyscraper in Helsinki! In 1906 the town councillors appoint At Hotel TORNI, you have a choice a special antiques board and task it with photographing and recording of first-class, premium rooms for buildings and other places that travellers – in all price categories. will soon lose their former appear- ance due to new construction and Every room has running hot and other changes. They hire Signe cold water, bathroom with toilet, Brander for the job, known as a and a telephone. Spacious show- skilful landscape photographer. The rooms and galleries are available work progresses, and in 1912 Miss for use by travelling salesmen. Brander climbs into the tower of Continental menu and service the newly completed Church in the . A comfortable and records a view of the workers’ dining room for hotel guests. district around the church.

Café-Restaurant on the 13th floor. A stupendous view over the entirety of Helsinki and its environs!

Hotel Torni advertising card, 1930.

Kallio Church under construction, Signe Brander, 1911. 6 | LEISURE TIME Helsinki echo | 7

Leisure in the late 19th century Caught by the sleuth's camera

Differences in standards of living city in cafés, parks and skating rinks. Then they pursue hobbies, partici- In the late 1880s, young Nils Wasastjerna The exhibition includes 40 photographs are great between classes in Helsinki. Workers’ days are long, sometimes up pate in workers amusements and in buys a waistcoat camera and begins to taken between 1889 and 1892. The city grows fast. The wealthy to 12 or even 14 hours, and their only the summer go hiking in the photograph the life of his family and spend their leisure time around the free time is on Sunday. national parks. his friends, young flâneurs, in Helsinki. Born into the family of a wealthy civil In his pictures, people are seen taking a servant, Nils Wasastjerna (1872–1951) walk in Esplanadi park, celebrating May has been an enthusiastic photographer Day in Kaisaniemi and skating in the since his teens. He studies architecture Pohjoisranta rink, a place of amusement at first but switches to insurance busi- and courtship popular among young ness and then to interior design and people. On a sunny spring day, Wasa- architecture. Wasastjerna is a respec- stjerna photographs locals watching ted critic of architecture and a patron Murtaja, the first icebreaker made in Businessman Rudolf Elfving and of culture and architecture, and he Assistant Judge P. A. Rönnbäck on a in 1890, open up the South promenade in Pohjois-Esplanadi street. works as director of Helsinki City Harbour after the winter. Museum from 1913–1920.

Do you have a Primus stove? Developed in , the Primus stove is now available in Helsinki. The stove can be used for A day on the beach in Kallvik, Vuosaari, 1910s. cooking but also for heating water for a washing machine or a clothes iron. It is handy for making coffee on a Outings are a pastime now Swimsuit fashion has become weekend outing. accessible to an ever greater more rational. Even after the mid-19th number of people. On summer century, women’s swimwear included weekends you may come across a skirt with long sleeves, trousers, groups getting ready to board a shoes, a hat and a parasol. No wonder steamship, motorboat or rowboat few women knew how to swim. Today in order to spend a day on the women are getting liberated from the Helsingin Sanomat 14.5.1905 wonderful beaches of Helsinki. A summer’s day on the seaside. tyranny of the corset, and they can be Workers’ associations, tempe- seen wearing comfortable swimsuits rance societies and ordinary that allow them to move their limbs Worrisome news arrives from Töölönlahti bay and other beaches in working-class families go on freely when swimming. Men’s bathing Helsinki in summer 1907. The seawater has become so filthy in places that even outings to , Korkea- costumes usually have shoulder straps the most eager swimmer will not embrace the waves. A terrible stench assails the saari, Lammassaari or some and striped patterns. Some men even nose on the begrimed beaches. This is because the waste waters of the city are other nearby island. appear in simple short-legged drawers. being discharged directly into the sea. The quality of water in the sea and city pipes must be investigated post-haste and the matter redressed immediately. Uusi Suometar 20.6.1909. Uusi Suometar 1.12.1885. 8 | Home in Helsinki Helsinki echo | 9

Dwellings in Helsinki are or a relative in need of accommo- The radio has become a staple not very big in the 1950s. There are dation. People living in bigger flats fixture in every home! People listen Why don't we make a film? many flats with 1 or 2 rooms, and in may even have to take in complete to the elegantly designed devices with many homes the kitchen doubles as strangers, should the housing com- rapt attention. And why shouldn’t they, Making home films becomes a a bedroom. Statistics show that 30 mittee deem there to be enough room. when there are broadcasts from early popular hobby in the 1950s, a trend percent of all inhabitants of Helsinki morning to late at night with both reflected in the ever-increasing sales live in cramped conditions, which serious programmes and entertainment? of home film equipment. Amateur means more than two persons per room All listeners, even the youngest, are filmmaking clubs multiply. in the dwelling, the kitchen included. catered to. In school, the entire class What can explain such explosive The lack of space is made worse hushes down to listen to the legendary growth? Look at your snapshots by lodgers. Even families living in Markus-setä, whose show the most and imagine what it would be like cramped quarters may take in a friend gifted students sometimes get to visit. to see the first steps of your child in MOVING images! Most people want to film their family, replacing the photo album with a film canister. Heteka is the number one selling Some even make movies for compe- bed in Finland, with almost half a titions, but that’s different. million pieces produced. Styled as a The exhibition includes home movies couch or a convertible sofa, the bed is by Ensio Hietala from the 1950s in launched in 1932 by a company named Herttoniemi. Helsingin Teräshuonekalutehdas, or Helsinki Steel Furniture Factory. The name is shortened into HeTeKa, and it is eventually used for all beds of A pressure cooker the type, although there are dozens of is a great way to cook. different manufacturers around the The food is cooked in hot, country. Regardless of who developed high-pressure steam under it, the heteka bed has come to enjoy a tightly closed lid. This the undivided favour of all Finns method requires much less because of its ease of use and time than cooking with an hygienic design. ordinary kettle, and the ingredients retain their crunch. The rapid cooker Public saunas compensate for Elanto’s sauna on Helsinginkatu street has a mechanism that poor washing facilities at home. In to the sauna club of the keeps the lid closed tightly. the early 1950s, as many as 56% of all Debating Society, from the sauna in When using a pressure dwellings have no bathroom and 60% Hotel Klaus Kurki in the centre to cooker, however, be sure to have no hot water. The 1951 telephone Marttila’s saunas in Pitäjänmäki. monitor the time carefully, directory lists contact information for lest the pressure blow up 59 public saunas. They range from After sauna. Nils Andersson, 1976. the cooker! 10 | Dire news Helsinki echo | 11

Gustaf Fredrik and Maria Ages and causes of death of The first day of the Winter War Evelina Rosenström’s four children the Rosenström children: die as infants in a period of just two years. Ellen Maria On 30 November 1939, Soviet bombers take place in February 1944. On three kill 146 people and injure 356. A total A memorial plaque for the children is 2 Dec 1888 – 31 Jan 1891 (2 y 1 m 28 d). make two aerial attacks on Helsinki, nights at ten-day intervals, bombers of 109 buildings are destroyed. made with a photograph of each child in A week of dry pneumonia. killing 91 people and injuring 236. The drop nearly 12,000 bombs, of which Radio show. Reporter Veikko Itkonen. the coffin and a decorative piece made Fredrik Rudolf heaviest air raids during World War II 740 hit the city. The February raids Yle Archives. of their hair. 3 Nov 1889 – 28 Sep 1891 (1 y 10 m 28 d). Encephalitis.

Einar Valdemar Although infant mortality declines in 6 Feb 1891 – 5 Mar 1892 (1 y 27 d). the late 19th century, one child in four Prolonged illness.

dies under the age of 12 months at that Fredrik Valdemar time. Now the number of infant deaths 10 Aug 1892 – 26 Nov 1892 (3 m 16 d). in Finland is ca. 100 per year. Prolonged illness.

A Memento from 1918 Many people fighting Just like the end of the world Timo, Mikko and in the 1918 Civil War want to have their photograph Antero are in Ruttopuisto park when they see a thick black taken before being sent to the front. Many tempo- cloud of smoke. “We knew right away that the VR warehouses rary photo studios are set up, some close to the front. were on fire,” they say. They are dead certain that it is arson These pictures prove to be fateful after the war, when and they intend to watch the drama to the very end. “Got to get perpetrators of war crimes and atrocities are sought. more beer.” Hundreds, perhaps thousands of people in Helsinki Since a studio photograph can be a crucial piece of come to see the fire. Everyone has a mobile phone with which evidence, some people keep these pictures hidden to photograph each other and invite friends to join them. The away, even years after the end of the war. VR warehouses burned down on 5 May 2006.

Katajanokka Prison Completed in 1837, the Helsinki County Prison is operational until 2002 and in its last years serves as A bomb has set a building on fire, 1943. a remand prison. Prisoners who have done time in Katajanokka include A bootleg operation from a couple of unknown men. He President Risto Ryti and famous con- is exposed in the railway freight had the packing crate built in a car- fidence man Ruben Oskar Auervaara. depot. A piano containing 140 litres pentry shop for two thousand marks, In 2002 the of pure alcohol is found in a large with the aim of using it to smuggle photographs the interior of the prison shipping crate. Under questioning, alcohol. Sent to Sortavala, the crate prior to its conversion into a hotel. the sender, unemployed agent Eetu was in use for the first time. A cell in Katajanokka prison. O., 35, says he purchased the spirits Sakari Kiuru, 2002. Confiscation at the Railway Station. Crime Museum. 12 | A CITY IN CHANGE Helsinki echo | 13

Helsinki, 1878 Helsinki City until the beginning of the 1980s, Fortification and city New lights Museum commissions a scale model first for more than 50 years in This German propaganda map of The city centre has been lit during the dark hours by of the city from Bruno Aspelin’s Hakasalmi Villa and then in the Helsinki is from the time of the gas since the early 1860s. There are over 400 lamps in agency. Based on a 1878 map of Tram Museum from the late 1990s Crimean War in the mid-1850s. Its the city, and public spaces are also lit with gas lamps. the city, the model is completed in to 2008. It is possible to identify purpose is to show Helsinki as an Electric lights are first used in 1877 in the yard of the sections between 1917 and 1931 at a many familiar landmarks in the invincible fortress town. In August railway engineering shop, the power for which is genera- scale of 1:500. It shows Helsinki at model but there are also defects 1855, the Viapori fortress is bombarded ted with a so-called Gramme magneto. In summer 1878, the start of a period of change and and omissions, as the model is built by the English-French navy for three restaurateurs Kämp and Lindgren use electric lights to growth. The scale model is on show based on pictures and maps. days, killing 55 and injuring 204 illuminate the park during a musical soirée. Russians and destroying several buil- Dagens Nyheter 17.8.1878 Nyheter Dagens dings. The city itself is undamaged. Olympic Helsinki Welcoming party for the tion is held in Töölö park. Speeches have brought a Greek orphan of about Commissioned by the Guard of Finland. About 500 members are made in Finnish and Swedish. 10 years named Aleksei Apostol, Helsinki Tourist Agency, of the Finnish Guards’ Rifle Battalion The troops then march into the city, whom captain Ramsay takes as his artist Aarne Nopsanen return from the Russo-Turkish War via followed by the public. At the Student protégé. The Emperor awards the (1907–1990) draws a stylised St Petersburg to Helsinki on 9 May House, they are greeted with song by soldiers with crosses of the Order of colour map of the city for 1878. The crowd cheers and a recep- students. From the Balkans the soldiers St George for valour. the 1952 Helsinki Summer Olympics. Just a few test prints are made of the map, and it is never distributed. Children's health care A detail from Nopsanen’s map. Emperor Nicholas I. has taken a huge leap forward. We are pleased to know that the new delivery room will open its doors, and that the Inoculation Office will vaccinate chil- dren by districts to prevent the spread of smallpox in our country. Details about inoculation schedules can be found in newspapers.

A propaganda map of Helsinki from the mid-19th century. Old Maternity Hospital on street. K. Helve, 1923. Uusi Suometar 11.10.1878 14 | Beer bars Helsinki echo | 15

Top singles in The first payazzo penny arcade any revenue must therefore be used Beer deregulation Finland, 1975 machines are imported from Germany for non-profit purposes. The Finnish in the 1920s. The German name of Slot Machine Association (RAY) is In 1962 the state alcohol monopoly, Angleterre, with its British pub- 1. Marion the game is bajazzo, which derives established for this very purpose in Alkoholiliike, establishes Kanta- inspired interior, opens its doors in el Bimbo from the Italian pagliaccio, or clown, 1938. The all-time classic, a 50 penny ravintolat Oy, an experimental chain 1976 on Fredrikinkatu street, where it 2. erkki Junkkarinen whose hat is used to catch a ball in the payazzo, is introduced in 1967. Most Ruusuja Hopeamaljassa of beer bars that aims to steer operates to this day. Pubs represent a original version of the game. At first, of RAY’s revenues up to the 1970s 3. Vicky consumption from strong drinks to new culture of alcohol consumption. kun Chicago Kuoli payazzos are prohibited because they come from payazzos and jukeboxes. mild ones. In part because of the posi- Eating is no longer compulsory, as 4. Fredi are seen as a form of gambling, but the At the peak of its popularity in the late tive results of the experiment, beer is you can simply step in to have a drink Avaa Sydämesi Mulle injunction is repealed in 1928. The first 1970s, there are up to 8,500 payazzos 5. Hurriganes deregulated and in 1969 can hence- and a chat. As late as the early 1980s, Get On Finnish machines are built in 1929. in use. Their popularity eventually forth be sold also in grocery stores strong beer in the IVA tax class is still 6. Katri Helena The machines are in private ownership, wanes, and the decline is accelerated and cafés. Under the new dispensation, more popular than the weaker III beer, Vasten Auringon Siltaa but starting in 1933, slot machines can by the 1986 launch of RAY Poker. beer bars start appearing in towns and but towards the end of the decade the 7. sleepy Sleepers kuka Mitä Häh only be run by charitable organisa- The last payazzo is decommissioned suburbs. In 1969 Richard’s Pub and latter becomes available on tap and 8. George Baker Selection tions: they are considered immoral and in March 2015. Annan Pub are launched in Helsinki. passes IVA beer in popularity. Paloma Blanca German-made payazzo from the late 1920s. 9. Katri Helena Paloma Blanca 10. erkki Liikanen The first jukeboxes arrive Evakkoreki 11. erkki Liikanen in Finland in the 1930s. Jukeboxes Meiä Veera playing singles make their appearance 12. Gloria Gaynor in the mid-1950s, and for a long time never Can Say Goodbye there is a 1950s-era German Seeburg 13. Kivikasvot Tankeros Love jukebox in the café at Linnanmäki 14. Wess & Dori Ghezzi amusement park. Initially, jukeboxes Era are privately owned, but from 1962 15. Rock ‘N’ Roll Band i’m Gonna Roll onward the Finnish Slot Machine 16. Teach-In Association (RAY) begins to control Ding-A-Dong most jukeboxes. Their popularity 17. Juice Leskinen & Coitus Int. se Oli Jautaa peaks in the 1970s, when RAY has 18. Labelle 2,800 machines in cafés and lady Marmalade . 19. The Rubettes i Can Do It 20. Carl Douglas In the late 1980s, there are only about kung Fu Fighting a thousand left. As sound equipment develops, the number of jukeboxes dwindles, although some still remain in active use in bars and by collectors.

Doorman at Restaurant Kultaisen Oravan Grilli, Ympyrätalo. Simo Rista, ca. 1970. Advertisement for Tunnelin Levy record store. Restaurant Laatu-Haiti, Snellmaninkatu 19. Kari Hakli, 1972. 16 | THE CARETAKER'S REALM Helsinki echo | 17

A carpenter living in Punavuori Courtyards can often be stark and shady is forbidden because it puts hung-up washing in begins to keep a diary on 1 January 1892. places, but children will nevertheless play any- danger. The caretaker and his wife keep order, but His identity remains unknown to this where that is sheltered, in cellar corridors, and when they turn their backs, children invent all sorts day. His daily entries about the weather, even in rubbish bins. They play tag and hopscotch of ways to test boundaries, such as by climbing the work and everyday events are laconic. and spread their die-cut figures, toy cars or marbles fire ladder. And if things really go wrong, you can The carpenter has no permanent job, on the tarmac. They also play ball, even though it always call mom to come to the window. and he walks from house to house with his toolbox, offering to fix furniture. In the spring, he gets a more lucrative job, building the interior of a steamboat. His wife, Fina, attends church regularly, and he occasionally has a drink or a beer with a neighbour, but hardly anything else ever happens. The double suicide on Uudenmaankatu street and other scandals reported in the papers are mentioned only in passing. The last entries are made in July of the same year. We do not know how the story continues. A carpenter at his work. Joel Nokelainen, 1982.

Unemployment during the winter is Terrible double suicide a common occurrence in Helsinki, but bet- “A double murder was ween 1891 and 1894 the situation is serious. committed here yesterday In the winter of 1891, the local police pre- morning, so terrible and at Children playing in Kallio. Eino Heinonen, 1950s. cinct reports: “Some general shortage the same time so moving and of employment began to occur in these pitiful in nature that something parts as early as the start of November, comparable has most likely and the worker who either through reck- never occurred before in our lessness or lack of foresight had neglected country. At 6 o’clock in the to save some of his earlier fair income now morning, office clerk Ossian approached the harsh winter with dark fur- Engvall and restaurant servitor rows on his brow and mind.” There are more Ellen Forsman ended their lives unemployed people than ever before, and in the former’s flat in house they are no longer content to suffer silently: no. 4 on Uudenmaankatu, in a sense of threat is now evident in their that the former first shot his behaviour. The city launches an employ- mistress and then himself.” ment service and provides relief work.

Busker plays a self-made violin in a yard. The papers report avidly on the Väinö Kannisto, 1940s. tragedy occurring on 2 March 1892. Children playing on a pile of sand in the yard. Quote from the regulations of a residential building. Market prices, 6.–12.3. Eino Heinonen, 1950s. Päivälehti 15.3.1892 18 | Our city Helsinki echo | 19

Urban soundtrack do not seem to be able to escape them. He edited the recordings into a Skateboarder's eye eye to interesting places, even if We are all affected by the sounds of In summer 2015, sound artist Mikko 16-minute soundtrack that, through Skaters are always on the lookout they tried. Even when watching the city. For some of us, the sounds H. Haapoja documented the sounds of sound, reveals a summer’s day in for new spots. We may justifiably tv shows or movies, skaters are on are mere background noise that is only Helsinki along a line that runs across Helsinki. Listening to the recording, talk about a skater’s eye, because the lookout for spots. They may noticiceable when it stops. Others are the city’s historical centre, from Obser- one can see how strong memories are skaters’ gaze roams the urban space think: “That spot outside the New much more affected by the sounds and vatory Hill to . formed through sound. constantly, looking for potential York County Courthouse looks places to skate. interesting!” Many people who have given up skateboarding say From a skater’s perspective, all they still look upon urban spaces places are interesting. Soccer players with a skater’s eyes. This favourite hardly view parks as potential or pastime leaves an indelible mark. suitable soccer fields, because a purpose-built field is in any case

better and more level. Skaters, on Tommi_Bsnosepick_Suvilahti. the other hand, cannot turn a blind Mikko Kempas, 2014.

Hai Jump is a DIY skateboard magazine published by Pentti Järvelin. Ten issues are released between Panorama from the tower of Kallio Church to the south. Siltasaarenkatu street in the foreground. Anton Rönnberg, 1931. 2010 and 2016. Hai Jump is born out of dissatisfaction with existing The last phone booth of mobile phones in a very short span Call and listen skateboard magazines, and it offers The mobile phone serves as the death of time, the need for public telephones You can make a call from the a low-threshold platform for many of the phone booth. In the 1990s, when declines sharply. In the end, the last public phone and listen to inhabi- writers, illustrators, photographers Finland becomes a pioneer in the use example of this fixture – once so tants of Helsinki talk about their and other players active in the skate- common in parks and on streets – can home town. The Helsinki City board scene. Hai Jump reflects the be found in a street museum opened Museum has put up a ‘story yurt’ profile of its makers – several dozen in 1998 in Sofiankatu. As the museum to collect stories, having appeared people – and it continues to attract booth has repeatedly been damaged in Kannelmäki in 2014 and in more people as contributors. by garbage trucks or service cars, its Maunula in 2015. The project fate is sealed as well. The decision has will continue to tour the city for Louie Barletta_FS_Air. Mikko Sinervo, 2004. been made that the booth is beyond more stories. Stories are videoed repair. History repeats itself here: in in the yurt and then presented in Do you have to be making that racket here? Sooner or later, every skateboarder hears the questions: the old days, many phone booths were exhibitions at the museum. It is a “Do you have to be making that racket here? Haven’t you got ramps for that?”Skateparks are a more recent phenomenon than either out of order or messy because of pleasure to see how eager people in skateboarding, though skating is not dependent on such purpose-built places. Ramps and other fixtures built for skaters reflect vandalism. At the very least, that one Helsinki are to share their stories the nature of the sport, whereas skating itself adapts to all kinds of environments. Skateparks are based on the practices and particular page you needed had inevi- in front of a camera. history of skateboarding, while in the public space anyone can invent new ways to skate and discover endless new opportuni- tably been torn out of the directory! ties in environments that may initially seem ordinary and dull. Sakari Kiuru, 2001. We made it! ~ HELSINKI BITES ~

Producer Jari Harju Lighting design Kimmo Karjunen TEAM Jari Harju, Pirkko Madetoja, APPS Matti Niinimäki, Månsteri Päivi Makkonen, Aki Pohjankyrö, Hilkka Map apps Jyrki Vanamo, Mapdon Exhibition design Taina Väisänen, Takt Video installaTIONS Juhana Moisander Graphic design Oona Hagman, Loft Creatives Swimsuits Aija Nurminen Exhibition structures Fratelli Translations Monika Arnö, Tomi Snellman

Thanks to all who participated in the design and mounting of the exhibition!

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