Location: Suutarila In Helsinki (FINLAND)

N60°16.62'

E025°00.95'

Warehouses In Suutarila, Picture 1- Ok, first of all I need to make a small confession: I found this place, by spying a guest book on another Finnish UE site, which gave out detailed instructions to the place and some background information, which goes like this:

- These two warehouses, one smaller and one bigger, are now facing a demolition. What makes the place interesting, is that in the nineties, the bigger warehouse kept inside, the club of the Hells Angels, to which another motorcycle club attacked, using a rocket launcher. Talk about some heavy armament...

- The place is not that interesting, although there was some few nice details lying around and to be photographed. But in the end, the area just contains two empty warehouses, which have been vandalized and painted with graffiti's quite extensively. Although from few signs around, I came to the conclusion, that Friday night might not be the best time to hang around here, unless you want to make totally new and exiting friends for yourself. Anyone who has read few of my previous trips, knows that I have a bad habit of going out with my camera, during the Friday night. 

- Anyways, I visited the place during one nice summer day. There wasn't no one around, although I could constantly hear people talking in the nearby woods. This kept me on my toes constantly, until I realized after hearing a children voice, that most likely there was a family picking up mushrooms and they would have been just as afraid and worried of me than I was worried about them. Also while driving towards the warehouses, through an industrial area, I noticed that the local youth were quite interested, why I was there on a weekend. As the city of Helsinki is out of funds, this place most likely now serves as a youth center...sort of like "arrange your own activities".

 

Warehouses In Suutarila, Picture 2

 

- Just an empty warehouse...

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- The gate before the yard warned me that there's a camera surveillance and no admittance, but that's been a long time ago. Surprisingly, no one hadn't smashed the main gate, but a hole had been made next to the gate.

 

 

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