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Kesk0 / Hämeenlinnan Vuokrakone, Hämeenlinna
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This place was found in complete accident while cruising without destination in the central of Hämeenlinna on one November Sunday morning. It was obvious the place was not in use, since there were broken windows and graffiti. First attempt inside didn't reveal very astonishing quarters, but second visit next spring, enforced with local troops, was better.

Last user, was a firm related to construction machine rental business. Originally, however, the warehouse kind of building has been a construction material wholesale store of the Kesk0 store. The place was demolished in 2005.

 

dm-hml-konevuokraus03 First impressions from the street that leads to classy new blocks of flats. Thanks to them, the place was being constantly bypassed by above middle class joggers. But they didn't seem to care, since the place had become a temporary home / boozing / satan worshipping / painting / raging area.
dm-hml-konevuokraus25 The wall held squares masoned of different tiles and bricks to display the selection for customers.
dm-hml-konevuokraus24 Art seen from the street. Notice the nearly-prison-level security of windows. Someone had really wanted to go in without saving effort, since one window at the corner had nothing at all covering it. However, only about one third of the place was accessible from that corner.
dm-hml-konevuokraus01 Backyard with loading platforms and much more graffiti.
dm-hml-konevuokraus02 This is no way to go in.
dm-hml-konevuokraus23 But this is.
dm-hml-konevuokraus04 A jump to the attic, which held loads of old folders and all imaginable trade related paper stuff from recipes to freight bills.
dm-hml-konevuokraus17 The stairs led down to an effectively messed up upstairs floor, which had been an office area. Here were cans of (uneaten) salted cucumbers.
dm-hml-konevuokraus05 Landing of the office floor.
dm-hml-konevuokraus07 Wallpapers had gotten loose, or they'd been ripped. Here's one result.
dm-hml-konevuokraus12 Piece inspired by a Finnish Popstars-product. How low can you go...
dm-hml-konevuokraus20 An internal message of the local scene.
dm-hml-konevuokraus13 Ripped office rooms.
dm-hml-konevuokraus22 Again ripped office rooms.
dm-hml-konevuokraus15 There was one locked room, and it was this. The door lacked something that may have been an electronic code opening device, because there was that hole for something in the center. The manual wheel didn't move at all.
dm-hml-konevuokraus14 The safe was made in the famous Kaipi0 strongbox factory, which seems to have produced also car bodies back then.
dm-hml-konevuokraus18 The mandatory boozing room with sofas had sun curtains.
dm-hml-konevuokraus06 Table of the boozing room held Christian literature, a purse and a coffee mill!
dm-hml-konevuokraus16 Very nice Lucky Luke wallpaper here.
dm-hml-konevuokraus19 Kitchen room, which couldn't be accessed without climbing and crawling because someone had overturned shelves in front of the door.
dm-hml-konevuokraus11 Stairway down looked very nice. This had been good use of paint.
dm-hml-konevuokraus10 View to the chained door on bottom floor. There wasn't much to see here, because this storey was mostly just warehouse halls, which couldn't be accessed from here and which were also very boring. Some locals found later another way in there that we never checked.
dm-hml-konevuokraus08 This is not from the bathroom of the bottom floor, because I prefer not to photograph shit. Literally. Instead this is from the boiler room which had no boiler.

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