| 5. Early & Rokkala years |
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It began here about a hundred years ago. In the beginning the dairy produced butter and naturally milk. |
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Nowadays this building by Tenholankatu is in quite secondary use. Good thing is that it hasn't vanished, though. |
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Photo of the Rokkala dairy from time when it must have been quite new. [1] |
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In January 1983 the dairy celebrated the 50 millionth produced kilogram of cheese. The hall where this was shot is now abandoned and tagged. [2] |
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City has been lazy updating the map by the main street of the city. It still guides to the dairy closed a decade ago. As a mitigating circumstance goes, that the marked destination is a smaller building, which actually still has some kind of milk producers' office. |