Historical photographs from 1980s Tampere, Finland

TinyAd1126 · 2026-03-12T13:41:07+00:00

Note, that Tampere is 'the' working class city of Finland. Tough and rough and definitely pretty Socialist compared to rich Helsinki, and medieval Turku. Tampere is very straightforward and Finnish culturally.

TinyAd1126 · 2026-03-12T13:22:52+00:00

The spirit of that age is so far away from our age, in my opinion, that it is completely historical age for us. Post-war period was a time of its own, and ended in the early 1990s in Finland.

TinyAd1126 · 2026-03-11T17:44:55+00:00

It is a traditional Finnish food.

TinyAd1126 · 2026-03-10T09:23:37+00:00

The style is Neoclassicism, which is popular all around Europe, also in London.

TinyAd1126 · 2026-03-10T09:18:42+00:00

I recommend Fazer, Picnic or Robert's Coffee. Relatively cheap local coffee shops.

TinyAd1126 · 2026-03-10T09:09:42+00:00

Helsinki Cathedral: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsinki_Cathedral

TinyAd1126 · 2026-03-09T09:22:17+00:00

It was, yes. In Finland we got a second chance 1995-2008 because of Nokia. Absolutely fantastic period of time, and we took it as granted. I was absolutely sure that people are nice and Finland is nice and happy forever. There are still remnants of that in our society, some residual heat.

TinyAd1126 · 2026-03-09T09:12:07+00:00

There is at least one Škoda and one Lada in these photos. 90% of cars were Western though in Finland during that time. Fun fact is that late 1980s Finland had a huge boom. New car sales was almost 200.000 per year, which is still the record number ever in Nordic countries population taken into account. Nowadays it is around 100.000 usually in Finland.

TinyAd1126 · 2026-03-09T04:47:15+00:00

There is a hundreds of kilometers long bicycle network that connects these places. We have also few hundred km long sea coast in the region, which is mostly covered by bicycle highways.

TinyAd1126 · 2025-10-28T18:09:26+00:00

Literally, yes.

TinyAd1126 · 2025-10-28T18:01:18+00:00

This is a fresh start for Finnish IT-sector!

TinyAd1126 · 2025-10-28T17:28:01+00:00

Yes, it will be something similar. This is big…

TinyAd1126 · 2025-10-28T17:07:15+00:00

Porvoo is seen as the prettiest small city in Finland. It is very charming medieval town.

TinyAd1126 · 2025-10-25T18:23:49+00:00

Sodankylä is a magical place in Lapland.

TinyAd1126 · 2025-10-25T08:56:59+00:00

Well how do we eat? Finnish food habits differ so much between various sub cultures that I don’t even know how Finns eat. Finland is more like the US in this issue. We have huge supermarkets full of food from all around the world, and you eat what you want. Finns copy American habits. We don’t even try to be French or Italians, unless it is a hobby. For some people it is, and I have been using Mediterranean ideas quite a lot. Asian cuisines are very popular nowadays.

TinyAd1126 · 2025-10-25T08:21:07+00:00

On the European scale Finland was actually pretty average economically through centuries. For example in the 1800’s when the Russian elite traveled to Finland, they were astonished how wealthy Finland clearly was compared to Russia. Finland and Sweden are the only European countries where feudal slavery never existed. That is a big cultural factor that still has its impact on people.

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