The youth center called Spittoon
The reason why the youth center of the Tapiola parish, officially named Olotila, started being called Räkälä – in English, it might have been Spittoon – […]
Kategoria: Historia
The Age of Aquarius
Räkälä, as the church’s youth club was called, had burnt to the ground and Heikintori’s disco didn’t even have a B-license. Teenagers on the verge of […]
Peruskiven päällä
”Osana KAMU Espoon kaupunginmuseon valtakunnallista Adoptoi monumentti -toimintaa on Jorma Kajaste ja antikvaarinen kirjakauppa Tessi adoptoinut Tapiolan peruskiven. Tapiolan peruskivi on muurattu 5.9.1953 osoitteessa Mäntyviita 4, […]
Summer Falls to Autumn
The door swishes closed behind me and the carriage jerks into motion. I managed to catch the earlier train after all. I sprinted the last hundred […]
Burrows, Shelters and Dugouts
I’m not sure about girls, but at least for boys, there’s a certain age phase when an irresistible urge develops to squeeze into all possible holes, […]
So mean?
It is as if playing pranks is encoded into boys’ DNA. There’s clearly a noticeable section in the code that reads: ”the condensation of stupidity”. We […]
My Sweet Lord
We, the semi-professional construction workers, celebrated the end of the renovation of the sauna section in Veli-Matti’s terraced house in traditional fashion. I learned a valuable […]
The Trenches of Vallarit
– Dad, what are those?– Where?– Over there, behind the trees.– Those are trenches. Fortifications. Do you wanna go and see? It’s quite a scary place.– […]
Silkkiniitty – Tapiola’s lungs
My friend, Hassan, taught me how to make fishing dough. The recipe was very simple: when water and wheat flour are mixed in the right proportion, […]
Eräänlainen pyhiinvaellus
Lumi on vielä maassa, kun pakkaan Tapiola-kirjat ja kirjoittamani lyhyen viestin Adlibrikselta tulleeseen kirkkaanpunaiseen, sopivan kokoiseen pahvilaatikkoon, jonka olen siististi kääntänyt ympäri. Tulostan postin lähetyslipukkeen ja […]