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Posted: 16 Sep 2014

Taken: 07 Sep 2013

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Take a walk!

Take a walk!
I'd surely say "What ever will come of boys who play with guns!" - if I had not done it myself as a kid.

I like the image because it reminds me of being a boy. Not just because of the guns or the boys, but because of the place: this is how it used to be. I took this picture in the middle of Helsinki, and, as you may guess, there are not too many streets like this left.

Typo93, 4,5 x 6,0, michael / nureinmoment /, * ઇଓ * and 40 other people have particularly liked this photo

15 comments - The latest ones
 Sami Serola (inactive)
Sami Serola (inactiv… club
Yes, I also played with toy guns when I was a kid, and learned to hate the real guns.

But merely I wonder where in the middle of Helsinki you find a street like tthis? =O
10 years ago.
Spo has replied to Sami Serola (inactiv… club
Sami, I just put it on the map. It was shot in the same neighbourhood as Jarva's film The Man Who Could Not Say No.
10 years ago.
Sami Serola (inactiv… club has replied to Spo
Yes, now I know the place. Never been there though. Thanks for putting it on the map =)
10 years ago.
 Bruno Suignard
Bruno Suignard
excellent light, b&w !!**************************************
10 years ago.
 Don Sutherland
Don Sutherland club
Great shot.
10 years ago.
 Polyrus
Polyrus
A nice image...with good supporting notes.
10 years ago.
 Léopold
Léopold club
They will sadly become phone & others gadgets addicts.......so moving to see them in their best period of life.
10 years ago.
 ֎ — Nicolas Mertens
֎ — Nicolas Mertens club
Very nice!
I saw this in Explore.
10 years ago.
 
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sad to hear the city is changing.
(I've never been unfortunately)
the same is happening here in nyc at an alarming rate.
they kill what makes a city unique.
everywhere you go now there's a starbuck's or gap.
I hate it.
10 years ago.
 beverley
beverley
o0o I like this street also ... it reminds me of being in Bergen for the first time in Norway
and walking away from tourist places ... it was full of charm that seemed to have not
changed ... a step back in time indeed ... it's why I like your picture ;-) oOo
10 years ago.
Spo has replied to beverley
Bergen is the only place in Norway which I know quite well, so I know what you mean. The sloped terrain may have helped Bergen to preserve much more of the old buildings than Helsinki: today everything needs to be big, and it is hard to build anything big on the slopes of those fjords. :)
10 years ago.
beverley has replied to Spo
I went up the funicular to the top to take in the view ... on the way down again is when
I walked through little backstreets and met some wonderful people ... and saw the
smallest house ;-) have you seen it ? it was painted a pale yellow colour ... I always
remember this little house.
10 years ago.
 Eefje
Eefje
I can imagine that it felt like going back in time, the kind of views that can make you smile.
10 years ago.
Spo has replied to Eefje
Or cry. :-)
10 years ago.
 Eefje
Eefje
The good, the bad and the ugly:-)
10 years ago.

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