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Erh. What? I bicycled across America in 1984. Never seen in any other country that a food store can be open at midnight. As regards 1979 Finland, this was far
by timonoko 2y ago
Erh. What? I bicycled across America in 1984. Never seen in any other country that a food store can be open at midnight.
As regards 1979 Finland, this was far after beforementioned reforms. I remember I almost died
on a 100km sunday trip in 1966. Not even kiosks were open in Porvoo. I drank water from a ditch and got instant diarré. Fainted couple of times, but some trucker eventually saved me.
- eesmith 2y agoYou wrote "50 years ago." 1974 is closer to 1979 than 1966. 1984 is 40 years ago. Yes, 1950s Finland is different from 1980s US. Blue laws were also stronger in 1950s US. Edit: Tourist book from 1968, https://archive.org/details/fieldingstravel00fiel/page/427/mode/2up?q=Shopping https://archive.org/details/fieldingstravel00fiel/page/427/m... "Shopping hours: Weekdays, 8:30 A.M. TO 5 P.M., plus 6 P.M. on Fridays; Saturdays, 8:30 A.M. to 4 P.M. in winter, with 3 P.M. closings in summer. A few pages earlier, it says hairdressers are generally open 8AM to 5PM. It seems like a pretty good nightlife scene. On page 412, "Always go late to savor Helsinki nightlight (except to Espilä which wraps up the evening at 1 A.M.) The gear shifts of merriment seldom mesh into overdrive before 11 P.M. - and from then onward, they're off and racing." Earlier on the same page it also mentions "Prayer Sundays" - four Sundays of the year where there is no public entertainment between 6pm Saturday and 6pm Sunday.