Elektrojänis
FDT #286 (no bus stop any more)
The original picture from year 1971 by Kari Hakli that I was trying to replicate: www.helsinkikuvia.fi/record/hkm.HKMS000005:km003wtz/
It's kind of a bummer that there is some stuff blocking the view to the old houses. I could have moved the camera to the square but I wanted to keep get as close as possible to the viewpoint of the original picture. And on the other hand I like that my picture shows some changes that have happened after the original picture was taken. The third house of the original pic is there by the way... If you zoom in you can see a bit of it under the leaves of the tree.
There are only a few old wooden houses in this area. A lot was changed around 80's and most buildings are from that period. I have looked up some old maps and the location info of those old pictures when researching for these replication pics. It seems that most streets that were there before the 80's are not there any more. The streets that exist now have different names and they are at different places too. A few remain though.
The pillar on the foreground belongs to one of the "newer" buildings.
The bus line 23 (from the sign in the original photo) still exists and closest stop is about 150 meters from this spot. It can still get you to Siltasaari and quite close to the spot that is called Eläintarha. Eläintarha is actually finnish word for zoo, but there has actually never been a zoo on there.
Btw... The originals I'm linking here usually have a lot more resolution than what is apparent when the page first loads. Left mousebutton click on the picture zooms in and loads more details (and sharpness). Then you can use mouse to drag the image to see the corners etc. and right button to zoom out.
FDT #286 (no bus stop any more)
The original picture from year 1971 by Kari Hakli that I was trying to replicate: www.helsinkikuvia.fi/record/hkm.HKMS000005:km003wtz/
It's kind of a bummer that there is some stuff blocking the view to the old houses. I could have moved the camera to the square but I wanted to keep get as close as possible to the viewpoint of the original picture. And on the other hand I like that my picture shows some changes that have happened after the original picture was taken. The third house of the original pic is there by the way... If you zoom in you can see a bit of it under the leaves of the tree.
There are only a few old wooden houses in this area. A lot was changed around 80's and most buildings are from that period. I have looked up some old maps and the location info of those old pictures when researching for these replication pics. It seems that most streets that were there before the 80's are not there any more. The streets that exist now have different names and they are at different places too. A few remain though.
The pillar on the foreground belongs to one of the "newer" buildings.
The bus line 23 (from the sign in the original photo) still exists and closest stop is about 150 meters from this spot. It can still get you to Siltasaari and quite close to the spot that is called Eläintarha. Eläintarha is actually finnish word for zoo, but there has actually never been a zoo on there.
Btw... The originals I'm linking here usually have a lot more resolution than what is apparent when the page first loads. Left mousebutton click on the picture zooms in and loads more details (and sharpness). Then you can use mouse to drag the image to see the corners etc. and right button to zoom out.