The family visits in Helsinki for the weekend. We stay in the Sokos Hotel Vaakuna downtown by the main train station, where we can walk to the kauppatori (market square), Senate Square and Cathedral.
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| Hotel Vaakuna |
In 1977–78 and in 1983–84 Joel studied at the University of Helsinki. In 1984 he took a class in the University's Main Building (in a classroom on middle level to the right of the columns):
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| University of Helsinki's Main Building, Senate Square and statue of Czar Alexander II (Grand Duke of Finland) |
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| University of Helsinki's Main Building |
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| Helsinki's Kauppatori open air market place (with Hazel in blue) |
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| flowers for sale at the Kauppatori open air market |
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goods and produce for sale at the Kauppatori open air market
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goods and crafts for sale at the Kauppatori open air market
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| Allan, Joel, Eric, Andrew, Newlin, and Hazel in the market |
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| Andrew, Newlin and Hazel buying flowers |
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| Mannerheimintie, Helsinki's main boulevard |
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| Helsinki bus station (and Tennis Palatsi 'tennis palace' on right) |
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| 1919 Helsinki train station |
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| train station with Lutheran Cathedral and Uspenski Cathedral in distance |
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| Uspenski Finnish Orthodox Cathedral |
The Lutheran Cathedral was white or pale gray in 1970. In the 1980s and 1990s it was repainted to a darker gray as a return to the original color scheme of Carl Ludvig Engel. Today in 2021 I see it is white again.
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| Helsinki Lutheran Cathedral |
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| postcard of Senate Square and Helsinki Cathedral |
The yellow and green model of tram pictured below was still in use when Joel lived in Helsinki in the 1970s but had been replaced by the time he resided there in the mid 1980s.
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| Hakaniementori |
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Paavo Nurmi statue (by Wäinö Aaltonen 1925) by the 1952 Olympic Stadium;
Paavo Nurmi was known as the Flying Finn at the 1924 Paris Olympics |
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| Arnie running past the Paavo Nurmi statue |
This last photo was not staged. Arnie was in a hurry to take pictures while the family waited in the car for him.
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