How dreams can become true

Few still existing traditional Inns Fininland are living history, which give us opportunity to travel to the world of the past generation. Emil Mölsä told to his children that when he was leaving his home village Ruskeala as a penniless young man in the 1920s, he promised to come back driving a cream-colored car - and it really happened.

Rauhala Inn was built by Lilja in 1934. Nakari opened there a cafe in 1935. She sold the business in 1955 to Juuti, who sold it to Emil Mölsälle 1956. Mölsä had already started with inn keeping in Pielavesi year 1951. Emil Mölsä died in 1966, after which Eva had Mölsä guest houses until her death in 2006. Subsequently Kyösti Mölsä handled inn untill the end of 2008. In 2009 Ida Mölsä took care of the guest house. In 2010, the inn has been a summer hostel.

Business rooms have in downstairs once worked as hardwarestore, driving school, and a photographer's studio. During the war, Rauhala housed the headquarters staff officers for fortification. Golden years in the 50's artists of itinerant theater comedy Red Mill lived in Rauhala inn. Amongs the theater types involved there were famouse Finnish singers Olavi Virta, Tapio Rautavaara and other rillumarei-musicians. One of musicians was Juha Vainio, who was an elementary school teacher at Myllykoski the 1960s.

The Inn was housing foreign circus artists, German tourists and Tampella paper trained Turkish laborers. Guesthouse was fertile soil internationalization of children. Inn-owners Pekka son as a child produced "Skull"- magazine, which told about Papua New Guinea. After the son returned abroad, his mother gave boy that this same magazine. By navigating through pages of magazine the son understod that his childhood dream was realized, as he had traveled exactly the same areas, which he had writen in that magazine as a child.

Eeva Mölsäs dream was to have her own home and his life's mission was the Inn.Pekka once dreamed of photography. Today, he teaches photography to young people who have the same dream, like himself at the age of 14. Dreams can indeed come true, but nothing can not exist without the efforts. Grandmother's Inn gives children a chance to test themself and realize that the fruits will only be achieved by hard work.