The Story
A few still operating Finnish Guesthouses are living history. In these Guesthouses You can feel the intense years old eras. Traditional Finnish Inns provide a rare opportunity for time-travel to the world of the past generation.
Today, the most economical form of accommodation is provided by hostels. They are preceded by a passenger shelters, rooming houses and inns. The traditional Inns have been the ecological family-owned Guesthouses, with emphasis on environmental values.
Finnish film director Kaurismäki's films have brought a new generation of passenger shelters consciousness of the past. Grandparents nostalgic history can be explored on their own travell by visiting in traditional Inns. In 1950s and 1960s Rauhala Inn, was popular shelter for traveling theaters, such as the Punainen Mylly (Red Mill). Familiar strangers were rillumarei-time musicians such as Esa Pakarinen, Tapio Rautavaara, and Olavi Virta.
Guesthouse owner Emil Mölsä told, how he was leaving his home village in Karelia in the 1920s and promised to be back driving a cream-colored car - and it really happened. Emil Mölsä became a bricklayer apprentice in Helsinki in 1924. His apprenticeship was interrupted, since he was fired after he has gone on strike with professional bricklayers. Obstacles did not arrest him. Ten years later, he became the CEO of same construction company he was fired.
Emil Mölsä was born in Ruskeala in 1899. He and his 9 sisters became orphans in 1906. Thereafter, the mother had to provide livelihood for his family. She was working as a quack. Sometimes when food was scare, customers could not pay her services and children had to go hungry. Life of the family was very hard. The only way to feed the large family was begging. However, begging was prohibited in Finland. So thir mother was forced to sent her children for begging.
Emil Mölsä told how he was sent with his little sister to a big house to ask for food. A big fat lady of the house, opened the door. Having learned that the children are hungry, she asked, "My dear children, what kind of food would you like to have?" When the children did not know how to respond, hostess asked, "Could you like to have some bread?" Children nodded eagerly. "What about eggs?" Children nodded still eager and thinking about food brought saliva into their mouth. "Fish?" Children nodded more eager and saliva began to drip from both corners of their mouths. But then the expression of our great hostess suddenly changed. Her kindly smiling mouth turned upside down and she roared: "You bastard fetuses, get out my house and go the back where you come from. Never come back for begging, and do not ever rush to my house - remember this all your life”!
Mölsä never forgot the prohibited begging. This experience has been shared from one generation to another. Without begging many Finnish children could not survive on those years of famine and hunger, and Mölsä would not likely become entrepreneur. Begging was the start of the CEOs career. His own children did not need to go for begging. Emil Mölsä passed away in 1966 and left the Guesthouse for his wife Eeva Partanen. She worked in Rauhala Inn for 40 years.