Moving to a detached house
Father and his brother Leve had taken a big arava loan for a wooden house after buying first a plot at 20 Virkkalantie. They did build the house. A common central heating and sauna were built there. The house was built as a mirror image from the center, with both having their own garage and storage space in the basement.
The separate stairs led up to the first floor, which had separate 2 room, kitchen, toilet and from them were stairs to the second floor. There was no toilet upstairs. The toilet was shared with the downstairs apartment. It was a mistake because it was later hired to the tenants. The stairs on the second floor were all too steep. There was 1 room, kitchen and plenty of closet space on both sides of the room.
There was also a large balcony in the upstairs. The balcony, was almost the entire length of the house, was divided in the middle to two part. From there you could see far to Lohjanjärvi Aurlahti and across it to the opposite shore. Our house was in the middle of the high slope of Lohjanharju. In front of us were truly spectacular views of Ojamo! Virkkalantie no longer exists. Its name had changed to Laurinkatu, after Virkkala was later incorporated into Lohja.
Both family was provided with equal large area of land the yard and garden. To my father's garden were planted about 20 apple trees, a few berry shrubs, and the rest of the area was left over for potatoes, root crops and strawberries. The soil was nutritious black humus to a depth of about 30 cm. Underneath it was the gravel of Lohjanharju.
As the average annual rainfall in Lohja was the highest in Finland due to the ridge, we got good harvest every year and the potatoes were smooth and big. We washed the car often In the event of rain. I decided to attach a few photos to my book so that the reader's eyes could rest on seeing them.
I don't attach many pictures because I'm not sure if the people in them would want to come into the eyes of the general public. From my old school pictures they are hardly recognized even by outsiders.
For this reason, I have attached a few pictures of myself mostly from different years of my life. From the very early years of my childhood, I have no image to publish. Other Images are pretty poor quality, because I have a very old and faded photos taken by old fashioned camera. Of those ones have I taken photos by cell phone.
I started school at Lohja Lauri Primary School in 1956. The photo was taken in the spring semester of 1957. I sit and smile in the second row, fourth from the left. I only remember a few of the children by name, but I would hardly recognize any of them as adults. At that time, we kids couldn't worry about the future, and there was no need!
Because my parents were poor and hard-working to save on everything, the savings were mainly focused on food and clothing. To we the children were not acquired boys' nor girl's skates. I got only some kind of skates that could be attached to winter boots and I was happy with them, even though my school friends got real skates. My parents had to pay off home loan in equal installments. It was an annuity loan.
I remember how we always bought cheap snack sausage for food and Keko's cheapest margarine. However, Siiri knew how to make delicious food.
The number of family members increased
There were born my daughters, Paula 1956 and Päivi 1957 in Lohja. Then father also took to family my older brother Lars, who had already once before escaped from mother' home.
Mother eventually got tired of blocking Lars' intentions. It was about 300 km from Alajärvi to Lohja. After Lasse's first escape, he was returned from Lohja to his mother, but after his second escape at the age of 12 in the summer of 1959, mother, tired, and finally she allowed him dwell permanently at his father. After that only Klaus stayed with her.
Siiri's son, Pertti Kalervo Anteroinen, born in 1946 from her first marriage, also moved to this family in 1959. So we were total three sons and three daughters from three different marriages. Pirkko and Pertti Anteroinen, and Lars brother were older than me. Living in Lohja was quite peaceful, although sometimes there was a dispute mainly between our older siblings.
Lars was by nature a troubled soul and teased often me and he enjoyed it if he made me angry. Pirkko and Pertti were generally very calm like me and we rarely quarreled. One time, Lars struck me with the scrubber's wooden arm, as result that the left incisor tooth in upper jaw was cut off and even the adjacent tooth got partly cracked.
It caused great pain because the nerve of the cut tooth also broke! At that time, the dentist killed the tooth nerve by inject it with a long needle about 20 times, and with every inject, the pain was terrible. I was close to fainting and tears were flowing.
Fortunately, I no longer remember it closely, and I do not feel again the intense pain I had for a week. At the time, I was having nightmares about it because I had to go to the dentist three times to be tortured. At that time, no oral anesthesia was performed.
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