Every Sunday a group of bingo players gather around for a weekly bingo night at Suolahti People’s House.
<p>Bingo has been a very popular past time activity especially amongst the elderly people in Finland. There are still traditional bingo nights organized mostly by leftist/labour party activists.
Traditional bingo games have been widely replaced by automatic bingo systems and internet bingo halls.
</p><p>In the audio you can hear first a traditional manual bingo machine, with balls rattling against the metal chassis of the machine. The bingo announcer then reads out the numbers. Later in the audio you can hear a newer digital bingo machine that only clicks silently when picking the next number.
</p><p>In Suolahti bingo nights have been arranged by the Left Alliance and its predecessors since the early 1970’s
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Sound recorder, video recorder, photographer: Antti Makkonen
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Sound recorder, video recorder, photographer: Antti Makkonen</div>
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