Hallivanamehe (Hallivanamees)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kitseküla

Note: to celebrate my 1000th post here on Tallinn street names, I shall allow my inner windbag an even more verbose post than usual. Grab a coffee and read on 😁

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#ProveMeWrong 😈
1/11

Tallinnas, Pärnu maanteel, Hallivanamehe bussipeatuse juures on kanalisatsioonikaevu kõrval tee ära vajunud. Kuu jooksul on suudetud üles panna ajutine liiklusmärk. KOV valimistel võiks mõni erakond selle augu kõrvaldamise valimislubaduseks vötta

employees at the ARS ceramics workshop and #Hallivanamehed a #nickname given them, perhaps by the relatively cleaner #Kalev chocolate factory workers in the #Kohila plant on the other side of #Parnu mnt.
#MythsAndLegends #MüüdidJaLegendid
#FolkEtymology #Rahvaetümoloogia
11/11

49 minutit, kui kõnnid (suusatades saaksid seda ilmselt 20 minutiga) 😜

#Vaari (Vaar)
Grandfather, old man. The expression Vaar ja moor (see #Moora) suggests it comes from #Swedish where far and mor mean father and mother. Street, interestingly, named for being on the wrong side of the track to #Hallivanamehe. See #Äia.
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kitseküla
#ElaguVanadMehed!

#Järvevana (Järvevana)
Old man of the lake, Old Man Lake, another nickname for Ülemiste Vanake (the little old man of #Ülemiste), a mythological character who lives there. See also #Hallivanamehe. This street is part of the E67 from #Helsinki to #Prague.
#Mythology #Mütoloogia

#Kriibi (?)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
Former farm name. Meaning very uncertain: verb #kriipima means to scratch, graze or scar, but not sure where that leads (see #Hallivanamehe). Possibly a variant of a #Russian loan word, #гривы (grivy) meaning ‘long, low, gently sloping hills’ (possible, given
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descendent of #KunstitoodeteKombinaat (Art Products Combine), which is, I suspect, the key. In the 50s, #Estonia was undergoing a revival in #ceramics, producing work so good the #SovietUnion was showing it off wherever they could. By ’58, the then #ARS had some 700 people employed there, with
8/11

probably a hundred or so working in ceramics. the main #occupationalhazard of pottery are lung diseases such as #bronchitis, #asthma and #silicosis due to dust, and if there’s dust in the lungs there’s dust on the floor, on work surfaces, on pretty much everything, including clothes, faces,
9/11

‘why’. There is no curve in the road, other than the minor one created to build it. There’s essentially no mention of any #Hallivanamees before this date and, to be honest, it just feels wrong. Then came the “Aha moment” when I visited the street in question, home today to #ARS #Kunstilinnak,
7/11

to sing. So perhaps it was another scary name from #Estonian #folklore? You already have #Pakase, #Pikri, #Pikse, #Tuuslari, #Uku, #Vilisuu… The street was named on 1958-02-14 along with 80 or so others, quite a bunch, so maybe a #typo? But none of these three explanations passes the test of
6/11

scratched, wounded, maculated and malevolent. I suspected #Hallivanimees to be a sanitized version, one easier to pronounce. Either way, by the 80s, #HuntKriimsilm had turned into a cheery little TV puppet of a proletarian wolf with a red check cloth cap and tie, and an annoying tendency
5/11

beards and hair. I don’t know whether the plant had showers or not, but even if they did, recollecting my own early days as shot-blaster, I’m sure many would just go straight home and maybe get cleaned up later. And this is how the name may have come into being: the grey old men were probably
10/11