Magasini (Magasin)

Storehouse, warehouse, named after the military stores then at the end of the street towards Tehnika, which now seem to be occupied by an Estonian defence agency. The street has gone through various phases. At some time in the 1920s, a government shelter for ex-cons eventually devolved into a dshungl (jungle) of tarpaulin tenements that shocked the city’s good citizens for the squalid life and sexuality of its its thugs and drunken women they certainly didn’t go there to watch. There was a prisoner of war camp after WWII (1944-1949) and, at No.35, a prison, now on Võtme, closed for redevelopment. Spelled Magasiini in 1885 and Magasi in 1939. Renamed (1949-1990) as Tisleri A. during the Soviet occupation.