East berlin

In 1971, my parents and I visited East Berlin shortly after my 13th birthday. The adventure was on a whim, but the experience was a "life changer." If my memories of the city were not so vivid, I would attribute the faded, grey scenes to the camera and film I used at the time. Even…

This was how it looked when I lived in Berlin in the mid-80s. It’s just a couple of hundred metres along from Checkpoint Charlie (as was). Now that it’s all gone, it’s hard to e…

In the summer of 1969 when this photograph was taken, the Television Tower was almost complete. (It was opened on 3rd October). The dome of Berlin Cathdedral can be seen, as well as the spire of St Mary's Chruch and, in the middle distance, the House of the Teachers and its Congress Hall also built in the 1960's. The photograph was taken from the roof of the Interhotel Berolina (built 1961-3, demolished 1996).

Berlin Wall.

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It’s 1983, and strange anarchic goings on are witnessed over the Berlin Wall

Konsum grocery store, corner of Karl-Marx-Allee and Strasse der Pariser Kommune. This store specialized in "Fruits and vegetables from the People's Republic of Poland". Scanned from an Ektachrome slide

This map purchased in East Germany in 1985 shows the center of the city (or Mitte). Funny how West berlin seems barren. This is a part of the map near the Brandenburg Gate. The Berlin Wall was in the purple area.

Berlin wall