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Post by googleygoo on Nov 16, 2004 17:55:41 GMT -5
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Post by WillTravel on Nov 16, 2004 18:00:49 GMT -5
That was an interesting article. Of course as a tourist I couldn't tell if someone was from East or West Berlin when I visited. You can still tell physical differences to some extent, but I was told these are fading fast every day, as new construction and renovation occurs. For example, you might see one building fit for the junkheap on an East Berlin street now, whereas when the Wall fell, all the buildings on the street were in that category. (Just broadly and generally speaking here.) I was told it was really hard to imagine just how neglected-looking East Berlin was.
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Post by LHR02 on Nov 16, 2004 19:45:14 GMT -5
my girlfriend and I used to fly up to Berlin every month or so....mostly for shopping. Everything in the East was dirt cheap....totally rediculously cheap. We were there on 09 Nov '89....purely just luck that we had planned a trip for that weekend. But it was amazing to be there. I've oodles of pics somewhere showing east/west differences...yes, they were huge! And while I loved the prices I have to say going through Checkpoint Charley and getting off in the East was always eerie....and I was forever paranoid the whole time we were there.  |
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Post by me on Nov 22, 2004 11:14:59 GMT -5
DDR goods were cheap; in every meaning of the word. i found them not worth buying. when i went to East Berlin, i never went through that famous chckpoint. i always took the subway to the station DDR gov had set up for transit between West & East. (Friedrichstraße?) it was wierd taking the Berlin Subway in my student days. on "Western" lines, the train would slow, but not stop, at stations in the Soviet sector. there were always a couple of VoPo's on the platform - to keep the Ossi's from hopping on a moving subway car, i guess. - d And while I loved the prices I have to say going through Checkpoint Charley and getting off in the East was always eerie....and I was forever paranoid the whole time we were there. |
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