West berlin

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…

Marking the day, 25 years ago on Sunday, that East and West Germans were united.

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Checkpoint Charlie, officially "Grenzsübergangstelle Friedrichstrasse", seen from the West, with U-Bahn station Kochstrasse on the left. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkpoint_Charlie de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkpoint_Charlie Left : U-Bahnhof Kochstrasse on line 6. Together with line 8, line 6 ran from West to West by crossing under East Berlin, the trains ran without stopping at stations, which were heavily guarded by DDR border troops.

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Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church was bombed on 22 November 1943 and intentionally left as a ruin. Gloria Palast cinema closed in 1998. This and many other of my photographs are featured in my book "Berlin in the Cold War, 1959-1966" (Allan Hailstone, Amberley Publishing, October 2017), together with the story of my experiences of photographing divided Berlin in those years.

Germany / GDR. Contruction of the wall. People in West-Berlin look over the wall to East-Berlin. August 1961

A Punk Porsche Opposite the Kempinksi Hotel in Berlin in the 80's and shot by Kurt Tauber. Not sure if this is the drivers own artwork but it is actually quite a good paint job in terms of the font and the spray work.⁠ ⁠ #porsche #punkporsche #berlin #punkberlin #kurttauber