#West Berlin

[the-night-picture-collector]

/ Hank Walker, Children with Gifts from the Berlin Airlift, 1948

[todaysdocument]

A West German man uses a hammer and chisel to chip off a piece of the Berlin Wall as a souvenir. A portion of the Wall has already been demolished at Potsdamer Platz

Record Group 330: Records of the Office of the Secretary of DefenseSeries: Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

This color photograph shows a person in jeans and a winter coat on a ladder using a hammer to remove a portion of the Berlin wall.  A crowd stands around.  The is covered in colorful graffiti.  

[pirouetten]

keine Sterne in Berlin

[semioticapocalypse]

F. C. Gundlach. Judy Dent. Kreuzberg, Berlin. 1962

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

[disciplinethepainter]

[bignaz8]

Then and Now - Checkpoint Charlie. West Berlin, Germany. I walked through here in 1979. How depressive and oppressed East Berlin and its citizens were from the rule of communism for decades.

[cleopatragirlie]

Gudrun Gut

[twoseparatecoursesmeet]

Berlin, circa 1970

Mickey Crisp

[dandyads]

Hilton Hotels, 1959

Theme Week: Travel ✈️

[echoes-of-memory]

Buildings bricked up to form part of the Berlin Wall before the wall itself was built.

Eckhaus Bernauer Straße 44 / Wolliner Straße, hier zur Bernauer Straße, Rosenthaler Vorstadt, Mitte, Berlin

Original photographer: unknown? Uploaded to Flickr by John Spooner

[totheseafront]

"holy shit that movie is fucked up and miserable" (watches it 20 times, reads the book twice and watches the show several times, listens to the soundtrack and visits film locations)

[jonkwasnyczka]

Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany

[scavengedluxury]

Warning sign in front of the Berlin Wall on Wilhelmstrasse at the junction with Zimmerstrasse, 1971. From the Budapest municipal photography company archive.   

[filmap]

Laputa Helma Sanders-Brahms. 1986

Apartment Oranienpl. 2, 10999 Berlin, Germany See in map

See in imdb

[septembergold]

[chrisjohndewitt]

Berlin !981. "That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history." Aldous Huxley