Category Archives: 80s

East Berlin Immer Eis Cream

March 22, 2024 – 1:48 am

Back in 1989 one West German Mark bought a huge ice cream in East Berlin’s Alexanderplatz. Two marks bought two ice creams. For good girls.

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Spaceley John Spaceley

March 13, 2024 – 1:57 pm
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Passing Through Cologne

February 9, 2024 – 7:46 am

Published Dec 25, 2011 Back in December 1982 a Paris-bound train approached the Rhine Bridge into Koln. A dark dawn sky shod the winter morning sky. Building lights rimmed the overflowing river. I sat on the left side of the DeutscheBahn passenger car. The six-seat compartment was all mine. Few people took the midnight milk […]

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HERMAPHRODITE by Peter Nolan Smith

February 8, 2024 – 12:27 pm

Back in the early 1980s the construction of IM Pei’s pyramid blocked access to the Louvre Museum, leaving the ancient palace of the Bourbon kings mostly to art historians and a few wandering tourists, however I regularly wandered the museum’s desolate corridors to admire its vast collection. At that time I was employed as the Bains-Douches’ […]

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THE BOUQUET OF RUINS by Peter Nolan Smith

February 8, 2024 – 9:22 am

Dec 1982 Some cities are best defined by songs such as APRIL IN PARIS or AUTUMN IN NEW YORK, but Hamburg defied music, especially as winter weather skimmed off the North Sea to besiege the harbor city with endless rain, cold, and darkness. Every day the night conquered a few more minutes of light and […]

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