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Germany used to be divided in two...
By: stevieweeks Date: March 18, 2023, 1:43 pm
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You know you're old when a adult You Tuber explains East and
West Germany and the Berlin Wall along with pictures of
Checkpoint Charlie in terms that make it clear that this is
ancient history...
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Re: Germany used to be divided in two...
By: Emlyn Morgan Date: March 19, 2023, 5:39 am
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Ah, yes. 1960. I remember it well. I remember when Berlin was
all fields. :(
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Re: Germany used to be divided in two...
By: Zyngaru Date: March 19, 2023, 5:55 pm
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[quote author=Emlyn Morgan link=topic=2882.msg26677#msg26677
date=1679222395]
Ah, yes. 1960. I remember it well. I remember when Berlin was
all fields. :(
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I remember when no one had a television or a telephone. You
were lucky to have running water inside your house. If I
remember correctly, we didn't get water to the house until the
mid 1960's. It was still from a well, with an electric pump.
Toilets were outside in a house to themselves. Some were lucky
and had two holers. Ours only had one hole. But mostly us boys
used a tree. I remember three to a bed. Taking a bath in a
number ten wash tub out in the backyard. Yes in 1960. 1960
wasn't very modern. Oh! And this was in the Capital City of
Indiana.
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Re: Germany used to be divided in two...
By: Zac Date: March 19, 2023, 8:17 pm
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The Berlin Wall has now been down for longer than it was up.
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Re: Germany used to be divided in two...
By: Emlyn Morgan Date: March 20, 2023, 2:46 am
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[quote author=Zyngaru link=topic=2882.msg26678#msg26678
date=1679266545]
I remember when... You were lucky to have running water inside
your house. If I remember correctly, we didn't get water to the
house until the mid 1960's. It was still from a well, with an
electric pump. Toilets were outside in a house to themselves.
Some were lucky and had two holers. Ours only had one hole.
But mostly us boys used a tree. I remember three to a bed.
Taking a bath in a number ten wash tub out in the backyard. Yes
in 1960. 1960 wasn't very modern. Oh! And this was in the
Capital City of Indiana.
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A water pump? A well? You were lucky. When I was a boy we had
to walk ten miles and back every morning before school to fetch
water from the nearest lake.
Trees? You were lucky. When I was a boy we had to plant our own
tree and wait for it to grow before we could pee.
Three to a bed? You were lucky. When I was a boy we had to
sleep on the ground outside in the snow.
You had a washtub? You were lucky. When I was a boy....
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Re: Germany used to be divided in two...
By: Zac Date: March 20, 2023, 7:35 am
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[quote author=Emlyn Morgan link=topic=2882.msg26680#msg26680
date=1679298373]
[A water pump? A well? You were lucky. When I was a boy we had
to walk ten miles and back every morning before school to fetch
water from the nearest lake.
Trees? You were lucky. When I was a boy we had to plant our own
tree and wait for it to grow before we could pee.
Three to a bed? You were lucky. When I was a boy we had to
sleep on the ground outside in the snow.
You had a washtub? You were lucky. When I was a boy....
[/quote]
Luxury!
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Re: Germany used to be divided in two...
By: squarecutter Date: March 20, 2023, 8:56 am
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Berlin wall went up the year I was born and came down 28 years
later. Amazing the impact it had in such a short period of time
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Re: Germany used to be divided in two...
By: David M. Katz Date: March 20, 2023, 3:38 pm
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I took a class on German History in high school and the teacher
was "absolutely certain" that Germany would never again be
united.
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