Berliners - huge fans of Cypress Point! (OT)

[Scott Warren]

I was in Berlin this week and found this T-shirt in a shop. I knew Cypress was loved around the world, but I never expected to find this in a Berlin Wall Museum gift shop!

[mike_beene]

So what is CPC? If it turns out to be a criminal gang or movement,we have the evidence against you! You didn't make to my birthplace of Wurzburgh,did you?They haven't honored me with a monument or even a marker.

[Scott Warren]

Mike,

It turns out the CPC they are so enarmoured with is Check Point Charlie! I didn't make it to Warzburgh, but I wouldn't take their slight personally, those Germans aren't big on marking sites of major historical interest - Hitler's bunker only just got a small plaque, 64 years after the fact!

[mike_beene]

I do remember going through Check Point Charlie to see East Berlin in the late 70s.It was depressing.Stll hard to believe the wall is down.

[Ronald Montesano]

Are those berliners the people or the jelly doughnuts of which Kennedy spake?

[Bob_Huntley]

I will always remember going through Checkpoint Charlie in 1984 and seeing "The East" interpretation of WW II at a museum on that side versus the museum on The West side at Brandenburg Gate. We had a woman who spoke and read German traveling with us. I wish I had kept notes because it would be interesting to go back today and see how things are interpreted in a unified Germany. I really want to get back to modern Berlin, because in 1984 it was the most unique place that I have ever been. For those unfamilar with Checkpoint Chairlie:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkpoint_Charlie

I think the difference that people have to realize is that the are probably 200 people who REALLY care about who designed Merion GC and many of them are on here, so in a small group with  modern world instant communication, emotions get out of whack.

I think that is Tom Paul up at the top of The East, I mean Philadelphia guard tower with the machine gun!

This picture is from 1982 and it is how I remember Checkpoint Charlie.

Mike,

Some time ago  I was travelling from Munich to Berlin and went through the checkpoint in Leipzig.

Stopped the car, mirrors under the chassis, dogs, that sort of thing. Went inside to display my passport, (Rhodesian at the time) to a rather large female Sturm-trooper type who may well have been a lady wrestler. She pointed to the 'Occupation' entry and asked in German what 'Stockbroker' meant. I hurriedly replied "Capitalist." The look I got would have fried bacon but she waved me on.

Bob

[Rich Goodale]

Are those berliners the people or the jelly doughnuts of which Kennedy spake?

Ronald

You have fallen victim to perpetuating a mythical urban legend.  Check below:

http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/historical/a/jfk_berliner.htm

Cheers

[Seth Berliner]

Yes, I am a huge fan of Cypress Point and thanks for asking. 

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