ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL

Since today marks the 20th anniversary of the demise of the Berlin Wall, I thought I'd post some pictures of my spring 1988 trip to Berlin. This first one is of the wall itself. Check out the graffiti.


Here's the famed Brandenburg Gate, which sat in East Berlin, just beyond the wall.


Here's an East German patrol boat, standing ready to intercept West Germans attempting to sneak into the Worker's Paradise by swimming across the Spree River.


"You are leaving the American Sector." Are you really sure you wanna do that?


Checkpoint Charlie, scene of so much fictional, and real-life, Cold War intrigue.


I went back to Berlin in the fall of '88 with my friend Mike. I have some pictures from that trip too, but I can't find them at the moment. If I run across them, maybe I'll post one or two.