Zone1 Hello from the former Grand-Duchy of Baden in South-West-Germany

[The Duke]

That wall was up long b4 1961, or at least crossing that border from West/East Germany was.
I got stuff from all that to this day. Paintings, coins, other knickknacks.
3 of my family was there. A knife my dad got that was made from a German sawmill blade.
It's Carbon steel. Best knife I got, tbh. It still has a killer edge, I don't break it out that much.
You gotta wash and dry it real quick or it turns black.
This is the thing with all the Deutschmarks and Francs in it:

Well b4 1961.

 

[Zebra]

Actually, my great-grandfather on my mother's side was a Prussian Baron. I don't have many details about him though. His son came to America brought here by his mother. He had a family to another German girl he met here and my mother was their youngest child. I have photos going back to my grandfather and my great-grandmother (his mother who brought him here). Those old Germans were some tough ol' birds-- I suppose that is where I get my nature and survival from.

Luckily, my mother took an interest in all of this growing up and took notes talking to her sisters, brothers, parents, and other relatives when she was young and years back, I carefully took all her handwritten notes and reconstructed them into a family tree chart with as many details as I could about my mother's side of the family, but unfortunately, no one on my father's side ever did, so, details there are far fewer.

Here is one of the pictures I have of my great-grandmother:

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And her son, my grandfather, whom she brought here to America on a ship somewhere around 1880s-1890:

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I seem to take after him and look a lot like him. Then once here, he met my grandmother and they got married in 1902:

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Then much later in life, here they are much older, holding my mother, their last child, probably somewhere around the late 1920s.

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Unfortunately, I never met either one, they both passed away before I was born.

just seen these photos again.
Fine pictures!

 

[tahuyaman]

did you also cross it to visit East Berlin?

We were encouraged to visit east Berlin. We had to go get what was called an”east pass.” It took five minutes to get that pass.

I had a 1971 mustang Mach 1 then. I’d drive it through Check point Charlie. They didn’t know what to think about thst.

 

[Zebra]

Mwaa? I've been drinking Liebfraumilch all my life. It is a sweet, white Rhine wine.

Liebfraumilch - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I used to like a cheap rhine wine called Rhine Bear but I think they stopped production.

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Blue Nun is another.

was re-reading the thread and came across this nice label.

 

[Zebra]

We were encouraged to visit east Berlin. We had to go get what was called an”east pass.” It took five minutes to get that pass.

I had a 1971 mustang Mach 1 then. I’d drive it through Check point Charlie. They didn’t know what to think about thst.

now a kind of museum, I think.
a piece of history.

 

[tahuyaman]

now a kind of museum, I think.
a piece of history.

There was always a small museum like building at Check Point Charlie. I remember a small car they had there which had a compartment used to hide defectors.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

I crossed over at Friedrich Str.

 

[Zebra]

I crossed over at Friedrich Str.

the Underground station?

 

[x chicago]

hello!

 

[ShahdagMountains]

the Underground station?

It was above when l got there.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

It was above when l got there.

I got the impression in East Berlin, that there were a lot of people, mostly in uniform, hanging about doing nothing.

 

[Zebra]

I got the impression in East Berlin, that there were a lot of people, mostly in uniform, hanging about doing nothing.

that.s why East Germany went broke ....

 

[Zebra]

this thread is now on page 16 ...

 

[Zebra]

Hello from the former Grand-Duchy of Baden in South-West-Germany!
That is the long title.
Or: Hello from a place between the Black Forest and the River Rhine!
Here it is 26 min after 10 in the evening.
So I say also: Good night!

so it started .....

 

[Zebra]

I'm just jerking your chain a little in good humor, my friend. My mother's family is from southern Germany and my Father's family is from a place along the border between Germany and Poland depending on where the border was at the time.

deutsche Vorfahren also ...,German ancestors, then

 

[Zebra]

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poor zebras

 

[Zebra]

This is nice.

So far, only good people have responded so far.

yes, it was a fine welcoming all along!

 

[Zebra]

Welcome Zebra

on May 31, 2023

 

[knuckles]

This is nice.

So far, only good people have responded so far.

I'll check in here.

 

[Zebra]

I'll check in here.

Welcome!