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A New Year’s Eve outing, 31 December 1989: Group photo in front of a town welcome sign in Mahlow [1/4]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

December 31 1989
Berlin, Kirchhainer Damm (Lichtenrade/Mahlow) border crossing
Created By: Ulrich Waack

License: Creative Commons License

Depicts

camera, coat of arms, group of people, night, signboard, sparkling wine

Context

celebration, friend, New Year's Eve, television

Places

Kirchhainer Damm (Lichtenrade/Mahlow) border crossing, Other places (Berlin)

Text in image

Mahlow / grüsst seine / Gäste

Other items in this set

Memory

"With a group of friends from Berlin-Lichtenrade, we took a basketful of drinks and set off for Mahlow in the hopes that there would be some action in the village inn. IDs were still being checked at the old crossing for rubbish at Kirchhainer Damm. The village inn was closed. Across the road was a sign: 'Mahlow welcomes its visitors.' There was a party going on next door. Somebody looked out the window and invited us in. We joined the party and on TV saw pictures of people celebrating at and on the Brandenburg Gate. At two o’clock in the morning, we returned to the border crossing and drank a toast to the New Year with the border soldiers. The place was still full of people talking and there were empty sparkling-wine bottles everywhere."

Monika Waack (West Berlin)