Yet another 20th Anniv article, this time from the Wall Street Journal. We are 7 months out from the 9 Nov Anniv so it will only get more interesting from here on.
Celebrating the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Reveling in a city's cultural life 20 years after everything changed
On the night of Nov. 9, 1989, an East German Communist Party official announced on live television that the rules barring East Germans from traveling to the West had been lifted. Hundreds of thousands of East and West Berliners rushed to the Berlin Wall and partied until dawn, turning the city's terror-filled inner border into a giant open-air nightclub...
...For East Berliners, food was by no means the least of the revelations after the Wall collapsed. Very few had ever tasted some of the street food that was available in West Berlin for decades, such as Döner Kebab, spit-roasted meat and salad placed inside Turkish-style white bread. "I was really shocked by the masses of people," says Saim Aygün, who was working at his family restaurant, Hasir, the night of Nov. 9, when hundreds of people flooded in, all wanting to try their first Döner. "The East Germans themselves were also shocked," he says, recalling that they had to learn how to eat it. "Currywurst," a sausage doused in curry-laced ketchup, was popular in both East and West Berlin...
It brings back memories, oh what I'd do for a Döner or Currywurst right now!!!!
...After the first months of excitement in 1989 and 1990, many East Germans came to a realization that not everything was better in the West. "It took me a while to realize that East Berlin was the more interesting part of the city," says writer Thomas Brussig...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1240...googlenews_wsj
Celebrating the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Reveling in a city's cultural life 20 years after everything changed
On the night of Nov. 9, 1989, an East German Communist Party official announced on live television that the rules barring East Germans from traveling to the West had been lifted. Hundreds of thousands of East and West Berliners rushed to the Berlin Wall and partied until dawn, turning the city's terror-filled inner border into a giant open-air nightclub...
...For East Berliners, food was by no means the least of the revelations after the Wall collapsed. Very few had ever tasted some of the street food that was available in West Berlin for decades, such as Döner Kebab, spit-roasted meat and salad placed inside Turkish-style white bread. "I was really shocked by the masses of people," says Saim Aygün, who was working at his family restaurant, Hasir, the night of Nov. 9, when hundreds of people flooded in, all wanting to try their first Döner. "The East Germans themselves were also shocked," he says, recalling that they had to learn how to eat it. "Currywurst," a sausage doused in curry-laced ketchup, was popular in both East and West Berlin...
It brings back memories, oh what I'd do for a Döner or Currywurst right now!!!!
...After the first months of excitement in 1989 and 1990, many East Germans came to a realization that not everything was better in the West. "It took me a while to realize that East Berlin was the more interesting part of the city," says writer Thomas Brussig...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1240...googlenews_wsj