[Leica] re: Berliner Dept. Stores

[douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)]

I think the third store must have been Wertheim.
 From the restaurant/cafe on the 8th floor you get marvellous views of 
the Ged?chtniskirche and Ku-damm.
Douglas

dnygr wrote:

>Douglas,
>
>Thank you for the update on the cafe. There used to be three department 
>stores in the vicinity of that cafe: down at Wittemberg Platz was KaDeWe 
>(Kaufhaus des Westens), but across the street, I can't entirely recall, was 
>a place named, if memory serves me right, "Bilko" or something similar. I 
>forget the name of the third. 
>
>The avenue in front of the cafe was home to many an anti-Vietnam war 
>demonstration and the Amerika Haus, not too far away on an adjacent block, 
>had stacks of makeshift gates around it to keep demonstrators at bay. 
>
>On the other side of the memorial church there was a small mall shopping 
>plaza with a British pub in it. Das Essen dort hat immer lasch geschmeckt.
>
>Best regards--Doug Nygren 
>
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