Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/06
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They are indeed vacation pics. But they do seem to have more of a time
capsule quality than most vacation pics! Typically those are of
scenery/structures or pictures of a guy standing in front of a famous
landmark which usuallly sticks out of his head.
Javier
>From: Didier Ludwig <rangefinder@screengang.com>
>Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Pictures from the old East Germany
>Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 23:18:13 +0100
>
>Looks more like a series of holiday pictures all over east and central
>europe, not only eastern germany specific. The album is titled "interrail"
>which was (or still is) the name of a very popular railway abonnement for
>young people, which allows to travel one month with all european railways
>for a moderate price.
>
>I have travelled in the DDR around 1980 and never seen neither Levi's,
>Sony, BASF ads nor Burgerking restaurants. And DDR officials would never,
>never have "welcomed the passengers from the visiting luxury liner" (but
>maybe kicked their a§§...)! The car on picture 035 is a genuine DDR-Trabi
>but captured near Györ/Hungary.
>
>I could identify many other countries like BRD (The "Terroristen! Vorsicht
>Schusswaffen!" poster offering 50'000 DM rewards), Turkey ("Polis"
>officers), Italy ("E' morto il compagno Enrico Berlinguer" - former chief
>of communist party), Austria ("Innsbruck Hbf"), Croatia ("vlakom je
>najsigurnije") and others.
>
>Nice to have a look at anyway.
>
>Didier
>
>
> >Hey Everyone
> >One of the guys on the Praktica group posted some very interesting pics
>of East Germany from around 1984. They were all taken with a bx20. These
>are not the usual political pics that you would normally see.
> >http://www.kolumbus.fi/jukka.karvonen/interrail/index.htm
> >Javier
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