tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7052429.post116359634215288551..comments2021-10-05T19:44:46.905+02:00Comments on BerlinBites: Whither Amerika Haus?Jon Lebkowskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16248713335392018033noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7052429.post-1163624188241806292006-11-15T21:56:00.000+01:002006-11-15T21:56:00.000+01:00Agggh, this is what I get for writing and posting ...Agggh, this is what I get for writing and posting within an hour. <BR/><BR/>The Amerika Haus/Zoo <EM>location</EM> isn't sexy!<BR/><BR/>Although, as someone who usually waited for the last U9 to Wedding on my way back home from the radio station back in the old days, I'm glad to hear Zoo's reputation for sleaze is still intact. It was the first place I ever saw those wall-mounted cigarette machines vending clean needles and needle cleaning kits.Ed Wardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17805932361842578943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7052429.post-1163623766388319152006-11-15T21:49:00.000+01:002006-11-15T21:49:00.000+01:00actually St. Georges two bookcases full of new boo...actually St. Georges two bookcases full of new books and is quite amiable about ordering anything they don't have from the local distributor...<BR/><BR/>as far as Amerika Haus, let's turn it into a detention and torture camp and make some extraordinary renditions from the streets of washington dc, what's good for the goose is good for the gander eh?<BR/><BR/>as far as zoo being sexy - there are still a few bargains to be had, it depends on how much cash you have and what your taste in boys is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7052429.post-1163623269834368652006-11-15T21:41:00.000+01:002006-11-15T21:41:00.000+01:00What Berlin lacks is a good American reading room....What Berlin lacks is a good American reading room. Never mind a good English-language library -- the one in Munich blows the Gedenkbibliothek out of the sky -- I need a place to flip through US as well as UK publications about once a month. *That's* what Amerika Häuser used to be for.Michael Scott Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07889076277422484313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7052429.post-1163620465320957252006-11-15T20:54:00.000+01:002006-11-15T20:54:00.000+01:00and maybe even combine it with an American booksto...<I>and maybe even combine it with an American bookstore -- which would be the only English-language bookstore in town selling new, as opposed to used, books</I><BR/><BR/>Apart from "Books in Berlin", in the Goethestraße in Charlottenburg, obviously. Ok, which sells new *as well as used* books, but last time I checked, it seemed to be new stuff. (If anyone from BiB (the bookshop) is reading this, gissajob. I'm yer Yosser.)<BR/><BR/>"St. George's" (what a nasty name for a shop, it reminds me of some dodgy East End (London) pubs covered with English flags since the 1990 world cup where no "Travellers, Irish, Paki's or Gypsie's" are allowed in) and "East of Eden" are just second-hand, that's true though.daggihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05022009818282469503noreply@blogger.com