tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7052429.post2054065542192455089..comments2021-10-05T19:44:46.905+02:00Comments on BerlinBites: Still SillyJon Lebkowskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16248713335392018033noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7052429.post-68844404422103608272007-08-24T13:49:00.000+02:002007-08-24T13:49:00.000+02:00Actually, one of the first Beate Uhses I saw was m...Actually, one of the first Beate Uhses I saw was mobile: a sort of trailer they just drove up into what is now Invalidenpark and opened for business. They were very aggressive in the east in the early '90s -- and yes, there was a shop in that now-derelict building, as well as another building on the corner that was in such bad shape it had to be demolished. <BR/><BR/>As for classical music in drug-infested public places, I used to dread having to change trains in Hamburg because of all the junkies and pill-heads hanging around there. Then they got the idea from some sociologist somewhere to play stuff like Vivaldi REALLY REALLY LOUD right where that little park is by the exit (there was a flower seller there I used to really pity -- first the junkies, now this!). It worked, though, and now you can walk all the way from the station to the row of hotels there without seeing a single person twitching in the gutter. <BR/><BR/>The Rosenthaler Platz U-Bahn station is the worst open drug market I've ever seen. I was waiting for a train once and one from the opposite direction pulled up, a guy got out and handed a really thick wad of bills to this kid sitting on one of the benches, then hopped back in the train and was gone. Guess the cops were too busy worrying how they were going to chase folks out of the Umsonstladen.Ed Wardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17805932361842578943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7052429.post-64830510910868603582007-08-24T13:14:00.000+02:002007-08-24T13:14:00.000+02:00The classical music on the U8 to stop kids hanging...The classical music on the U8 to stop kids hanging around the stations...it'll work, if Berlin's youth are anything like those of the eastern ends of the (London) District line. Years after the 'scheme' (cut staff, fit CCTV, some cheap speakers and a CD player) started there was something about it on Woman's Hour. "I dahnt like it, it's well uncool, now we go to the chippy", some 13 year old truant from Elm Park could be heard saying.<BR/><BR/>And Beate Uhse mobile branches: I dread to think what the 'Berliner Fenster' screens would be used for....Karl-Marx-Straßehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10156583472078730461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7052429.post-80208670603522633532007-08-23T08:34:00.000+02:002007-08-23T08:34:00.000+02:00perhaps they could open a Beate Uhse outlet in one...perhaps they could open a Beate Uhse outlet in one of the wagons as well! along with the classical music they plan on pumping in the U8 would soon be the city's most romantic getaway...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7052429.post-84290843879573803642007-08-22T21:12:00.000+02:002007-08-22T21:12:00.000+02:00there was prominent Beate Uhse advertising on the ...<I>there was prominent Beate Uhse advertising on the building you mention</I><BR/><BR/>Indeed there was. Until it shut about 8 months or so ago. I just went there to visit the public library opposite, honest guv'nor. I also use the TU 'Volkswagenhaus' library, ahem, round the corner from 'World of Sex' and the Beate Uhse 'museum' at Bahnhof Zoo. Hmm.<BR/><BR/>But there was a building next to the ex-Beate Uhse, and must have been demolished about 5 years ago. I still remember it being there.<BR/><BR/>Is the quote about the Liebeswagen from the Kommune 1? I'm sure they campaigned for 'Beiwagen' (I mean 'Beischlafwagen') on the tube in West Berlin...Karl-Marx-Straßehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10156583472078730461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7052429.post-25567652512677609492007-08-22T12:28:00.000+02:002007-08-22T12:28:00.000+02:00a clever idea on the part of the BVG, a long term ...<I>a clever idea on the part of the BVG, a long term revenue growth strategy by encouraging the customer base to reproduce....</I><BR/><BR/>"Absofort hängen wir einen abgedunkelten Liebeswagen an jeden Zug der Linien U1, U2 und U7, wo sich Paare diskret und auf einer ganz neuen Weise die Beförderungsbedingungen erfüllen können".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7052429.post-28201228962305083352007-08-22T12:25:00.000+02:002007-08-22T12:25:00.000+02:00Meanwhile, elsewhere in Rosenthaler Platz, the der...<I>Meanwhile, elsewhere in Rosenthaler Platz, the derelict building across from the Coke billboard, which once housed a Beate Uhse and then part of Sony's ill-considered street-art cooptation, sprouted some ghostly inhabitants a few weeks back:</I><BR/><BR/>Here's something that's been vaguely puzzlingly me for some time: wasn't there a building next to that one, directly on Rosenthaler Platz itself, which was demolished sometime in the 90s? Where the temporary kiosks are now. My memory is somewhat vague on the subject and tells me the Beate Uhse was in the demolished building, as I would have gone past it on the tram up the Kastanienallee quite often, and I definitely remember a Beate Uhse being there. Or maybe the building was demolished before my time and there was prominent Beate Uhse advertising on the building you mention?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7052429.post-54874714849088155952007-08-21T21:37:00.000+02:002007-08-21T21:37:00.000+02:00the BVG Augenblick site is a sort of "i saw you on...the BVG Augenblick site is a sort of "i saw you on the u-bahn and wanted to ravish you behind the ticket kiosk" kind of thing. a clever idea on the part of the BVG, a long term revenue growth strategy by encouraging the customer base to reproduce....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com