ishpop
tall person
This is cool!
"They wanted to clean up the basement but found a treasure trove of photos instead. After Berlin teacher Manfred Beier died, his sons stumbled across 60,000 pictures. Their father, it turns out, created one of the best documentations of life in East Germany, and the first days of the West."
Article:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,627720,00.html
Gallery:
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-42947.html#backToArticle=627720
"They wanted to clean up the basement but found a treasure trove of photos instead. After Berlin teacher Manfred Beier died, his sons stumbled across 60,000 pictures. Their father, it turns out, created one of the best documentations of life in East Germany, and the first days of the West."
Article:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,627720,00.html
Gallery:
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-42947.html#backToArticle=627720
ishpop
tall person
35mmdelux
Veni, vidi, vici
tks for posting.
robklurfield
eclipse
fascinating. thanks for sharing this link. my son is headed to berlin on friday for six weeks; I'm sure he'll find this interesting. remarkable documentation.
SolaresLarrave
My M5s need red dots!
Thanks a lot for posting the link to this story! 
P. Lynn Miller
Well-known
What an incredible story... give one heart that one day maybe the thousands of negatives that I have from trumping around the street will tell the story of the world I lived in.
bmattock
Veteran
Awesome, thanks for posting!
Pablito
coco frío
This is fascinating. Thank you very much.
peter_n
Veteran
peter_n
Veteran
Thanks to ishpop (OP) for posting these links. I was in Berlin last year and couldn't believe the transformation of the city. These pictures are fantastic!
Chuck Albertson
Well-known
The school bus (#15) looks like the one Paul Newman and Julie Andrews hijacked in "Torn Curtain." Also like the photo of the early Strobist meet-up. As I recall, the Friedrichstrasse Bahnhof was the only entry point into the East on the U-Bahn, after the Wall went up. Last I heard, it was a disco.
charjohncarter
Veteran
Wow, thanks for posting. I want to look at all 60,000. I loved the '56 Chevy convertible in one of the shots.
yoyo22
Well-known
Not all 60,000 images (yet), but you might get an insight into his work here: Link (it's the website of the german federal archive)
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peter_n
Veteran
No, the Bahnhof Friedrichstrasse is still a regular railway station, and incredibly busy. It has a U-Bahn stop and an S-Bahn stop (I think the photo had the S-Bahn signs in it) and as far as I know also runs a regional train service.
charjohncarter
Veteran
yoyo22, thanks, I haven't started looking yet, but they are so interesting.
LeicaTom
Watch that step!
Highly interesting article and wonderful pictures, quite an insight to what living was like "on the other side" as I myself lived in Germany in the 1980`s and 90`s, I witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall and also alot of the old ways of life in Western Germany, go by the wayside.......
One can only wonder, what other amazing photo archives are still out there, unfound, in some dark kool basement corner someplace since 1950?
Tom
One can only wonder, what other amazing photo archives are still out there, unfound, in some dark kool basement corner someplace since 1950?
Tom
sevo
Fokutorendaburando
Stuff like that always reminds me to dedicate at least part of my time and care to document the seemingly most boring everyday parts of my reality, even if I currently have no use or market for it. No other photographs gain as much value and meaning over the course of time...
charjohncarter
Veteran
Agree, I only wish I had done more of it.
