Junkman Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 St. Josef church on Kahlenberg in Döbling, a district of Vienna. PShome might get eggsited.Those 600 Multiplas were relatively popular in a not yet very wealthy catholic country. hennabm, pshome and Sudsprint 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pshome Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 St. Josef church on Kahlenberg in Döbling, a district of Vienna. PShome might get eggsited.Those 600 Multiplas were relatively popular in a not yet very wealthy catholic country. Let me guess, the Multipla belongs to the vikar and the undertaker drives the Vedette, 11001010, Junkman and mercrocker 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pshome Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 Austria loved those flatheads... Sudsprint, Junkman, hennabm and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pshome Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 Simca Vedette Marly! hennabm, Junkman and mercrocker 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 Initially, I was pleasantly surprised that the Goethehaus appeared to have survived the bombing of Frankfurt am Main during WW2... But it was too good to be true... What we see today is a 1949 facsimile. hennabm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 Note that they loved even bigger bloody V8s in Zell.And there is a '66 Chevelle Malibu in front of the houses I don't recognise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 Initially, I was pleasantly surprised that the Goethehaus appeared to have survived the bombing of Frankfurt am Main during WW2... But it was too good to be true... What we see today is a 1949 facsimile. Ironically the bombing took place on 22 March 1944, 112 years to the day Goethe died.However, the house had already been sold by his mother in 1795, including all contents.It passed through several owners before it was acquired by a trust, that reverted it toits perceived originality according to Goethe's autobiography.So what was bombed was already a reconstruction. The Goethe Haus in Weimar is a different story, though. However, the contents of both houses were already taken into safe storage before theywere destroyed. Imagine the loss if that wouldn't have been done. I once slept (and did other things) in the garden pavillion of the Weimar Goethe Hauswhen there still proudly was a DDR, since I had an understanding with one of the femalemuseum attendants at the time. chaseracer, mercrocker and richardthestag 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pshome Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 I once slept (and did other things) in the garden pavillion of the Weimar Goethe Hauswhen there still proudly was a DDR, since I had an understanding with one of the femalemuseum attendants at the time. Pretty nice strategic choice, you didn't get unnoticed though.From the Stasi archives:http://www.app-in-die-geschichte.de/document/54835 richardthestag, hennabm and Junkman 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 Ooops... pshome 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardthestag Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 Initially, I was pleasantly surprised that the Goethehaus appeared to have survived the bombing of Frankfurt am Main during WW2... But it was too good to be true... What we see today is a 1949 facsimile. you think of ^^ it as a bad thing? post war regeneration in the UK gave us such gifts as Exeter, Bristol, Birmingham and Croydon amongst many other examples. May not walk on the same boards etc but still a nice thing to see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 No, not a bad thing at all - it's good that it exists, but it needs to be seen for what it is. The buildings either side are more representative of vernacular postwar reconstruction; in Germany, France and the UK. richardthestag and Junkman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 The buildings either side are more representative of vernacular postwar reconstruction; in Germany, France and the UK. Which is itself disappearing at a rapid rate.I hope some examples will be listed before this era buildings are gone without a trace. Are they ugly? In a way, yes. But they aren't being replaced with anything nice either. chaseracer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 Currently on the reading pile... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 Oooh, that looks interesting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercrocker Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 Which is itself disappearing at a rapid rate.I hope some examples will be listed before this era buildings are gone without a trace. Are they ugly? In a way, yes. But they aren't being replaced with anything nice either. Southampton is a prime example of WW2 destruction, epic post-war rebuilding and subsequent 21st century redevelopment into a jumble of un-related, mis-matching flatpack mid-rises. There is hardly anything left of the city I grew up in and I never visit it now. We had stuff like this... The cruise terminal is now a shed such as you might find on a mushroom farm but God only knows what now lurks at the Polygon. Like I say, I never go there now..... Junkman and RayMK 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 Look who's holidaying in Yugoslavia: mercrocker, RayMK, chaseracer and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 Grossglockner again: Look at that poser with his whitewalls. RayMK, hennabm and mercrocker 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 Pretty nice strategic choice, you didn't get unnoticed though.From the Stasi archives:http://www.app-in-die-geschichte.de/document/54835 Bloody hell - Junkmans sock is enormous. mercrocker, Junkman and pshome 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 ^ Please confirm this is a reference to hosiery, and not a spelling mistake... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 If it were a spelling mistake I wouldn't need big bloody V8s. chaseracer and mercrocker 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 ^ Please confirm this is a reference to hosiery, and not a spelling mistake... If I intended to make vulgar references I would have drawn your attention to the contraption to the left of the young lady... Junkman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 A window...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted May 11, 2017 Share Posted May 11, 2017 Gloster, last Tuesday: pshome and hennabm 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted May 11, 2017 Share Posted May 11, 2017 Some Brits checking out the local facilities in Slavonski Brod: Where is the bloody Hillman garage? hennabm and pshome 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 Austria loved those flatheads...My Grandpa had two of them, before he was forced to revert to a 1501. Anyway, have a flathead free St. Pölten: EFTA still in force with Ovlov and Morris Minor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 ^^ Parisian 404 a long way off his quartier, too... Junkman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 Ibadan, Nigeria, in pre scam days. hennabm and chaseracer 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 Are there 419 cars in that pic...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 Maybe not, but that library building is a lovely drop of Modernism Junkman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 Modernism has yet to arrive at Barnstaple. mercrocker and hennabm 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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