Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Snapshots of a different era

It is winter and I have to spend a lot of time indoors now, reading, watching movies etc.

There is a used books store close by, and I enjoy reading old National Geographic mags that I find there. It is amusing seeing how people lived in the 70's, 80's etc and some of the articles on the iron curtain countries are especially interesting .

I was reading a 1981 article comparing east and west Germany. It is amazing how different the day to day lives of the people in both countries were. A great movie dealing with this is Goodbye Lenin.

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