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November 24, 2008

A lot can change in 15 years

To give you an idea how much of Berlin has changed since the fall of the Berlin wall, here's a picture of the old Checkpoint Charlie site, which was the main crossing for foreign visitors from West Berlin to East Berlin, looking from the west side:

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As you can see, it is a tourist site on a busy street. If you keep going up the street, it's actually a very fashionable shopping district full of expensive clothing stores.

While poking around the web for some pictures of Berlin, I came across this photo archive chronicling someone's travels through Berlin in 1992. This is what that same area around Checkpoint Charlie looked like 15-16 years ago:

Posted by Dean at November 24, 2008 5:10 AM

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