The Wall Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
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Perfect Tommy on 06-Aug-02. Waypoint GC7B67
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These are just pieces of the Berlin Wall rather than a section, so I am just logging as a note. They are located on Bloor Street in Toronto, Canada.
[This entry was edited by Cedar Grove Seekers on Monday, December 19, 2005 at 9:43:03 AM.]
[This entry was edited by Cedar Grove Seekers on Monday, December 19, 2005 at 9:43:03 AM.]
This is part of the wall that was hammered off with a hammer. Picked it up when the wall was coming down.
It now takes a special place in the home.
It now takes a special place in the home.
A Berlin Wall in Tokokuji, Osaka, Japan. There is a bit of interesting history about how this wall ended up here. According to the website http://www.mauer.jp/block/temple_j.html, Tokokuji is a Korean temple located in Japan. The wall was donated in 1998 as a hope to reunite North and South Korea someday.
Berlin Wall at Rice University. We actually were in Berlin when the wall was coming down and were able to get our own very special piece of the wall.
Presidio of Monterey
Monterey, California
This display of three panels deep within the Presidio Of Monterey, an active military base (appointment necessary with driver's license, car registration, and proof of insurance) was nicely done, but I wonder why it wasn't put just outside the security perimeter at the Presidio Museum. The very friendly Public Information Officer didn't know any details about where these sections came from.
A recent newspaper article in the San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA) on Thursday, 11/3/05, announced the display open to the public. The following information (edited for length) is from that article which can be viewed at http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/13069198.htm
The monument is one of the largest pieces of the wall now on display in the United States. It consists of three 12-foot sections, still painted with a mural and the graffiti associated with the most lasting symbol of the divide between communist tyranny and the democratic West.
It was donated to the prestigious Defense Language Institute by Walter Scurei, an Arizona resident who was a teenager in Berlin at the end of World War II when the Soviets cut off supplies to the Western sector, triggering the Berlin airlift.
But the slabs, in their new location, attest to a painful irony. Radical Islam has replaced communism as the West's latest scourge -- and that means the public will not have easy access to the wall.
The Defense Language Institute, DLI, based on the Presidio of Monterey, was once an open campus. But the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks led to no-nonsense security at the nation's military bases. People who want to see the wall can see it, but they must make an appointment and go through security checks.
As the largest language school in the world and the only military one in the United States, the Defense Language Institute trained 15,500 German linguists and 33,000 Russian linguists during the Cold War.
"The fact that these slabs are here provides testimony to our work," said Donald Fischer, the DLI's chancellor.
Scurei, now a U.S. citizen, accidentally ran across the slabs in a Phoenix warehouse in 1998. He later bought them for $9,000 from two hotel tycoons who had purchased the slabs as an investment for $110,000 in 1990 from former East German secret police.
The couple of hundred DLI students and dignitaries who attended Wednesday's unveiling ceremony were treated to some behind-the-scenes insight into one of the most famous presidential lines of the 20th century: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."
Uttered by former President Ronald Reagan on June 12, 1987, it was penned by Peter Robinson, a speech writer for Reagan who's now a fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution.
Robinson talked about how he went to Berlin two months before the speech as part of an advance team. He spoke to a senior American diplomat, who warned Robinson about "commie-bashing" and making Reagan look like a "cowboy."
The diplomat assured Robinson that West Germans had "gotten used" to the wall.
Robinson later met with some Berliners. "I've been told you've gotten used to the wall," he said. He was met with silence.
Robinson heard from someone whose sister lived a few kilometers on the other side of the wall. But the siblings hadn't seen each other in 20 years.
One woman, whose husband worked for the World Bank, suggested if Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was serious about his policy of glasnost (openness), he could begin by tearing down the wall.
Robinson inserted the phrase into a draft of Reagan's speech. But officials in the State Department and National Security Council thought it was too provocative. Despite pressure from diplomats, Robinson said, Reagan decided the line was a keeper.
Two years later, the wall was brought down.
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Thanks for a very interesting cache.
Monterey, California
This display of three panels deep within the Presidio Of Monterey, an active military base (appointment necessary with driver's license, car registration, and proof of insurance) was nicely done, but I wonder why it wasn't put just outside the security perimeter at the Presidio Museum. The very friendly Public Information Officer didn't know any details about where these sections came from.
A recent newspaper article in the San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA) on Thursday, 11/3/05, announced the display open to the public. The following information (edited for length) is from that article which can be viewed at http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/13069198.htm
The monument is one of the largest pieces of the wall now on display in the United States. It consists of three 12-foot sections, still painted with a mural and the graffiti associated with the most lasting symbol of the divide between communist tyranny and the democratic West.
It was donated to the prestigious Defense Language Institute by Walter Scurei, an Arizona resident who was a teenager in Berlin at the end of World War II when the Soviets cut off supplies to the Western sector, triggering the Berlin airlift.
But the slabs, in their new location, attest to a painful irony. Radical Islam has replaced communism as the West's latest scourge -- and that means the public will not have easy access to the wall.
The Defense Language Institute, DLI, based on the Presidio of Monterey, was once an open campus. But the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks led to no-nonsense security at the nation's military bases. People who want to see the wall can see it, but they must make an appointment and go through security checks.
As the largest language school in the world and the only military one in the United States, the Defense Language Institute trained 15,500 German linguists and 33,000 Russian linguists during the Cold War.
"The fact that these slabs are here provides testimony to our work," said Donald Fischer, the DLI's chancellor.
Scurei, now a U.S. citizen, accidentally ran across the slabs in a Phoenix warehouse in 1998. He later bought them for $9,000 from two hotel tycoons who had purchased the slabs as an investment for $110,000 in 1990 from former East German secret police.
The couple of hundred DLI students and dignitaries who attended Wednesday's unveiling ceremony were treated to some behind-the-scenes insight into one of the most famous presidential lines of the 20th century: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."
Uttered by former President Ronald Reagan on June 12, 1987, it was penned by Peter Robinson, a speech writer for Reagan who's now a fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution.
Robinson talked about how he went to Berlin two months before the speech as part of an advance team. He spoke to a senior American diplomat, who warned Robinson about "commie-bashing" and making Reagan look like a "cowboy."
The diplomat assured Robinson that West Germans had "gotten used" to the wall.
Robinson later met with some Berliners. "I've been told you've gotten used to the wall," he said. He was met with silence.
Robinson heard from someone whose sister lived a few kilometers on the other side of the wall. But the siblings hadn't seen each other in 20 years.
One woman, whose husband worked for the World Bank, suggested if Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was serious about his policy of glasnost (openness), he could begin by tearing down the wall.
Robinson inserted the phrase into a draft of Reagan's speech. But officials in the State Department and National Security Council thought it was too provocative. Despite pressure from diplomats, Robinson said, Reagan decided the line was a keeper.
Two years later, the wall was brought down.
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Thanks for a very interesting cache.
Yesterday while looking for a place to hide a cache I found a part of "The Wall" nearby the European Parlement in Brussels, Belgium.
Anticipating the last minute rush to log locationless caches before they expire, I will delete "Found It" logs that do not comply with the cache requirements. Previously I
would send out an email as a courtesy to allow the logger to cure but that has become an unwelcome chore so henceforth I will just delete the non-complying log without explanation. Please note that this cache may be archived without any further notice prior to December 31, 2005 at management's discretion. So if you have a section you want to log, do so now and do it properly. Thanks.
would send out an email as a courtesy to allow the logger to cure but that has become an unwelcome chore so henceforth I will just delete the non-complying log without explanation. Please note that this cache may be archived without any further notice prior to December 31, 2005 at management's discretion. So if you have a section you want to log, do so now and do it properly. Thanks.
There are two sections of the wall on display in a very unlikely spot at a corner of a parking lot of a small office park in Mountain View, California (Silicon Valley). The plaque expresses appreciation of American involvement in helping bring the wall down. There is no information about who placed the monument here.
This one gave us a tough time, so we are happy to claim it at last. This section of the Berlin Wall is in the Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Museum in Ocean City, Maryland. This section of The Wall was dismantled on October 2, 1990, almost 11 months after the wall was opened up on November 9, 1989. It was at Theodore Heuss Way, less than half a mile from Brandenburg Gate. We have pictures of both sides of the section, including one with a SoccerFanatic and GPS. The coordinates above are for the entrance to the Museum. There is also a picture of a picture of the crowd that gathered when the wall came down.
I found this section of the Berlin Wall in all places, Berlin, Germany. I was staying in a hotel on Potsdammer Place which during the cold war was a desolate place where all the divided section of Berlin came together. It was known as a death strip.
It is know a remarkable place full of development and retail sprawl.
The section of the wall was left standing. As well in the pavement and cement there is a line where you can trace the exact route of the wall.
[This entry was edited by KBer on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 at 2:26:37 PM.]
It is know a remarkable place full of development and retail sprawl.
The section of the wall was left standing. As well in the pavement and cement there is a line where you can trace the exact route of the wall.
[This entry was edited by KBer on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 at 2:26:37 PM.]
This is a tiny section of the Wall. It is located in the Bradford Area Public Library in Bradford, Pennsylvania.
Thanks,
Goat Haunt
[This entry was edited by Goat Haunt on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 at 5:08:02 AM.]
Thanks,
Goat Haunt
[This entry was edited by Goat Haunt on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 at 5:08:02 AM.]
Surprised to see that not all pieces of the Berlin Wall accessible and visible in Berlin have been logged by our local Geocachers. So I am claiming this one right across the canal (Berlin Spandauer Schiffahrtskanal) from Invalidenfriedhof on the grounds of the Hamburger Bahnhof area. Coords are where the picture was taken, so the wall segments should be some 50-75 metres to the west (Google Earth has it at N 52°31'59.24''/E 13°22'06.42).
NB: I had found the segment in San Jose, Costa Rica last year and was disappointed to find out that Marine Biologist had already logged it. A visit to Berlin last weekend compensated for my deception, as I found 4 or 5 wall segments and took photos of them.
NB: I had found the segment in San Jose, Costa Rica last year and was disappointed to find out that Marine Biologist had already logged it. A visit to Berlin last weekend compensated for my deception, as I found 4 or 5 wall segments and took photos of them.
We found one part of "The Wall" near another cache in a park of the town of Leonberg, in the South of Germany.
Thanks for cache!
Greetings fanto
Thanks for cache!
Greetings fanto
We were taking the tour of the JFK Library in Boston and found this section of the Berlin Wall.
Tom, Donna and Brian~The Haddad's Pit Crew
Tom, Donna and Brian~The Haddad's Pit Crew
We found this section of the Berlin Wall in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. I have included a photo of the billboard with a description.
**I forgot to include the GPS in the photo so I am switching my log to a note. It was still worth the visit.
[This entry was edited by colbridge on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 at 2:48:12 PM.]
**I forgot to include the GPS in the photo so I am switching my log to a note. It was still worth the visit.
[This entry was edited by colbridge on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 at 2:48:12 PM.]
These part of the wall are part of an exhibiton piece about the history of the wall at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. They are standing exactly where the "real" wall used to be.
Found this Berlin Wall relict near GCM43E on military ground in Wesendorf, Germany. Once it has been near Potsdamer Platz.
TFTC,
Pom
TFTC,
Pom
This section of the wall was placed when I was assigned at Scott AFB durring Desert Sheild/Desert Storm. Went back for an appointment in Sept. Reallized it was an locationless cache and had to find the photos. Thanks.
This section of the Berlin wall can be found at the German Club in Canberra Australia. It was placed here in October 1992.
