Where were you when the Berlin Wall was taken Down?????

At home in Austin, TX watching it on TV with my parents.

At home watching it on TV. :) Althoiugh I have to admit, when David Hasslehoff came on I switched the channel until he was done. :D

I was with a group of friends at someone's house. We just kicking back and watching tv. When it came on, we decided on the spot that that was a great reason to throw a party, so we did. :D

I was watching Saturday Night Live when they broke into the broadcast with the news that the Wall was being torn down. They showed all of the crowd cheering happily on top of the wall and people with axes smashing parts of it down and carting it off. A very exciting moment in history to catch live on television!!!

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I was at School when it happened.. We had the day off cause the teachers were celebrating.. hehehe no detention!!

At home with my parents in Severna Park, MD. My older sister had lived in Germany from '85-'88 teaching school to army brats for the Department of Defense and she was living in Michigan when the wall came down so I remember watching a lot of TV with her on the phone telling us about the times she'd been to Berlin.

I was at school as well. We got the following weekday off, because of the many German exchange students on our school who celebrated. Back then it was another reason to get drunk (still better than "hey, I'm wearing black socks..let's get drunk"), but looking back at it - it was a great thing to witness and be part of. :)

At home with my girlfriend.

Since I am from Germany, I had a closer look on all the events, from the Monday demonstrations in the GDR over the mass exodus to Czechoslovakia to the moment they have opened the gates.

I was in Helmstedt, a town located at the former German-German border. The border itself was about 2 miles away from where I lived. Soon after it was announced that the borders were open, it was like the whole GDR was on a treck to the west, the streets were filled with cars and people...it was an unbelievably sight. Impossible to get out of the door, nor to think of getting the car out of the carport - I had to call at work which was located some 60 miles away and told them that I was virtually stucked in Helmstedt. Forget about taking the train, first what would usually have been a stroll of maybe 10 minutes had become a pushing and shoving which might have taken an hour, and the trains themselves were also crammed with people. I guess it took almost a week until the conditions went back to a halfway normal state.

I can remember that they have opened the stores and supermarkets on Sundays which is not common for Germany, and standing with my car in endless streams of Trabants and Wartburgs on the Autobahn - it took me some 4 hours to return to Hannover.

Wow Wavey! What a perspective! I can't imagine having seen it from where you were. Was it exciting? Or just plain crazed?

Wow, Wave. I remember the wall coming down, but I don't remember what I was doing at the time or where I was. It's cool that we have your perspective. What a great topic, BlueOmega. Thanks :)

Originally posted by VioletFoxx:
<STRONG>Wow Wavey! What a perspective! I can't imagine having seen it from where you were. Was it exciting? Or just plain crazed?</STRONG>

I guess it was all all exciting and crazy...all the people, finally free...can´t find better words.

A small story...I was a employee at McD back in 1989. Once I´ve managed to make my way back to work, this had happened:
Each civic of the GDR were handed out 100 Deutschmarks as a kind of welcome gratification. Now, two girls appeared at the store, ordering each and every item on the list - I told them they would surely become sick if they ever would eat and drink the whole order, but they didn´t mind.
I was curious and watched them...indeed, they wolfed down everything on the trays. Outside the store, they barely managed it back to their car, then they both puked almost simultaneously, 'returning' their meal worth of 50 DM each...now that´s what I would call crazy for sure.

To know they were finally free from Communist rule was probably the best thing to ever happen in their lives. Puking up a meal from McDonalds was probably just a drop in the bucket. :)

Like Gman, I was at home watching this piece of history unfold over the television.

I watched it at home with my parents. I wasnt living in Berlin yet. My boyfriend lived close to the wall(in the old Mitte district which was in the east), and he always tells me about the whole thing and how excited he was. He also tells me what he did with his 100 west german marks... he bought oranges(not too common in east germany) and matchbox cars. :)

I was in Grade 7, and I did see it on TV but only sort of understood the significance of the event.