Does anyone remember this? I remember it so well because I was watching "Kids Incorporated" and heard my mom and dad talking up a storm about something and when I asked them what they were talking about they said "The TV just said that the German Government lifted travel restrictions on West Berlin, so now they don't need that wall anymore" and I remember seeing all these people on CNN celebrating and everything. I was only 4 but I understood what was going on in the world already.

Oh boy. I was about 16 and taped it all (on BETA, though, so I can't watch it now :cry: Oh well. I think I was still dating a guy who had just come back from a year in Germany. It was really special to him to see the wall come down. Too bad he didn't go a year later. He could have seen it live.
Hard to beleive that there was ever an east and west Germany now, eh?

Where were you when the Berlin Wall came down?

I was living in East Berlin, so for me, this was one of the biggest events of the 80s!!!

A few months before, I had actually been able to travel out through Austria, so it was more symbolic than an actual thing. But it was just so amazing to watch. My friend Karl and I heard what was happening and ran through the streets with thousands of people. It was a big big party.

Where were you when this happened? Do you remember it?

I was in Western Germany (a small town called Omersheim not far from France) , at a German girlfriend's house, getting fuzzy with some Bordeaux wine out in the garden. Great time. The worst thing was this: That year on News Eve, I was drinking heavily with this German girl's family and eating and having a good time when all of a sudden they all ran to the TV. It was DAVID HASSELHOF being raised up in a telephone repairman's thingie at the Berlin wall singing 'I've Been Lookin' For A Freedom' (how appropriate, fartknocker) and there are THOUSANDS of people there screaming and this girl's family is going absolutely crazy!! Me? I almost threw up!

I Was Just 11yrs old when this happened and I Was Probly In Bed Or Kept up By My Folks Cuzz they were Yelling (as usaual) So I Just Sat and Watched it happen on the news

Yanno I don't remember where I was when this happened, God where the hell was I in 1989?? rofl!!!
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I was in 9th grade. I was so happy because I was very much into the cold war and this was a huge blow against communism.

I as a group we had a party in the desert with a bootlegged Keg and smoked a few j's listening Edie Brickell and REM(Green).

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I think I was just home (boring) but the impact the news had was great. Had just been to both east- and westberlin in April the same year with my class and seen/experienced the wall and the difference between the two parts of the city. Went through Check-Point-Charlie to get to east-Berlin, and the bus we drove on were "invaded" by east-German borderguards. I remember one of the guards eyeing me with suspicion as I had long hair - or at least I think he did :lol: These days I'm thankfull to have experienced the wall when it was still there - makes the appreciation that it's gone that much more profound.

I also have fond memories about the Wall concert later on - but thats another story!

We'd just moved from Germany back to the States a few months before. I was coming down the stairs, half-asleep and wanting to get my breakfast in the kitchen. The TV was on and everyone was gathered around it. I wasn't expecting anything and the next thing I knew, they were saying the wall had come down. It was really bizarre. Even though we'd lived nowhere near Berlin, you'd still felt the atmosphere. After that everyone and everything went berserk. I accompanied a friend to the newspaper office where he worked and everyone there was on the phone trying to round up germans who had left the country and were now living in the US.