71 Comments Posted by Kaipirinha

The thing on the floor seems to be a single window sash. Maybe the transom window of the big window we can see here?

The arched window opens to the inside.... whereelse should it open to? To the outside doesn't make any sense to me, all the ones I know (and there are many, many many in Europe. Very popular design between 1840 and 1914 @ liza) open to the inside to let no rain in.

The setup with an elevator within a staircase is common indeed in Europe, because many of the old hotels used to be built without one. Later, when elevators became a common feature in hotels, they needed a place to install one: The staircases had often a space in the middle where one could look up to the ceiling of the highest floor, which is really a neat effect, but this was an actually unused place with access to every single floor. The perfect place for an elevator.

I've got to take it on the other.... uhm... stage?

Well, here in Germany, building a water tower around a smokestack was quite popular some time ago. At least you see it still quite often.

Well, I am from Bavaria, W. Germany, and a Penny Supermarket almost exactly looking like this opened in my town last year.

Tough challenges, yes. But we've got a good social system, where everybody can get something to eat. People who steal that metal to sell it for scrap are not the homeless and hungry, but those idiots who never will get enough while acting without any thinking.

Sure, no problem. They have put the 1915 Berlin Phone Book online recently.

Brrr, Weissbier, that's no good! I only drink dark beer, especially Kellerbier ("Basement Beer"), way better! And only my local brands here - I've got about 1200 to choose from, without leaving my region.

Swinging in windows are still the normal type of windows here, especially because almost all modern buildings have roll-down shutters.

AVIA is an oil company from Switzerland, we still have plenty of their gas stations here in Germany.

I've got to correct: It's rather a 30-car garage, so grab some EMWs and Chaikas, too.

Nice! A remote palatial estate with lots of room, LUSH greenery and a 9 car garage for all your favourite Wartburgs, Moskvitchs, Tatras and Sachsenrings!

The letters on the building (Sternen Bunker) look absolutely like Nazi style, so I assume it was built in the 30's. Having bunkers was normal on airfields back then; so it was built for WW2.

Seems to be the 50's style double pane windows, with the one pane attached to the other. You can open the attached pane for cleaning the room between both panes. We used to have these windows everywhere, but normally in different shapes.