Aug 26 2009
East German apartment found by developer
Stuff left behind like yesterday.
(Hat Tip: Hapo) This is a very interesting story on CNN regarding a developer who ran into a long abandoned apartment building complete with relics of the past.
The discovery, made by architect Mark Aretz, revealed a small one-bedroom apartment evidently abandoned quickly by its occupants as the Communist East German state disintegrated in 1989, Spiegel Online reported.
A wall calendar showed August 1988, and the kitchen cupboard and drawers contained plastic crockery and aluminium cutlery along with communist-era food brands such as “Vita” Cola, “Marella” margarine, “Juwel” cigarettes and a bottle of “Kristall” vodka.
“When we opened the door we felt like Howard Carter when he found the grave of Tutankhamen,” Aretz told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper.
“Everything was a mess but it was like a historic treasure trove, a portal into an age long gone.”
Call me odd, but I find this kind of stuff utterly amazing. Looking at the bottles of commie cola got me as excited as Chris Matthews on election day. I wonder what will be found once the DPRK is gone? I heard some things such as entire buildings unfinished and only shells. I do not know if this is true or not, but the old relics of the old regime should be fascinating to dig through.
See the rest of the photos here.
This was originally posted on my DPRK Forum blog, but wanted to re-post it here.
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