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Grant Reiling 
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| Herbie3Rivers wrote: |
Couple of Split photos from my collection |
This one is particularly intriguing; do you have more information about the building - a radio tower and/or broadcast headquarters?  Herbie3Rivers, can you read the sign out front hung between columns?
I'd love to find out more. 
Grant
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finster
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| Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2019 12:24 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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^^^ pretty sure it's the funkturm in berlin - used for the first regular tv broadcasts in 1935 and if I remember correctly it was near the road used for the avus track.
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Grant Reiling
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| Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2019 8:19 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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| finster wrote: |
| ^^^ pretty sure it's the funkturm in berlin - used for the first regular tv broadcasts in 1935 and if I remember correctly it was near the road used for the avus track. |
Ah, yes, I see online that's exactly right. [From Wikipedia]:
"On March 22, 1935, the first regular television program in the world was broadcast from an aerial on the top of the tower. In 1962, the tower stopped being used for West German television transmissions. Since 1973, the radio tower stopped serving as a regular transmission tower for broadcasting purposes, but it is still used as relay station for amateur radio, police radio, and mobile phone services. The last complete renovation took place in 1987 in honor of the 750th anniversary of the founding of Berlin." The pics confirm it. to match the photo
It's such a Bauhaus Modernist creation. 
Iconic with a split beetle parked next to it. 
Thanks for ID'ing it.
Grant
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Herbie3Rivers
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| Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2019 10:14 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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| That's the same car VW used in its advertising, and the first split VW I ever saw a picture of. I wonder where it is now? |
VW still has that car. It's been restored a little more correctly now though.
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Blue Baron
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| Blue Baron wrote: |
| That's the same car VW used in its advertising, and the first split VW I ever saw a picture of. I wonder where it is now? |
VW still has that car. It's been restored a little more correctly now though.
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That's actually a shame, because the car should have been kept just the way it looked in the advertisements, incorrect parts and all.
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Blue Baron
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noch eins!
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Blue Baron
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Blue Baron
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