Day 347: Wonderful hausfrau
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Day
347 — Wonderful hausfrau
14-Jul-1972
(Fri.)
TRANSCRIPT
Castle Charlottenburg
BERLIN
Another surprise. The hausfrau said I can stay until
I leave for the price of 5 DM. I couldn’t believe it.
They are being so friendly and lifesavers. I am
spending so much money already, but without them, I
would really be in trouble. Somebody up there must be
helping me.
More sightseeing. Best thing is Dalhem Museum.
Fantastic. Picture Galerie. Excellent other sections,
especially the Volksanden. Very modern. Excellent and
large exhibits. Very educational. They have free
loose-leaf pages explaining background material on
what they have. These can be compiled into quite a
large looseleaf book. Fantastic idea.
Another computer music lecture, in German, but I got
the point. Very interesting. Seems to take a good
deal of work.
Met a group of Americans here. Interesting talk.
Skipped the avant-garde concert. Went to the
Riverboat. Really wild today. Dancing everywhere.
Fantastic. Lots of people. Quite a few more guys. I
danced but really didn’t meet anyone. I don’t feel
too bad because an awful lot of other guys didn’t get
anywhere either. And they were swingers. Quite a few
girls just stood around—for what?
REFLECTIONS
My
hausfrau. Once
again, my Berlin pension hausfrau comes to the rescue
and let’s me stay for a reduced rate. I guess, as a
student, they may have felt a bit sorry for me. How
much was I spending? I wasn’t certain, but I found my
“financial” ledger that I kept and it does show what
I was spending. Before the end of the journal, I’ll
post some scans and comment on the costs.
Computer
lecture. I go to
a music lecture today, but not to the evening
avant-garde concert. Accessible computers are
relatively new in 1971, and computers for music are
even rarer—usually only to specific universities such
as Columbia-Princeton, and composers like Milton
Babbit.
Diskotek.
I go to a
diskotek called the Riverboat. I don’t remember
anything about this but I say it was wild. At least I
got up the courage to ask girls to dance. Today, my
stepson, Walter, is immersed in European trance music
and their DJs. When you see today’s version of clubs
in Berlin, Amsterdam, and other cities, it is
amazing. White festivals. Tens of thousands of
screaming kids adoring Tiesto, van Buren and others.
Ah, youth. It’s ok.
Here are some assorted photos around Berlin. I am not
certain of the exact names or locations of some of
these venues. Enjoy
At the art museum
The
Victory Column
(Statue of Victoria)
John
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