Checkpoint Bravo to Checkpoint Alpha Nov 25 1989

Trying to create the best copy of our November 25th, 1989 trip from Berlin, Germany back to our base in West Germany. This snip is of Allied Checkpoint Bravo to Allied Checkpoint Alpha. I was focusing on the cars driving through the checkpoints. There are various East European cars and a few interesting West cars as well.

[@piercehawke8021]

What really struck me was how relaxed both the Vopos and their counterparts seemed to be; compared to even a few weeks earlier. It was obvious, looking back on it, that Germany was already starting to reunify......

[@robertmckeown3014]

I drove semi trucks for AAFES back then. We'd cross checkpoints Alpha and Bravo 4 times a day and swap trailers in that rest area at the east/west border on the Alpha side. Thanks for sharing this!

[@EpicThe112]

I'm wondering Why weren't you using Herleshausen Wartha border crossing since it's shorter to reach Ramstein Air Base and Wiesbaden Barracks. Rudolfstein A9 Grafenwöhr

[@stefanjovanovski6035]

lada brakedown scene was so familiar to me

[@OpelpepePower]

♥️🇩🇪Opel manta, opel corsa A, opel rekord, opel ascona .....opel kadett......🇩🇪♥️♥️♥️ crossing the border free forever

[@jctripplesticks]

I have a co-worker here in Detroit who recently told me that this is what the border with Canada is like these days. He said it used to be really easy to get across but after 9/11 it's more like crossing the West/East German border was when he was there in the 80s

[@lmommsen]

I live about 70 miles south of the "Gate which will never close", the border crossing on Interstate 5 between Seattle and Vancouver, BC, and the last time we where there, the Canadian's required you to fill out a web page letting them know in advance where you were going, and how long you would be there before you could enter. We were there on a whim, so they turned us around, in their polite, Canadian way. OUR guys (USA) on the other hand, were not so polite to us obvious United States citizens who had just gotten turned back. We should have told them we were Mexican citizens who just stole a car and loaded it with Fentenal, and we would have probably been waved on through, no other questions asked... Canada has since dropped that requirement, but I'm told it's still kind of a hassle to go there.

[@lmommsen]

The East-West German border was pretty easy for us military folks, as long as we had our paperwork in order. After we cleared out processing facility, we had to pay a visit to our Russian "allies" at the crossing points, not the East Germans.

[@SgtSnazzerino]

1:28 I kinda liked the little blue Trabant with what looks like fog lights on it. I want one..

[@lmommsen]

Me too! [no hashtag]

[@tomusiamr2137]

0:06 Polish Fiat 126P and probably Porsche 924 - what a big hole was and still is dividing those cars. That's the perfect picture of east-west differences.

[@rnman99]

Went through there a couple times, it was interesting to be sure

[@Lex5576]

I bet that whole interchange smelled like a bunch of weed trimmers and chainsaws running, with all the Trabants and Wartburgs belching filthy 2-cycle smoke. A VW beetle must've been like a Cadillac in comparison.

[@lmommsen]

Combined with the brown coal they used for power, Berlin had a unique smell, that's for sure. It was worst in foggy weather.

[@HOUSEWARMING]

Lot's of western cars entering East-Berlin, one could have guessed it would have been the other way around in that particiular timeframe.

[@lmommsen]

If you are referring to the part showing the bridge saying "Leaving the American Sector", this is the part of the Transit Corridor from West Berlin through East Germany back to West Germany. The traffic is most likely those people from West Germany headed home, and this is one of only two or three ways they were allowed to go.

[@ianinkster2261]

Has that sign been on the bridge since 45?

[@privacysurfer]

I can smell the east-german cars and the leaded gasoline of the west-cars. ;(

[@feza9804]

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