The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Education First’s Headquarter, One Education Street 1 segment Education First, EF, is a language-travel operator, who has been arranging language stays for European students in the United States for about 40 years. Since the late 1990s, a completely preserved Wall segment with mural crown is standing in front of its headquarter in Boston. Further details unknown. Click to enlarge: […]
Location: DiMillo’s Floating Restaurant, Long Wharf 3 segments of the Hinterlandmauer Antonio “Toni” DiMillo, who owns a large part of the Portland’s port facilities, is owner of some fragments of the Hinterlandmauer probably since the late 1990s. Today, the Wall is serving as an eye-catcher in front of his restaurant and is attracting great interest. Click […]
Location: wasteland at Prince StreetMoved to: Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Bible Hill 6 segments The Wall segments in Truro arrived in Canada via California in 1999. Martin S. Young, a Truro based entrepreneur, has acquired the segments in the sunny south and gave them as a present to his home town in the year 2000. For a long period […]
Location: General Patton Museum 3 segments On the edge of the high-security area where the American Gold Reserves are stored, the General George Patton Museum resides. Patton played a decisive role as commander of the 3rd US Army in the liberation of southern Germany in 1945. Afterwards he was military governor of Bavaria. In 1990, Raymond D. Haddock, […]
Location: Museum of World Treasures 1 segment The former students of the American High School in Berlin Zehlendorf are called Berlin Brats. In 2005, a group of Berlin Brats collected money for an auction on ebay. They bought the Wall segment for US $ 5,000. The segment was offered by a retiree from the Pacific coast. Formerly […]