hamburg 1938

[Peter Copley]

How well I remember Hamberg Hafen one of the first foreign ports I visited back in 1959. I can still smell the cigar smoke in the bars of St Pauli, and Lolita singing ‘Seemann, deine Heimat ist das Meer’ in the background. At just 16 years of age, I was too young to appreciate the sinful mile, nevertheless, I grew to love Germany, how they rebuilt Hamburg which had been flattened by the RAF and USAF. The only thing they seemed to be short of in 1959/1960 was real coffee for some reason. When my daughter lived in Celle with the British Army, I tried to recapture memories of my youth in the bars and restaurants of Bremen Hafen, of course, that is impossible, German bars are mainly smoke-free now and Lolita has been replaced by Nena.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Was there late July 49 unloading wheat from Texas. Bit of a mess still there. in the nightclub I went to they had phones on the tables, used to be able to ring a girl over for a drink,. I never took advantage though.

[happy daze john in oz]

John, shakes all day with your hands in your pockets is not a good look you know.
Had you done that on a UCL you may have got a big surprise.

[j.sabourn]

#13, How about that saying then John,“ he’s that tight he peels an orange in his pocket “ . JS

[Alan Briggs]

Herbetstrauss, Winklestrauss, - a German version, always a good run ashore down the Reeperbahn.