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I must have something bollixed up. When I am logged in I don't see any avatars on the various posts including my own. If I log out and then peruse the forums, I do see the avatars. What have I got wrong??

Randy, maybe you had your eye patch over the wrong eye?

I am seeing the same thing today and no eye patch to blame. The last few weeks it has been sporadic with avatars. Frequently I see just the name--logged in or not.

Arrr matey! Thanks for the reply.

Randy, do you really not know where BigKev makes his money? He flog them all and has orders for 21 more. Mal, Howard, Keith, Jim and even the Kish brothers, ... they are all in over their heads with this money business.


The poor avatars ...

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What is written at the very lower left corner of the sign????

I assume that sign is on the German/Russian border??? I would expect it to be written in German and Russian, not english and German.

Randy, Howard, there is a chance to get them back. Log in and tweak the settings as shown below to hide or unhide the avatars.

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Keith, Russia and Germany don't have a common border. To understand the warning sign and its inscription we have to look back in time. The quadripartite divisions of Germany and Berlin in consequence of WW2 have been temporary. Every of the four so-called victorious powers occupied a separate German sector and addional a sector in Berlin with own sector border. The above shown barrier (aid) with warning sign stood between the US and Soviet sectors and is written in English and German to inform your troops and German locals. In 1991, in other words 46 years after the end of the war the last Russian soldier left the country and Germany was reunited.
Today Germany is surrounded by allies and all frontier fortifications are carried away.
Dunno what's written at the very lower left corner.

Sorry Randy and all, it is as it often is, we went astray.

Like sheep we went astray

Like sheep we went astray,
And broke the fold of God,
Each wandering in a different way,
But all the downward road.




sources
pic #1:europeword.com
pic #2: Deutsche Fotothek
pic #3: Flickr.com
and Christian lyrics

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"Checkpoint Charlie" was one of the highlights of my visit to Berlin some years ago. I was on a cruise that docked in Hamburg for 36 hours so I quickly took a train to Berlin - this was after the wall came a-tumbling down.

Some recent pictures of some Packards at the Brandenburg Gate can be seen at:

packardclub.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=698

I went through Check Point Charlie before the Wall came down. We were on a tour with my daughter and son's high school band in the early '80s and I took a side trip from Munich to Berlin. We flew into Berlin and then got on a bus for a tour of allied (British, French, and U.S.) occupied western part. After lunch we boarded another bus for a tour of the Soviet occupied side. It was like going from a technicolor movie to a black and white one. The western part was vibrant, colorful, and alive, but the east was dismal, gray, and there was still parts that had not been rebuilt since the war. We went to the Wall and were able to see where Hitler's bunker had been from a viewing platform. We also got to see the Brandenberg gate from the east side. Quite an experience, especially going back to the west. The East German guards were most diligent about searching the bus and carefully checking identification papers.

Many years later I saw a fragment of the wall on display in the lobby area of the Intercontinental Hotel in Montreal. It was the mid-'90s, and I was attending the Canadian F1 Grand Prix.

Guscha, thanks for the gift of helping me to recall these experiences.

(o{I}o)