Frank da Cruz
Bronx NY
29 August 2019

Updated 5 March 2024

These are color slides my father took 1959-61 mostly in Frankfurt, but also four in Berlin (1959) and one in Hamburg (1960), using a Leica he borrowed from "the office" with a separate light meter. The slides were already 55 years old by the time I inherited them and pretty washed-out, dark, and/or scratched. I cleaned them the best I could, scanned them on a slide scanner, and tuned them in Photoshop for contrast and brightness. Some of the Frankfurt ones are from 1959, but most of them were taken in summer 1961, just before we left. In March 2024, I copied the Berlin photos to the Berlin gallery, where you'd expect to find them.

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See the 1959 Berlin photo gallery for more Berlin photos and updated commentary on the ones shown above. Also see Berlin's battle scars remain 75 years after end of WWII – in pictures, The Guardian, 8 May 2020. The final image below is of "Beetles Street" in Hamburg when the Beatles were performing there.

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