Frankfurt High School Revisited
  Remembering Frankfurt, Germany, 1959-61

This website is intended to recall the experience of American military families living in Frankfurt, Germany, in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Of course everybody is welcome here, but no special pains have been taken to explain things to a wider audience. It is largely supplanted by the narrative linked to just agove.

On a trip to Germany in 1975, I swung by the old neighboorhood and took a few (too few!) pictures of Frankfurt High School and the nearby area. Little had changed since I lived and went to school there in 1959-61 (although Stadt Frankfurt itself was in the process of being torn down and replaced with a whole new one).

Here are the pictures (hint: maximize your browser for the full effect):

High School (*) High School Idle Hour Theater Platenstrasse

Platenstrasse Raimundstrasse Raimundstrasse Opernhaus

(*) Most of the commentary is on this page. I'm truly appalled at how few pictures I took when I lived in Germany. Except of castles and such, which are all still there. The everyday landscape of our lives is gone forever, no do-overs.

Bonus pictures

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Bremerhaven, 1959 Frankfurt: Römerplatz, 1959 Berlin, 1959

Hamburg: Reeperbahn, 1960 (where the Beatles were) Me in the Army, 1964

New (May 2015): Berlin gallery 1961-62 from Bob Paul:

New (January 2016): Berlin gallery 1959 Improved versions of my 1959 Berlin photos:

More Frankfurt Photos

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And in September 2005 Beni Calchera sent 16 color photos of the Ginnheim area of Frankfurt as it is today, including some comparisons with the older photos from 1959-61. CLICK HERE TO VIEW.

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Assorted shots found on other sites (June 2013):

Knicknacks

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And beer coasters from Germany and nearby places, 1959-66 (click the image)...

October 2016... Montage of German tickets 1959-65: Train, trolly, and other tickets: Frankfurt, Offenbach, Höchst, Wiesbaden, Kaiserslautern, Stuttgart, Bad Dürkheim, Rothenburg, Neustadt, Bad Cannstatt, Bad Kreuznach, Mannheim, Heidelberg, Mainz, Tübingen, Landstuhl, Ettal, München, Amsterdam, Paris, Orleans. Gelterswoog was a swimming hole in Hohenecken near Kaiserslautern. I don't remember making this thing, but it must have been me, who else has been to all those same places? Click here to see a 1k×1.3k pixel image (0.8MB); click here to see a medium (2k×2.6k) image (3MB); or click here to see a large (3.5k×4.6k) image (8MB).

Links:

• Schulze, Inga, Warum Frank aus N.Y. nicht von Frankfurt lassen kann”, Frankfurter Neue Presse, 22 June 2006. (The story also says a bit about the town of Hohenecken, near Kaiserslautern; CLICK HERE for some illustrations.)
• Other Links: See Image 1.