Re: Wengen - Part of a Summer in Europe . . .
| July 20, 2014 01:05PM |
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Great Photos, Gavin -
You brought back a lot of good memories! Thanks for sharing!!
Back in 1969 I was still teaching high school, and I spent that whole summer traveling around Europe. Forty-five years ago this week I was playing in a tennis tournament in Wengen, and they put up some of the better-known players in the big hotel in your second picture on 'Pics 3' (above) and most of us nobodies in a smaller hotel nearby; we all got our meals in the dining room of the big one.
One of the nicest things about Wengen - indeed, that whole area - is that internal combustion engines of any kind are absolutely verboten, so it's very quiet and peaceful. The only way to get there is either by electric train or a long, very steep hike; even the "golf carts" that transport people and luggage between the railway station and the hotels are electric.
Forty-five years ago today there was an incredible headline on Wengen's local newspaper - "MENNER IM MOND" - and people celebrated Mankind's achievement long into the night. Thankfully, things went better up there than the following illustration suggests:
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
p.s. Buzz Aldrin's daughter Janice was part of the gang of semi-senior citizens that I hung around with a few years ago.
I gave a framed copy of the above to her son Geoffrey as a present for his eighth or ninth birthday . . .
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 07/18/2019 09:10PM by Russo Loco.
You brought back a lot of good memories! Thanks for sharing!!
Back in 1969 I was still teaching high school, and I spent that whole summer traveling around Europe. Forty-five years ago this week I was playing in a tennis tournament in Wengen, and they put up some of the better-known players in the big hotel in your second picture on 'Pics 3' (above) and most of us nobodies in a smaller hotel nearby; we all got our meals in the dining room of the big one.
One of the nicest things about Wengen - indeed, that whole area - is that internal combustion engines of any kind are absolutely verboten, so it's very quiet and peaceful. The only way to get there is either by electric train or a long, very steep hike; even the "golf carts" that transport people and luggage between the railway station and the hotels are electric.
Forty-five years ago today there was an incredible headline on Wengen's local newspaper - "MENNER IM MOND" - and people celebrated Mankind's achievement long into the night. Thankfully, things went better up there than the following illustration suggests:
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
p.s. Buzz Aldrin's daughter Janice was part of the gang of semi-senior citizens that I hung around with a few years ago.
I gave a framed copy of the above to her son Geoffrey as a present for his eighth or ninth birthday . . .
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 07/18/2019 09:10PM by Russo Loco.
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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