West Berlin Bethaniendamm in 1986.

The Berlin Wall on Boyenstrasse in 1979. The street had been completely demolished, both sides. Tank traps run along the 'no mans zone' behind the wall.

West Berlin 1979. The Allied Checkpoint, 'Checkpoint Charlie', on Friedrichstrasse. At this time, Berlin was officially still an occupied city. In the west, the US, the British and the French had their sectors, and in the East, the Russians.

The Berlin Wall on Zimmerstrasse in 1979. The guard in the tower is looking straight at me with his binoculars. The guards also used to photograph people occasionally. There's probably some pictures of me in the Stasi archives taking a picture of them taking a picture of me.

West Berlin 1979. The shop on the corner of Kochstrasse, with Checkpoint Charlie in the distance.

Kranzlers Café on the Ku'damm 1980. Early morning, not yet open. This was a café with waitress service, which could be really slow. 20 minutes to get your coffee! They had a good range of cakes, though.

West Berlin Lietzenburger Str. sign 1979. I took this frame simply to remind me of where the photos on this roll of film had been taken. The house visible behind is 87 Lietzenburger Strasse. The side wall seen here was decorated in 1994 with a mural of a gigantic chessboard. ‘Loretta’, a biergarten, had been established on the empty site next to it. New buildings now occupy this space.

East Berlin seen from the West in 1979. Sometimes a dome of yellow smog hung over the city when trapped there by atmospheric conditions. It caught your throat as soon as you left Friedrichstrasse Bahnof.

In December 1930, Christopher Isherwood finally settled into an apartment, at Nollendorfstrasse 17 in the Schöneberg district. He lived there with Jean Ross, the model for his most famous character, the capricious nightclub singer and aspiring actress Sally Bowles, who captivated him with her “air of not caring a curse what people thought of her.”

From "Looking for Isherwood’s Berlin" By Rachel B. Doyle, New York Times article, April 14, 2013

West Berlin Nollendorfstrasse in 1979. My first trip to Berlin, and this is the first place I wanted to photograph.

East Berlin 1979. The Reichstag in the distance, just beyond the Berlin Wall in West Berlin. I was stopped from taking pictures here by 2 DDR police.

West Berlin 1980. The Reichstag building had been restored after World War II, but had no government function at this date. It housed a permanent exhibition on German history, and a restaurant for visitors and tourists. The Berlin Wall ran directly behind it, which can just be seen on the right in my photograph.

West Berlin 1985. Schwarzenegger at the UFA-Palast.

The Brandenburg Gate and the Berlin Wall in 1982.

Tucholskystraße 30 Berlin, 2017.

Berlin Reichstagsufer 1990. The street going off right is Bunsenstrasse, and the railway station in the distance is Friedrichstrasse Bahnhof.

Hygiene-Institut, Otto-Grotewohl-Strasse East Berlin, 1990.