QUEENSLAND'S GERMAN CONNECTIONS - PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

BERLIN: now and then Friedrichstrasse (without the ‘scharfes-S’) is once more a lively and bustling north-south axis in the centre of Germany’s capital city, after its years of east-west

division through the Cold War, the main image taken from the same Friedrichstraße S-Bahn bridge in the 1913 postcard view below.

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BRISBANE: now and then Petrie Bight, once lined with wharves serving international and interstate shipping and base for the city’s tugboat fleet, is now straddled by the iconic Story Bridge, and cruise vessels and the popular CityCat high-speed ferries are the principal river traffic; the city’s skyline has changed and grown since the main image was made, but it’s an excellent contrast with the 1895 postcard.

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