Photo treasures: munich in the 60s, 70s and 80s

Historical pictures Photo treasures: Munich in the 60s, 70s and 80s

A city in the course of the decades: Here is another episode of the AZ series Photo treasures of the AZ readers – it is astonishing what is slumbering in boxes or slide boxes. Have fun traveling through time!

Munich – The AZ series "Photo treasures of AZ readers" It goes on: And it is a special journey through time that you, dear AZ readers, give us here: They all dug out photos from everyday life in Munich, found them somewhere at home, which show scenes and corners from Munich, all of which have long been Have disappeared. Or just captured a few unforgettable moments.

Many thanks to everyone! Do you also have photos from everyday city life that illustrate Munich in past decades? Send them to us! It is best to send the photos digitally to: leserfoto @ az- muenchen.de or – if you prefer by post – to: Abendzeitung, Garmischer Straße 35, 81373 Munich. thank you very much!

1961 on Guldeinstrasse

AZ reader Isolde Schneck found some wonderful photos.

Inspired by your series, here are a few photos from my childhood: The whole picture was taken at Westend in Munich, at Guldeinstrasse 43; the recordings should have been from 1961, since after that our relatives from the GDR could no longer come to visit – see the picture in front of the house.

To the photo in the courtyard:

I play badminton, my three year younger brother (the one with the lederhosn) watches. The picture was taken in front of the back building, still with reference to the air-raid shelter ("LR"). We have been living in Wolnzach for over 30 years now, but the connection to my Munich has never been broken. And when I feel the longing for Munich, I get on the train, I’ll be there in 34 minutes – our mom (now 90 years old) still lives in Munich. An absolute must for me, my son and his girlfriend is a visit to the Oktoberfest. I have missed the Oktoberfest twice in my life (Benedikt was born in September 1994 and 2017 I ever got a new knee). When I was two, I was still in the stroller in the Bavaria cellar (my deceased dad always told me that) and watched the goings-on at the Oktoberfest (at that time, strollers were still completely forbidden at the Oktoberfest.) Kind regards from Wolnzach!

Oktoberfest 1973

There were actually times when photos were still something special – also at the Oktoberfest: Photo shooting was one of those rare opportunities to take a memory of the festival with you. AZ reader Margot Kleber has such a memory: September 30, 1973. You can see her at the age of 22 – her first friend at the time hit the bull’s eye.

Stachus: 1970, Marienplatz: 1960

AZ reader Manfred Westhoff (78) also rummaged – and unearthed two real photo treasures: On the one hand, this is a photo of the Stachus as a large construction site, taken in 1970. It looks chaotic, but the S-Bahn and Stachus building work Perfection. The second picture:

The 1er at the tram stop on Marienplatz – exactly where the reconstructed Old Town Hall Tower is today. Otherwise: A lot of traffic in the old town! "I took the photos, we lived in Munich at a young age", writes Manfred Westhoff, who is now with his Mrs lives in Waldkraiburg and has been a loyal reader of the evening newspaper since he was 18.
Thank you very much for that!

1972: opening of the pedestrian zone

AZ reader Rosemarie Popp (76) also left Munich – to Aham near Landshut, where she built a house with her husband Ludwig. Of course, she stayed deep in the heart of Munich and sent us photos from the early 1970s. Seen here: a family trip to the newly opened pedestrian zone in 1972. In front of the Michaelskirche and the (long gone) Pschorr halls, Ludwig Popp poses on the shoulder with daughter Claudia, who turns 50 this year. Of course, their son was also born in Munich. Thank you very much for that!

Old town in the 60s

Thomas Muencke writes: Scanned slides from my grandmother’s estate. My maternal grandmother lived in Elisabethstrasse with her husband and four children after the war. I believe that the slides are not from her, but from her friend. She spent a lot of time with her in the 1950s and 1960s. The girlfriend apparently had money and, in addition to a car, also had photographic equipment and roamed through Munich. I myself discovered the photo treasures ten years ago when I tidied up my basement and opened a suitcase in which there were also a few slides in addition to film rolls.

Out of the car

AZ reader Jock Saller has been driving a taxi for 40 years to enable himself to be an artist as a freelance painter and his painting trips to Turkey, Afghanistan and the Sahara. His photo series was created in 1980/81. "I made portraits of my passengers with their consent as well as photos of the city, always from the perspective of the driver", Jock Saller writes to us. There are still around 70 prints in 18×24 format. You can see scenes from the old Riemer airport, from the Stachus or from the Oktoberfest one day after the 1980 attack. And always from the driver’s perspective from the taxi.