[Rhodes22-list] Andrew, Chris & Munich

Sun Oct 5 22:47:30 EDT 2008

DOH! Make that head WEST a couple of weeks, follow my original directions
and you can do the Dr. Livingston routine.  My Bad.

kChris
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Geankoplis" <napoli68 at charter.net>
To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 7:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Andrew, Chris & Munich

Hey Andrew,
        That sounds like a plan.  Keep your roots on both sides of the
family!  Shoot, just head east for a couple of weeks and bam, you are in the
Carribean or head NE and the Med is your playground!  Have fun, don't worry
about the skills you'll have lots of opportunities to learn.

Oh, I gotta tell you a story about Munich.  Adolph Hitler paid for my
education, both schoolasticly and nautically.  Seems that McGraw Kasern was
originally a Reich's Zollmaster's base and they strored all that creepy shit
in the Kasern.  When the U.S army came in they cleaned it out and dumped the
big stuff in the park and made a couple of sled hills.  For the rest of the
small stuff, they built a couple of walls at the bottom of the 2nd level
basement stairwell and dumped it all down there along with about 50% dirt,
the stuff was mostly belt buckels and pins, buttons etc., all political.  I
had to get a crew of Italians to break up the slab that had been pored over
the stuff to fix a broken sewer line. (some one flushed an M-80 down the
john).  I had met a couple of retired GI's who were the ones who dumped the
stuff so I knew it was there and since I was incharge of this kind of repair
should someone flush a M-80 down the toilet I knew it would be my job.  Long
story short, the American G.It's paid top dollar for the crap and I made
enough $ to pay for 3 semesters at *US of M Munich and pay for my sailing in
Greece.  With my anti-Fasciest education I know I must make Der Fuerer spin
in, well where ever he is in Hell.

Chris
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Collins" <sailingvesselcarmen at gmail.com>
To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 6:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Politics - Hitler Youth

Chris

God willing and the river don't rise we will split our time between Spain
and NYC if and when I get to retire. My wife is from Tenerife, Canary
Islands. What I've been looking at is the sailing there, which is very
different from LI Sound, which is basically a lake with tides. There the
bottom drops fast and it is all blue water and one needs skills that I do
not think I have yet, a seaworthy keel boat, a convenient port and lots of
money. I've talked to people who have sailed fron island to island, and this
is real sailing, no day sails. Maybe chartering is a way to get one's feet
wet.
Getting back to Germany, we are going to a family reunion this coming July
in and around Munich so my kids can meet my cousins and their kids, which
will be fun.

Good beer will flow! Prost!

Andrew
s/v Carmen

On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Chris Geankoplis
<napoli68 at charter.net>wrote:

> How Neat Andrew,
>                            I was only there about 2 or three years but I
> loved it and met my wife of 35 years there.  You seemed to have adapted,
> any
> chance of retiring way back east?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Collins" <sailingvesselcarmen at gmail.com>
> To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>  Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 2:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Politics - Hitler Youth
>
>
> Chris
>
> The short version is that my father was billeted on the top floor of my
> mother's house in Riedenburg (near Nuernberg) right after WWII. One thing
> led to another and my father, who is Texan but doesn't like it there,
ended
> up working for Radio Free Europe in Munich. It was a great place to grow
> up.
>
> Over the years I have met many ex-Gastarbeiter from all over, Italy,
> Turkey,
> Greece.
> We all ended up here in 1970, ostensibly coming home, but for myself and
my
> brother and sister it was moving to a new country, we spoke the language
> and
> knew something of life here but man was it different!
>
> Andrew
>
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 1:50 AM, Chris Geankoplis
> <napoli68 at charter.net>wrote:
>
> > So Andrew, how did you end up in Munich.  I was a gast arbeiter and went
> to
> > school there, met my wife there.  Drank too much bier and am told I
> didn't
> > do so well at school...but I don't remember.
> >
> > Chris
> >  ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Andrew Collins" <sailingvesselcarmen at gmail.com>
> > To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 5:36 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Politics - Hitler Youth
> >
> >
> > Brad
> >
> > You made my day.  Use that dieresis ( two dots above a vowel)!  I grew
up
> > in
> > Munich and know the region well.
> >
> > Prost!
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Andrew,
> > >
> > > Grüß Gott
> > >
> > > I haven't figured out that "omelet" thingy yet.
> > >
> > > Brad
> > >
> > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Andrew Collins
> > > <sailingvesselcarmen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Brad
> > > >
> > > > It is *Bad Tölz!*
> > > > Andrew
> > > > sv Carmen
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> You've heard the story here before.  The book "Last Days of Patton"
> by
> > > >> Ladislas Farago mentions a Hans Weindl in the acknowledgments and
> > > >> tells the story of Hans in the first chapter remembering Patton
> > > >> driving through Bad Tolz with the claxon horns blaring.  Bad Tolz
> was
> > > >> the site of the SS training camp and was headquarters for Patton
> after
> > > >> WW2 until his death.  Hans (now deceased) was the step-father of my
> > > >> ex-wife and we vacationed every year in Bad Tolz. Hans and I got
> into
> > > >> a lot of trouble together combining long nights, German beer, and
> war
> > > >> stories.  His father was Chief of Police of Bad Tolz and when Hans
> > > >> came home from a Hitler Youth meeting in the closing days of the
war
> > > >> with an antiquated rifle, his father took away his gun and locked
> him
> > > >> in the attic until the American tanks rolled into town.  Where was
I
> > > >> going with this?  Oh yeah, it is official now.  This thing has
> morphed
> > > >> into a freaking cult.
> > > >>
> > > >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW9b0xr06qA
> > > >>
> > > >> Brad
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