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Boasts a 1950 German travel folder: "Hamburg has everything." To Germans from the shabby towns and the bombed-out cities, the statement seems true...
...Hamburg's opera is superb; its concert stage draws top musicians from all Europe. Night life is gaudier than anywhere north of Paris. The current stage hit, The Czardas Princess, 1950, a fast-paced musical, pokes fun at the Bonn government and the Allied High Commission for Germany (HICOG...
...dozens of nightclubs stretch along a half-mile of neon lights on the Reeperbahn. Seamen of all nations dance with heavily rouged "animation ladies," and pay Stork Club prices for flaccid German champagne. The rule at the Bal Paradox is that the women ask the men to dance. In Hamburg's railroad station is the Treffpunkt agency: for 25 marks ($5.95) a man can leaf through a photo album, select a girl, arrange a date. Says proud Treffpunkt Manager Max Pollack: "All my girls are high-class, and you'd be surprised how many of them find husbands...
...Double Blow. Hamburg has everything. Behind the tourist-trap front and the glitter lie wide acres of postwar rubble -physical and economic and spiritual...
...Hamburg is basically worse off than any big German city. Once Europe's greatest port, it throve because of two industries: shipping and shipbuilding...