Anyone recognize this scene?
 

There was another half to it, but havn't come across that yet.

Marktstrasse, Bad Toelz...the Isar River would be behind the viewer, the Kasern would be to the front...the building on the left had a nice restaurant in it...

That's it LK. That is a Christmas card that we received from a good friend in Tolz after we got back to the States in the early 70's. Way back when you could drive down Marktstrasse. ;)

that's right around the area where i used to stand to watch Leonhardifahrt every year...

here's a link to check out...the terrain looks pretty familiar...

http://www.isartal-chapter.de/

nice photo, I was there in 1963 to 1965, brings back memories.

What a lovely town, beautiful people and great food. The eye candy as real nice at lunch time during the summer in the banks of the Isar.

Nice wintertime photo ! I like Tölz better in summertime... Today is a beautiful day, Bavarian blue skies and sunshine.

That is a stunning photograph. It looks like a candy or fantasy land!

How I miss Bad Tolz, the very best assignment in 28 years, 11 month, 09 days of active federal service.

Mike,


That is a GORGEOUS photo ! Thanks for posting it .

RC201

the photo doesn't do the place justice...it was a wonderful place to be, on the rare occasions i got to visit...the wife loved living there...

Beautiful. Looks almost fake it's so perfect!

It is an incredible little town. Somewhere, I have alot of negatives, I took. Much like that pic that Mike posted.

BTW lk.. I did check out that site you put up. Fantastic scenery. I`m also in the process of jump starting my German. Better get that dog of yours and you up to speed. ;) There is a German restaurant in this small town. Figure I can go in there and humiliate myself with my mastery of the German language. Hope they are a patient lot.

I sure do miss Germany at times! Sping is so beautiful there, it is unbelievable how much color jumps out of the grey post-winter season.


I also have a thing for Northern Italy but that is another story.

the dog will do fine...i can still say "Noch ein bier, bitte..."

wouldn't mind a nice German restaurant around here...i could go for a good wienerschnitzel or the like once in a while...Chinese gets a little old...

Yep! Always need to remember the most important part of a language lk. ;) I'm going to have to try everything on the menu. BTW. I was in Vegas a couple weeks ago. The day I was leaving, I came across the Hofbräuhaus. A replica of the one in Munich. Next trip, definately going to be in there. ;)

Looks like Disneyland to me.:D

TR

maybe next trip, you can give a brother a head's up...:rolleyes:

hmmm...no big mice, no Goofy dogs, no mice ears on the street sweepers...the only rides are on the Blomberg, but other than that, i see the similarity...;)

Ah Ha! SHOT 2008, in Vegas, Hofbräuhaus has gotta be better than the Thai place and Howl at the Moon. Time to get the Deutsche mehr besser, klar?

stimmt...

Gentlemen, I´m glad the photo brings back some good memories for you. Spring is moving in slowly. I took the motorcycle for a spin from Tölz to Oberammergau and back via Garmisch on Sunday.

I´d be happy to take my camera along next time and take some photos for you.

Mike

P.S. Here is a photo from Fasching on Marktstrasse in Tölz. A good time of the year for us, we collected well over 60 drivers licenses for DUI/DWI this year...:D

Well yeah TR. It hasn't had the 400 plus years of 'break in'. I helped with that in Munich. Need to start the process in the one in Vegas. ;)

I'll let you know the next time I head up to Vegas lk. Last trip I met my daughter who had come in from Denver with some friends for a long weekend. However, they had plans to do some clubbing or whatever with friends at night. They didn't need dad tagging along. So, I just partied with the Spring Break folks. ;)

That is a beautiful route Mike. I went to language school in Oberammergau. Fashing was a fun time. Can't remember. Is that the one, that at the end, one is supposed to wash out thier wallet in the Isar, cause they aren't supposed to have any money left?

It sure is ! I love riding up there. Nice and cool, even in summertime. NATO school is still up in Oberammergau. They do some language training in Garmisch as well. Friend of mine is a arabic Gulf, she was here from Ft. Hood for a language class not so long ago.

They still do the wallet washing stuff ! Too funny, when the Isar river is covered with ice and snow...:D

from Joe Hannon
 

I sent my friend Joe Hannon those pics you all posted and this was his reply...

Mike,

Most of the time I was on that street it was going to-coming from a couple
favoriate bars and I was blind with excitement or blind ass drunk!<g>
There's a bridge down further (behind you in the fasching picture) over the
Isar (Danube) and they have BIG brown trout in there that you can feed
brochen's too. Further up the hill, around the bend and on the right side
(towards Flint Kaserne) is the Polizie station.

The reason I know this particularly, is when you get drunk and you and your
pal decide your hungry and want "trout" to eat and you take one of those
old issued military net thingees that no one ever used and feed the fishies
some brouchen and then scoop up a bunch with that net . . . you go to the
Polizie jail and spend the night sleeping on a cement, cold assed bed. Then
next morning you attend a class and they tell you all about their
conservation laws n' shit and then someone from HQ's comes and gets you and
your on shit-detail and Kaserne arrest for about a month!<g>

Ah . . . the good ole' days where not much was "critical" but everything
good and fun was discouraged!

Joey The Honorabl

:D *laughing*

Thanks for sharing this ! I guess this is how alot of former SF from Flint feel.

It´s the Isar River River, it runs into the Danube, but that´s many many klicks further northeast, at Deggendorf, lower Bavaria.

It´s rainbow trouts in there, no brown trout.

You can still feed and fish them, and it´s still illegal without a fishing license.

The Polizei jail is equipped with comfy matrasses now. They rather make you pay a fine nowadays rather than have you crash one or two nights behind bars (the cost is up to US$110 per night, no breakfast either).:cool:

All other than that, it´s pretty much the same over here. Would be alot nicer with Flint Kasere and the QP´s around though....:(

OK, some more pics for those who care. Took the motorcycle for a 250 mile spin from Munich to Tölz, Oberammergau, Garmisch, Fernpass, Reutte in Tirol to Kempten/Allgäu and back to Tölz.

Thought I´d share some photos with ya´ll.

Sure, rub it in Mike, everybody is looking at the pictures wishing they were there, including me. I left there about 41 years ago and one of these days I may go back.

I've wandered a similar route....Kempten/Allgau is gorgeous this time of year. Sure do miss that.

Jene Berge sind das Treppenhaus zum Himmel. Sind sie nicht?

Sorry for rubbin´ it in Joe. When you come for a visit the first 5 Weissbier are on me. Promise. :D

@Ret10Echo: You are right, the Allgäu is a very beautiful area. We ride the bikes down there quite often, from Munich to Kempten, Memmingen, on to Lindau and the Bodensee. This is the perfect time of the year. Makes me a little sad that I´m leaving for Colorado on Saturday...:)

Rogue, das sind sie wirklich. Ich brauche die Berge, egal ob in Bayern oder in den USA.

Photos: Munich City Hall,
Riding the BMW in the Allgäu Alps,
my 2 Ponys

My father's family is from Bad Beuren, and my mother's family is from Saltzburg. So yes, Ich liebe die Berge auch!

Dann verstehe ich das gut ! Too bad there are no significant mountains in Ohio...;)

Die schönste Szene, die immer in meinem Verstand haftet, ist die Linie der Berge, die, Sie beim Fahren von Munchen zu Saltsburg sehen.

That´s right, down A8 towards Chiemsee, Bad Aibling to your left, the Alps to your right. I used to drive down there twice a week, until they closed Bad Aibling Station in 2003 and moved the equipment elsewhere...

Have you ever ridden the cable car up the mountain just outside of Saltzburg?

What a beautiful site. My mother had edelweiss flowers pressed in a book which she had picked on that mountain when she was a child.

One of my favorite places to visit.

Which one ? There are several cable cars around Salzburg. I did go up to the Hohensalzburg Fortress a couple of times. Beautiful overlook of the town... There are some others on he surrounding mountains as well (I think there is a total of 128 cable cars in the area).

Picking Edelweiss flowers get you into jail these days. ;)

We´ve been going down to Salzburg since 30 years. It didn´t change much. Thank God.

Untersberg. Last time I was there, we spent the day on the mountain, then spent the evening at a B&B in Seekirchen. Lebergnoedel soupe for dinner and lots of Weitzenbeer.

Nichts in dieser Welt mögen einen Weitzenbeer Kater.

Ah, Untersberg. Das ist auf der deutschen Seite, nicht auf der österreichischen. ;)

Weizenbier, or Weissbier as we call it in Bavaria, is my favorite too. Especially the dunkle Weissbier. A Leberknödelsuppe goes perfect with that, along with a couple of frische Brez´n. :cool:

Dang, now I´m hungry.... :D

Been back and forth...
 

a cupple times. Really liked Germany.

If you look close at the two photos on page 1, they're taken from very nearly the exact spot, some 30-40 years later looks like. The statue looks like it changed a bit and of course, the seasons different, but the rooftops are the same.......

Pretty impressive.....:munchin

Yeah, that's what I like about Germany. The buildings (including the roofs) are built to last. It's more expensive to build this way, but houses last a hundret years or longer.