No Smoking

[joerookery]

I thought I would share something I got yesterday. All of the social historians discuss off-limits areas in Berlin as well as three streets where allegedly you could not smoke. This was done to maintain the image. Most of the off-limits areas had political overtones with the intent of keeping soldiers away from the SPD.

This small 30 page booklet lists the street addresses of off-limits establishments and the areas where you could not smoke during the day. The off-limits areas and no smoking areas were a great deal more prevalent than I was led to believe. There were a heck of a lot of them. Interesting little piece of history.