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To: Jim Noble

I remember when the exchange rate was four German marks to the dollar. 1960s.


4 posted on 03/12/2015 8:15:59 PM PDT by Pelham (The refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: Pelham
I remember when the exchange rate was four German marks to the dollar. 1960s.

It was 1.72 when I got there, in 1980. Many GIs were driving old clunker cars. When I left in 1984, it was 2.37, and the old clunkers had virtually disappeared from the Autobahns. Everyone seemed to remember the exchange rates when they arrived and when they left.

16 posted on 03/12/2015 9:10:57 PM PDT by Mark17 (Calvary's love has never faltered, all it's wonder still remains. Souls still take eternal passage)
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To: Pelham

So do I, and Helles Beer was two Mark in Burghausen.


18 posted on 03/12/2015 9:50:24 PM PDT by 353FMG
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And a Stange of beer at Oktoberfest in Munich was 50 pfennig.


22 posted on 03/12/2015 10:07:38 PM PDT by SteveH
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