Berlin Wall Extravaganza

Berlin Wall Extravaganza

When the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989, the “Iron Curtain” rose, everything was pretty much cool. It got me thinking, what happened to the wall? Was it simply demolished, crushed into pieces, made into a skate park in the Ukraine? Were segments of the wall showcased around the world to remind future generations of what happened?

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Luckily for adventurers of the Offbeat Frontier and wall enthusiasts, chunks of the Berlin Wall are scattered all over the globe, +60 plus sites. Thirty-seven are in the U.S. (Note: 27 hold up the Ronald Regan Presidential Library). But of those thirty-seven, only one conveys the sense of capitalism's triumph over communism.

Main Street Station Berlin Wall Urinal

The Main Street Station Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada gives you (sorry ladies, only men) the opportunity to urinate on the Berlin Wall (There’s a urinal attached to the section of the Berlin Wall, but it still counts!). Each time you flush, you can hear Nikita Khrushchev cry out, “NOOOO!” in the ether.

Only in Vegas. I could only take two pictures in the men’s room because I had already been kicked out of three hotels earlier that weekend. Didn’t want to push it.

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