Checkpoint Charlie
Americannoun
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The East Side Gallery in Friedrichshain; the long stretch of the Berlin Wall that is clad in colorful iconic images; and the Wall Museum near Checkpoint Charlie: These sites all get ample visitors.
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2019
Today, tourists flood sites such as Checkpoint Charlie, the wall’s most recognizable crossing point, to have their pictures taken with actors in military costume.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2018
I was in West Berlin the following morning; I went to Checkpoint Charlie, my usual crossing point into East Berlin, to catch the train back to Krakow.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 24, 2016
Explain if that he is undermining the very basis of your marriage, and you cannot continue to feel as if your own home is the equivalent of Checkpoint Charlie.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2015
Sergeant Michael Rafferty was guarding Checkpoint Charlie, the precise spot where US and Soviet tanks had faced off three decades earlier when the Wall first went up.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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