An abandoned nine-pin bowling alley, somewhere in Germany 🇩🇪
The was built for nearby factory workers in the 1950s.
By the 1980s it was abandoned and left to decay. The wooden floorboards are now rotting and splintered, with sapling trees beginning to grow through the lanes.
https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/leisure/kegelbahn-gdr-nine-pin-bowling-alley-germany/
#Germany #Kegelbahn #EastGermany #Abandoned #History #LostPlaces #Bowling #NinePinBowling #Skittles
Being a German, seeing that typeface made me cringe. I was not aware that "Schaftstiefelgrotesk" was still used after WWII, even in the GDR, but obviously it was:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebrochene_Grotesk
Thank you for inspiring me.
@katzenberger
Aye, seems in the GDR it was still in use. A strange choice!
@ObsidianUrbex When I see this writing as a German, I get a very bad feeling. It reminds me so much the Nazi typography and "Arbeit macht frei", the cynism about concentration camps. But I remember that this typography was used until the 1960s in certain places ...
@NatureMC
Ah this is 1950s so think it's more old fashioned style like classic. But I understand what you mean 💙
@ObsidianUrbex That's how it seems to us today. In my childhood, I saw many of these places where the non-denazified Germans held their meetings and made this very clear through lettering. There was still so much stuffiness in Germany! It took the arrival of the 1968 generation to change that ...
