[city/history] 1989

I don't remember the fall of the Berlin Wall. (To be fair, I wasn't even one at the time.) My associations with the Wall are the CHECKPOINT CHARLIE sign a friend of mine had in his dorm room, the East Berlin-themed restaurant in the Mission, and the Soviet-era map we had on my fifth-grade classroom wall. ("Is that all Russia?" someone asked the teacher. He stared at it and said, "You know, I hadn't even noticed it was wrong until now. No, hon, not anymore." I was extremely disappointed; that would obviously have made an awesome coloring section in geography.)

( I do remember, however, the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake. )