[HN Gopher] People in 1920s Berlin Nightclubs Flirted via Pneuma... ___________________________________________________________________ People in 1920s Berlin Nightclubs Flirted via Pneumatic Tubes Author : jakobdabo Score : 65 points Date : 2023-07-24 20:54 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.atlasobscura.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.atlasobscura.com) | foobiekr wrote: | For RPGers, this is one of the many elements from that time that | show up in "Berlin: The Wicked City" for Call of Cthulhu. It | doesn't get the attention that it deserves as a module and | setting. Weimar Berlin is practically mythos-tastic in and of | itself. | zokier wrote: | > It doesn't get the attention that it deserves as a module and | setting. Weimar Berlin is practically mythos-tastic in and of | itself. | | I suspect weimar berlin is just pretty difficult setting to | utilize; in particular you would be trying to draw inspiration | from and evoke art/media of the time, which in this case would | be stuff like German expressionist cinema and modernist | literature which do not have exactly mass-market appral, | compared to e.g. victorian era works. | dmonitor wrote: | i can imagine why people aren't so enthusiastic about role | playing early 20th century germans | rodgerd wrote: | Germany, up until the rise of the Nazis, was a popular | destination for Eastern Jews fleeing pogroms, a centre of | sexuality research, cutting-edge culture for music and film. | | We should do a better job of remembering that, because the | reason none of that survives is "the Nazis murdered | everyone". Particularly given the direct adoption of Nazi-era | phraseology in modern political movements. | jojobas wrote: | The other side of the coin is that it was so corrupt and | depraved that the Nazis almost seemed like an adequate | reaction. | INGSOCIALITE wrote: | I can't reply to the post below yours for some reason so | I'll hijack here... | | In 1923 at the height of hyperinflation the price of a | loaf of bread was 100 billion marks, compared to 1 mark | just 4 years prior. | femiagbabiaka wrote: | Luxembergism was the adequate reaction, the Nazi Party, | even at that time, was just as corrupt and depraved. | Gabriel_Martin wrote: | What point are you making here exactly? | rodgerd wrote: | "The Holocaust was good because gays, homosexuals, and | jazz shouldn't exist" is a very Nazi take. | Gabriel_Martin wrote: | Every other day I hear a reactionary takes on behaviors | that would have been called "sexual bolshevism" at the | time. Scary times. | jojobas wrote: | Are you using the term Bolshevism in a positive sense, | seriously? | TillE wrote: | RPG setting books can be a ton of fun even if you're not into | roleplaying per se. I picked up one of the AD&D Lankhmar books | as a kid, and while I love Fritz Leiber, reading those books | can immerse you in a richly detailed world in a way that | Leiber's original work doesn't quite do. | | That probably applies even more to Lovecraft, who's one of my | favorite writers, but I know plenty of people who don't like | his writing but are really into Call of Cthulhu and other | Mythos stuff. | notahacker wrote: | This sounds like just the Hyperloop crossover to relaunch er... X | with. | ethbr0 wrote: | The early Blue Man Group [0] shows off-Broadway (before they were | the Intel guys) were billed as "Blue Man/Tubes" | | They'd run corrugated pipe from each seat in the theater to the | waiting hall. | | Which meant that while you were waiting for the next show, you | could talk to someone who was watching the current show. | | Was pretty neat. | | PS: Also walked out of the show with a nice black eye, after my | pre-teen self went down in the final toilet paper wave and caught | the heel of the guy in front of me. Still worth it! | | [0] E.g. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R1N_r2J5hek | xwdv wrote: | Oh yea this is a lot of fun imagine a club where there's color | coded phones on the wall based on what you're looking for and | when you pick one up you are connected to someone else on the | other end and you can talk and maybe meet up with them if you | like what you hear. | Mizoguchi wrote: | Du wunschst shakin' das bootie, ja? | hh3k0 wrote: | Das muss das Bootie abkonnen! | CPLX wrote: | Oh yeah? In NYC in the early 2000's we used crude little close | circuit TV things. | | Anyone remember the Remote Lounge? | doctorhandshake wrote: | Came here to ask if anybody remembered the name of this place. | butterisgood wrote: | I love getting pneumail! | FirmwareBurner wrote: | Amazon is announcing the new Pneumail Prime Cannon, it fires | your orders directly from the van mounted turret, across your | fence and into your living room through your window. | Jun8 wrote: | This is a titillating combination of remote (don't know the | person) and in-person (you can see them _right there_ across the | room. Something that's impossible to recreate with Tender, etc. | | There are two fatal flaws to the system that's described in the | article and the more recent examples mentioned the comments, | though: (1) first call takes all, you wouldn't know how many | people would be interested in you; and (2) denial of date, where | your first caller can keep you on the call indefinitely, ruining | your chances with others. | | And what if you receive no calls in a reasonable amount of time, | e.g., 10 minutes? In a modern implementation one of these call- | less people can be chosen at random and displayed on a big | screen, to increase their chances. | | I would totally go to a club like this, both the 20s Charleston | version or a 80s version. | billyoh wrote: | Reminds me, there was a nightclub in Newcastle-upon-Tyne way back | in the 1980s which had a telephone on each table. If you fancied | someone on another table you'd dial their table phone and strike | up a chat. Can't remember the name of the club but it was on | Market Street somewhere. Good times! | Luc wrote: | Tuxedo Junction | gonzo wrote: | The club in Newcastle was Tuxedo Junction. | | there was a short-lived clone of same in Las Vegas in the | early/mid 1980s as well. | mikrl wrote: | Now you have Digital, in the same complex that houses a biotech | research lab (the Life Sciences Centre, formerly the Centre for | Life) | comprev wrote: | Basically an exchange trading pit but with music :-) | daggersandscars wrote: | The US Max & Erma's restaurant chain had this in the '80s as | well. | A6gYPfxNas wrote: | Sounds way better tbh | nicbou wrote: | Berlin had one of the largest pneumatic mail systems in the | world. A (highly recommended) Berlin Unterwelten tour covers it. | There is still a big, beautiful Rohrpost building in Mitte close | to the big Synagogue. | | The Real store at Leopoldplatz has a pneumatic tube system that | reaches every cash register. You can see the tubes go up and | along the ceiling. I believe that it's one of the failed Walmart | stores from their disastrous attempts to conquer the German | market. | notyourwork wrote: | Shucks, I was in Berlin last week, I wish I'd known this. Next | time I'll try to take this tour! ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-07-24 23:00 UTC)