thanks folks for the translation. In retrospect i'm sure it would have gone much better had i caught the drivers attention and pointed to my camcorder asking if its ok to film.
tomas, can u translate what he said. At that point he stopped the tram, and signalled me to get off. All I could figure out is that he didnt appreciate me filming the drivers compartment of his tram.
am so glad, based on feedback from viewers of my Szczecin visit as well as other places in and outside of Germany, am now so glad I not only had a camcorder to record these visits but am so glad I chose to share these via Youtube.
its the numerous people who have viewed this post and made comments like barabara's that makes me so glad I took the time to both make and post my travel tapes. Glad you all enjoy watching.
Great movie! In 1991 Iwas six, but I remembert this old red tram (btw. this tram was made from wood - upper part). And fantastic is picture of the currently builded in '91 radisson SAS and PŻM center. Wow, thanks for memories!
i would love to see Szczecin as well as many other places I visited in the 1990s but unfortunately will probably never do unless I hit it big in the Lotto. Back tehn I was working for the US Air Force in Berlin and it was easy to travel around during vacation time, weekends etc. Would have liked to have seen more of Poland, but for caandians a one time visa was about DM75.-, whereas for Czeckoslovakia for teh same amount I could get a 3 month multi entry visa, so I mostly went there.
Very nice movie, I almost forgot how gray and grim this city was. As You are famous now, You must visit Szczecin again. Thanks for this trip to the past:)
Awesome video! Thank you very much for taking us on that nostalgic trip. Stettin (it´s ok to use that name btw, even some Poles use this) became a modern city, a lot of things have changed now (the Castle and the Cathedral are renovated, the Old Town was build up). I´m sure you wouldn´t recognize the most of it right now. You should come and take a look again. By 2013 at the latest when the final of Europe´s biggest sail races ("Tall Ship Races") takes place in Szczecin.
Great nostalgic movie. Szczecin get change from that time, maybe it's a great moment to make a return and see how it's look now. BTW World War II construction streets are hilarius :)
HI- you say " german style train station, and the polish style train station is different" . There is no such a thing as "german style" and "polish style" train stations - we have had 50 yrs of communism due to war started by Nazis & soviets, our "polish style" as you say was not something we have invented, so I think your words are inapprioprate.
you may be totally right in my choice of words being inapporpriate, and older style stations and newer style stations might have been a better choice. In many countries you can see how train station and platform archetecture changes over time. But believe me I was not trying to send a political message of any kind. There might be other word choices that could have been better, but one doesnt always say things in the best ways.
@marcin060482 It has nothing to do with Nazis/communists. Architecture on the once-German territories (Pomerania, Lower Silesia, Eastern Prussia and Greater Poland) has specific style, different from the south-eastern part of Poland: lot of neogothic, prussian buildings, high, richly-ornamented townhouses
You have no idea how nostalgic this is to me. Also, "Hamburger House" is now a KFC (for a lot of years now) which is a damn shame. The BigMac-esque burgers they served there were insanely good :) Thank you for this nostalgic trip ! Oh and don't worry about saying "Stettin". Most foreigners use that name because it's easier to pronounce, so it's quite understandable. Cheers!
Thanks a lot for uploading this... Kinda funny that only strangers are able to capture such moments in time. And indeed, a lot has changed. You're more than welcome to visit Szczecin again :)
When i walk these streets everyday i don't notice any changes, but when i'm looking at this video it's really amazing how some parts drastically changed and some remained the same.
OMG! This is brilliant!!!!I left Szczecin 12 years ago but visit my parents regularly. I was 17 in 1991 and remember all greyness too well! Feeling very nostalgic now....
all those good comments are making me blush. Glad you all enjoy them. Could not have imagined when I took this video 20 years ago, that it would do some good today.
now You are very famous - local branch one of biggest Polish daily newspapers "Gazeta Wyborcza" make some info about Your movie - expect tomorrow even more comments - i hope mostly good and positive.
thanks for letting me know. I both feel like blushing and wishing I had shot more and better footage. I'm sure there are lots of people in Szezecin had had also film cameras or camcorders and took films at this time. Maybe this will encourage some of them to also bring them out.
I was born in Szczecin, and I was just 14 when you took that video, and I still can remember these places, but now Szczecin looks sooooo much different!!! By the way, thank you for that video!
Took another look at the video myself, and can now see why many people from the area enjoy watching it. It is probably unnecessary but I thought I should point out that me calling it Stettin is not to make a political statement but that my German/Canadian mind does not even want to try to pronounce a word that starts with Szcz ...
how about saying it like SHCHEZIN? :) great video. it was '91 so not very long after the big break up with comunism so we can see how and why it looks how it looks.
it is very important part of Polish history - so called "transformations" - after restoring independence (i mean full independence) - many of youth simply don't know how it looks previously - those old trams are not in use present days - one or two are stored in Transportation museum which have few nice things (like Stoewer cars - Stettin car manufacturer brand).
Thx for restoring those memories - a bit gray and sad days but for sure worth to remember.
At similar way - we can observe totally different clothes (who remember the cheap, turkish sweaters like on this movie?), cars on the streets, streetcars, etc... And the main improvement which is visible on first look - Szczecin isn't so gray as on this movie. New bulidings, and renovated building enters with colors to the city center, and thanks of that our city doesn't looks so sad. Is there somebody, who tell me so Szczecin haven't evolved?
All what can I say is - great job! Your movie shows how Polish cities evolved during last 20 years. On your movie we can see f.e. "wild capitalism" in Poland, just few months after the change from comunism. Today our street markets looks (in many cases, but of course not always) totally different. When we look on the buildings - many of them are renovated, in many places we can see newly designed shopping centers, hotels, apartments, office bulidings, etc.
Photographing or filming trams/buses can still be quite unpleasant if you don't like to be shouted ;) Drivers sometimes think that you'll send a photo showing him smoking/talking to friend/whatever to his employer and then he will be fired.
@ziegenhagenm there is really nothing worth to be translated, basicly polish comment is about using this video on a popular stettin-based historcial website
"Zaklad, ze ten zlodziej Bis Arkadiusz ukradnie to na swoj portalik?"
He (comment author) bet that this movie soon will be stolen by Arkadiusz Bis (person - founder sedina.pl site dedicated to mostly German old historic Szczecin - accordingly to commen author Arkadiusz Bis is a thief) and placed on this portal ie on sedina.pl .
@pandy071 if it serves a useful purpose i dont mind.
long as it doesnt try to play as Szczecin should be German or anything like that, since that is ancient history as far as I and most people are concerned.
@ziegenhagenm personally i am somewhat proud that the city was once German - thanks to this it is different from other polish towns - we have beautiful urban planning and that specific architecture which can't be found in the eastern parts of the country (just like it was said in the video about the train station).
so this is point of view form author of the comments (i think)
sedina.pl is a place when lot of people think that Szczecin should be German and Germans have more rights to claim that Szczecin is old, German city.
Always have mixed emotions on this but this is not a place to discuss on this.
History of Szczecin means that for almost 300 yrs. it was German city, now it is Polish city and Poles are responsible how Szczecin looks. I hope that each year it will more and more nicer.
@pandy071 I don't think that is true. Sedina forumers cares of german as well as polish heritage of Stettin, none of them really thinks that the city >should be< German once again - of course we are aware that much of the city's potential are wasted now, but it's getting better all the time. Few more years and the city will look as splendid as it was in the old times :)
I dont want to start disscussion about history - however on sedina you can see that lot of people "think" in the way i described.
Szczecin amongst centuries first was own - ie quite independent Duchy capital - thus with time it lost independence to be Polish, German, Danish, Swedish, German, Polish - this is history.
I hope that city will be better which each year and this is important for me.
things today to be a whole lot different incl teh money. If I recall when I went it was about 700,000 Zloty for DM 50.- Btw, I think I really upset someone - I was filming in the streetcar when the driver stopped, started shouting at me and pointed to the door and wasnt happy til I got off his tram.
glad you liked what I meant purely as a historical document,. Would expect things today to be a whole lot different incl teh money. If I recall when I went it was about 700,000 Zloty for DM 50.- Btw, I think I really upset someone - I was filming in the streetcar when the driver stopped, started shouting at me and pointed to the door and wasnt happy til I got off his tram.
thanks folks for the translation. In retrospect i'm sure it would have gone much better had i caught the drivers attention and pointed to my camcorder asking if its ok to film.
ziegenhagenm 2 weeks ago
tomas, can u translate what he said. At that point he stopped the tram, and signalled me to get off. All I could figure out is that he didnt appreciate me filming the drivers compartment of his tram.
ziegenhagenm 1 month ago
@ziegenhagenm I asked someone who speaks Polish and he said the driver said "hello" . Maybe it wasn´t meant to get you off the tram?
Klingl3r 1 month ago
@ziegenhagenm , He just said one word "halo". He was surprised that he was recorded and reacted a bit foolish. Nowadays it would not happen.
tomaszkajor 2 weeks ago
21:10 the driver's reaction. Hehehehe
tomaszkajor 1 month ago
am so glad, based on feedback from viewers of my Szczecin visit as well as other places in and outside of Germany, am now so glad I not only had a camcorder to record these visits but am so glad I chose to share these via Youtube.
ziegenhagenm 2 months ago
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bartekgitara 2 months ago
glad you liked (had to use translation program but got what you said.)
ziegenhagenm 2 months ago
Kurczę, zupełnie, jakbym przeniósł się w czasie:) Szczecin mojego wczesnego dzieciństwa. Niewiele się tu zmieniło. Pozdrawiam:)
DonKulerone90 2 months ago
Totally blowing mind off! Thanks for the video. It looks like it's made precisely for Youtube. Amassing!
poeta2000POL 3 months ago
Hey, thanks for sharing this! :)
It was a nice nostalgia trip... :)
Finlandzki 4 months ago
i also just posted a 5 min clip of brief visit to Warsaw in 1993
ziegenhagenm 4 months ago
its the numerous people who have viewed this post and made comments like barabara's that makes me so glad I took the time to both make and post my travel tapes. Glad you all enjoy watching.
ziegenhagenm 4 months ago
Great movie! In 1991 Iwas six, but I remembert this old red tram (btw. this tram was made from wood - upper part). And fantastic is picture of the currently builded in '91 radisson SAS and PŻM center. Wow, thanks for memories!
barbarakaniewska 4 months ago
i would love to see Szczecin as well as many other places I visited in the 1990s but unfortunately will probably never do unless I hit it big in the Lotto. Back tehn I was working for the US Air Force in Berlin and it was easy to travel around during vacation time, weekends etc. Would have liked to have seen more of Poland, but for caandians a one time visa was about DM75.-, whereas for Czeckoslovakia for teh same amount I could get a 3 month multi entry visa, so I mostly went there.
ziegenhagenm 5 months ago
Very nice movie, I almost forgot how gray and grim this city was. As You are famous now, You must visit Szczecin again. Thanks for this trip to the past:)
rondelvangaar 5 months ago
Great video brings back memories absolutely fantastic
tekbart 5 months ago
Awesome video! Thank you very much for taking us on that nostalgic trip. Stettin (it´s ok to use that name btw, even some Poles use this) became a modern city, a lot of things have changed now (the Castle and the Cathedral are renovated, the Old Town was build up). I´m sure you wouldn´t recognize the most of it right now. You should come and take a look again. By 2013 at the latest when the final of Europe´s biggest sail races ("Tall Ship Races") takes place in Szczecin.
pioti83 5 months ago
Great nostalgic movie. Szczecin get change from that time, maybe it's a great moment to make a return and see how it's look now. BTW World War II construction streets are hilarius :)
s1ayerek 5 months ago
looofciam szczecinn!!!! najlepsze miasto w polsce!!!
wercia2399 5 months ago 2
HI- you say " german style train station, and the polish style train station is different" . There is no such a thing as "german style" and "polish style" train stations - we have had 50 yrs of communism due to war started by Nazis & soviets, our "polish style" as you say was not something we have invented, so I think your words are inapprioprate.
marcin060482 5 months ago
@marcin060482
you may be totally right in my choice of words being inapporpriate, and older style stations and newer style stations might have been a better choice. In many countries you can see how train station and platform archetecture changes over time. But believe me I was not trying to send a political message of any kind. There might be other word choices that could have been better, but one doesnt always say things in the best ways.
ziegenhagenm 5 months ago
@marcin060482 It has nothing to do with Nazis/communists. Architecture on the once-German territories (Pomerania, Lower Silesia, Eastern Prussia and Greater Poland) has specific style, different from the south-eastern part of Poland: lot of neogothic, prussian buildings, high, richly-ornamented townhouses
Hordeman89 5 months ago
Thank you very much for video ! I am from Szczecin and i was curious how it looked like 20 years ago.
Steryd12 5 months ago 2
i was 5 at 1991 :) and those streets ... nostalgy
mszakalinski 5 months ago
You have no idea how nostalgic this is to me. Also, "Hamburger House" is now a KFC (for a lot of years now) which is a damn shame. The BigMac-esque burgers they served there were insanely good :) Thank you for this nostalgic trip ! Oh and don't worry about saying "Stettin". Most foreigners use that name because it's easier to pronounce, so it's quite understandable. Cheers!
NoqturnePL 5 months ago
If U wanna see how Szczecin looks now I recommend my video recorded this summer :)
84sajmon 5 months ago 4
Szczecin has changed now ;) I regret that Szczecin after WWII was completely destroyed...
84sajmon 5 months ago
Thanks a lot for uploading this... Kinda funny that only strangers are able to capture such moments in time. And indeed, a lot has changed. You're more than welcome to visit Szczecin again :)
lachmani 5 months ago
Quite a lot has changed since 1991 ;) Awful town at that time. Not the best now, but definitely better. ;)
mariancihon 5 months ago
Wow! It's like time travel :D
When i walk these streets everyday i don't notice any changes, but when i'm looking at this video it's really amazing how some parts drastically changed and some remained the same.
Great video, thank you! :)
Sp3cu 5 months ago
OMG! This is brilliant!!!!I left Szczecin 12 years ago but visit my parents regularly. I was 17 in 1991 and remember all greyness too well! Feeling very nostalgic now....
Agata250874 5 months ago
all those good comments are making me blush. Glad you all enjoy them. Could not have imagined when I took this video 20 years ago, that it would do some good today.
ziegenhagenm 5 months ago
@ziegenhagenm
now You are very famous - local branch one of biggest Polish daily newspapers "Gazeta Wyborcza" make some info about Your movie - expect tomorrow even more comments - i hope mostly good and positive.
Thanks for restoring mine youth!
ht tp://szczecin.gazeta.pl/szczecin/1,34959,10397316,30_minutowa_podroz_do_Szczecina_z_1991_roku__wideo_.html
link to article - "30 minutes trip to Szczecin from 1991"
pandy071 5 months ago
@pandy071
thanks for letting me know. I both feel like blushing and wishing I had shot more and better footage. I'm sure there are lots of people in Szezecin had had also film cameras or camcorders and took films at this time. Maybe this will encourage some of them to also bring them out.
ziegenhagenm 5 months ago
@ziegenhagenm
In 1991? Rather a few, not "lots of people" ;) For normal earnings people cost was too high...
LechPremiumClub 5 months ago in playlist Więcej filmów od użytkownika ziegenhagenm
I was born in Szczecin, and I was just 14 when you took that video, and I still can remember these places, but now Szczecin looks sooooo much different!!! By the way, thank you for that video!
biker76 5 months ago
Thanx for upload. Great video !
CHUJWAMWRYJA 5 months ago
brilliant! great documentary! all looks different today..
voytecu 5 months ago
Took another look at the video myself, and can now see why many people from the area enjoy watching it. It is probably unnecessary but I thought I should point out that me calling it Stettin is not to make a political statement but that my German/Canadian mind does not even want to try to pronounce a word that starts with Szcz ...
ziegenhagenm 5 months ago 3
@ziegenhagenm
how about saying it like SHCHEZIN? :) great video. it was '91 so not very long after the big break up with comunism so we can see how and why it looks how it looks.
Pap9 5 months ago
Oh my ... I was 7 years old back then :D
Well, anyways still living in Szczecin and it's nice to see old time which I barely remember.
Thanks for this video!
shela84 5 months ago
glad Iwhat i thought was a simple recording turned out to be such a historical document. Glad you folks like it.
ziegenhagenm 5 months ago 9
@ziegenhagenm
it is very important part of Polish history - so called "transformations" - after restoring independence (i mean full independence) - many of youth simply don't know how it looks previously - those old trams are not in use present days - one or two are stored in Transportation museum which have few nice things (like Stoewer cars - Stettin car manufacturer brand).
Thx for restoring those memories - a bit gray and sad days but for sure worth to remember.
pandy071 5 months ago
haha, lobster soup 15000zł, was it? nowadays it's like 10 times more
Quetz13 5 months ago
At similar way - we can observe totally different clothes (who remember the cheap, turkish sweaters like on this movie?), cars on the streets, streetcars, etc... And the main improvement which is visible on first look - Szczecin isn't so gray as on this movie. New bulidings, and renovated building enters with colors to the city center, and thanks of that our city doesn't looks so sad. Is there somebody, who tell me so Szczecin haven't evolved?
gienix 5 months ago
All what can I say is - great job! Your movie shows how Polish cities evolved during last 20 years. On your movie we can see f.e. "wild capitalism" in Poland, just few months after the change from comunism. Today our street markets looks (in many cases, but of course not always) totally different. When we look on the buildings - many of them are renovated, in many places we can see newly designed shopping centers, hotels, apartments, office bulidings, etc.
gienix 5 months ago
Photographing or filming trams/buses can still be quite unpleasant if you don't like to be shouted ;) Drivers sometimes think that you'll send a photo showing him smoking/talking to friend/whatever to his employer and then he will be fired.
adamgorecki 5 months ago
Thank you for upload many bildings is gone recently.
yme4me 5 months ago
btw, could you or sombody else translate teh Polish comment. I tried some online translators but got nothing that made sense.
ziegenhagenm 5 months ago
@ziegenhagenm there is really nothing worth to be translated, basicly polish comment is about using this video on a popular stettin-based historcial website
Hordeman89 5 months ago
@ziegenhagenm
Comment:
"Zaklad, ze ten zlodziej Bis Arkadiusz ukradnie to na swoj portalik?"
He (comment author) bet that this movie soon will be stolen by Arkadiusz Bis (person - founder sedina.pl site dedicated to mostly German old historic Szczecin - accordingly to commen author Arkadiusz Bis is a thief) and placed on this portal ie on sedina.pl .
pandy071 5 months ago
@pandy071 if it serves a useful purpose i dont mind.
long as it doesnt try to play as Szczecin should be German or anything like that, since that is ancient history as far as I and most people are concerned.
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ziegenhagenm 5 months ago
@ziegenhagenm personally i am somewhat proud that the city was once German - thanks to this it is different from other polish towns - we have beautiful urban planning and that specific architecture which can't be found in the eastern parts of the country (just like it was said in the video about the train station).
One city - one history
Hordeman89 5 months ago
@ziegenhagenm
so this is point of view form author of the comments (i think)
sedina.pl is a place when lot of people think that Szczecin should be German and Germans have more rights to claim that Szczecin is old, German city.
Always have mixed emotions on this but this is not a place to discuss on this.
History of Szczecin means that for almost 300 yrs. it was German city, now it is Polish city and Poles are responsible how Szczecin looks. I hope that each year it will more and more nicer.
pandy071 5 months ago
@pandy071 I don't think that is true. Sedina forumers cares of german as well as polish heritage of Stettin, none of them really thinks that the city >should be< German once again - of course we are aware that much of the city's potential are wasted now, but it's getting better all the time. Few more years and the city will look as splendid as it was in the old times :)
Hordeman89 5 months ago
@Hordeman89
I dont want to start disscussion about history - however on sedina you can see that lot of people "think" in the way i described.
Szczecin amongst centuries first was own - ie quite independent Duchy capital - thus with time it lost independence to be Polish, German, Danish, Swedish, German, Polish - this is history.
I hope that city will be better which each year and this is important for me.
pandy071 5 months ago
things today to be a whole lot different incl teh money. If I recall when I went it was about 700,000 Zloty for DM 50.- Btw, I think I really upset someone - I was filming in the streetcar when the driver stopped, started shouting at me and pointed to the door and wasnt happy til I got off his tram.
ziegenhagenm 5 months ago
glad you liked what I meant purely as a historical document,. Would expect things today to be a whole lot different incl teh money. If I recall when I went it was about 700,000 Zloty for DM 50.- Btw, I think I really upset someone - I was filming in the streetcar when the driver stopped, started shouting at me and pointed to the door and wasnt happy til I got off his tram.
ziegenhagenm 5 months ago
Zaklad, ze ten zlodziej Bis Arkadiusz ukradnie to na swoj portalik?
PawAleksy 5 months ago
awesome video, thanks A LOT for sharing :) Today the city looks a bit different :)
Hordeman89 5 months ago
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