Yesterday we undertook an excursion to Hanna’s old home area in Wilmersdorf. Hanna took the opportunity to have some nostalgic feelings under the pretense of wanting to see a new jazz band in her old local pub, the Spinnrad (Spinning Wheel) in Wiesbadeber Strasse. But obviously this was not more than pure nostalgia, because very soon she missed our flat and our area of Berlin, Friedrichshain.The band, Eric’s Club, was allright, but nothing really special. The type of music what I would call “Bar Jazz”, just a pleasant kind of background music.

The pub itself is managed by Frank and Uwe, who already have appeared in this blog. Frank told us, that the pub has been in operation since 1965. And you can see that: the interior is somehow typical for that era, just some patina has been added. In addition the guests are of an age that you can assume that they became regulars from the very first day of the Spinnrad. And that they were no teenagers in 1965…