{"id":17687,"date":"2017-04-11T11:30:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T10:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=17687"},"modified":"2017-04-11T01:34:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T00:34:29","slug":"titty-twister-beatles-statues-and-seedy-bars-a-stroll-around-the-reeperbahn-hamburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/titty-twister-beatles-statues-and-seedy-bars-a-stroll-around-the-reeperbahn-hamburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Titty Twister, Beatles statues and seedy bars: A stroll around the Reeperbahn, Hamburg"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A notorious\u00a0street and entertainment zone in Hamburg’s St. Pauli district, the Reeperbahn is\u00a0the city’s major red-light district and a popular tourist attraction\u00a0– and like most tourist attractions, it’s pretty crap.<\/p>\n

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These stainless steel cut-out sculptures honour The Beatles who famously gigged in several clubs around the Reeperbahn in the early 1960s, including the Star-Club, Kaiserkeller, Top Ten (Reeperbahn 136) and Indra.<\/p>\n

Wikipedia<\/a> has more:<\/p>\n

The Beatles-Platz (German: Beatles Square\/Plaza) is a plaza in the St. Pauli quarter in Hamburg, Germany, at the crossroads of Reeperbahn and Gro\u00dfe Freiheit. It is circular, with a diameter of 29 metres (95\u00a0ft) and paved black to make it look like a vinyl record. Surrounding the place are five statues, representing The Beatles: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Stuart Sutcliffe, George Harrison, and a hybrid of drummers Pete Best and Ringo Starr each of whom played with The Beatles at times during their Hamburg engagements.<\/p>\n

This plaza was built to commemorate Hamburg’s importance in The Beatles’ history. The draft design was by architects Dohse & Stich during a common tendering. Building the project cost about \u20ac500,000 and was split among donations, sponsors and the city of Hamburg.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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At night, it’s as seedy and as depressing as you might expect.<\/p>\n

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Running off the Reeperbahn is the tourist-luring Gro\u00dfe Freiheit, with bars flanking both sides.\u00a0\u00a0In the past, several sex theatres here (Salambo, Regina, Colibri, Safari) would show live sex acts on stage. [—<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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Blokes hired by the owners would try and entice passers-by to come into their clubs. I can’t say I was even slightly tempted.<\/p>\n

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Along the Reeperbahn, the Paradise Point of Sex invited punters to hand over their cash, 24 hours a day.<\/p>\n

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The Titty Twister bar sounded particularly grim.<\/p>\n

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Happily, Hamburg has a lot more positive things to offer than the Reeperbahn, and I’ll be posting up some more photos from around the city soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A notorious\u00a0street and entertainment zone in Hamburg’s St. Pauli district, the Reeperbahn is\u00a0the city’s major red-light district and a popular tourist attraction\u00a0– and like most tourist attractions, it’s pretty crap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[196,17,193],"tags":[891,1608,1195,1609,1611,606,1610,858,1612,1607],"class_list":["post-17687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nightlife","category-photos","category-places","tag-germany","tag-hamburg","tag-photos","tag-reeperbahn","tag-sex-shops","tag-signs","tag-street-scenes","tag-street-signs","tag-the-beatles","tag-titty-twister"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/reeperbahn-hamburg-photos-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-4Bh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17687"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17692,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17687\/revisions\/17692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}