Memories are strange. Sometimes some come up that you would never have guessed that they were even there. For example today. When I found out that the Obletter toy store was going to close on Stachus in a little over a year, I immediately had images from my childhood in mind that I really hadn’t expected. These pictures didn’t even show how I was in the obletter as a child. No, in these pictures I am holding a toy Christmas brochure from the store in my hands and flipping through it, very slowly, and then again. It’s still a nice feeling even in the memory.
There aren’t many shops in Munich anymore where something like this can happen to you. It almost seems a bit inappropriate that the end should come so badly. According to the landlord, the owner, the drugstore chain Müller, does not want to extend the lease that runs until January 2023 – and does not comment on it. With the wafer, it is not just a deal with a Munich company history that goes back almost two centuries that disappears. But also one of the last large toy stores in downtown Munich.
Something will be missing. Of course, anyone who wants to buy toys (and not order them online, but rather see, turn and turn them beforehand) can still go to one of the small, specialized shops that keep going. He can also go to a Karstadt, which is now called “Galeria”, or to a department store, which is now also called “Galeria”. But I am trying to imagine how my children leaf through the current “Galeria” Christmas brochure, past advertisements for jewelry, watches and perfume, for men’s jackets and pots, mattresses and washing machines – and how they feel happily from page 42 onwards View eight pages of Lego spaceships, Playmobil fairytale castles and board games, and then start over again. In all honesty: I lack the imagination.
THE DAY IN MUNICH
Child vaccinations should start in the middle of the week. Doctors and vaccination centers are ready to inject the doses for five to eleven year olds. It is still unclear when it will be possible to make appointments via the central Bayimco platform.
Attack on 17-year-olds at Rosenheimer Platz: Stab injury as the cause of death. The police are still looking for the two perpetrators who killed a 17-year-old in an argument on Friday evening.
New stage for Pasing. In the summer, the finance department rejected the cultural bourgeoisie in western Munich, which cost almost twelve million euros. But now it is to be built according to the will of the city council without further delays.
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