SALZBURG
In the summer of 1985, I attended the University of Pacific, McGeorge School of Law's Six Week Summer International Program, held at the Salzburg University's Institute on International Legal Studies, in Salzburg, Austria - studying International Conflicts of Law - and taking a 10 day East/West Law & Relations course held at their Budapest/Vienna Institute! It was quite an experience! Following that, I went to Rome for 10 days, and then returned to Salzburg for another week before flying home. That summer I lived in Europe for over two months. I have never returned.
Walking down through the valley from the Ice Caves to Hallstatt Train Station
I had one more year of law school to complete and had just WON McGeorge’s Annual Moot Court Competition for 1985 - Best Advocate - so my father (who is sitting in the audience) agreed to finance my trip as a reward! See photograph below taken at the end of the session just before they announced the winner. I was the last speaker.
I’m at the podium and my father is sitting two rows up on the far left
My fellow students from all over the Country
When Mark was there this year he took several photographs of what I forgot to photograph when I was there, like the street where I lived. We made sure to put him in a hotel nearby so he could get me video and photographs of where I walked so often. Off to school every morning, back in the afternoon, and off down to the Old Town at night!
Our Dorm
The interesting thing about our dorm, which I never noticed when I was there, was that it never matched the surrounding buildings up and down the street. It was/is the only “modern” building in the area. Since I was always looking out my window and around at the other buildings, I never really saw the one I lived in at 16 Wolf-Dietrich Strasse.
Typical Salzburg buildings across the street from my Dorm
You can see this building -(above in a photograph taken by Mark in 2016 when he went back to trace my journey) - in my old photograph below from 1985. It is right across the street from our dorm, and you can see the large plaster cornice over the second floor double windows on the yellow building from MY third floor window!
We had a small room with a desk, a single bed, a closet, and sink. That was it. Bathrooms were across the hall.
It wasn’t long before the girls went to buy Dirndls - the native dress of Austria - and we wore them to everything - dinners, concerts, opera, everywhere... except school, of course.
My friend Deb Walker who is a Judge in Chicago now!
We often walked through the famous Mirabell Gardens - here is a photo of my fellow students walking in 1985 (bad little pocket camera and horrible film) and the photograph below is taken of the gardens in 2016 by my professional photographer husband with an exceptional camera.
Mirabell Gardens taken with all of us students walking through in 1985
Mirabell Gardens in 2016
Here is a video Mark made walking through the beautiful Mirabell Gardens in May of 2016 - it was raining a little. He moves the camera down or away when he sees people directly in front of him who do NOT want to be filmed. It lasts seven (7) minutes - but you can speed it up through places if you want by using the control panel. Just place the cursor on the video and it should materialize. He ends the video with the above image standing at the gates made famous in the movie “The Sound of Music.” I just loved walking through the Mirabell Gardens again! Thank you, Mark. Hope you enjoy it too!
VIDEO of Walking in Mirabell Gardens!
My Photograph of Salzburg taken from the Fortress looking down in 1985
Mark's Photograph of Salzburg taken from the Fortress looking down in 2016
Mark's Photograph (2016) showing the Fortress on the Hill
It is a beautiful little town! Below is the famous Getreidegasse which was known for the multitude of ornate signs hanging above every shop. No business could come onto that street without having an elaborate sign designed, approved, and installed BEFORE it could begin doing business. Even Mc Donald’s hamburgers had to have an ornate sign made - which you can see from the 2016 photograph to the left! However, Mc Donald’s is twice as big now as it was in 1985. And yes, I ate there a couple of times in 1985 when it was brand new, but, Mark did NOT eat there in 2016.
The Famous Getreidegasse in 1985 (Postcard)
The Getreidegasse 2016
The shops are twice or three times larger today, which cuts down on the number of ornate signs hanging over the street! The street is full of popular local stores as well as International brands, like Swarovski.
Street Art in 1985
In 1985, they use to have street artists all over who painted these amazing portraits with colored chalk! People would throw money onto them to pay the artist for the remarkable work they had done! Mark said they are rare now in 2016.
In 1985, on the weekends, we spent an awful lot of time in the lake district, called the Salzkammergut. We went to Hallstatt, a tiny village on Lake Hallstatt or Hallstatter See. You must take a boat from the train into the village. That is where my famous photograph was taken; on the boat ride into the village of Hallstatt. The only photograph from my trip to Salzburg that was framed and has sat out for 31 years.
Mark on the boat to the village of St. Gilgen in 2016
Here is Mark’s attempt at a matching photograph which now sits right next to mine! He is on a boat on Lake Wolfgang or Wolfgangsee on the way to the tiny village of St Gilgen.
A Panoramic of Lake Wolfgang
AND WHAT’S NEW IN SALZBURG?
The Salzburg Lock Bridge!
Yes, the only new thing in Salzburg is a lock bridge, which is the old Makartsteg Bride re-fitted with cage wire walls to accomodate the locks. The tradition is that young lovers lock a lock onto the bridge, a lock with some indication of themself and the one they love, and then throw the key into the river, so their love will last forever!
Happily, the bridge already had a perfect lock for Mark and me, and Mark emotionally appropriated it for us! See the old rusted silver M + J lock below! Perfect to represent our already 30 years together!
