Tempelhof in danger

[ozzy72]

It is undoubtedly Europe's most eccentric airport. It boasts its own transvestite revue show, a tank full of edible carp, and a history that few of its rivals can match.
But time finally seems to have caught up with Tempelhof, the lifeline to West Berlin during the airlift of 1948-49, but now scheduled for closure.
"It would be a catastrophe if they shut it," said Tempelhof's veteran tour guide, Klaus Eisermann, as he strolled the cavernous but largely deserted arrivals hall. "Berlin would lose a chunk of its history."
Mr Eisermann and his colleagues are fighting a rearguard action to try to prevent Tempelhof - the most imposing Nazi-era building left in Berlin - from closing in October.
The airport, in the centre of the German capital, played a crucial role in the cold war, when the allies used it to supply the city after Stalin closed all land routes to West Berlin. Back then an allied plane landed every 90 seconds. These days, only a handful of flights arrive each day.

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[Iroquois]

It is undoubtedly Europe's most eccentric airport. It boasts its own transvestite revue show, a tank full of edible carp, and a history that few of its rivals can match.

I think Toronto's Lester B. Pearson Airport can match it. Not sure about the edible carp but it does have a lot of strange people wandering around. Including a few transvestites.  :o
It was also home to the CF-105 Arrow as well as a few other big shots from Canada's golden age of aviation. Tha Avro plant is still there. Boeing uses it for something. I think it should be a national historic site. The Orenda factory will survive because it's a big convention centre now.