Show HN: Where Were We

Re:Show HN: Where Were We by bredren on Saturday November 07, 2026 @05:00PM (#50408446)

Neat idea. I remember when the wall came down, you could buy chunks of it at our local Fred Meyer. (General store and grocery)

There was this big bin of pieces. I tried to remember how old I would have had to have been to remember that and was off by 17 months.

The mobile view could use some tweaks so it all renders without needing to scroll.

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Re:Show HN: Where Were We by rogerrogerr on Saturday November 07, 2026 @11:33PM (#50410432)

The wall, as in the Berlin Wall? Chunks were available at Fred Meyer in the US?

Genuine questions, I'm much too young to have been around and this is a piece of trivia I've never heard before.

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Re:Show HN: Where Were We by eitally on Sunday November 08, 2026 @12:15AM (#50410596)

I didn't know you could buy pieces at Fred Meyer, but I am also in the US and was 12 when the wall came down. I, too, have a piece (with graffiti!). It was a gift and I don't know where it came from, but my impression at that time was that it wasn't really much rarer than pumice from the Mt St Helens eruption (I have a piece of that, too, or a capsule of oil from the Prudhoe Bay disaster, which I also have in my collection from that era).

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