Figure 1.-- This postcard from 1910 was taken in the Gablenberger Hauptstrasse (Main street). It shows children/boys who put stones or coins to the track of the streetcar to be seen in the background. The car driving over stones was rattled, coins were flattened. Children commonly played in the streets and it was safe because there were so few cars. This was stiil the case in the 1930s.

Gablenberg was a village near Stuttgart. Gablenberg actually in 1836 became part part of the city of Stuttgart in South-West-Germany, capital of Baden-Württemberg. Gablenberg is located just 1 1/2 mile to the East of Stuttgart city centre behind a hill. It is more than 700 years old, first document 1275, Gabenlemberc". This was a field name, an area with vineyards. Gablenberg was a mixed housing area, workers from plants for automobile production Daimler-Benz nearby in the Neckar valley and citizens/clerks working in Stuttgart city, easily reachable with a streetcar line, with private homes in the former vineyards up the hills. I am not sure how Gablenberg fared during World War II, but being near Sruttgart and automobile plants (which were cinverted to war production) mean that there was probably considerable damage. (World War II bombung was notriously inaccurate.)

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