European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 27, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Comm by Ernie to Fol opera Jyh Ferris wheel in the Viennas 1951 editors note the Joii owing article Usu written by Ernie for Merly a staff writer on tote stars and Reed it now a resident of Vienna almost three years after the departure of occupation the charming Metropolis of is booming with foreign who Are pouring into the sprawling City at the rate of a City who claim that 1958 will be the biggest and most prosperous tourist season of the postwar estimate that foreigners will visit Vienna before the year is Over and will leave behind close to the austrian stale treaty was signed on May and the last troops left the austrian capital late in october of that but most of them were out of the country month or so before that so Happy were the aus runs Over the departure of the foreign who had occupied Vienna and other parts of the country Tot 17 starting with nazis that a National Holiday was de thousands of including hundreds of a nationals of Iron curtain immediately began flocking into a City of about population and Long noted for its cultural during the whose history dates Buck to the old roman Empire and once was known As Vino like the Berlin of today was completely ringed by Russia held in order to reach Vienna from the one had to pots through More than 90 Miles of Russia occupied is again free and Gay one can wander to any part of the which has everything night swimming Good sex think food and attractive Vienna is once again bustling with activity Anil merchants ure coining Money from both the tourist Anil local the reopening of the state opera House and Burg ind the return of the handsome us Arzaner horses of the famous Spanish Riding school to their former quarters of the Imperial have been important Steps toward the restoration of Vienna As the leading tourist Center in Central Prague and former Are out of the running be cause of their locations behind the Iron heavily bombed during the Date stages of the the viennese lost Little time in reconstructing und renovating damaged the state opera rebuilt at a Cost of More than 510 is one of the outstanding examples of the Progress made in restoring new buildings have sprung up ail Over they were carefully planned Ami have not spoiled the Beauty of the old which in the has played such an important part in inspiring the great works fat Johnny Strauss and there is much to see in and most of the places can be reached of excellent transportation facilities including streetcars and some of the musts Are the 800yenr old so Stephens Beautiful Schoenbrunn Palace and gardens the former residence of Empress Maria Theresa and later of emperor Franz and the famous Vienna which Johan Strauss immortalized with his in Chunting picturesque baroque styled Karls Kirche in the Center of the the state opera the Homburg and its Royal the Belvedere the attractive Parlia ment the sprawling the and the University of which came into being in Are other no trip to once the Metropolis the stars and stripes for million people during the old Autar hungarian would be com plete without visiting the famous win growing Here flock nightly the typical viennese to sing and dance to Gay viennese everyone is congenial unloving and it is easy for a stronger to become especially As the evening progresses into the Laft located in Gray stoned which Are usually adorned in the front with either fir wreaths or branches to advertise that new wine is being they have become literally a byword for the viennese by scores of sit and Sway on hard wooden benches and sing to their there Are two main shopping areas in the Swank Kartne Strasse which runs past the opera and eventually Post St Stephana Church to the Danube where most of the feel they can get better bargains at Lew in there Are scores of Small known As in the Back and Side they have exclusive and smart clothes for women at lower rates than the stores on the main there Are Many things to buy in the shop windows Are full of Industrial and Trade Fine which has been handed Down by their can be found in the Many Home Vienna fashions rate among the top in Vienna leather Glass and porcelain and Many other specialities Are respected and sold All Over the there Are several first class hotels in these include the a really deluxe am Park and the other hotels like the am de Elisabeth and the Kummer Ore also sound and reliable in there Are scores of smaller hotels and comfortable pensions throughout the Vienna is famous for its variety of International there Are Many Hun Garian and Balkan restaurants with Gypsy five of the better known Balkan establishments Are the Balkan Zardas Fuersten and a meal with All the including a bottle of wine and from three to four one can still get a Good meal in a Gast Haus for As Low As ten and eleven about 40 this will include a a meat course with and of course the atmosphere is not As As one viennese said you cant eat the the Little things in Vienna Cost a especially the imported items on which prices Are a Box of cleansing tissues costs More than 50 a Small bottle of hand lotion runs about a Large tube of toothpaste costs a Dollar and a Large tube of shaving Cream will act you Back about 80 most of the tourists can afford to pay these but they Are Way out of line with the wages of the average whose average monthly wages run about which is about the austrian somehow or other manages to live he can make a Day of it at the Coffee House or a night of it at grinding without cutting too heavily into his taking everything into consideration and with All that Vienna has to any one who comes to Europe and does not include the austrian capital in his itinerary will be like the person who goes to a Cinema and misses the last part of the it is highly recommended and people who have visited the third Man Tity always want to come Back to do and see the things they missed on their previous 13