Schadowstraße
Busy shopping street of department stores and chain shops, rebuilt for retail after the war.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Schadowstraße in Düsseldorf starts on a Saturday in October twenty twenty, when the staff of a department store at the street's Wehrhahn end worked their last day and an effigy of their chain's owner turned up. It reaches back to the Tietz store of eighteen ninety-nine, the post-war rebuild for shopping, and the Dutch buyers who came at Christmas. Best heard near the eastern end, where the big stores face each other.
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