Frankfurt - Miscellaneous Photos - Photo #50 - 97th General Hospital

    Enlarge
frankfurt_97thgeneral4
The 97th General Hospital, about 4km east of our neighborhood, on the far side of the Hauptfriedhof, on Gießener Straße. Built for the Luftwaffe in 1941, it served as a US Army hospital from 1945 to 2006. I worked here 1960-61 at the hospital's internal closed-circuit AFN station, where I had a radio show every Thursday evening; I could take number 13 trolley straight there after school. In those days the hallway cornice moldings (miles of them) were solid swastikas. Ella Fitzgerald came here in 1952 and performed for the patients with Max Roach and Ray Brown.