SWEET BERLIN

In Berlin, this sometimes inhospitable city, deeply marked by an often dark past, there are still traces of innocent times when children came to spend their few pfennings of pocket money on sweets, chewing gums and other gadgets, at that time "made in Japan""on their way home from school.
In german language they are called Kaugummiautomaten, and were setup in a clever grid pattern throughout West Berlin to catch the little consummers.
Nowadays, these boxes are used as a place to display tags and stickers or to leave empty soda or beer bottles.
Mostly they are totally ignored, even by their ex-customers.
Before they disappear in the plastic surgery of a twenty one century globalized city, they appear one last time in the spotlight, as symbols of acivilization that will soon be completely gone.