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The El Dorado: A Gay Club in Berlin

In 1923, 100 years ago at the Hyperinflation, a young journalist named Samuel Wilder, known to the world as Billy Wilder. Used to hang out there, right? Yeah. And this was a cross dressing club. I think about Billy Wilder's biggest movie ever. Okay. So myself and Finn Balard went on our trip around all sorts of amazing places in maybe Schunberg, which is so the older part of Berlin. It's not like the center of the trendy sort of East part, it's older parts of Berlin. And amazing stories, amazing stories. Another fantastic place we went to, which was called the El Dorado, which was a gay club

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