Once upon a Berlin Time
Hello fellow Berlinites. The headlines in a September 4, 1962 paper talked of a major robbery that took place at the Angel Guardian Credit Union on the corner of Coos and Sullivan Streets on Berlin’s East Side. This is how the story unfolded.
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