The entrance to Uhlandstraße U-Bahn station in the Charlottenburg district shows the characteristic cast-iron pavilion structure of the Berlin U-Bahn from the turn of the century. A prominently displayed advertising sign for KaDeWe (the department store) advertises two large parking lots—a clear indication of growing automobile traffic and the emerging economic miracle (Wirtschaftswunder) in West Berlin. In the background, Café Schloss Marquardt is visible, while vehicles from the early 1950s pass along the busy street. The scene conveys normalcy and emerging consumer culture in the western part of the divided city: proximity to KaDeWe and the Kurfürstendamm made this area a central symbol of Western prosperity amid the Cold War. The photograph stands exemplarily for West Berlin as the “showcase of the West”—a functioning, consumption-oriented urban society only a few kilometers from the sector border.