The still image shows the ground floor zone of the Hotel Kempinski Bristol on the Kurfürstendamm with the adjoining Café Schloss Marquardt and a neighboring restaurant. Guests sit at white-draped tables on the lively outdoor terrace; in the foreground, two automobiles from the early 1950s roll across the street. The Kempinski Bristol, newly opened in 1952, was one of the first representative grand hotels in West Berlin’s reconstruction and rapidly became a symbol of the beginning economic miracle (Wirtschaftswunder). As an international address on the Kurfürstendamm, it embodied the city’s Western orientation and its role as the “showcase of the West” in the Cold War. The well-maintained façade, the well-dressed pedestrians, and the terrace gastronomy convey a demonstrative image of urban normalcy and prosperity in divided Berlin in 1955.