All you need to know about Munich in one convenient book!
When Dee Pattee first set out to collect information for newcomers to Munich in 1970, the city had just one cinema showing movies in English – the EuropaFilm Palast. There were no evening shopping hours, downtown parking was “not too much of a problem,” a cleaning woman earned DM 5 an hour, and Mehrwertsteuer (sales tax) was 11%. Working with other parents of Munich International School pupils, Pattee edited Key, A Guide To Living In Munich. For the 1972 Olympics, Pattee updated the book, now called Munich in Your Pocket, and she has been chronicling Munich’s evolution ever since. The latest edition of her book, the sixth, documents a very different Munich from that of the seventies. The Munich of today boasts shopping malls, Internet cafes, pizza parlors and Chinese take-out; taco shells in the supermarket, ATMs, and evening shopping. Munich has become a modern, international city. The 17-chapter Munich in Your Pocket covers everything a new or longtime resident might want to know, from dealing with plumbing emergencies to entertaining the kids on a rainy day. The book is available at shops selling English books or through deepattee@compuserve.com.