[Nettime-nl] The idea of old age Apartheid in the Netherlands 40 years ago

[Tjebbe van Tijen via Chello <t.tijen@chello.nl>]

The idea of old age Apartheid in the Netherlands 40 years ago

November 12, 2010 by Tjebbe van Tijen 

De geïllustreerde en gelinkte versie staat op de Hinkende Bode/Limping Messenger

http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/the-idea-of-old-age-apartheid-in-the-netherlands-40-years-ago/

Just saw a history television program (VPRO Andere Tijden/Other Times) on the rise of the new type of elderly home in the Netherlands in the seventies of last century and remembered a reportage I wrote for our radical weekly newspaper (Amsterdams Weekblad) must have been 1972 on a sad old man who had been transported to the new pre-graveyard high rise structure, from the inner town to the outskirts of the city…. He was looking from his high rise coffin onto a high road serpentining to a grey horizon… Just checked the municipal archive for a photograph of that particular elderly home (Flevohuis) and found it. The picture illustrates the atmosphere perfectly… the Public Works photographer gave a visual clue by the black frame ribbon that goes with this historical document of Old age Apartheid in the Netherlands; the Welfare Home Lands for the elderly…. freeing young and productive families from the burden of having parents….
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