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OCR: Dimensions In The Dark by J. L. Black Page 51 At seven o'clock I was downstairs waiting with the rest of the tourist group to board the bus. We left Salzburg at exactly seven thirty. We drove across a small section of Germany, back across the border to Austria, then skirting the border of Germany drove on to Innsbruck. At Innsbruck we spent one night and one day. Innsbruck is a city that is over 700 years old. To the north are the steep, sheer sides of the mighty Alps, to the south the mountains of the Tuxer range forming a series of drop curtains for the city. It is an old world town of about 120, 000 and the original baroque style of the city from 1239 remains virtually intact. We checked into the Goldener Adler, Herzog-Friedrichstr, 6, founded in 1390. This hotel is in the heart of the old town of Innsbruck. Yes there is an old town of Innsbruck. As if a vail had been lowered the old and the new city of Innsbruck are separated. On one side of the city sits the old Innsbruck whose clock stopped somewhere back about the fifteenth century and on the other side sits the high rise buildings so common to the skyline of an American city. Goldener Adler had a history of being haunted. It was after all the place where Dukes