Tag: Claim Street

• Views of Johannesburg from 1961 from the film Basie

  

  A couple of years ago I bought a few old South African DVDs that were shot in the late 1950s and early 1960s. They were for research for a story on ‘Ducktails’ (1950s Johannesburg gang culture and where a lot of our current slang comes from). I eventually watched one of them the other night.…

  Marc Latilla

  August 14, 2016

  Johannesburg

  Birnam, Braamfontein, Claim Street, Corlett Drive, Jan Smuts Avenue, Joubert Park, King George Street, Lutheran Church, Oxford Road, Rosebank, Twist Street, Tyrwhitt Avenue, Zoo Lake

• History of Hillbrow Pt.1

  

  On the 13 July 1893  a court ruled that the claim for the ground that would become Hillbrow belonged to J. Nicholls. He swiftly sold it to Transvaal Mortgage, Loan & Finance with which Sam Goldreich was associated. The ground was surveyed in 1894 and on the 20th May 1895 permission was received to change…

  Marc Latilla

  January 7, 2016

  Johannesburg

  Bruce Street, Carl Von Brandis, Claim Street, Clarendon Circle, Deutsche Schule, Fred Ingram, Friedenskirche, Gordon Leith, Hillbrow, Hospital Hill, Imerman’s, Ingram’s Corner, J. F. Kroll, Kotze Street, Le Corbusier, Le Herve, Lutheran Church, Martienssen, Oscar Niemeyer, Paul Nel Street, Pretoria Street, Sam Goldreich, Theophile Schaerer, Twist Street, Van Der Merwe Street, William Leck