Tag: Zoo Lake

• 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

• Johannesburg from the air 1931

  

  While I finish up the first part of the history of Braamfontein, here is some vintage aerial footage of Johannesburg showing some edges of Braamfontein. Old aerial views of Johannesburg are hard to come by and sometimes tricky to pinpoint the location. The reason is that the city has been re-built so many times –…

  Marc Latilla

  June 23, 2014

  Johannesburg

  Aerial photographs, City Hall, Commissioner Street, Early Johannesburg, Johannesburg Train Station, Market Square, Newtown, Old Wanderers, Parkview, Standard Bank Building, Union Grounds, Zoo Lake