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Early Durban pic
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Re: Early Durban pic
Funny enough I don't know that place but here is the rest of the pics from a mail I received from a buddy of mine.bugspray wrote:Schweet. Where in Durbs is/was this?
Some of these photos bring back some fan-%^$@-tastic memories of my childhood. The Malibu Hotel was an annual visit in December, right there in the hot spot of fun for kiddies. Damn, those were great times.
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Re: Early Durban pic
...... and some more
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... and the last
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Re: Early Durban pic
Wonderful pics! We went to 'Toti a few times in the very early eighties, and of course visited the Durban beach front. Does the Mini Town still exist?
When I was in the Army we stayed a few times in the Bluewaters Hotel.
When I was in the Army we stayed a few times in the Bluewaters Hotel.
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This was posted elsewhere on the Netbugspray wrote:Schweet. Where in Durbs is/was this?
On 24/2/2007 Neil Gould wrote:
"I woke up smelling the vinigar on the heavily salted chips we would buy from the Nest, en route to the Kennilworth entertainment building. Big fat square soggy chips they were, in a wax paper packet, with the fattests ones in the middle. Delicious.
I remember pulling up outside the Cuban Hat and the tray being attached to the car window. After giving the order, the waiters would repeat it back to you in their unique chant. The same chant would be sung if you gave the order at the actual counter of the Cuban Hat to the guy at the back doing the cooking. He had a hair lip.
'One pie curry gravy with chips
One toasted chicken mayonase
One Strawberry milkshake, one coke - tanks ser.'
Mr Scordis was the owner of the hat in the late 1960's. I recall his house in Durban North because his wife was strangled during a break-in. My mother drove me past it. It was on the way to the old Umgeni bridge."
The building just sticking out at the back left was the Durban Surf Lifesavers Club Building. It was upstairs and below is the entrance to the Beach Baths or Rachel Finlayson Baths, to give it its proper name."
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Yeah, remember Mini Town. That SAL jumbo jet was my favourite! Oh, and the harbour ships. Dunno if it's still there but a lot of kids are missing out on something special if it's gone!Pine wrote:Wonderful pics! We went to 'Toti a few times in the very early eighties, and of course visited the Durban beach front. Does the Mini Town still exist?
When I was in the Army we stayed a few times in the Bluewaters Hotel.
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Re: Early Durban pic
MINITOWN IS STILL THERE AND IT GETS looked after /maintained ,not like the one in joburg/wemmerpan thats literally falling apart
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Stütz wrote:Yeah, remember Mini Town. That SAL jumbo jet was my favourite! Oh, and the harbour ships. Dunno if it's still there but a lot of kids are missing out on something special if it's gone!
No I think you got it confused with the Santarama - in Turfontein, Johannesburg. Still there (we went on an ACVW visit there earlier this year) but it is badly neglected, and I don't think it is going to be there for long anymore...
But wasn't there another Mini Town on the Durban Beach Front?
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if you go according to pines post ,this would have been where the WiMpY AND joe COOLS ARE SITUATED TODAY.bugspray wrote:Schweet. Where in Durbs is/was this?
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Mini town is still there, albeit scaled down(pardon the pun 
) its not as awesome as it was when I was a kid, either that, or I'm finally bigger than the models.
Ahhh where Joes is now! Wow! Damn things have drastically changed waaay cool. I'm gonna show these pics to my parents.
) its not as awesome as it was when I was a kid, either that, or I'm finally bigger than the models.Ahhh where Joes is now! Wow! Damn things have drastically changed
waaay cool. I'm gonna show these pics to my parents.
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My Mom flipped out when she saw these pics! Very cool.bugspray wrote:
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Re: Early Durban pic
Big difference between that and these:
I only ever go to Durban as a waypoint on a route elsewhere...
See http://digitaljournal.com/article/267320
I only ever go to Durban as a waypoint on a route elsewhere...
See http://digitaljournal.com/article/267320
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Re: Early Durban pic
Joe Cools! A regular hangout spot for me when I lived in Durbs in the early 90's 
Thanks for the lovely pic's, I like Natal!
Thanks for the lovely pic's, I like Natal!