Reader Keith Parker wrote in recently with some memories: Hi Allan Came across your website and it brought back so many memories. I am a drummer and as a very young boy had the honour of playing with Dennis Van Rooyen … Read More
There is a page on the site about Durban’s transport history including the electric trolley buses that ran there for a number of years. I recently received this great picture from Trevor Jones and couldn’t resist posting it. Trevor wrote: I … Read More
Karen Swanepoel wrote in recently to say that she’d been going through her grandmother’s photo album and discovered some really nice pictures of those early days. Karen is not sure that all the pictures show Durban scenes and the ones … Read More
Mikhail Peppas sent in this scan of an article he wrote in 2009 on the Electric Cinema, Durban’s first cinema. Mikahil lectures in journalism and is an historian interested in cinema. Click the thumbnail below to view an enlargement. Share this:
Reader Mel Narunsky wrote: Hello Allan, I’m sure many old Durbanites will remember Cherry Wainer and Don Storer, who played organ and drums respectively regularly at one of the big cocktail places (I don’t remember which one) on the Durban … Read More
Reader Vernon Varty wrote in with some of his memories: Thank you for such a wonderful website … as some famous person once said: “There’s nothing like the Good Old Days.” We moved from Pietermaritzburg to Durban in 1941, long … Read More
I recently had a note from Bibbi Bakro who also remembered the Burger Ranch in Davenport Square. He wrote: Just the other day, I was reminiscing about my Dad, Endre Bakro, taking us to the Three Monkeys for a hotdog and milkshake. … Read More
John Taylor wrote in with the following: Hi Allan, Many older Durbanites will remember the plethora of sports and social clubs in the city. Almost everyone belonged to a club, starting with the Durban Club and the Durban Country Club … Read More
My regular informant John Taylor recently sent in a couple of contributions on the subject of The Flames and on soccer in Durban. He wrote, firstly: Hi Allan, I was given a book for Christmas entitled Life by Keith Richards … Read More
We have a couple of pages on Durban cinemas. The latest addition is from my informant Pat Sligo who has sent in a wonderful picture he took of the Metro cinema in about 1953 which shows the ice cream cart … Read More