Early Port Elizabeth Pics.

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Early Port Elizabeth Pics.

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Bad Ass Bob sent me some pics of PE looooooooooooooooong ago!

It looks a lot different today.

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Look at the first picture.

That looks like a Red Samba in the background :shock:
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Cool Pics Chris.

The red tower reminded us of european architecture when we drove past it, so we read up on it a little and saw that it is in fact know as the Campanile, and was built to commemorate the landing of the 1820 settlers, built around 1920. Only found out later you can actualy still go to the top of the tower!. Difference to a pic taken of the tower these days is that only the top half (If I recall correctly) is now visible above the highway.
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Love the photos!! That goes back a while. The freeways really changed everything.

Try this site of old Cape Town Photos. See how many VW you can find!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8270787@N0 ... 938342274/
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I posted this pic before, but here it is again - the old 'Tudor House' in PE, my dad took this pic circa 1977

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SFDT wrote:Love the photos!! That goes back a while. The freeways really changed everything.

Try this site of old Cape Town Photos. See how many VW you can find!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8270787@N0 ... 938342274/
Thanks for the link, I really enjoyed that, especially these:

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1303 Cabrio Schwimmer!

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Looks like for R 1325 you got yourself a new Beetle!
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Blitzkrieg wrote:Look at the first picture.

That looks like a Red Samba in the background :shock:
Or perhaps an old MB coach?

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Took this today.

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:shock: that looks so cool and damn alot has changed hey :o
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Things have changed!

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