Sea Point Pavillion, 1977

Dam · Post by **Dam** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 9:11 am

Green was the colour to have! I can spy 3 green Beetles

MINCE · Post by **MINCE** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 4:21 pm

What's up with that photo, looks like someone had cocaine off of it

buggyfan · Post by **buggyfan** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 5:58 pm

Pine wrote:

to the cape town people

Does the swimming pool and buildings still exist today?
would be real cool if someone can go and take the same photo to see how it has changed the last 34 years

MINCE · Post by **MINCE** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 6:36 pm

All that is still there. Would be cool actually. Wonder what building they took it from. Will find out

Post by **Pine** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 6:38 pm

buggyfan wrote:Does the swimming pool and buildings still exist today?

Doubt it, this was a Cape Times article in October 2003

Post by **Pine** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 6:45 pm

MINCE wrote:What's up with that photo, looks like someone had cocaine off of it

It is scanned from an old Cape Town post card

Farhaad · Post by **Farhaad** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 10:55 pm

pool and surounding building is still there. the round building with the adjacent extention is where HardRock Cafe was. this part is demolished after HardRock Cafe closed and a dodgy games shop/pool hall opened. the comunity had it closed down coz it drew a very bad ellement. its just an open paved area now

Post by **Tony Z** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 6:26 am

As farhaard says.... the pool is still there, but the buildings are now open public space.

Post by **Tony Z** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 6:38 am

screenshot from Google Earth

Ron&Gill · Post by **Ron&Gill** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 7:33 am

Farhaad wrote:pool and surounding building is still there. the round building with the adjacent extention is where HardRock Cafe was. this part is demolished after HardRock Cafe closed and a dodgy games shop/pool hall opened. the comunity had it closed down coz it drew a very bad ellement. its just an open paved area now

The Hard Rock as it was then, was closed after it was bombed in that spate of bombings that occured in Cape Town from 1998 to 2000 the most famous of which, but not the most deadly, was Planet Hollywood in the waterfront. Talk about drawing a bad element...

hitlers revenge · Post by **hitlers revenge** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 11:24 am

By the look of Ron's post, even the pools have been completely rebuilt.

On a second look the seem to have made the deep water pool a stand alone pool. See the =/- 6 metre diving board at the pool on the left.

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