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Rank: Elder Joined: 1/21/2010 Posts: 6,675 Location: Nairobi
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harrydre wrote:how come places like runda, gigiri etc look and feel neat? @harrydre unfortunately Eastlands, rongai etc were not originally designed to sustain the current huge populations that live in those areas! Mark 12:29
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/4/2006 Posts: 13,821 Location: Nairobi
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harrydre wrote:freiks wrote:Am sure Kidero will bring us back to these days he has to fit into some huuuuuuge shoes. the filth right now is too much probably coz of population explosion. how come places like runda, gigiri etc look and feel neat? great pics right there. Do not say, "Why were the old days better than these days?" for it is not wise to ask that. -Eccl 7:10 All Mushrooms are edible! Some Mushroom are only edible ONCE!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/4/2006 Posts: 13,821 Location: Nairobi
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deleted All Mushrooms are edible! Some Mushroom are only edible ONCE!
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Rank: Member Joined: 11/9/2007 Posts: 420 Location: Nairobi
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guru267 wrote:harrydre wrote:how come places like runda, gigiri etc look and feel neat? @harrydre unfortunately Eastlands, rongai etc were not originally designed to sustain the current huge populations that live in those areas!  no no no ....in the early 60s eastlands was very clean.... my earliest recolection r of kanjo regularly came round estates collecting rubbish, log hedges,cut grass....and fumigate and paint houses i think every 2years.....which many saw as invasion of privacy......then corruption ikaingia city hall, ..by late 70s kanjo were nowhere 2 b seen....probably concentrated in cbd....workers striking, ghost workers
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Rank: Member Joined: 11/9/2007 Posts: 420 Location: Nairobi
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guru267 wrote:harrydre wrote:how come places like runda, gigiri etc look and feel neat? @harrydre unfortunately Eastlands, rongai etc were not originally designed to sustain the current huge populations that live in those areas! no no no ....in the early 60s eastlands was very clean.... my earliest recolection r of kanjo regularly came round estates collecting rubbish, log hedges,cut grass....and fumigate and paint houses i think every 2years.....which many saw as invasion of privacy......then corruption ikaingia city hall, ..by late 70s kanjo were nowhere 2 b seen....probably concentrated in cbd....workers striking, ghost workers
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Rank: Member Joined: 7/11/2008 Posts: 401
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Mjasirii wrote:This Nairobi is too clean where did we go wrong. Population growth exceeded wealth creation and distribution capacity. Simple example of you living in a one bedroom flat by yourself today and living in the same flat with a spouse and 10 children in 15 years time  .
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/9/2008 Posts: 5,389
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xyzee wrote:oltome wrote:compare and contrast with the current situation, something must be eternally wrong with we africans or as they say...whoever bewitched us must have died! Blame it on the leadership after independence, they were more interested in filling up their 'stomachs' than anything else. Nairobi was actually very neat upto the late 1970s. Then everything went haywire. 
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 2/2/2012 Posts: 1,134 Location: Nairobi
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jaggernaut wrote:xyzee wrote:oltome wrote:compare and contrast with the current situation, something must be eternally wrong with we africans or as they say...whoever bewitched us must have died! Blame it on the leadership after independence, they were more interested in filling up their 'stomachs' than anything else. Nairobi was actually very neat upto the early 1980s. Then everything went haywire. Actually, it was Moi who messed everything up. "Moism" is to blame for all the mess we find ourselves in today. 24 years of zero maintenance, zero development, infinite stealing. The great economic puzzle is how we survived Moism.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/9/2008 Posts: 5,389
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Kanjo is also to blame for allowing setting up of unplanned structures, illegal extensions, vibandas/kiosks/slums everywhere, not collecting garbage, non maintenance of roads etc etc. It is shocking to note that 60% of buildings being put up are unapproved, thus the haphazard development.
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Rank: Member Joined: 5/26/2009 Posts: 326 Location: Nairobi
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guru267 wrote:harrydre wrote:how come places like runda, gigiri etc look and feel neat? @harrydre unfortunately Eastlands, rongai etc were not originally designed to sustain the current huge populations that live in those areas! Keep the debate in Kenya and stop dragging other countries into the mess.
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Rank: Member Joined: 5/26/2009 Posts: 326 Location: Nairobi
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chiaroscuro wrote:jaggernaut wrote:xyzee wrote:oltome wrote:compare and contrast with the current situation, something must be eternally wrong with we africans or as they say...whoever bewitched us must have died! Blame it on the leadership after independence, they were more interested in filling up their 'stomachs' than anything else. Nairobi was actually very neat upto the early 1980s. Then everything went haywire. Actually, it was Moi who messed everything up. "Moism" is to blame for all the mess we find ourselves in today. 24 years of zero maintenance, zero development, infinite stealing. The great economic puzzle is how we survived Moism. Show the photo of same place today. there would be more legs and more cars parked but still clean
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 4/27/2010 Posts: 951 Location: Nyumbani
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Please upload more photos if you have them. This is the Nairobi most of us never saw it only exists in archives.I remember how i used to envy my uncles who used to work in Nairobi (Gichuka) when the would come driving the Datsuns this was in the 90's. Then came books like the writers Mwangi Ruheni with the ministers daughter and the famous Going down River road. It was the only street i knew existed before going to Nairobi.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 4/27/2010 Posts: 951 Location: Nyumbani
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Rank: Elder Joined: 11/26/2008 Posts: 2,097
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jaggernaut wrote:xyzee wrote:oltome wrote:compare and contrast with the current situation, something must be eternally wrong with we africans or as they say...whoever bewitched us must have died! Blame it on the leadership after independence, they were more interested in filling up their 'stomachs' than anything else. Nairobi was actually very neat upto the late 1970s. Then everything went haywire. So in those days Peugeot (Bijuti?) 404 Station wagon was the preferred vehicle for the diplomatic envoys???  "Never regret, if its good, its wonderful. If its bad, its experience."
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/21/2008 Posts: 2,490
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@jaggernaut - Very nice pictures. do you have one of All Saints Cathedral on the old days? The man who marries a beautiful woman, and the farmer who grows corn by the roadside have the same problem
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 11/1/2008 Posts: 834
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jaggernaut wrote:Kenyatta avenue before the traffic jams and parking problems .  moi av - pioneer hse If you are going to be thinking only one thing, you might as well be thinking big. -Donald J . Trump
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/4/2006 Posts: 13,821 Location: Nairobi
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Khoja Mosque in the 1920's  Shops in Nai at around that time - no problem with parking  so... u think u know nai? this is an aerial photo of Nairobi in the 40s  can you identify any of those features? here is a photo of Kenyatta avenue (then known as Delamere Avenue) taken during in the same decade  The Lord Delamere statue being removed from Delamere avenue on 6 November 1963  more photos of the same avenue  All Mushrooms are edible! Some Mushroom are only edible ONCE!
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 2/21/2012 Posts: 1,739
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jaggernaut wrote:Ambassadeur Hotel/commercial 'bus stage'.  Just Wondering, How much was a 100f X 100f COSTING THEN? Yaani a quarter plot, near ambassadeur hotel? Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God..
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Rank: Member Joined: 9/13/2006 Posts: 123
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lets give credit where its due. the wazungu's were damn good at managing and building things. for god's sake we are still using the same railway built over 100 years ago! i'd like to see the Thika super highway lasting that long. look at the old buildings and desginated gardens created in cbd such as barclays building on moi avenue, uhuru park. if left to africans and wahindis that would a be a concrete jungle with cheap constructed offices and apartments. if we were still under colonialism i bet nairobi would be a much better cleaner city. i would not mind a bit of discrimination if i had proper roads, street lights, hospitals, schools and a functional system of life. despite their problems, harare in zimbabawe is still a better city than nairobi as wazungus had a chance to develop it till the problems 12 years ago. kidero should be sent to europe/ america for training.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/9/2008 Posts: 5,389
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With the once prestigious Lavington, kilimani, kileleshwa etc being taken over by flats (hope Muthaiga and Runda arent next) courtesy of greedy developers, I can imagine how it will be 20yrs from now. We will be posting nolstagic photos of the once exclusive and leafy lavington, where beautiful mansions used to stand on half acre plots. What's so difficult with getting 3000 acres on Mombasa, Kiambu or Thika rd and creating a well planned new 'lavington' there instead of the present degradation? FYI Nairobi was a swamp/forest before those prestigious estates were put up. If they could do it over 50yrs ago we can do it in 2013.
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