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Wainadi
#81 Posted : Monday, October 28, 2013 2:40:21 PM
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masukuma wrote:
jaggernaut wrote:
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.

these photos should be inspirational! when you see thika as it was and as it is now you should be inspired to move to a far flung area (cheap) and purchase large tracts of land and develop pole pole - your grandkids will be eternally grateful for that coz "uliona mbali". Forget paying for 0.125 acres in the city for the rest of your life only for Nairobi CBD to become like Joberg CBD where no one wants to go and only the poor can afford houses there.

d'oh! d'oh! d'oh! Reminds me of what I ask My grandma why my Grandpa did not buy any plot in Nai in the 60's
Its all good.
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livie
#82 Posted : Monday, October 28, 2013 3:26:27 PM
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KulaRaha wrote:
masukuma wrote:



Museum hill Bridge 1900, Galileos Casino would end up on left hand side and Museum on top of hill < right hand side


At least there's no crazy traffic!


i used that bridge a lot whille goin to boomerang/ swothee/bubbles....and old galileos...quite some memories, and to know how it began...?
If you are going to be thinking only one thing, you might as well be thinking big. -Donald J . Trump
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livie
#83 Posted : Monday, October 28, 2013 4:01:51 PM
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duke of Gloucester school//////
If you are going to be thinking only one thing, you might as well be thinking big. -Donald J . Trump
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mkeiyd
#84 Posted : Monday, October 28, 2013 4:20:02 PM
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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.


I always say M O one should be taken to uhuru park for public pinching for like a month every year. No tools, just bare fingers pinching.
The guy messed us for years. I wonder what goes through his mind when he sees some "reclamation" being made now.


But then again,don't the majority deserve the screwing?
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murchr
#85 Posted : Monday, September 01, 2014 5:26:42 AM
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Even downtown was very clean, this must be the 60's


City hall
"There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore
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kollabo
#86 Posted : Monday, September 01, 2014 10:03:14 AM
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Oh what a beautiful country. Wish I could have lived during that time.
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Toxicity
#87 Posted : Monday, September 01, 2014 10:11:22 AM
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livie wrote:


duke of Gloucester school//////


Jamuhuri High School???
update president set president = speaker where president is null
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vin
#88 Posted : Monday, September 01, 2014 10:41:27 AM
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kollabo wrote:
Oh what a beautiful country. Wish I could have lived during that time.


Then you could be very dead by now.
Advice is like snow.The softer it lands the harder is sticks.
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AlphDoti
#89 Posted : Monday, September 01, 2014 12:16:36 PM
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One area people don't show, Jamia Mosque 1953. Constructed in 1902 smile



Permanent link in case tinypic expires.
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Mtafiti
#90 Posted : Monday, September 01, 2014 12:31:55 PM
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AlphDoti wrote:
One area people don't show, Jamia Mosque 1953. Constructed in 9102 smile


Permanent link in case tinypic expires.


Calendar gani? Looks beautiful though.
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