{"id":98839,"date":"2015-09-20T00:05:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T22:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=98839"},"modified":"2016-09-06T15:45:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T13:45:49","slug":"cape-town-like-youve-never-seen-it-before-1940-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/98839\/cape-town-like-youve-never-seen-it-before-1940-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town like you’ve never seen it before: 1940 – 1980"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cape Town has been voted as one of the most beautiful cities in the world, according to the Telegraph’s Travel.<\/p>\n

The publication ranked Cape Town as the 12th most beautiful city in the world, describing the city’s sights and sounds as carrying “in-your-face beauty”.<\/p>\n

The face of Cape Town has changed significantly over the decades, but the Mother City has always been one of South Africa’s most eye-catching locations.<\/p>\n

Hobbyist photographer Etienne du Plessis has built an expansive online gallery<\/a><\/strong> of sights from the city – as they were in the early 1940s up to 1970.<\/p>\n

According to Du Plessis, the photographs – hundreds of which can be found on his Flickr gallery – capture the city in a different time, and include possibly some of the oldest known colour images of the city.<\/p>\n

Here are a few remarkable images of Cape Town like you’ve never seen it before (provided you weren’t around at the time).<\/p>\n

Note<\/strong>: The images are not Du Plessis’ own work, but have been shared with permission from the copyright holders.<\/p>\n

For the full gallery, and links to more vintage photos, check out the Flickr page<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Mouille Point lighthouse, 1925<\/h3>\n

\"Mouille<\/a><\/p>\n

Clifton, 1934<\/h3>\n

\"Clifton,<\/a><\/p>\n

Flower sellers, operating in Parliament Street, 1946<\/h3>\n

\"Flower<\/a><\/p>\n

Adderly Street, 1955<\/h3>\n

\"Adderley<\/a><\/p>\n

University of Cape Town, 1950, 1956<\/h3>\n

\"UCT<\/a><\/p>\n

\"UCT,<\/a><\/p>\n

Sea Point, 1957<\/h3>\n

\"Beach<\/a><\/p>\n

Llandudno, 1959<\/h3>\n

\"Llandudno<\/a><\/p>\n

Cape Town City Hall on a bright winter’s day, 1961<\/h3>\n

\"Bright<\/a><\/p>\n

District Six, 1971, 1977<\/h3>\n

Not all of the images showcased look back on the Cape Town of the mid-20th century with rose-tinted nostalgia.<\/p>\n

The two images below document the conditions of “black districts” where people of colour were forced to live during apartheid.<\/p>\n

\"District<\/a><\/p>\n

\"District<\/a><\/p>\n

Greenpoint, 1980<\/h3>\n

\"Green<\/a><\/p>\n

More on Cape Town<\/h3>\n

Cape Town voted one of the best cities in the world<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Joburg and Cape Town climb global cities index<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

House prices: Joburg vs Cape Town<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Electricity vandals costing Cape Town R800,000 per month<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cape Town has been voted as one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and these vintage photos show the city in a way you’ve never seen – or at the very least, don’t remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":83463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2279,26],"class_list":["post-98839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-cape-town","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98839"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135795,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98839\/revisions\/135795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}