20+ Stunning Old Photos Showing How Cape Town Looked Like Decades Ago

Here are some old photographs and postcards to remind you of how Cape Town looked like way back when and to notice and be thankful for all the advancements we have made along the way. Some of these photos even go so far back as the 1930’s and 1940’s. It makes you wonder what the next 50 years will bring.

“We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.” ― Rick Warren

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1. Upper Cable Station 1950

 

2. Table Mountain from Blouberg Beach in the 50s

 

3. Somerset Strand 1969

 

4. Wilkie’s Circus on the Foreshore 1961

 

5. Evacuees from Britain Arrive in Cape Town 1940

 

6. Sea Point 1952

 

7. Postcard of The Foreshore, 1969

8. Old Pier in the Late 1930s

 

9. Newlands Stadium 1962

 

10. Cape Town Docks 1967

 

11. Heerengracht Street 1960

 

12. Postcard of the Company Gardens 1965

 

13. Foreshore in 1948

 

14. View of Groote Schuur Hospital in 1967

 

15. Kloof Road 1953

 

16. Muizenberg

 

17. Albert Road, Woodstock 1966

 

18. Flower Seller 1951

 

19. Roggebaai 1965

 

20. Postcard of Muizenberg 1969

 

21. Fiesantekraal Airbase 1944

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