I was born in the U.S in 1970 and moved back to Kenya at age 5. We lived in a highrise flat in Lowerhill overlooking a drive- in cinema, which we never went to but we would instead occasionally go to Fox drive- in on Thika rd. We'd get fresh bread from a bakery in Westlands
I'm so touched with the images though I remember as a small boy walking along the City with my Dad and Mom , living in Nairobi west & Studying in South C the old Nairobi , the smell of the Trees , the smiles will just be Once upon a Time
@@hopanyow To what I hear from old Relatives & Freinds the early 50s to mid 70s almost Many Parts of East African Nations Kenya Uganda Tanzania including the Central Ruanda Zaire Congo were so Peaceful & Beautiful.... Politics & Corruption drastically broke through the Quality of People's lives safety was no longer the Fact of Mitigation slowly by slowly this is what we anticipate today Chaos in these Lovely Nations ..
This is great footage!. I cant get over: to lack of development along lower Kabete Road. Used to love living out there! From Westlands to Loreto ridge, so peaceful and safe.The good old days! thank you for the memories
for some reason watching this feels so darn refreshing !! maybe its watching life happen on streets I have walked in... only that when this video was taken i was not in the world just yet!! i was born 8 yrs later in a hospital called pumwani lol - oh dear nairobi
Just discovered this channel in 2022 while searching for videos of the city from the 70's...pleasant documentaries of the city way before I was born...interestingly, some areas never changed much over the decades... 3:33 interesting how the road to Westlands near the chiromo left turn remained pretty much the same through the years...in fact the construction of the expressway is what is gonna obliterate much of this initial design
Wow! amazing video, thank you for these gems. The footage seems to capture an architectural practice. Would anyone know which on it is and if any of the people working in the office are in Kenya?
That road was from Westlands to Central Nairobi - had the road to myself in the mornings. When I think back, there were very few cars at that time, and yet we had this beautiful three lane highway, better than anything I had seen in the UK!
I was born and spent my early childhood at Parkland's railway quaters in the early 70's. This is the nairobi i remmeber! So many fond memories. There was this arab guy who used to sell cloth fabrics on his motorbike, and this other guy who you could hear shout from miles 'mandebe!' meaning he was collecting empty bottles for resale :D So much order then unlike the deathtraps in high-rises that replaced sprawling neighbourhoods all thanks to kidero and Sonko 🤬
@@hopanyow woow you mean to Say you are still holding videos clips of the 70s & 80s please do upload them this has been very touching for me I was only like 7 years old but remember so much of those Roads simply because my Dad was a news Broadcaster with the V.O.K voice of Kenya walking and sometimes taking the Public Bus was just amazing school was fun Nairobi West shopping centre the shops the Butchery was something I always enjoyed Walking with my Mum Kenya will always be in my opinion the most ever beautiful place I lived as a kid 💖
@@jetstreams2986 I was in Kenya from 1967 to 1972 and I think I have put all of my Kenyan material on RUclips. These of course were taken on cine cameras. I have put 83 videos total on YT under the user name of Hopanyow, which extend from 1967 to present day, so if you list "Hopanyow" you should be able to see my other ones. I had one of motor racing in Kenya which included the first formula 1 type car which raced at Nairobi/ Nakuru. Hope this helps -Good Luck.
@@hopanyow By reading your lines I can sense how Interesting you are to meet thank for sharing your Part of the story & briefing me further about your Classic Clips.. I was born in 1968 I'm an Omani Arab Living now in Muscat sultanate of Oman growing up in Nairobi we lived in ( Nairobi West ) my father was a News Broadcaster with the voice of Kenya Driving down the City was fun & also taking the train to Mombasa a journey i wished the Train wouldn't stop those memories Will never fade away..... Wishing you the all best of Health and Happiness 😊
For me its the beautiful old cars, no jam, the peace and less population, the order in town and the smiles,, oooh the smiles, life must have been really awesome those days, these days you look left and right as you tightly cling to your handbag or else snatchers and pickpockets might steal in the now densely populated noisy chaotic towns,wah!!!! Things have really changed
Looking back, I really enjoyed my morning trips into the office. I used to take the roof off the car for three months, until the rainy season started. It was warm rain though!
For sure that videographer need to be paid. A good job indeed. But I think my grandparents were busy in rural areas cultivating and filing the world .since Asians and the colonies were the ones managing all public offices in our motherland
1970's Tik Tok. How nice ... it seems these were the days of honest civil service. Independence ruined Kenya. It was rushed, unplanned and its instigators turned out to be self-serving. Today's Kenya is a ruined landscape with an extensive greenhouse gas signature... more concrete less trees.
I worked for the British Ministry of Public Building and Works in Nairobi and we looked after British crowned properties in East Africa. I enjoyed travelling to various parts of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania by car and air (Douglas DC3 Dakota).
@@hopanyow You've had good kind presidents, let me say resilient presidents from Kenya.. to be more accurate, halfhearted presidents. If i were president of Kenya during those early years of independence, none of you would've set foot on Kenyan soil again. I'd have reclaimed all British properties on Kenyan soil and expelled the British plenipotentiary in Nairobi with a permanent ban. Recall the Kenyan plenipotentiary from London and close the book on Britain for good. I always find time to go to Nyeri and Thigio to stand next to mass graves the locals there know little about but I saw them and know where they are and the numerous bodies of innocent Africans buried therein. None of you would ever step on Kenyan soil again.
When most Africans we hustlers, mzungus were managers,muhindis next and less than 10 % Africans clerks messengers, cleaners or maids . African policemen in shorts and no under pants. It was pitiful
True it's all yours no doubt & will always be we all loved it Grew Up in it got Educated in it fed ourselves in it respected it & worked hard for it & had lovely Freinds & memories in it but the moment the Mazungu Arabs & Asians went out of it that's the Corruption the Chaos the Politics the crime you are having in it au Vipiii ? Usikasirike be honest in it ....!!
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Did you notice, no menace of Matatus and Boda boda
No ashabaab,no mulika mwizi,no rush to buy prime plots which were plenty few cared
@@kennedyotieno1560: do you mean no kikuyu on film..coz kenya was already theirs..deepstate aka executives
Whoever was vlogging in 1970 was ahead of their time.
I was born in the U.S in 1970 and moved back to Kenya at age 5. We lived in a highrise flat in Lowerhill overlooking a drive- in cinema, which we never went to but we would instead occasionally go to Fox drive- in on Thika rd. We'd get fresh bread from a bakery in Westlands
When Nairobi was truly 'Green city in the sun'.
I'm so touched with the images though I remember as a small boy walking along the City with my Dad and Mom , living in Nairobi west & Studying in South C the old Nairobi , the smell of the Trees , the smiles will just be Once upon a Time
Glad you enjoyed. I have been priviledged to have lived in Nairobi for four years in the sixties, near Westlands. Such a wonderful time of my life!
@@hopanyow , it's so touching having to have those memories , Kenya was so beautiful , growing up and Studying there gave me so much to Cherish ...
Glad you enjoyed my video, thanks for you comments.
Happy Days!
@@hopanyow To what I hear from old Relatives & Freinds the early 50s to mid 70s almost Many Parts of East African Nations Kenya Uganda Tanzania including the Central Ruanda Zaire Congo were so Peaceful & Beautiful....
Politics & Corruption drastically broke through the Quality of People's lives safety was no longer the Fact of Mitigation slowly by slowly this is what we anticipate today Chaos in these Lovely Nations ..
RIP to all thse pipo
This is great footage!. I cant get over: to lack of development along lower Kabete Road. Used to love living out there! From Westlands to Loreto ridge, so peaceful and safe.The good old days! thank you for the memories
Wonderful days - thanks
You are right, wonderful, wonderful days!
When the Whole of Nairobi was beautiful
Wow! this is beautiful. 👏🏾
Glad you enjoyed it.
Incredible footage
Many thanks.
People look happier.. This is beautiful.
Ford Cortinas, VW Beetles & Combis, Peugeot 404s & 403s, Mini Coopers...the rest I just don't remember. Man those cars were ancient!
I drove a white Triumph TR3A to work from Lower Kabete to Gateway House in town. Enjoyed watching the motor racing at Nakuru.
for some reason watching this feels so darn refreshing !! maybe its watching life happen on streets I have walked in... only that when this video was taken i was not in the world just yet!! i was born 8 yrs later in a hospital called pumwani lol - oh dear nairobi
Thanks for your comments
Wow! Just wow!
Just discovered this channel in 2022 while searching for videos of the city from the 70's...pleasant documentaries of the city way before I was born...interestingly, some areas never changed much over the decades... 3:33 interesting how the road to Westlands near the chiromo left turn remained pretty much the same through the years...in fact the construction of the expressway is what is gonna obliterate much of this initial design
Glad you enjoyed my video, it is a thank you from me, to Nairobi, for my four years at Lower Kabete Road.
Wow! amazing video, thank you for these gems. The footage seems to capture an architectural practice. Would anyone know which on it is and if any of the people working in the office are in Kenya?
MPBW office Nairobi
@@hopanyow Thanks! Good to know!
instagram before instagram - 50 years ago !
At the ESSO garage you could collect tokens to get a 45rpm record of the Tiger Rag! There were copies all over the place in the late 60s/70s.
.......and you could put a tiger in your tank!!
I do recall; “put a tiger in your tank” as a slogan for Esso back then. Such beautiful memories of Kenya!
I remember my Tiger tail, Happy Days.
It seems like that camera used fuel
🤣🤣🤣
Lol.... This is the funniest thing I've read this year so far
Damn!😂😂😂.
A noisy film camera
Priceless footage. What camera was this?
Hi Abu
The cine camera was the latest Canon 814 (8x zoom 1.4 lens).
There are more Kenyan videos under my "hopanyow" RUclips name.
H
@@hopanyow great footage
Canon 814, battery driven.
Kwani camera inatumia engine ? 😅😅. Sasa towards the end fuel ilianza kulisha?? Wah
Mr. Kamau era
where is that, around 0:25 with the multi lane highway? anyone recognise it?
That road was from Westlands to Central Nairobi - had the road to myself in the mornings. When I think back, there were very few cars at that time, and yet we had this beautiful three lane highway, better than anything I had seen in the UK!
Sad how we've run down the once great city of Nairobi
I was born and spent my early childhood at Parkland's railway quaters in the early 70's. This is the nairobi i remmeber! So many fond memories. There was this arab guy who used to sell cloth fabrics on his motorbike, and this other guy who you could hear shout from miles 'mandebe!' meaning he was collecting empty bottles for resale :D So much order then unlike the deathtraps in high-rises that replaced sprawling neighbourhoods all thanks to kidero and Sonko 🤬
So many memories
I am due to visit in December, after 35 years, Nairobi raised and born. Can I expect the same open place?
I'm curious. How did your visit go? Was it a total shock?
We need an update... How was the visit
Update, where is the update!
May be she never returned
NO! Nairobi today is a rotten, decaying cesspool ruled by corruption and incompetence. Come only if you have to.
A lot of papers
People watching this today wish time travelling was real. 😂true historians and my curiosity for such
Fortunately, I used to annoy lots of people with my old cine camera, so I can travel back to the 70s and 80s and see what I was doing then.
@@hopanyow woow you mean to Say you are still holding videos clips of the 70s & 80s please do upload them this has been very touching for me I was only like 7 years old but remember so much of those Roads simply because my Dad was a news Broadcaster with the V.O.K voice of Kenya walking and sometimes taking the Public Bus was just amazing school was fun Nairobi West shopping centre the shops the Butchery was something I always enjoyed Walking with my Mum Kenya will always be in my opinion the most ever beautiful place I lived as a kid 💖
@@jetstreams2986 I was in Kenya from 1967 to 1972 and I think I have put all of my Kenyan material on RUclips. These of course were taken on cine cameras. I have put 83 videos total on YT under the user name of Hopanyow, which extend from 1967 to present day, so if you list "Hopanyow" you should be able to see my other ones. I had one of motor racing in Kenya which included the first formula 1 type car which raced at Nairobi/ Nakuru. Hope this helps -Good Luck.
@@hopanyow By reading your lines I can sense how Interesting you are to meet thank for sharing your Part of the story & briefing me further about your Classic Clips..
I was born in 1968 I'm an Omani Arab Living now in Muscat sultanate of Oman growing up in Nairobi we lived in ( Nairobi West ) my father was a News Broadcaster with the voice of Kenya Driving down the City was fun & also taking the train to Mombasa a journey i wished the Train wouldn't stop those memories Will never fade away.....
Wishing you the all best of Health and Happiness 😊
For me its the beautiful old cars, no jam, the peace and less population, the order in town and the smiles,, oooh the smiles, life must have been really awesome those days, these days you look left and right as you tightly cling to your handbag or else snatchers and pickpockets might steal in the now densely populated noisy chaotic towns,wah!!!! Things have really changed
Looking back, I really enjoyed my morning trips into the office. I used to take the roof off the car for three months, until the rainy season started. It was warm rain though!
I'm curious to know which company was/is this and is it still in existence?
Me too, looks like an archetecture firm.
@@mohabatkhanmalak1161 Ministry of Public Building and Works NBI
MPBW British Ministry of Public Building and Works - I worked as a draughtsman - sorry for the delay.
For sure that videographer need to be paid. A good job indeed. But I think my grandparents were busy in rural areas cultivating and filing the world .since Asians and the colonies were the ones managing all public offices in our motherland
This won't change the fact that am The Notorious Traveller KE on youtube with 50 subscribers only in a kenyan village 🇰🇪🇰🇪💕💕
Kuna barabara hazijabadilika vile
Is that Nairobi or New Delhi!!???
Read the title.
Nairobi
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
no security problems at that time !...walking around and shopping without danger of being robbed...
Yes because we were only 10 million people at the time.
Nationalist
Thats just an excuse, its a bad habit Kenyans developed. China has billions and there is 0 to 1% crime.
Never entered our minds that we would not be safe travelling around East Africa.
At least no laptop, mobile phone and computer to spoil the eye
At that time the camera was another thing 😂😂😂
1970's Tik Tok. How nice ... it seems these were the days of honest civil service. Independence ruined Kenya. It was rushed, unplanned and its instigators turned out to be self-serving. Today's Kenya is a ruined landscape with an extensive greenhouse gas signature... more concrete less trees.
I worked for the British Ministry of Public Building and Works in Nairobi and we looked after British crowned properties in East Africa. I enjoyed travelling to various parts of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania by car and air (Douglas DC3 Dakota).
@@hopanyow You've had good kind presidents, let me say resilient presidents from Kenya.. to be more accurate, halfhearted presidents. If i were president of Kenya during those early years of independence, none of you would've set foot on Kenyan soil again. I'd have reclaimed all British properties on Kenyan soil and expelled the British plenipotentiary in Nairobi with a permanent ban. Recall the Kenyan plenipotentiary from London and close the book on Britain for good. I always find time to go to Nyeri and Thigio to stand next to mass graves the locals there know little about but I saw them and know where they are and the numerous bodies of innocent Africans buried therein. None of you would ever step on Kenyan soil again.
i would love to meet some of these guys on the clip,if they ain't dead.
Well you could meet me - I am still vertical.
That office must be the NHC.
British Ministry of Public Building and Works - MBBW.
Dear people of the future; This is my comment from June 2023 about a 1970’s Nairobi. Take care of each other!
Thanks for your comments, Isaac, I was privileged to have lived in Nairobi for four wonderful years.
When most Africans we hustlers, mzungus were managers,muhindis next and less than 10 % Africans clerks messengers, cleaners or maids .
African policemen in shorts and no under pants. It was pitiful
When the white ruled Kenya and the Kenyans were the servants Goodriddance to that Era!!yes Nairobi is not the same but it is ours and not for mzungu!
But you've done such a bad job for 2 main reasons: accepting another type modern-day colonization through "Democracy", corruption and greed.
True it's all yours no doubt & will always be we all loved it Grew Up in it got Educated in it fed ourselves in it respected it & worked hard for it & had lovely Freinds & memories in it but the moment the Mazungu Arabs & Asians went out of it that's the Corruption the Chaos the Politics the crime you are having in it au Vipiii ? Usikasirike be honest in it ....!!
Filmed in 1970, 7 years after independence.
Yellow HotRod fascinating
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