A picture is worth a thousand words

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omoge:

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why are u crying



@the poster

Where did you get that pic from

because the beauty has been spoilt with tall building with little or no benefit.

THE BEAUTY? FOR WHERE?

you need glass to see the beauty in that ol' broad street? there is beauty in there and i sure can see it

eeyah lol they really say beauty is in the eye of the beholder

ayayai, even NewYork in 1951 is akin to the NewYork of today, but that is just different
Plus it's residential b the looks of it, Broad street today is commercial

Tha's a kool picture, those cars are worth a fortune now. They r classic

Improved now.LOL.So so original.

Here is  the link to where this picture originated from.
There are several other interesting pictures depicting
various places in Nigeria taken a long time ago.

If you can take the time to read the whole diary
it is really interesting and gives a view of Nigeria
through a racist colonist. If you read the sentence
immediately above the first picture you will know why
I call her a racist. Sad I know, but nevertheless
you get a sense to some extent
of what Nigeria was like in those days.

http://eryptick.net/unisold/amj/nigeria-1951/nigeria-diary.html

Like d pictures.9ja fine oh

VOR, that diary was quiet interesting. It is good to keep diaries. I love the serene nature of time gone by.
thank u.

Exactly.Nigerians looked so innocent then and i smelt peace and stability.Technology oh

True my sister, i would have love nigeria not to be open eye 

there is beauty in there, lots of beauty. today everybody don open eye. thief me, i thief you is the thing of the day now.

Abi oh.I cld feel peace and a corruption free society.Na Oyibo put us for wahala oh

The present day nigeria as a whole still kinda looks like that.For all i care,this pic cld have been taken in 2007.Just take out 'em old cars and replace 'em wit newer models.

HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH


Not possible.

The present day nigeria as a whole still kind of looks like that.For all i care,this pic cld have been taken in 2007.Just take out 'em old cars and replace 'em wit newer models

Thats the sad truth, some parts of Nigeria still are like this the only differance is the cars.

Iz it better?

mazaje:

Thats the sad truth, some parts of Nigeria still are like this the only differance is the cars.

very true. lol
replace the cars with motorcycles (okada) and i would believe it was taken in 2007.

any body know where i fit buy one of those cars in that picture?, i dont want craiglist address ooo ;d

ogbongzky:

any body know where i fit buy one of those cars in that picture?, i don't want craiglist address ooo ;d

You can't afford it.

I love this picture so much. . . . . .talk about a classic. . . . . .

nice phots, when lagos as still beautiful and unspoiled but sammy and ronson have suffered o
little piccaninies,
looks less than 5 feet unlike a chimp, oyibo

thats a good one from the archives, its really hard to broads street was once like that. thanks to development and technology

If only i could time-travel?

So, somebody was already rich by that time to own those tall buildings? Those upstairs and four storeyed buildings, may be they belonged to Herbert Macauley, Tafawa Balewa, Awolowo or even Zik,
UgoChukwu Cornels.
eze_elect@yahoo.com

Great read (dairy)sad but so much stayed the same from 1951. Same chicken coop, same mallam selling crocodile skin,same houseboy, gari still made the same way. Fish pond still being created in small scale to provide protein. Kids still hawking groundnuts ,

@poster ,u really made my day with these pictures.luv old pics.all my Dad's stories has come to life with these stories and pics. plz more ,more and more of these pics.

WesleyanA:

very true. lol
replace the cars with motorcycles (okada) and i would believe it was taken in 2007.

You should have added pot holes.