I am from Mumbai, so here are some old, or rare, or both from Mumbai and India…. I have added some recent pictures in some cases, for the contrast.
The best of Hindi film industry pose with the then Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi
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Liberty Cinema
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The Braborne Stadium, in 1950… .and today, the HQ of BCCI
Chowpaty Beach
Apollo Pier before construction of the Gateway of India (1905)
The Bombay Police
Chor Bazaar, Bambay
The Marine Drive…. also called the Queen’s Necklace - 1870 (above) and today
The B.E.S.T (Bombay Electricity & Suburban Transport) Tram service
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Cotton Merchants, near Cotton Exchange building, Bombay
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The Victoria Terminus Station building… today known as Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus
The Taj Mahal was given a Steel cage protection
This is my Late Mother iin Lonavala, Maharashtra
The station as it is today…
S O M E . . . REAL RARITIES…
Driving Licence 1943 (war Time)
Cash Memo for a Masala Dosa and a cup of coffee - Rs. 2.16
Kashmiri Gate, Delhi… in 1857
and today…
Martyr Shahid Chandrashekhar Azad, after he was killed by the British
India Gate, New Delhi - 1952
and today…
Two Nobel Laureates - Albert Einstein and Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore
Two sons of the last Mughal ruler, Bahadur Shah Zafar
Bahadur Shah Zafar, before being sent to Burma (for exile)
Maharaja (of Jammu & Kashmir) Hari Singh with India’s Home Minister Sardar V. Patel after the accession treaty was signed making Kashmir Indian territory.