Sights on an Afternoon Walk - Abids

 I went to meet Vinod at the second hand book market at Abids which is where he is normally found on Sundays. I had some books I wanted to offload and also catch up with him for chai at Grand Hotel. I met him in the usual gully off Tilak Road and we walked back to Abid Road. These are some of the sights along the walk.

Two pretty ladies outside a burqua shop

Clearly what is visible when we walk is very different from what we see when we are in a car or a bike. My school mate Shyam used to have a leather goods shop somewhere here and he would join the shop after school so sometimes we would see him working in the shop when we passed by. Now he has moved to a place in Himayat Nagar.

Masjid

The second hand book market bang outside the GPO

Grand Hotel which is quite old

Check out the two old postmen models on either side

Another view of the GPO

They have erected this huge Post Box in front of the GPO and have some plans for it looks like

Amazing how they dismantled the Golden Threshold - some work going on inside

Jawaharlal Nehru - never paid attention to his statue there

Also didn't read what was written on the plaque

A well preserved old building - Moosa building since 1942

In the 70s, me and my brother, then in our 7th and 6th class, would walk from our school All Saints High School at Gunfoundry, past Johns Bakery, past all the shops, past Asiad Sports Shop (now demolished) where we would buy table tennis balls every now and then, past FD Khan where we bought our school uniforms, past the Santosh and Sapna theatres, turned towards Golden Threshold, lingered outside a shop called Wonderland which sold toys, crossed the road near the Golden Threshold and went into a gully that emerged on the road leading to Moazzam Jahi Road near the Congress Bhavan which is where we lived for a short bit.

Much of it looks the same, no crazy high towers, most shops retained their look and flavour.  A literal walk down memory lane.