The bridge connecting the Race Course side (Dr. E. Moses Road) to Jacob Circle (Saat rasta) is not there. Today, the main entrance of Mahalaxmi station is located on the bridge itself.

Milind the entire area west of the station and railway line was reclaimed from the sea in the 1930s. Since electric poles are seen, this picture is taken sometime between 1928 - 1935.

Don't miss the gaslights which were around till the late 60s. These were powered by piped gas from the Bombay Gas Co., and every evening a worker used to come along and with a long pole, turn the gas switch on, reversing the process at dawn.

The dressing style of the people, the car models (vintage we call them today), all predate the previous photo by at least 2 - 3 decades. This must be from the 1920s.

Memories of days gone by : Favre Leuba watches, Shangrila biscuits and Capstan cigarettes. The movie Bhai Bhai starring Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar, Nimmi and Nirupa Roy was released in 1956, so obviously all these photos are from that time period.

If anybody could decipher the name of the movie on the posters, we could have guessed the year in which this was taken. I can only make out "Pooja --- ------"

Could not have been more than 4 - 5 pages in thickness.

The crowd is about 50% of that seen nowadays, but everybody is so well dressed and orderly.

The reason that the line could be hugging the coast line in those days was that the Backbay Reclamation work had not commenced. The line from Churchgate to Colaba was closed to enable the grand reclamation project to be carried out. The rest is history.

Lovely album of heritage pics. Deserves a rightful place on our server under FIRST CLASS.

Can we try to add some more photos of the old Colaba station too ?? This will complete the history of this line.