I really enjoyed reading the piece by Lucille Davie on the Hillbrow Tower (click here to view). As with many others, I watched in awe as it went up. There was this orange plastic around the top bit where the concrete was being poured. The more concrete, the higher went the orange bit until it got to where the “double disc” is now.
I went up the tower several times in my early teenage years and remember depositing coins in the telescopes in a bid to find the spot where I was growing up.
A few years ago, I went up to the top once more thanks to some work my employer was doing for Telkom, which owns the tower. I’ve included some photographs taken that day with a mobile phone.
From one of the 'disc' levels looking towards Auckland Park. Sentech tower roughly in the centre. (Trevor Jones)
Another view from one of the "disc" levels. The hospital is on the lower left below the microwave disc. Killarney is in the centre. (Trevor Jones)
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