When Johannesburg and I were young (Used)

This is an appealing personal memoir about the Rosenthal family, written from a child's perspective, by the daughter of the family, Juliet, who was born in Johannesburg in 1910. She writes as an adult looking back on her upbringing in a close knit talented family through wartime trials and tribulations and peacetime prosperity. Her parents arrived as immigrants from Germany after the Boer War. Memories of life and schooling in Yeoville, Brixton, Parkview and Emmarentia span the decades before 1930 and give a fascinating glimpse of early Johannesburg life for a middle class, professional, aspiring family. The black and white photographs of Raleigh St, Yeoville, Observatory, Parkview, the old Park Station mix well with portrait and snapshot photos from the Rosenthal family album.