Landour Bazaar Then and Now

The bazaar has changed a lot in the past 50 years or so. Unfortunately, I don’t have old pictures with me. However, when we went to the bazaar on Saturday, I tried to take pictures of those places that have changed the least. It is good to see old faces that were in the same places in 1968 when we first arrived in India, even if, like ours, they are older. And many businesses are being run by the second or third generation of the family.

The Victory egg man used to come around to our houses with a wire basket of eggs several times a week. Now you have to go to the store near the top of Mullingar Hill.

Faiz Tailors, also on Mullingar, was the source of many western-style clothes copied from the pages of magazines and pattern books, and still is a busy shop today.

No changes to the Landour Post Office!

Notice the dosa place is now called the "Old South Indian Restaurant," since newer dosa shops have opened on each side of the old one. But this is the original where we had our first dosas.

More on this topic tomorrow...