The Road Through the Grove – Friendship and adventure along Louis Botha Avenue, Johannesburg in the 1950s, '60s and ‘70s.

By John Burgess

In the late 1950s, the 1960s and into the 1970s, Louis Botha Avenue – the road through the Grove – throbbed with life. Lined with shops and eateries, and alive with music and romance, it was the backdrop to a melting-pot of working-class people, many of them with roots in Europe, who had made their homes in Orange Grove and the surrounding suburbs.

A Very Special Coffee Table Book Remember The Doll House, drive-in, Springbok Radio, sessions at Vrede Hall, The Radium, ‘Ag pleez, Deddy’, Smokers’ Corner, Highlands Park, and holidays in Durbs? Relive these and much more on this amazing journey on the Road through the Grove – an illustrated voyage through music, friendship and adventure in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s in Johannesburg, South Africa.

284 full-colour pages Hundreds of memorable anecdotes Over a thousand photographs Special hand-drawn fold-out map by Trevor Romain Foreword by Bruce Fordyce Your favourite old places Sessions and socials And much, much more...