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1956 I was studying intermediate science at St. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE in Trichinopoly, Madras state India, same year there were some students were from Kandy, Sri Lanka. They had Hawaii Sandals which were new to India then. They spoke English with an accent new to us. We loved tuning in to Radio Cylon for listening to beautiful Tamil and Hindi film songs. Cylon was in those times very exotic for us in South India, some lucky people from Kerala got jobs in Cylon and came on vacations with foreign clothes perfumes.. It was a great prestige for Kerala men to work in Cylon. Times have changed...beuty faded in India and Sri Lanka with the plastic products cheap Chinese imports garbage motor vehicles auto rickshaws pollution human population explosion and fight for survival...
You are absolutely correct my friend those days Sri Lanka was one of the greatest countrys in asia ..but time to time bad cunning corrupted politicians and their stupid supporters destroyed this beautiful island ..now here no life ..but politicians and their supporters created a good lifestyles by cheating billions of money ..now you can't see that beautiful country but you can a rotten hell created by f....g politicians
At that time too we buy these buses from burrowed money or gifts or grants. For the ctb But the private bus owners invested their own funds. So are we happy today for what Banda did in the 50s The government never had enough money as surplus from our exports. Very nice job
Correct... Morris minor & Volkswahon taxis with yellow roof & red numbers. Also with a meter. Good old days....how wonderful!! Rs. 1 & 90 cents from Grandpass to Dematagoda. What are we experiencing now??? Bloody hell.....
Firoza What is the distance. I remember 25 cents charged from Nugegoda to Pettah. Rs; 2/25 from Colombo to Kandy and colombo to Galle and Rs; 9/25 from Colombo to Ampara(via Monaragala route} untill 1969' . I have a 20 cent bus ticket from Nugegoda to pitakotte as a memory( .at 1977.)
@@firozahossen6440 I suppose Anthony B could Google the distance if he knew where your trip to Colombo started. I do not see that stated. Anyway, I used to travel 15 miles to Colombo and the ticket was 40 cents.
I remember going school in one of those German buses,60years ago had special electric doors ,the buses lasted a long time.A few years ago I saw one of the buses running but looked different due to repairs the driver that this was old German bus given as aid fro German govt
Meka balanakota hithata dukak awe Mata. Thawa aurudu 50n e kale Inna yath Dan kale videos balawi. Me loke harima puduma thanak, me video eke Inna Aya denata jiwathun athara nathuwa athi. Api hemoma me loketa avith thiyenne bohoma keti kalekata. Weradi weda nokara, Pau nokara jiwath wenna.
I'm really really surprise to see those people calmly waiting to the queue to get the buses.. Woooow.. its amazing. I think we lost those genuine generation.
If it is 1958 to1978 why they didn't show some buses.Example front and back are red in colour .Sides are aluminium natural colour.Then 22 ,23 and 24 Sri Mercedez bens,Damler buses,mostly in up country area ,Layland commet (UK) Law land area, Indian TATA and japaneese ISUZU introduced in 1972,1973,1974.OM Lambretta small buses in Up country area , and fiat mostly in Matale Kandy area from Italy. Where are these and why vanished from pictures.I am a Bus Lover. So it is very sad to see without these buses.Those days i maintained a seperate drawing book specially for draw buses.
Sri Lankan American watching with nostalgic memories. We never owned cars then. Buses were our only mode of transport. Riding those CTB double deckers was fun especially on the upper deck. We visited Sri Lanka last in 2019 with 14 Australians on a 9 day tour of the island. Colombo has changed so much Tuk tuks have virtually taken over the city.The tour was memorable and the 5 star hotels are the ultimate in luxury.
