Talk:Parkhurst, Gauteng

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Parkhurst Johannesburg, does any one know much about this suburb? The kinds of places it has the, socio-economic status of the area, the geography of the area. I would like to know. I was born there but moved to New Zealand when I was five, so can't remember alot. Much appreciated.

I grew up there -- spent most of my hormone-filled teenage years in the neighborhood. As you can see from my spelling of "neighbo(u)rhood, I've been living in the U.S. for some years now. Essentially, Parkhurst is a middle-class suburb. It was built as a development, so all the houses look much the same -- of course, over the years, they've changed enough that they have their own identity, but there's still evidence of the "sameness". It much like a grid, with the primary school being smack in the middle. There is no high school -- I went to Greenside High, the suburb immediately south. The east-west streets are numbered, as are the north-south avenues. So it's possible to live at the corner of fifth and fifth! From south to north, the streets go from 1st to 22nd. 21st and 22nd are somewhat truncated. I grew up on 20th Street, between 2nd and 3rd Avenues. Here's a satellite image of that, with 20th Street running across the middle, left to right: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=parkhurst+johannesburg&ie=UTF8&t=h&om=1&z=18&ll=-26.133884,28.022395&spn=0.002191,0.003573 . Here's a picture of the entire suburb, with the primary school on the bottom-right quadrant: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=parkhurst+johannesburg&ie=UTF8&t=h&om=1&z=15&ll=-26.138256,28.019772&spn=0.017453,0.028582 . 4th Avenue is the shopping "drag" which is the yellow line running top to bottom -- zoom in for a better look. The green square on the bottom left quadrant is a park. Please let me know if you see this, and tell me who you are (you didn't sign your entry) -- you can reach me at harddavid(atsign)gmail(dot)com. WikiWikiDavid 21:20, 9 February 2007 (UTC)