{"id":17444,"date":"2015-03-09T05:36:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T05:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/?p=17444"},"modified":"2015-03-09T07:56:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T07:56:27","slug":"sommer-house-tales-from-the-jazz-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/?p=17444","title":{"rendered":"Sommer House: Tales from the jazz age"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bengaluru:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Back in the 1950s, when Bangalore was like something out of a F. Scott Fitzgerald bok, Whitefield was a small township on the outskirts of the city. On arriving at the railway station, one took a horse-drawn carriage home through the small, winding streets. It wasn\u2019t long, however, before development put paid to much of that old world charm.<\/p>\n

The Sommer House, a colonial bungalow that has been restored to its former beauty by long-time resident Sulaiman Jamal, aims to recreate some of that old world charm. Thrown open to the public on Monday evening, as a community center that gives senior citizens and retired army officials that long lost society whirl, Jamal, whose association with the area began when he set up his factory there said: “We have lived in Whitefield for ten years now, but when I first visited, it was a pretty wild place,\u00a0 Every six months, another bungalow would be torn down.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two-bedroom gabled roof Sommer House, bought two years ago by Jamal, replete with antique furniture, is home to a piano that belonged, back in the day, to the Defence Services Cinema. The cottage, sits surrounded by a garden, with restored vintage cars dotting the property.<\/p>\n

Jamal would like the House to host programmes like piano nights, dancing, catered dinners and plays. Most importantly, it will also have a free catered dinner every month for senior citizens.
\nBeth Chapman, Pre\u00adsident, Overseas Women’s Club, has helped put Sulaiman’s ideas in motion.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m always looking for old bungalows and the stories that surround them,\u201d she said.
\n\u201cThe house is opposite Forum Value Mall and people expected a superstructure here,” Sulaiman explained. “They wonder what the catch is, but there is none. We want the people of Whitefield to feel a sense of belonging with what is now a community center.”<\/p>\n

source: http:\/\/www.deccanchronicle.com \/ Deccan Chronicle \/ Home> News> Current Affairs \/ DC \/ Darshana Ramdev \/ June 18th, 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bengaluru:\u00a0 Back in the 1950s, when Bangalore was like something out of a F. Scott Fitzgerald bok, Whitefield was a small township on the outskirts of the city. On arriving at the railway station, one took a horse-drawn carriage home through the small, winding streets. It wasn\u2019t long, however, before development put paid to much … Continue reading Sommer House: Tales from the jazz age<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-culture-entertainment","category-records-all","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17444"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17450,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17444\/revisions\/17450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}