This week's archival image looks back at the origins of Shave's, a South African name in paint and home decorating whose history spans more than a century. The featured store was the company's first branch, opened at 412 West Street. That street is now called Dr Pixley kaSeme, though the photograph preserves its earlier address. The picture places the business within the country's retail and decorating trade at a time when the brand was establishing itself. It offers a historical snapshot of how a familiar commercial name first became visible to customers. The image records the brand's first street presence at a site that now carries a different civic name.