I don't remember the year, but it was in the 70's when the movie JAWS came to town ... Who remembers the big cut out of JAWS that was hung above the enterance to the bioscope? What year was that?
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Hmmmm not sure Mike... I do remember trying to get posters of everything that was shown so that I could put them onto my bedroom wall.....those were the days ;D
Wendy
I thought the girls back then , only had posters of George Michaels on their walls, leat alone big beastie sharks......
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remember the easter weekend busses?
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hehehehe!
I was too young for jaws...
But I do remember going to the bioscope with only R5 and buying a ticket, plus enough goodies to make me sick to my stomach and still going home with change only to spend it the next day on more sickening goodies!
Now you barely buy toffees with R5...
Sure, but with the carrent pricing at SPAR one can understand why things are so unaffordable... :) :)
I don't remember Jaws, but I think the first movie I remember was Bambi. I also remember the blue leather seats, and that if we were bored during the movie it was fun to crawl underneath them and pop up into a seat elsewhere !! And remember when the film on the reel used to break or the reel would need to be changed (at least once per showing) and suddenly all the lights would go on and you'd have to wait until the person up in the projector room had fixed it.
Now I'll give away my age......I remember the seats BEFORE the blue ones! Reddish material they were. And the screen curtain....GREY with black trees. I was there the day the projectionist, Mr Myers?(always in a white coat) officially announced the new seating in use....Of course we all applauded in response as we did before most of the films started... :D
Those chairs you mention are now in the Optima Lodge temple, they were never thrown away....
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I remember the red seats, the Apathe News, Cartoon, Serial (one of which was Lightning - which lasted 13 weeks) then the big features. And all for just 10 cents.
Yeah! The Lighning in b&w. Cor that was serial we used to crave. And sneaking in at night to see the adult movies....!
Was a bit too young for Jaws at the bioscope but do have some good memories of going to watch movies there. Who can remember the projectionist writing messages to people who had left their car lights on whilst the "forthcoming attractions" were playing, also the very badly typed adverts? Who would have thought that nowadays it is a nightclub!
don't remember jaws - but I do remember Laurence going with (I think) Stephen, Michael and Paul. But I wasn't allowed to go because I was too young.
When I got older I remember checking which bar my mom and dad were in so that I could go to the other one for a drink.
I remember sitting in the TV lounge of the Rec club - those were the days.
Bicycle rides to the beach with the youth club. The older ones used to sunbathe topless on the roof of the yaught club.
Hi Michael.
I remember very well. It was my 12th birthday. Scared the sh*t out of me. Saw the movie with Mark van Greunen. That was quite a topic in OM at that time. Come to think of what movies are made like nowadays.
They showed a cartoon with Tom and Jerry. I rember I couldn't stop laughing all the the way. Felt a bit ashamed, cause the rest hardly ever laughed.
After the movie we would joke about how dangerous it could be putting your toe into a puddle.
The music...
dadum dadum... getting faster and faster.
Did you bother reading the book. Just good enough to use as wallpaper in the lavetry. But at that age it was sensational. Remember Andy Morrow borrowing it to me from his dad. (The late Ivan Morrow)
There were some parts in the book a Stephen Spielberg would never have put in a movie at that time...
Those magnificent men in their flying machines was a big film in O/M in 65.....and it was on the telly here yesterday
Sound of Music had us all heading for convents and singing the songs and re playing the scenes......well some of us ha ha
Mary Poppins.............best film ever.....didnt see this film again then for about 30 years.....so seeing it now reminds me of O/M
We've watched Mary Poppins several times with our daughter. You really start enjoying it, because she enjoys it so much. Seeing that she only just turned 5, we only watch about 10 to 20 minutes at a time. Takes a while till you've seen all of it. Then she knows some of the songs (plenty of other songs anyway) by heart. So she's always singing along...
i think me and my 3 daughters could act out the whole film for you...ha ha i couldnt count how many times i have seen the film now...10000000 i guess , it was then replaced with Grease.....another classic when the kids are growing up.
Willy Wonka, Chitty Chitty bangBang.......i can watch them all over and over.................wait till your daughter gets you dancing too....have fun
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My teen-age and grown-up (4 in all) love Grease, Hair, Rocky Horror Picture Show and Dirty Dancing. So I'm going through it already...
They're lucky to have a father who collets these sort of things
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Oops sorry tdidnt realise you had older kids too.....so you will aready know all the words and steps.......I must start remembering what people say on here ha ha
That's okay Bev. Same here. Ther's so much information on the site. So many people I've never seen, it's hard to remember everything.
The years in which my kids were born:
Nikolai March 1987
Isabell December 1988
Romy Mai 1989 (Stepdaughter)
Lilien Oktober 1990
Anne Mai 1991 (Stepdaughter)
Lucie December 2002
So you the thorn among the roses,surrounded by women I see. Come now where the photo's of your lovely ladies.
I assume Nikolai is a girl?
Wow 6 girls.....poor man....
all lovely names :emot112_2:
Wow 6 girls, whatta large family in the true African style....
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Quote from: Diana Rudd (Boehme) on December 29, 2007, 08:11:25 PM
So you the thorn among the roses,surrounded by women I see. Come now where the photo's of your lovely ladies.
I assume Nikolai is a girl?
Nikolai is a boy. In Germany you would call a girl Nikola, Nicole, Nicola a.s.o....
Now you girls should know why it's so hard for when Paula spits fire.....
Surely..... somebody out there has a photo of this event at the Bioscope?
catmusic
Paula spitting fire??? You don't want that Mike!!!! ape cuqui
Nikolai .. ( German ) Vivian ( Belgian ) ... Sandy (Scots) ... all names mistaken here in SA for female .. I get so much correspondence adddressing me as Ms .. Mrs .. Sandy Buchanan and phone calls and they shocked to hear a male voice ... catmusic
Sound of Music had us all heading for convents and singing the songs and re playing the scenes......well some of us ha ha
Mary Poppins.............best film ever.....didnt see this film again then for about 30 years.....so seeing it now reminds me of O/M
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Sound of Music... who of you were in the fliek that Saturday afternoon when Mrs Magnus (I think that was her), came in just before the movie started, and told us all to be very quiet. She did this so we could hear the wind blowing through the mountains right at the start of the story?
Mary Poppins... I remember a girl, who lived close to the school, jumping of their garage roof after seeing it. She did of course not land softly as Mary, but broke her arm or leg upon landing. She was the grand daughter of a Mrs Bezuidenhout. Her mom, I think, worked at the hospital. Can not recall their names now but there were 3 sisters.The surname was not a common one.
Worked in the projector room 1984-1985
Good extra money in our appie days then the exchange mmmmmm that was gooood extra money
I use to scavenge the posters from the place back in the day, had them up on my bedroom walls....... collectors stuff these days.... if I had kept them....
Mary Poppins.............best film ever.....didn't see this film again then for about 30 years.....so seeing it now reminds me of O/M................ fantasy-18
A bit of Trivia for you Stephania !! Mary Poppins! written by P L Travers born in Maryborough Queensland in1899 she was a writer, actress and journalist, they erected a bronze statue of (Mary Poppins) in the city about 4 years ago.
I hope one day they will Honor the author as well as the mythical character she created.
I live about 40 klms from Maryborough................................ image04