Not sure if anyone has memories of the Bioscope, remember the days when I use to get 20c pocket money, which would buy me a packet of chips :emot10:, a sherbet straw and an entry into the Saturday afternoon matinee at the bioscope. Also remember some talent shows that were held there and also have a memory of Sias Reynecke who came to perform there for us one year......
Not forgetting all the smooching that took place in the back row.......
for a laugh on this see topic saturday afternoon matinee
Here's the link Dunya.
http://www.oranjemundonline.com/Forum/index.php?topic=95.msg549#msg549
I still remember lining up for miles in front of the Bioscope on a Saturday afternoon. I actually thought of it yesterday when I heard Charlton Heston had died as I am sure I saw Ben Hur or the Ten Commandments or some such show with him in it at the Bioscope. I can remember walking home in the dark and being so totally mesmerised by the movie.
Yup, saw all the good old films there like 'Smokey and the bandit', the Terence Hill & Bud Spencer classics, and of course Jaws ... then bought the poster that I put up on my cupboard door (oh, those sliding doors ..). I would then wake up at night all freaked out with Jaws staring at me. Till this day, I have a major fear of sharks ... iknow
I remember seeing Bambi, bawled my eyes out. Was always so dark in the movie, remember those very heavy velvet curtains that hung at the door. If you were late, you peeked through them till the right moment that you could sneak to your seat with as little obstruction of someones view as possible. When you came outside, the light blinded you and everyone could see you had been bawling. Remember how they put notices on the screen if someone had to be called out for an emergency.
What about the Lassie movies ?? many leaving the cinema bawling their eyes out ....
I remember Heidi - geez when that old man sprung up from behind the rock and growled, I almost wet myself
I remember the movie "Day of the dolphin". There's a scene, when the main acters enter a room with a giant window toward the aquarium. They turn the light on and you see a dead man hanging in front of the windo´w. I must've been about ten. It hit me so hard, I started leaving the movies.. Then I went back. At least my pants were dry... laughpoint
I remember ET , the movie house was so full the kids on the floor . They played that movie for a couple of days as it was so popular .
Remember the magic shows on a Saterday afternoon.
Was'nt that guy who dod the magic called NIck ?
idontknow
Remember the weekly serial - cops & robbers? Usually 10 minutes long, with 5 minutes showing what happened th eweek before. Sometimes we would pay our 10c just to see the serial, especially if there was a "soppy" movie on.
Nope Uwe, but I recall all kids yelling as soon as Rocket Man appered to beat the bad boys.
Yip there was a serial,followed by a cartoon and then the Forthcomming Attractions. At the evening shows they always started with the News. We always sat in M row 9+10.
Yes, one comic. That was realy special. Nowadays the show comics for hours on TV and no-one is realy interested.
Who remembers that big cat? It was obviously some guy dressed in a cat suit - as far as I can remember there was no talking; only the music and everything that could possibly go wrong for this cat-guy went wrong.......... Anybody????
That rings a bell... I bet Paul would know....
Where is Paul when we need him :emot77:
I just dropped him at home when we came back from the meeting......
Was the cat not Felix?
Or Fritz the cat.
Was that movie banned in SA?
No this was like a short before the real movie - the cat was a proper man only with a cat suit and loooooong tail; dammit Paul - help............
I think Diana is right, and Georg Jnr, I think you're thinking of a porn movie..... :emot19:
Not realy porn.
It's a comic strip about a hippi cat. He's a rock musician and his favorite waste of time is smoking joints and ... You know, the girls. bling1
:wow1:
That's your kinda tomcat Rhona??
Here's what I'm thinking of Felix the cat from the silent movie era. Oh yes Boy Georg behave now, I'm watching you.
Keep an an on that pup, Diana - he is full of his fun tonight
Hey Rhona. Now that's a beautiful pic of you...
Remember when JAWS premiered, they put up a big jaws head above the main enterance.
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who :emot78: during Lassie and Bambi.
Carefull Carl. There are plenty of girls around.
They usualy complain about men not showing feelings like crying. But you know what they realy want.
Übrigens Carl.
Wiederspreche niemals einer Frau. Warte fünf Minuten und sie wird es selber tun. laughpoint laughpoint
I don't know how to translate this one and be sure it's still funny. Psst! Carl! swink
Are you thinking of Top Cat
I just got it... It was Danny Cat...... Am I right, Huh! Am I? Am I? idontknow
You know what Mike - I have it from a very reliable source that it is indeed Danny Cat; and it turns out that it wasn't a short before the main movie for our entertainment - but was actually a safety message for us kiddies. Seemingly everything that could go wrong did go wrong for Danny and towards the end of the showing a guy would come along and show Danny how to do things the correct way - like crossing the road, you always have to check up and down the street before stepping off the path................Thanks my reliable source. giverose
So that's where you learned to cross the busy streets of OM Michael??
I worked at the cinama to earn extra cash. Did it for quite some time, i remember being head usher and had to stay back at the end of the movie to check everything was ok before locking up. The thing was in those days they had restrictions and when it was a 21 movie we were not allowed to watch it but we had to stay untill the end so would sit in the office. We used to creep back in when the movie had started and stand behind the curtains to watch, got caught many a time by Mr Meyers. We used to have so much fun working there, and when the seats weren't full we used to let our friends in free.
Hi there, when I joined CDM 57/58 the cinema was still situated in the mess building. The films were only run Friday and Saterday night, during the week it was shared with the Players.It was absolutely no funfor us (players) always to remove the screen to use the stage for the plays. Only after the new cinema was opened the old one was now cut down in size , part of it was given to more room for additional tables, manly for the single Dayly Paids,and the rest turned into the "Little Theatre" What a change !
That's interesting Joco.
... and up until last year the cinema, was back in the little theatre...remember that the bioscope building had been outsourced and turned into a Nightclub..... the residents got bored and so it was decided to use the litle theatre as the bioscope again...who would have ever thought.... anyhow...this stopped last year as it became unprofitable to run this venture....
When I first arrived in Oranjemund, I worked at the cinema ticket office with Fred Meier. The best seats were those right at the back.
I preferred those seats on the side where the exit doors where....got space to stretch my athletic legs...... swink
anybody remember the first year appies having to cut their hair in funny styles and having to go to the bioscope and sit in the front row.
everybody had a good laugh at us.
then we went home and shaved our heads clean.
this practice was stopped when the first black appies came along.
laughpoint
Yea Mike those were the good old days. If you try stuff like that today ur more than likely to be hauled in front of a disciplinary commitee.
During my first year, we spent the first six months in training center and were then posted out to our sections. We were issued with those big blue Gedore toolboxes in training center and once in the section had to carry them around with us werever we went, even to the toilet. When speaking to an artisan whe had to do it military style, standing at attention. Often we were sent to the stores to fetch weird tools. (A quarter round half inch spanner????????). The storeman was usually always in on the prank. I remember once spending most of the morning at the store waiting for the storeman to issue me with a "Long Weight".
It was all good clean fun and part of making us better artisans in the end.
The military drill helped you be a better artisan?
I was a trouble maker back in the day and always had my way of doing things, My first assigned place as an electrical appie was to 50g, the electrical shop.... when I got there all the old artisans were having tea, Gus was my foreman.... they told me to make their tea and coffee for them, even though there was a tea boy there. I do not drink tea or coffee and so I refused, I was not impressed by the way that they had asked me to , or should I say demanded me to, and I knew that there was nothing they could really do from a legal point... I never ever did make the tea and coffee, I cannot remember if it Was Gus or Christie, that gave me a lecture about how things 'worked" ...... sometimes it helped being a big lad........
notfair
Quote from: georg ruf jr. on April 20, 2008, 05:59:51 AM
The military drill helped you be a better artisan?
yes georg
i think if more young people are given a dose of military disipline this world might be a better place.
left, right, left, right, left, right
Yea Georg jnr. Being fresh out of school, most young men entering into the working world haven't got a clue about where they fit into the organization.
For 12 years you are told what to do at school and at home, and you basically just go along with it or face the consequences. Now you enter the working enviroment and reality hits you like a ton of bricks. Suddenly there are new rules and regulations. Breaking the rules here often results in far worse consequences than a hiding from your Dad or detention at school. Colleagues are usually much older than you and have wives and families already. Some come from different social and ethnic backgrounds. Being taught from the start where you fit in helps a lot in determining what kind of an artisan you are going to become one day. You basically get two types: The one who does the absolute minimum of what's required of him and lives from paycheck to paycheck with no ambition in life. Then you get the one who continuously strives to improve his skills and lifestyle, and goes the extra mile to ensure a pleasant working enviroment for him and his co-workers.
There is a posting from your Dad on the forum, where he mentions how the appies made fun of him behind his back for being so strict and authoritive. I bet those appies turned out to become top notch artisans in the end.
Ask Sandy..... laughpoint
Too true .. looking back the strictness helped shape us .. there were some that just plain took advantage of their " authority " but I can say for most of our senior artisans and trainers , they had good intent and wanted us to do our best and become the best that we could be ..
Are we not supposed to be discussing Bioscope here? I can already see jnr getting ready to post a reprimand together with a link to the correct thread ... hee heee heeeeee
Seriously though, its weird how a bunch of guys together can always manage to stray off a topic without really noticing it.
During our morning meetings at work the topic would always eventually end up below the belt. The foreman suggested that we keep it above the belt and rather talk about cars or something similar. It went well for a day or so untill one morning one of the guys adressed the meeting with : "Het iemand van julle al agter in 'n Mini gespyker?"
Never mind Boy Georg I've done that already,.......not so much about the wrong topic that happens all the time diffiult to stay on a topic I know. I just felt that something as "important" for want of a better word, should be all together under the Appie topic so one can refer back to previous posts. (Way back to the beginning of the forum)
bravo
Thanks Diana. What about the link then? Georg always gives us the link...hee hee. First day on the job and ur already slacking off. Here it is for those that are interested. http://www.oranjemundonline.com/Forum/index.php?topic=301.0
Thats very brave of you Diana, in the bACK of a mini? laughpoint
You seem too be feeling very brave today Michael...lol Don't you know Diana knows those men in the black suits. meanpuff
I,m a big brave mouse I go walking through the house and I'm not afraid of anything..........
I hope your house is near a Bioscope.....
Quote from: Michael Alexander on April 20, 2008, 07:05:29 AM
I was a trouble maker back in the day and always had my way of doing things, My first assigned place as an electrical appie was to 50g, the electrical shop.... when I got there all the old artisans were having tea, Gus was my foreman.... they told me to make their tea and coffee for them, even though there was a tea boy there. I do not drink tea or coffee and so I refused, I was not impressed by the way that they had asked me to , or should I say demanded me to, and I knew that there was nothing they could really do from a legal point... I never ever did make the tea and coffee, I cannot remember if it Was Gus or Christie, that gave me a lecture about how things 'worked" ...... sometimes it helped being a big lad........
notfair
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Good boy Michael.
swink
Quote from: Carl Wrbka on April 20, 2008, 07:50:30 AM
Yea Georg jnr. Being fresh out of school, most young men entering into the working world haven't got a clue about where they fit into the organization.
For 12 years you are told what to do at school and at home, and you basically just go along with it or face the consequences. Now you enter the working enviroment and reality hits you like a ton of bricks. Suddenly there are new rules and regulations. Breaking the rules here often results in far worse consequences than a hiding from your Dad or detention at school. Colleagues are usually much older than you and have wives and families already. Some come from different social and ethnic backgrounds. Being taught from the start where you fit in helps a lot in determining what kind of an artisan you are going to become one day. You basically get two types: The one who does the absolute minimum of what's required of him and lives from paycheck to paycheck with no ambition in life. Then you get the one who continuously strives to improve his skills and lifestyle, and goes the extra mile to ensure a pleasant working enviroment for him and his co-workers.
There is a posting from your Dad on the forum, where he mentions how the appies made fun of him behind his back for being so strict and authoritive. I bet those appies turned out to become top notch artisans in the end.
Careful Carl.
I grew up with this guy in my back. There may be several things I still don't like about how he sees things and goes about them. But my oldman never used military drill. It's just a matter of expecting somebody to feel responsable about what he's doing or not doing. So there's a big difference to me.
Quote from: SandyB on April 20, 2008, 08:12:17 AM
Too true .. looking back the strictness helped shape us .. there were some that just plain took advantage of their " authority " but I can say for most of our senior artisans and trainers , they had good intent and wanted us to do our best and become the best that we could be ..
That's my point Sandy. There's a diff. to those who took the advantage...
Here's the link. Anybody interested? Just jump over... arse
http://www.oranjemundonline.com/Forum/index.php?topic=301.0
Quote from: georg ruf jr. on April 20, 2008, 10:19:37 AM
Quote from: Carl Wrbka on April 20, 2008, 07:50:30 AM
Yea Georg jnr. Being fresh out of school, most young men entering into the working world haven't got a clue about where they fit into the organization.
For 12 years you are told what to do at school and at home, and you basically just go along with it or face the consequences. Now you enter the working enviroment and reality hits you like a ton of bricks. Suddenly there are new rules and regulations. Breaking the rules here often results in far worse consequences than a hiding from your Dad or detention at school. Colleagues are usually much older than you and have wives and families already. Some come from different social and ethnic backgrounds. Being taught from the start where you fit in helps a lot in determining what kind of an artisan you are going to become one day. You basically get two types: The one who does the absolute minimum of what's required of him and lives from paycheck to paycheck with no ambition in life. Then you get the one who continuously strives to improve his skills and lifestyle, and goes the extra mile to ensure a pleasant working enviroment for him and his co-workers.
There is a posting from your Dad on the forum, where he mentions how the appies made fun of him behind his back for being so strict and authoritive. I bet those appies turned out to become top notch artisans in the end.
Careful Carl.
I grew up with this guy in my back. There may be several things I still don't like about how he sees things and goes about them. But my oldman never used military drill. It's just a matter of expecting somebody to feel responsable about what he's doing or not doing. So there's a big difference to me.
Georg jnr
the man was telling us a story about his life if you dont like it stay quite, and he never said anywhere in his posting that your old man used
military drill.
good thing you never went into the military, you would have had a really hard time. ( bad attitude they would have called it. )
Hi Koos.
Still waiting on you to stop talking and saying something instead... bling1
You should read the whole topic to to know why anybody says something at a certain point. Might help.
Quote from: georg ruf jr. on April 20, 2008, 12:57:07 PM
Hi Koos.
Still waiting on you to stop talking and saying something instead... bling1
You should read the whole topic to to know why anybody says something at a certain point. Might help.
i did read the whole topic.
maybe you should go for some advanced english reading courses.
:emot19:
Quote from: Koos on April 20, 2008, 07:18:57 AM
Quote from: georg ruf jr. on April 20, 2008, 05:59:51 AM
The military drill helped you be a better artisan?
yes georg
i think if more young people are given a dose of military disipline this world might be a better place.
left, right, left, right, left, right
Do you remember the scene in "The Wall" bei Pink Floyed as the kids all got minced up? Well, I think what they were trying to say in the story was, that drilling kids and wanting them to "fit" into society is like robbing their identety. It's just like having a big lump of minced meat instead of individuals.
Give a person a chance to find out who he is and that it's okay that way and he'll want to be part of society.
If you try to force him into society, he'll want to break out. I think that's what Michael was saying earlier on. Why should he cook coffee if he doesn't even drink any. It's just a game people tend to plao show you the power they have over you. Honest. Now what does an appi learn in a case like this? He learns how to use power. Does this make an artisan out of him?
Why the big debate? No-body said anywhere that military force was used regarding the appies.
laughpoint :emot19: :culo1: :emot77: :36_8_1: BierSuip fireworks1
Do we need to introduce military force into this topic?
Quote from: georg ruf jr. on April 20, 2008, 01:41:11 PM
Quote from: Koos on April 20, 2008, 07:18:57 AM
Quote from: georg ruf jr. on April 20, 2008, 05:59:51 AM
The military drill helped you be a better artisan?
yes georg
i think if more young people are given a dose of military disipline this world might be a better place.
left, right, left, right, left, right
Do you remember the scene in "The Wall" bei Pink Floyed as the kids all got minced up? Well, I think what they were trying to say in the story was, that drilling kids and wanting them to "fit" into society is like robbing their identety. It's just like having a big lump of minced meat instead of individuals.
Give a person a chance to find out who he is and that it's okay that way and he'll want to be part of society.
If you try to force him into society, he'll want to break out. I think that's what Michael was saying earlier on. Why should he cook coffee if he doesn't even drink any. It's just a game people tend to plao show you the power they have over you. Honest. Now what does an appi learn in a case like this? He learns how to use power. Does this make an artisan out of him?
THE WALL
one of the best lps ever made
maybe that attitude of yours is not so bad after all.
:36_2_35:
When did you last go to bioscope Rhona?
The last movie we saw was "Ratatouille". Good laugh that movie.
Whats with all the smileys,the military style that Carl is refering to was done as a tradition and as Michael refered to his coffee incident,could not be forced upon them as in the army. Thats the end of my 10 cents worth.
My last movie was Surfs Up Lets go discodance
What music would you be listening to now Koos?
King Crimson (Robert Fripp ect) In The Wake of Poseidon. Fantastic music, even if the recordings of those days can't match with today. This was real handmade music.
Quote from: Rhona on April 20, 2008, 01:57:11 PM
Do we need to introduce military force into this topic?
not to worry
i read in some other topic that they busy with a invation somewhere else.
shooter
I'm not the kind of girl who is into chick flicks - for me I love the movies 'SAW' and 'Hostel' - not even horror films where make believe beasts jump up and try and scare you - Ha! I laugh in their face - for me the movie has to mess with your mind; so while watching it, you are a little on edge - but when it finishes, the scenes play over and over in your head; something that could actually happen in real life - in your worst nightmare!!!.........Any one else into those kind of films? I can recomend ''The Descent'' if your see it in the local rental shop - pick it up...........
Will check that.
Quote from: georg ruf jr. on April 20, 2008, 02:03:36 PM
What music would you be listening to now Koos?
King Crimson (Robert Fripp ect) In The Wake of Poseidon. Fantastic music, even if the recordings of those days can't match with today. This was real handmade music.
i still listen to the old music mostly.
Jack Johnson is also ok.
never heard of the bands you refered to.
:sorriso2:
The 'old music'............how old are you???
If I send you a mp3 to your email adress can you download and listen to it?
Well, The Wall was produced somewhere like 1980. King Crimson broke up somewhere like early 70s. That's ancient for avantgarde music.
Quote from: Rhona on April 20, 2008, 02:16:37 PM
The 'old music'............how old are you???
GRAND FUNK
URIA HEAP
DEEP PURPLE
MOODY BLUES
ROD STEWARD
DAVID BOWIE
THE WHO
LED ZEPPLIN AND MANY MORE FROM THIS GREAT TIME. ( TO MANY TO MENTION HERE )
the best music ever made was in the 70s
ive heard a lot of great music during the years but the seventys is still the best.
discodance
ho hum so you one of us..... spinningweed
Diana laughpoint
The 70s music is realy the best. Pop, Rock yep.
After this time everything got far to comercialised. Pity.
I've just sent you something Koos. Give it a try.
Quote from: Diana Rudd (Boehme) on April 20, 2008, 02:31:58 PM
ho hum so you one of us..... spinningweed
close
did you not live across the road from Freemantles.
thatTony was really a naughty shit.
:emot19:
Quote from: georg ruf jr. on April 20, 2008, 02:34:23 PM
I've just sent you something Koos. Give it a try.
will try
have not got a broadband connection.
:cibo4:
Pity. The mp3 has more than 5mb.
@KOOS Yes I did live opposite Tony Freemantle.....him and Pieter Du Toit .....both naughty shits. Now you've got me going,send me a mail man won't tell anybody promise.Give me a few more hints and I may just work it out. After all we are from the best time in O'mund spinningweed
Quote from: georg ruf jr. on April 20, 2008, 02:43:45 PM
Pity. The mp3 has more than 5mb.
5mb, no problem, will get back to you sometime.
Quote from: Diana Rudd (Boehme) on April 20, 2008, 02:48:36 PM
@KOOS Yes I did live opposite Tony Freemantle.....him and Pieter Du Toit .....both naughty sh*ts. Now you've got me going,send me a mail man won't tell anybody promise.Give me a few more hints and I may just work it out. After all we are from the best time in O'mund spinningweed
i was a friend of Ronny.
spinningweed, yes i do remember a wooden spinning machine, vaguely.
will have to shut up now, allready said to much.
:36_2_35:
Now we've got you... bling1
Whos is Ronny - Hey Diana; if Koos reveals all to you - you can keep the secret; or at least most of it - all I want to know is how old!!! After all I bought him and I need to know are there still a few good years left or do I need to start trading now......
@George - what do you know?
@ Koos I know who you are............. nee nee na nee nee. All I,m saying Rhona a tad younger than me.
Let me see what I can do for you....
For starters: He's a male. Cause he used to play with Ronny. Ronny hated girls.... Want to know more?
Quote from: Diana Rudd (Boehme) on April 20, 2008, 03:04:19 PM
@ Koos I know who you are............. nee nee na nee nee. All I,m saying Rhona a tad younger than me.
SHIT
YOU BETTER KEEP YOUR LIPS SEALED. THERE A LOT AT STAKE HERE.
pls
:emot19:
Didn't I mention this guy is hooked...
arse laughpoint laughpoint
Ek se maar niks........we don't wan't to spoil your sh*t here now do we.
Ready for the next tip Rhona?
Okay so - if Jnr knows this Ronny guy and Jnr is 44 - Koos was a buddy of Ronnys - so Koos I'm going to put you in the mid-forties bracket. and Jnr has you as a male and I trust Jnr..........so now we have you as a mid-forties male. And so never in furtherest stretch of the imagination am I going to guess who you are; but that doesn't matter cause I own you................now this is a once in a life time offer - anyone out there want to buy Koos off me? I'll give you a fair price - he cost me R10. Here is what the small add would say:-
FOR SALE: Koos; mid-forties male; good for a wind-up; sensitive nature - enjoys old music; multiple faces and split personality; one sexy carefull owner. All fair offers considered.................any takers?
@Jnr - next tip please - I'm slowly building a profile
Yeah. You're profile is cloce.
Next tip.
He lived in OM at the same time the Boehme did. Remember family Bohme? Father German mother Irish.
I've got more to go.
Boehme? Is that one and the same Alfred and Diana Boehme? What years in O'mund are we talking of Jnr?
Yes. You're fast Rhona. These Boehm.
60s till today. Alfred is still there.
Damn - 60's was before my time; we arrived in '72 stayed until '81 - from other posts, I get the impression Koos doesn't live in O'mund any more.......do you have any idea when he left the desert?
Now don't start pushing me! Am I David Copperfield? Easy now. We must be more careful.
There's something else I found out now...
You know more...................tell me pls
Quote from: georg ruf jr. on April 20, 2008, 03:34:08 PM
Now don't start pushing me! Am I David Copperfield? Easy now. We must be more careful.
There's something else I found out now...
sending messages behind our backs are we.
meanpuff
I think he's good in disguising. Jawanna know why?
Keep out of this Koos; this has nothing to do with you - it is between myself and Jnr..........anyway - all messages are above board - nothing is being sent in secret..............And don't think it's gone unnoticed that Diana dissapeared as soon as she guessed who you are..............
@Jnr - I wanna know why; tell me everything
Well, he used to have his birthday in the calender. I would say 38 years old. We cogratulated him in January...
Here it comes!
IT'S GONE!!
You didn't expect this, didn't you?
If he is aboutt he 38; then he would be the one age with Mike Alexander and my brother Gary - and you're right; I've checked the calender and the birthday is gone - without telling me his name; do you know it? Also is Koos sending you personal messages asking you to say nothing???
Maybe I should check my mailbox...
Geez!! His trying to bribe me into keeping my mouth shut. He says I shouldn't tell all his secrets here.
Well, let's see how buiseness is doing...
at this rate i mite even rob a bankto get to the reunion on time,koos you are going to get it big style,coward,GET YOURESELF SOME BACKBONE MY FRIEND,you are being tracked shit neck,i would love to have a good swally with you,two hits,me knocking you,you knocking the the ground.ps im never violent xx
Quote from: bobbysmith on April 20, 2008, 04:21:37 PM
at this rate i mite even rob a bankto get to the reunion on time,koos you are going to get it big style,coward,GET YOURESELF SOME BACKBONE MY FRIEND,you are being tracked sh*t neck,i would love to have a good swally with you,two hits,me knocking you,you knocking the the ground.ps im never violent xx
easy Bobby
did you not live in 12th ave when you where a small little boy. i think your parents left and then came back again.
we used be big buddies and i was sad when you left.
swim
Hey Koos
I dont know you, but i dont understand your avatar. What type of animal are you then ??????
Bobby tells me , you have no idea. Just poking thumper
nice to hear that we were big buds as kids,i also remember you,i lived at e23/9th ave .opposite the park.fastest little boy in town,if we were such good buds ,give me more details
Hey Bobby, what funny buddies dit you have ???????????????
I'm back My favourite movie in O'mund was The Sound of Music. e154
Quote from: bobbysmith on April 20, 2008, 04:50:13 PM
nice to hear that we were big buds as kids,i also remember you,i lived at e23/9th ave .opposite the park.fastest little boy in town,if we were such good buds ,give me more details
ask your family about 12th ave, maybe you have forgoten.
the e side of town was built in later years.
cheers old bud
:sorriso2:
lots of people logged on but no action. em!
dont give in Diana.
pls
eeer ummm ,..... Koos? Who's Koos? I don't know any Koos's. Did somebody say Koos oh yes that van der Merwe oukie.....end of story.
Now about the Sound of Music.....
''The hills are alive-with the sound of music'' lalalala BierSuip
Koos Smoos - yawn! yawn! How long is this game going on now???
@ Bobbysmith - I know we don't know each other; but I just love reading your posts - you have a way with words that always brings a smile to my face and I hope we'll always sing off the same song-sheet giverose
@ anyone who's interested - when we were little; didn't van der Merwe always feature in our jokes? kinda like the Paddy irish man jokes.....
Yes Rhona. Maybe Koos is just a joke come true...
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Hey Jnr. you're back - I only hope when we get to the punch line it will be all good.
Why should we get to the punch line, my lovely Irish girl. giverose
Cause the punch line reveals the joke - and in our case, Koos.......and if Bobbysmith has his way then 'punch' is the main word.......... :emot112:
That's realy complicated.
But okay. If that's the way you want to put it. I'm ready...
just woke up from my alchohol induced coma,had a dream about koos,i kicked him up the arse and now i cant find my foot,got to hop every where now,koos you going to get it big style boet.
Hope your foot--- arse
No! Not realy... laughpoint
And again. The link to Appi Traditions.
http://www.oranjemundonline.com/Forum/index.php?topic=301.0
Hey guys whats the story with Koos? I've only been on this forum for a month and everybody seems to want to thumper him? Would anybody care to update us newbies.
Well Carl thumper is the only thing that troll understands.
He is here incognito, does not want to reveal his identity.
So go ahead and thump him. He deserves that
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Don't be to hard on him oldman. He was even enjoying the chat here yesterday. It won't take long and the bugger is hooked like the rest of us... :emot172:
Me thinks his hooked already I noticed he was logged in all afternoon yesterday.
Yes, and he was behaving. He left after he realised Rhona and I were tracking him down... :emot19:
Dont worry son, i have him on his IP adress, no chance to escape meanpuff
CT I think.
By the way oldman. With this message, I'm passing Michaels post record. I think it's time to call the doc... :emot77:
Hey Jnr, Congrats on taking the record..... But I'm back...... so make sure you have built up a big enough lead...and I noticed that Rhona is rocketing up the Ladder also..... give her about 60-90 days and she's gonna be up here....
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Ok the bioscope / cinema thing ... time to post some memories ..I have copied out a story my dad told of a cinema incident that I posted on I scatterlings .. I recall as well many a time when i worked in Caseys .. at interval the men would ostensibly go to the cafe to get chocs for wifey , stop in for a quick shot but sometimes get caught in the honeypot and then the sh.. would hit the fan .. this is a bit of a tall tale maybe but then who knows ?? ....
JUST READING THE NEWS .. ON THE SITE .. SEE THE CASEY'S
> BAR APPEARS .. BURGLARS .. UNHEARD OF YEARS AGO ...
> NO MORE CINEMA ?? WHAT THEY GONNA DO ?? DRINK MORE .. ?? THE
> CINEMA USED TO BE A "LOOKED FORWARD TO" BY MANY OF THE
> TOWN WOMENFOLK .. AN OPPORTUNITY TO GO OUT SEE AND BE SEEN
> , CHAT, SKINNER .. CATCH A MOVIE AND MAYBE A BIT OF
> FANTASY TO ESCAPE FROM THE SANDY HOLE THAT THEY FOUND
> THEMSELVES IN ?? PROBLEM WAS TOO MANY OF THE MENFOLK FOUND
> THE MOVIES A DRAG THEY WOULD AHVE PREFFERED GOING TO THE
> BAR INSTEAD .. ALSO MANY DRAMAS AROUND THAT ONE .. I RECALL A
> STORY OF A PAL OF MY DAD ( NAME FORGOTTEN ) TOOK MISSUS
> TO MOVIES ,, AT INTERVAL WENT TO THE CAFE ON THE PRETEXT OF
> BUYING CHOCOLATES .. ON WAY BACK GOT PULLED IN BY THE
> MAGNETIC CASEYS .. MEANT TO AHVE ONE DRINK .. INSTEAD LOST THE
> WHOLE PLOT AND NEVER RETURNED .. WIFEY HAD TO WALK HOME
> ALONE .. HUBBY SOMEHOW MADE IT HOME AFTER CLOSING TIME ( I
> RECALL A LOT OF MEN USED TO SOMETIMES SPEND THE NIGHT IN
> THE SCULLERY OR IRONING ROOM )( ENCLOSED BALCONY AT BACK OF
> HOUSE ) ANYHOW MISTER WOKE UP THE NEXT MORNING FEELING VERY
> SORRY FOR HIMSELF ,, CRAWLED TO BREAKFAST TABLE TO FIND
> A CALM DEMURE MISSUS DISHING UP BREAKFAST AND COFFEE .. NOT
> A WORD SAID . NO REPRIMAND " WHOW !! THINGS ARE LOOKING
> GOOD FOR ME?? " SENT OFF TO WORK WITH HIS LUNCHBOX AND A
> KISS AT THE FRONT DOOR ... THE FEELING IS VERY GOOD NOW ..
> WHOW !!
> TYPICAL OF A GOOD HANGOVER IS THE MID MORNING SLUMP .. THIS
> WOULD BE REMEDIED BY MORE COFFEE/TEA AND NICE SARMIES AT
> TEA TIME .. COME TEA TIME .. HE OPENS LUNCH BOX TAKES A
> NICE BITE FROM SANDWICH .. Uuugh ! OPEN SARMIE TO LOOK ...
> THE FILLING IS NOTHING BUT BUTTER AND TORN UP CINEMA TICKETS
> .... URBAN LEGEND OR TRUTH BOASTING OR WHAT ITS A GOOD STORY
> AND SORT OF ATYPICAL OF WHAT COULD AND WOULD HAPPEN IN
> THE TOWN........... REVENGE IS SOMETIMES VERY SWEET !!
Who knows more of the story , with I think Ollie Oliver, that went to the shop to buy a loaf of bread, landed up in Caseys's got pissed and somehow landed up in CapeTown...? ANyone?
alcoholic haze .. anything possible ?/ trust me ben ther done it .. got tee shirts and needle marks .. Ask Viv about the night the Cops raided Tots and she thought she thought she was going to be famous being videotaped ??
i remember something about freddie aggenbag and his brother in law going to fix a car at swartkops and took it for a test drive and ending up in cape town. they were missing for a couple of weeks or so. on their return the two of them were never allowed out of town together unless going on leave.
my father told me about that so the facts could be alittle exagerated.
maybe sandy or other longer serving omunders know something about that??????
Only catching up on the forum so this reply is a little late. Koos if you were friends with Ronny, then I think you mean Ronny Young who was the same age as my brother Billy and Bobby Smith, which ties in with the music, so you are very close to 50.
Hi Uwe,
The last time we spoke was around mid 72. I remember we used to go to the movies with 20 cents. 10 Cents covered the movie entrance and the rest was spent at the Desert Inn Café afterwards. I think a bag of Simba chips was 3 cents back then. One of my personal favorites was those little bags of sherbet that they sold at the café. I have not seen those since.
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@ Johan - Welcome to the forum family!
I still have a sticker from those days, advertising the "Crunchies" big bites for 2 and a half cents!
Some of those movies have stayed by me. There were some shorts shown just before the movie, I remember one about this monster spider (the size of a rhino) attacking people. I think it was during the Saturday afternoon shows.
I remember them showing all the Bud Spencer - Terence Hill movies at the matines. Oh and the Burt Reynolds ones too (Smokey and the bandit and others).
I missed those movies so much that I actually downloaded Smokey and The Bandit rides again....just for the nostalgia.....
I',m for a hippoptamus.... is also on my drive somewhere......
Crunchies, my ALL TIME FAVORITE. Two and a half cents, Wow, I should have bought more back then. (I suppose that is why they call it the good old days) You can get them here in the USA but they are scarce and more expen$ive than the run of the mill. The movies that I enjoyed the most were the old WWII movies. I remember The Battle of Britain and Kelly's Heroes. These movies left such an impression on me that I started collecting the old classics on DVD. Watching these oldies on my video projector is still one of my favorite pastimes.
As kids we used to play out the movie story line on our way home from the movie theater. I remember watching the original "The Red Tent" 1971 telling the true story of an ill-fated 1928 expedition to the North Pole. Needless to say, we took forever getting home that day reenacting the survivors slugging it out in harsh wind/ice conditions.
Hahahaha Johan, the play acting on the way home after the movie was half the fun of going to matinee..... Was it my imagination or was there a helluva lot of westerns shown as matinee's? I also remember the "Thats all Folks" cartoon in front of the movie......... allgood
I remember the old Wild West movies. My all time favorite serial was Zorro. We used to play Cowboys and Crooks and sometimes Cowboys and Indians. Nobody wanted to be the Crooks. Do you remember the "Clap Guns" from way back? They had a little roll of exploding powder dots on a long paper strip that you loaded into the revolvers. The paper was usually red but sometimes green. They made a bit of a pop but nothing much.
We sometimes exploded these by banging them between stones.
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What about the little black patato guns. You would poke the end of the gun into a patato and shoot away. You could also put those red plastique caps in them shooter shooter
Still have my potato gun and cap gun. Saw the other day that you still get the caps! Looks different now, but it still works the same. But with violence nowadays, toy guns not so popular. We used to connect play guns with "cowboys and crooks", but now if you ask the kids who they copy in their role-playing, it's gangsters, murderers, etc. Once again, we had imagination, today's kids have TV and movies.
Some good memories. Who of you built those matchbox bombs? The ones where u fold the flints from the sides into a box, fill up with match heads and sellotape shut. Wait for unsuspecting victim and let rip. Eventually though, ol Zandy banned them from school after some kid got burnt.
Me! Me! Me! well Clint Ebstein Showed me how to do this.... on the cement outside the shopping centre...
image201 I remember Clint as being quite a pyromaniac during my time in OM. Before Sunday school on Sundays we would first carry out some minor demolitions in his garden. His mother's rose bushes were the unfortunate victims in most cases.
We did the matchbox thing and we also did the one where you take Harpic and put it into a glass bottle add some water put the lid on, then shake it up and run like hell.
Mike, don't try this at home!!!!!
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Paula, we also tried to smoke bokdrolle and banana skins......
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I remember the potato guns. I did not have one myself but a friend had one. It might have been better that way. Carrying around a potato for ammo was pretty safe for me but the potato could quickly turn into a hand grenade and ended up "splat" against someone's living room wall.
My gut reaction and imagination was hard to explain after the fact but it was usually pretty funny. Often there was an unpleasant reward for my quick thinking. Enough about potatoes.
When we left OM in 72 I used to think that the way of living/playing for kids would have changed a lot but it seems it did not. Reading this forum reveals that kids still kept on digging those tunnels and boys and girls played together with the same toys. We dug our tunnels at the old "Sand gat". We were warned that the tunnels could collapse on us but somehow we still kept on digging them.
I just remembered something we did. At one stage we started making small parasuites and we would throw these into the air and watch them float down.
Well someone got the great idea to scale the parasuite up so that one of the kids could jump off the "Pondok" . My younger brother "Nico" (still with De beers) was selected as the test pilot since he was the lightest. We built this big parasuite and decided to first do a test drop with a rock. I know this must be hard to believe but we actually found a huge "bigger than a soccer ball" size rock. It took a lot of effort to roll this thing to our house and into the back yard. Don't ask me how but we actually got his rock on to the "Pondok dak". I still remember rolling this rock on my dad's "pondok dak" to the other side of the roof and the rock leaving a telltale path (dents) in the corrugated sheet. (More trouble to explain later) We got the rock to the edge of the roof. We realized that the parasuite would not open in time (Short drop) so we decided to hold the parasuite in the open position at the 4 corners and push the rock over the edge. (The parasuite was square with hanging 4 ropes.) Come to think of it, our buddy Uwe was part of this conspiracy.
We pushed the rock over the edge of the roof with a lot of anticipation and all we heard was DOEF as the rock smashed into the ground. It was a good thing that we did a test drop with the rock because Nico would most definitely broken some bones in his would be capacity as test pilot. The parasuite ended up where it belonged, in the trash can.
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Great memories Johan! Me and my friends also had a similar experience/experiment from the garage roof!
Toy parachutes seemed to be a favorite pastime, I remember making our own on more than one occasion and using toy soldiers tied to plastic parachutes. Always had a problem with corners tearing out, or ropes getting tangled.
Yes, it seems like we all had the same kinds of games, building dens, re-enacting movies, climbing trees, playing toktokkie, etc. Boy we were lucky growing up in Oranjemund!
Compare that to the city - poor kids.
You are right Bertie. We were very fortunate to have lived there.
Strange, we had the same problem with corners tearing out. We solved this by making a tiny knot in each of the four plastic sheet corners. We then tied the rope on the inside of the plastic knot. This prevented tear out and also prevented the rope from slipping off the corner.
I think that our little guardian angels that protected us when we were kids must have been totally exhausted by the time we went to bed.
One of my other favorite pastimes was to play in the two Sherman Tanks that they had over at the Moth Club.
My solution (not always successful) was to put cellotape on the corners to strengthen them. Boy, you're going to make me go and play in the street with these memories!
Great tale Johan, In the tree's between the Moths and the hockey Field (then soccer field),there was a mud pond from a leaking pype that kept those tree's watered...anyhow, this was the the one site in Omund back in the 70's where you could get tadpoles and frogs...anyone else remember this mud hole?
Hey, I missed out - didn't know about that mud hole!
We got our tadpoles and mosquito larvae in the park between 12th-13th, close to the abattoir. Also a leaking pipe for years, always a puddle there. Mom wasn't impressed, I always brought some organisms home. Even built an "aquarium" for pet garden snails. I released the baby snails into the garden when they hatched to go forth and multiply - not in Mom's good books for that one!
Our Tonnarokka tyre in the garden was filled with water ... that was our mossie Aquarium!
Hi Michael/Bertie
I did not know about the mud hole at the Moth Club. My best guess is that the pipe must still have been intact in my child hood days so I guess we missed out on some fun there...
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Same thing for the one at the "parkie" between 12th and 13th. No mud hole in my day.
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We often played there. I remember it had a slide and a mechanical horse ride with about 5-6 seats. Is it still there? It was a lot of effort to make that thing go high. Most kids would keep it up for about 40 seconds before giving up the effort. Also had a "rondomtalie" I think it was called. Didn't like those back then and still don't like them today. Made me seasick on dry land.
We used to have bicycle races around the "Flat/parkie" block. Sometimes took shortcut in the ally between the parkie and flats. It did not have much benefit because the sand was so loose in the ally that you had to get off your bicycle and run to the other end pushing your bike. By the time you got there the others have already covered the distance around the parkie. The Start/Finish line of our bike race was the stop sign at the ablution block that the Migrant workers used.
It is interesting that you mention the Tonnarokka tire. I was wondering where that name originated from. Everybody referred to those machines as Tonnarokka's. I am not exactly sure about the correct spelling. I think the industry refers to it as a bucket scraper or belly scraper. Maybe someone knows.
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Theres a photo from the late 50's somewhere in here, the early version of the bowl scraper was a tonnarokka, (I think)
I was standing outside the Spar on Thursday morning , offloading trucks, when a kid on a bike went past me, bringing back memories...what he was doing, was standing up on the left hand side of the bike, using his left foot to push himself along, as the chain had come off...I had forgotten about doing that...
In the entire town, only two parks have a rocking horse, the 5th avenue park, the small park behind the police station (fairly new park and new version horse)...and then in the pre primary is/was the original horse ...at least it was last time I checked....
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Our Tonnarokka tyre in the garden was filled with water ... that was our mossie Aquarium!
Geez, havent heard that word for ages.(Tonnarokka) Only used by Oranjemunders and other interesting people.
I never got to smooch in the back row! Saturday matinee was the best - even if you had to queue for hours. Remember the serials: Flash Gordon, King of the Clay people, etc? I still remember the songs that used to play before the movie started: Jenny, Jenny, dreams are ten a penny...........
Remember when Four Jacks & a Jill did a show there?
Yes, I saw the 4 Jacks and a Jill there. Was quite an experience, probably one of my first "real" musical shows.
Back in the 70's at the Alexander house , every weekend was a live show... musical instruments from around the world.... Guitar, spoons, Banjo, Mouth Organs, Trumpets, Jews Harp, Accordian..... Rhona...Did';nt yer Mum play the Harp?
Erika, now you mention the songs in the biscope, I remember them as well - another two I remember from then is "Sometimes, all I need is the air that I breathe....." and "Kentucky Blues" by Loren Copley ....
Margie Bardenhorst was all ways first in line, at the top of the steps for the matinee. You didn't dare get there before her unless you wanted to get beaten up. Then she'd decide who her friends were on the day and they had the next 3 or 4 places, the rest well we'd just full in after that. 20c is what we got 10c for movies and 10c for the cafe.
So what happened to margie? Iremember her getting married and had a little boy..............
@ Pam,
We lived in Ermelo in 1990 and walked into Checkers and who do we walk into - Margie and Andries. Made a quick duck out of there!! Anyway, about 3 months later we read in the paper that Andries had murdered Margie. She was apprently dead for a couple of days when a neighbour contacted the police and said something was not right next door. Police came out and found Margie dead.
Re the songs - what about "Daniel" by Elton John - can't hear that song today without being back in the movie house, lights dimmed, waiting for the movie to start. Amazing how music can teleport one back in time.............
Quote from: Erika on October 22, 2008, 12:03:11 PM
I never got to smooch in the back row! Saturday matinee was the best - even if you had to queue for hours. Remember the serials: Flash Gordon, King of the Clay people, etc? I still remember the songs that used to play before the movie started: Jenny, Jenny, dreams are ten a penny...........
Remember when Four Jacks & a Jill did a show there?
Don't forget Rocketman...
4 J and a J... I remember Jill saying she loved kids. So they put on an extra (mini) gig for us at the matinee.
Yip, going to the cinema was great excitement - I even had a "special" outfit for the occassion - tomato red hot pants with a mini skirt that had white hearts embroidered on it and white heart buttons!
I also saw 4 Jacks and a Jill, loved the song about the crab that walked straight because it was drunk. Animal anti-cruelty league sell a book with a cd by Jill (Can't think of her name now) but was very disappointed with the music, sounded much better when I was smaller.
I remember that song Florrie - it was my favorite! The words in the introduction went something like....
"Herman was a lobster, he was a very proud lobster, because lobsters walked straight and true, but Sally, what was Sally? - Sally was just an ordinary beach crab, and Sally walked... sideways!
Now these two fell hopelessly in love, but their love was doomed right from the start...."
The song starts with....
"Herman and Sally on the beach one night,
the sea was calm and the starfish were bright..."
Loved the part where the neighbors were "skinnering" : .... maybe their kids would walk in circles....
It ended on a happy note when Sally was walking straight and true and when Herman approached her and asked how she manages it, she hiccups because she had too much to drink and therefore walked like a lobster!
Quote from: Florrie van Zyl (Muir) on October 25, 2008, 06:37:31 PM
I also saw 4 Jacks and a Jill, loved the song about the crab that walked straight because it was drunk. Animal anti-cruelty league sell a book with a cd by Jill (Can't think of her name now) but was very disappointed with the music, sounded much better when I was smaller.
Her name was Glynnis Lyn
@ Diana, you right again.
@ Bertie, can't believe you remember the words so well. Think it ended with "hic, don't you shwear at me."
@ Florrie - Yup you're right that's the last words! :emot112_2:
Did any of you see the movie "Shamwari" that featured the 4 Jacks and Jill in one of their rare acting appearances? When it came out in OM, I went to see it 3 times.
I have great memories of the cinema, my mother Barbara Pretorius worked in the ticket office, so we had no problems getting into the latest movies. The red velvet curtains are also something that comes to mind. There are some crazy photos at home that were taken at the cinema when she worked there, I will try to scan them in and post them soon.
The movie has has changed - you will be shocked!!
Will post photographs of the inside this weekend.
What this space!
Here are some pictures of the movie house which I took during my "Oranjemund 2008 Reunion" stay.
THE SHOCKING CHANGE!
It is no longer a cinema - but a night club and bar area!
Some of the people sitting at the bar were upset with Barbara and I for taking photographs inside - apparently it is because they are not allowed to be there as some of them might be the night shift crew or booked off sick.
Tough shit! Here are some of the shots anyway!
NOTE: The curtains are still the same old curtains with the forest scene on it - they must be 30 /40 +/- years old?
The projector holes.
Other Oranjemund reunion town and party photographs to follow!
And one more - note the projector holes!
Those were the days and time moves on.
Thanks for the pics Richard. I've still got some great memories of this place as it used to be.
How sad.....I remember queueing around that triangular flower box thingy. We'd go early so we could have a sitting spot in the queue. I must say I absolutely detest and hate the colours of the buildings in O'mund now. "GROSS"
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I absolutely detest and hate the colours of the buildings in O'mund now. "GROSS"
Really SHARKI. Couldn't agree more Diana.
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Its as if they had too many tins of the stuff lying around and did not want to throw it out and in the end decided to paint what building they could with the GROSS colours.
The pink of the Little Theater is too disgusting ...
No one mentioned the Yellow & green Mine Store
Or the Smurfs Blue offices
... bright yellow power station........ :wow1:
Thanks richard. Now I have an impresion of what our beloved cinema turned out to be like. I remember the renovation to well in the 70s. The new artificual leather seats I think in a light blue.
And now...
Looks very dirty and cheap...
I was helping out on a private job around 1998, soon after the night club started up in the cinema building and had the sad task of removing all the electrics and sound equipment from the projection room upstairs and installing new for lighting, plugs etc. What technology for its time...
The new occupants wanted to turn it into an executive bar/lounge. I don't know if it ever got that far. I haven't been in there long enough since to find out.
Besides, I keep a healthy distance from the venue when it gets lively and jivey as the records will show, there have been a fair share of broken bottle attacks, knifings and even a fatal stabbing... what has the this place turned into???
Hopefully one day, yes one day, the big wheel will turn and sanity and tranquility will return...
We heard about the stabbing when we were there... just hope they did'nt use the knife to serve another blokes steak to him right afterwards (Here's a good sharp knife for you.. just been tested between someones ribs!).... Ugh
Stennie, this is your que for your story broer!
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Wow!!!!! the Bioscope cinema.
When did Oranjemund get TV,
Because the First Man On The Moon was shown here in 1969, my oldest Sean was five years old (it was black and white film) and he said at the time he wanted to be a space man.
Well I think he achived that in later life but it had nothing to do with rockets, I think space cadets more like it.
2001 Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick film was another film on at the Bioscope.
If you wanted tickets for the Saturday show you had to get them on Wednesday, thats if it was a good film, and I think there were two shows early and late.
2001 Space Odyssey
One of my favorites also for the space music
Difficult to understand the film, time travel......at the end he returned as a baby....so far for Einstein and relativity theories
These memories have come flooding back like it was yesterday
I see a lot of posts by Sandy Buchanan and Clive Symes I new their fathers
Could you younger Oranjemunders inform me when Oranjemund got televisions .
We left the UK and they had black and white TV in them days Oranjemund had its Bio scope so the outside new we got was a few days old
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You asked the young o-munders......
Well i rathe belong to the old LOL
But Tv came mid to end seventies. We never had one.
Reception was bad until a repeater was installed in Alexbay
Those days Radioprograms and cinema along with many activities in town was our entertainment
TV has destroyed the old social life, nothing worse then visiting people that keep the TV running, read the paper and have conversation at the same time. All only superficial social relations novadays
On the other hand, TV teaches a lot, but watching the programs in SA and Nam, you may as well forget about it, its the worst i have seen in my life.
Videos and internet are the substitute.
Regards Georg (Germany)
Georg, you are corect. TV came to O/mund late 70's
I remember we gave my dad a small black and white TV for Xmas. (think it was 79)
He was quite pleased cause the reception on it was better than the coloured TV's their friends had.
I always belived the reception to be the same, however, the "snow" makes the picture looks worst on a colour tv.....
Always one person outside twisting the pole, with the other inside shouting, "Left....left.... no! Right, right..."
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That sounds about right Mike... image201 In the beginning you used to base your TV viewing on the weather forecast in Cape Town as well. If Cape Town had good weather, OM had TV reception. They changed the transmitters later on and that solved the weather issues.
Television came to South Africa..January 1976. The test pattern and snowy picture came to O'mund 1979 the year my son was born.
Gee! If TV had arrived 9 months earlier, you might not have had a son..... :wow1:
True...."cos it took us another 9years to have our youngest daughter.
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True...."cos it took us another 9years to have our youngest daughter.
Wow, and i thought is a matter of seconds to acomplish that I-T-O Up-out
Foreplay Daddy Georg.......
ah so, never stop learning LOL affe-red
Thanks George and all Oranjemunder for that information (when TV arrived 1976) it was a bit of a shock when we arrived in South Africa no TV Jeez all that lovely weather.
We were in Durban. then we made our way over to Oranjemund, we left Durban on Saturday night and arrived in 'O' on Wednesday morning flying up from Cape Town.
With two children we were given a house ( I think our address was 7th avenue E42) there were no houses in front and to the east was the bamboo barrier.
No TV it meant books books and more books the library was a salvation and Saturday night at the Bio scope, that's if you booked on the Wednesday
It meant Margaret would have to go up early in the morning with a friend Dot Flynn and as we lived at the end of town sometimes they would get there and they were sold out of tickets.
Cigarettes were about 30cents for a packet of Van Ryan and Odie Mister Brandy (not sure of the spelling these day's) 1rand and 10cents.
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I remember the bioscope well, my mother used to work there, she worked in the ticket office. We always went to the Saturday afternoon matinee. I remember seeing Bambi thaere and crying my eyes out.
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Denise.
With mom working there did you get some free tickets now and again !!!! Wished my mum had secret(1) 202
Went and watched "the Fog" in 1984, I will never forget it, when we left the cinema that evening Oranjemund was not surprisingly covered in a thick blanked of fog, still had to walk my date back to her house, and then make my way back all the way to 9th ave.
I would have had the same feeling in the pit of my stomach if I had to row a boat across the ocean just after seeing Jaws. I have never walked that fast in my life, trying not to show any fear, worried my date might think of me as a woos.
Cutting through the allies at record speeds home, I ran into George, a St Barnard that roamed the streets those years, I don't think I ever opened the gate at home, straight over the fence, into the pondok, all safely locked up.
My memories are of;
-a thick haze of smoke ( and that was the kid's saturday afternoon sessions!)
-"the teenagers" snogging in the back row and "spoiling the film" with their commentary - especially about the "serials"
-my mother asking if I had enjoyed the film and me often telling her that it was rubbish cos it was a "love film" full of "boring kissing"
- queuing up from 06.00 on a saturday morning for the Beatles film (A hard day's night?) thinking it would be sold out, and nobody else joining the queue until about half an hour before the film started
- the film breaking quite freqently, or the reels being mixed up ............. and having a whole 10 cents to spend on sweets in the cafe...........and the smell of oranges being peeled in the dark.
Aaah yes - the black and white one reel serials! Brilliant stuff for young kids. Captured our imaginations and made daredevils of us all.