Lead Zeppelin, Iron Butterfly, Rolling Stones, Bread, ah yes those were the days. Each one of us had loud powerful stereo sets and we all tried to play our music louder than the guy in the room next door. Dieter Heiser, Keith Gass, Derek Anderson, and company.
Then there was the mess where slap up meals were served three times a day. Some of the contractors we had there in those days were quite rough guys from some eastern countries who probably had never seen this kind of food. One guy used to pile his porridge on top of his scrambled eggs and then pile a couple of slices of bread on top of that.
Leon
The mezzanine beds a lot of guys built from timber skived from whchever building site ... that allowed more room to party .. problem was if you fell out of bed ....
Was it Johan Schripzek?? who kept on oversleeping and eventually rigged up a siren in his room to wake him up in time for work?
The gang outside single quarters circa '73
Kneeling up front: Pepe
On green Honda S50: Me (Please note, this bike was legal)
On yellow Yamaha 125: Jakes
Behind Jakes: Andre Hanekom.
Can't remember the other guys.
2nd Photo:
Me on the (Unlicensed) Honda C110 built up from bits and pieces, on which I was eventually bust by old man Selby. Is this what I looked like, Jees.
Leon
which one did you fit the mercury switch alarm to ... ??
to my big green meanie (750 Honda) which I brought into town just before my first departure form OMD in '76.
You've got a damn good memory Sandy.....forgot about that.....
Leon
...remember the contractor guy that was always on the binge and when completely passed out would suddenly jump up and jive whenever "jumping Jack Flash" by the rolling stones was played.......
Wow...nice pics Leon....what I would give to hear the music from that era... the fashions.... the talk...the times...
great stuff....
Have got ALL the music from that era.......
Stones ,Deep Purple,Black Sabbath,Led Zepplin etc etc
All on Vinyland some we're told are worth quite a bit!! woo_hoo
I remember the students comming to work at X'mas time to work during the holliday to earn some extra money.Talking abou the the good food served in the mess, also some of some were surely not used the be served with anything and as much that was on the daily menue.Everybody heard about the one 'big eater' who re-ordered for his MixedGrill one mutton chop after the other untill he finaly finished his plate with 24 chops. Every Sunday lunch Ice cream was served, there were many of us who ordered it in a soup plate.There was nobody to tell you : Now you have enough,no matter of what
and how much you asked for. This all happened around the sixties. man were 3 chiefs,a German,a South African and an
Italian, each in turn responsible for the food prepared for one week. Whatever was served First Class.
Hi Guys, first time on the Forum.
Wow Leon what memories, I have no idea how we survived our time there.
Anyone know what happened to Pierre Cloete?
Andre Spies
Hi Andre' , Welcome onboard, You guys are a bit before my time, abouttime
Keep posting the memories...
allgood
Leon
You surely brought back memories. Still remember the breakfast runs we used to have?
Charmain
Charmaine,
Cleared the attic the otherday and found photos of those breakfast runs.
Just need to get the scanner up & running again.
No Sandy I did not find the ones of the "pink jetstream" of your famous technicolour yawn
Have got some of a sexy Juanita doing her thing at the yacht club and a couple of other slides of her in a bikini ???
Hooey .. safe for now ...
After all these years its time to own up. I lived in the single quarters as an appy and had a drum set in my tiny room. It was entertainment for many no doubt. I was respectful enough to tone down the music around 11 pm but the many neighbours had a memory and would let everyone within 50 feet appreciate their music.
I was taught a little trick which worked well to put paid to the noise.
Open up a 15 amp plug, join the live, neutral and earth together and put the lid back on. Insert said plug into a 220 volt outlet and switch on. It tripped the main breaker all the way back to the outside distribution board which was reset the next day. Quiet was now guaranteed. The challenge was to remember to remove the plug before Gunther Machs' sparky found out.
In retrospect, It was a pretty dumb thing to do and no doubt Georg will frown on this ...
HA! John and the said appy's were not intelligent, I too had the experience of a loud party that went into the night, I think it was boilermaker party, anyhow we had the keys for the db board, simply went out there, tripped the switch to his room, relocked the board, went to sleep!
Ja Mike. I prefer my method. You could lie in the comfort of your room, prep for bed, say good night to all and plug-and-play....
The single quarters was a great place, you could get lekker sloshed at Sportmans and your bed was just round the corner, Mike liked setting people alight. A lot of fun and games
Yep! Yep! I liked setting people alight back in the single quarters..... Clints room looked like a porn movie setting, with mirrors on the ceiling.....!
allgood
Hey Mike you weren`t supposed to be looking up at the ceiling.
You could;nt miss it.... Disco Lights also, in such a small space...... we squeezed 19 souls in there for a party..... and a fire or two......
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