How many of you attended a Teenage Dance?
And does anyone have any photo's?
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I was underage but I blagged my way in! Was wearing a new suit for boarding school that was way too big for me.
Anyway, my elder sister Jennifer was appalled to see her underage pipsqueek boetie at the dance. I embarrassed her by being there and spoilt her chances of a snog with one of the guys! ;D
I enjoyed myself and overdid it with the Cream Soda's and suasage rolls etc.
Ha ha! The teenage dance! Was that fun or what.... I remember when they stopped doing them, we were all gutted! I think I have some photo's at my parents in Cape Town.
Hey Robert! At least you were in the hall and not on the roof again, staring through those windows...
hehehehe!
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I remember the teenage dances...i think i went to about 2 or 3 before they stopped.. Man...the memories lol
Will have to go to the folks next week and rake through all the old photo's.
Wendy
At my first teenage dance the big song out then was "Words Don't Come Easy To Me". I was terrified and never really did look any good all dressed in fancy schmancy clothes. Black is still my favourite colour!!
What i can remember about the Teenage Dance, was the long dresses and great bands like, Ballyhoo, Pacific Express to name a few. (I'm so oooooold)
Can you remember any other band names ?????? ::)
Man! I loved Man On The Moon! by Ballyhoo, I was suprised to see on one of the Newsletters that I uploaded that they played at the Teenage dance,,,,, man I was born to late!
Sigh! :'(
when i think "teenage dance" i think of the helium canisters used to fill the balloons - more of that helium went down our throats than into the balloons.......dunno how we ever go the hall decorated in time...another band that came to play one year was The Bolaines.....never heard of them again??? There was also The Bats that came up one year.
i went to the teenage dance a few times , dont recall though when it all stopped and why , but i remember more about going to see everybody waiting around outside the rec club hall , it was the eighties and my word the clothes that we wore back then .....good grief the 80's were rough
Be careful Darryl, Mike will have you blocked from his webpage - he is still living in the 80's!
this explains a lot..........
Is that pity I can hear there? I'm married to an avid Cheetah supporter still living in the 80's!
Hi Delia, I think Ballyhoo were also one of the bands that played at the teenage dance. Remember how long it took for us to dress up for this!!
Oh Gee the teenage dance, I will scan some photos for you, I have some beauties, in fact I have a photo taken of Jacques De Jager and Our Sharon and she looks bloody beautiful!!!!!
the time is took us to get ready and to find an outift, the last one i went too, everyone met at Virginae Soums house for a little get together, Maxine Hall, Anothany and Clinton, Peta Clark, Russell Pounds, Chris Pearce, Shayne Stuurman, Wendy and Maxine Hall, Little Stephen, I will look for the photo and scan it through.
I always got the impression back in the day, that the Youth CLub and Teenage dances were more "English" dominated, I got the feeling that the majority of the Afrikaaner Youth shied away from these events... ANyone care to comment?
idontknow
Not according to the photo's you posted some time ago about us lot Afrikaners at the teenage dance - Sheena, Natasha, Neville Smith, Hugo van Rooyen, Mariaan Pieterse, myself and a few others. Also at the Youth Club we appeared in numbers....
No not realy, many afrikaans kids attended.......the English just made their presence known. party0031
I have found some photo's of the teenage dance 1967and 1968. I'm still not so clever with scanning en sending Photo's, but I'll do my best. Where were they held? I can't really remember.
i guess in the Rec Club Hall.... most times? I don;t know why , but i always got the impression that the Afrikaaner kids were more conservative..... at the youth club, there were 10 English speaking kids to the one Afrikaaner, this is just an observation....... not trying to stir the pot.....
Was it always like this?
I think you are right, Mike. But us Afrikaners who did hang out there with you lot Souties made our mark - did'nt we?
Dalene, make no mistake, those few Afrikaaner kids I remembered that did hang out with us, were real naughty shits.... no two ways about that... and good drinkers.... sorriso2
image061 Hey, you are not allowed to talk out of the HOUSE! You never ever saw me drinking, did you?
the middle one is sylvia
LOOK at the hairstyles - the honeycomb was high fashion then!
Beehive Dalene .. you thinking of the brittle sweet called honeycomb ...