In the 70's , opposite the Admin block, next to the guesthouse, in the parkinglot, was a treasure trove of good rubbish to be found in the skip.That skip was full of discarded office supplies, old pens and kokies, tippex and blank papers, and above all, computer punch cards.... thousands of them,
we took those cards home by the bucketfull, folded them in half and they made the most amazing building bricks, we built card towers that touched the roof in our lounge, only to have my hungover father stumble through our card city....
The skips behind the old Fruit and veg also used to be full of treasure.....
No we were not hungry kids, just kids that found our imaginations in every skip in town....
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Computer punch cards for programme running, early computers that needed whole rooms.
They were so weird, and not very useful for much but we sure did collect them.
Card towers etc would be destroyed by my Dad lobbing his lighter at them, after encouraging us to build them higher. We fell for it every time and were quite indignant every time his aim was true. Big kids and small kids. Poor man living in a house with 5 females.
As mentioned elsewhere the carpentary shop skip, I have been mulling it over and the vision of it came to me today, a bin with a lid like a coal storage bin just inside the gate.
Thanks Barbara, for years (decades) I thought it was just my brothers and I that were into Punchcard structures, unbeknown to us , just 4 alleyways away, the Frys' where building towers.... Damn, I wonder what the record was..... stooooopid fathers , always ruining things!
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Agh well its like the power of 100,
it only takes one monkey to use a stone to open the melon and soon they're all doing it.
somethink like that.
barbara was the bin you talking about ,the same bin that collected all the saw dust and wood shavings,you could open the lid and grab handfulls of that stuff and shower your mates with it,gave you sticky hands from the wood glue,smelt wonderfull.
ja boet it certainly was and i can smell it now, thanks for that memory, bobby.
Michael,
4 alleyways ? as in back wards towards 1st ave. Or sideways cos i can't remember too many alleys down the next block .....towards gm house.
We, the professional punchcard society, lived at E7-1st Ave, there were exactly 4 alleys between our houses....
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how many of you stole the empty cooldrink bottles at the back of the Veg market and then took them back to return them for the deposit......?
iknow
You promised you wouldn't tell..........I mean.........uhm!..........you made me do it....... image031
...and you still owe me my cut for the deposit money..... image061
Well - you know where I am if you want to come and get it...... image281
Remind me again, how much money it is again?
idontknow
Okay - I've just broken the piggy bank and spilled all the coins out in front of me.........and it comes to the grand total of R2.10..........a small fortune in the day, so if we divide that by 6 - I make out you are owed 35c
Wow ! 35cents.... thats 70 Wilson toffeeeeeee's from the 70's...Oh Whatever shall I do?
fantasy-18 woo_hoo
I think we should pool the money and buy a huge bag of mixed stuff - toffees; lollies; tomato flavour chips and a cooldrink with 6 straws.......but that's just what I'm thinking :ciupa1:
But! But! ...toffees are sticky and I don't like tomato flavour...and why six straws, which other leprechauns do we have to share with?
affe-red
The 3 Alexander Boys and the 3 Mc Manus kiddies always robbed together and shared the spoils - it was just an unwritten rule.........you prefer those Big corn bites or the cheesy nik naks?
Well in all honest I like to think that I am a big Corn kind a guy, but I guess I lean towards the cheeeeeeeesy Nik Naks......
Seems that the cooldrink bottle deposit idea went down the generations.... I remember in the 60's an ironbrew was 5c takeawys and 2 cents when you had it in the cafe. Telling Cora we going to have the cooldrink in the cafe, finish it up and passing the bottle (the one with the diamond engraved on it) to someone else to buy a small packet of Simba chips for 3c at the end of the day the cafe paid us 1c to hace a cooldrink and packet of chips....
Yup, I had my secret bottle "collecting spots" as well. When ever there was a party, I would go there the next morning and collect all the bottles with the little holes in the bottom. Like at the cricket club, freemasons, yacht club, etc. Always a few lying around that I could hand in for money towards a new "Matchbox" toy!
Behind the rec club.... there where the backdoor goes part the ice machine was another spot.....