SOmebody mentioned these houses, there are a few around 11th and 12th ave, some have been converted to Churches!....
is the old style house behind the shopping center where Johnny Wormser had his decorating shop still standing ??
In which direction from the Shop? By the museum? or by the Squash Courts....? only two oldish structures in the area!
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Behind the squash courts was the place used by the Wormse family -the window displays for shopping centre come from there.
We called these old style houses "The Wooden Houses" they were used to house the contractors families. Can't remember the name of the contracting firm.Talking about the Wormse"s whatever happened to Jennifer ?
hey are so dinky, I want one. Thank you Mike, 24/12 feels like the one I visited all those years ago.
There is a corrugated house similar to these in Simonstown main road, I almost rented once. Some years ago it was painted white with blue dots.
There is a fairly large wooden house jammed in behind the squash court, it seems bigger than the normal houses, but is currently being used as a hall for the Volleyball club ( I think)... must take a snap sometime.....Is this perhaps the house?
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Yes indeed it is Mike ...
The contracting firm was LTA.
LTA-----> Lets Try Again!
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That wooden house jammed behind the squash court at one time was used as the Youth Club.
Hi Michael
Is the log cabin still by the river at the back of the golf course. Many a good time was had there.
Barbara
Yes it is, there are a few topic posts and photo's on the forum....
do a search or click this link here http://www.oranjemundonline.com/Forum/index.php?topic=185.0
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And here is two snaps of the converted wooden house structure behind the squash courts this morning. I think that it's now part of the Volleyball club.... ???
Does anyone have a photo of any of these old houses from the 50's?
pls
Builing contractors were a firm called 'Rumbles'
There we go Gordon..."Rumbles". The name that has been on the tip of my tongue regarding these wooden houses. Just couldn't get to the name to post it. Now that is realy old O'mund stuff.
Yes Mike the Volleyball club house, it is now the Badminton club house, before then I remember the stuf for the display windows
The Rumbles contractors also used to stay on the site next to the old carpenter and home maintenance workshop opposite the town magazine .. the area is now the site of the bedsitter complex ..
Rumbles. They had "dwellings" on the site where the GM's house is built. The dwellings they lived in were pre-fabs and in later years the panels were available for employees to build pondoks out of. We had one at 24/11 Ave which went to Jack Vosloo in later years. One huge Rumbles man I remember was Koos who used to do well at muscle powered events at the mule derby. He was a very gentle man I seem to remember. One name sticks out is a young girl by the name od Stofalina Peach. Wonder why I remember that?
I have great memories of the Wooden Houses. We lived in 9/11th street before we moved to Koneintjie Dorp. E 32/8th Ave. I took some pics on my last vist 2 years ago. Will dig them out.
@ Gerda..
Uhmmmm... old age???
You lived in 11/9th ave. Few houses away from us.
I will never forget that house. Went there (to your mom and dad) when I was in std 2 and told them I was going to marry your brother one day.
I too have a pic or two of those wooden homes. When we moved to Oranjemund from Kolmanskop (in 50's) we lived in one till we got a cement house.
Ok Ok ek's jammer.... The co was called John Rumbel. My dad ( Gert Cloete ) was the foreman and probably build all the houses you are living in right now. The big guy was Koos Vermaak. He worked with my dad. His wife was Susan and he had a son called Fanie.
I know who lived in 11/9th my friends Meisie and Gertjie Pretorius
Stephanie wrote, "When we moved to Oranjemund from Kolmanskop (in 50's) we lived in one till we got a cement house"
Hi Stephanie please tell us more about your early days in Kolmanskop.
That part of town with the prefabs on the GM's house site was called Texas ,, there is a reference to it in an article from my stepfathers book somewhere on this site ... read attached
Sandy, I think I might have missed this... where on this awesome and large forum is the rest of this tale?
Mike dont know exactly where i posted it .. I still had the scan of the two pages from Eddies book .. but yes maybe get you a copy . and you can read the whole book .. its quite an adventure ,, the political bit aside ...
Hi Sandy,
Yep, I join with Mike on this one. Where can I read your post of the full book, or failing that, where can I get a copy of the book?
HI Bob ,, dont have posting of full book ... I will PM you Edies email address and you can contact him as to where you could get a copy of the book or have him post one to you ..
Gladys Young (Grigg) also lived in one of these houses in 11th Ave when she was married to Nic Venter back in the late 60's. Sort of diagnal(sp) from the Austins.
Will ask her if she has photo's from back then. A sensitive question here ...who where the two brothers that passed away in a car accident? Also Rumbles. Gerda?
Those two brothers are buried together in the local graveyard, their names escapes me.....
might be on the forum elsewhere....
That was the Woest Brothers ,, the one had had polio so was confined to a wheelchair ( Willie if I recall correctly ) ,,, that did not stop his zest for life .. overcoming his disability he was a star in his wheelchair doing doughnuts and wheelies and swirling around .. If I remember correctly there was a not so nice bit about the accident ,, apparently they as they were lying in the wrecked car dead or dying , some lowlife stopped and robbed them and carried on his way ... not nice ..
Yes they were connected to Rumbels. They were Lucas and Henry. Henry was in the wheelchair. The other brother was Willie and they also had a sister called Margaret. They are burried in a double grave in the old secttion... i rember their funeral very well.
If I remember correctly Willie was married to Riekie Robinson. The last time I saw them they were living in Secunda. For some reason I seem to think that I heard Willie has also died since then. Not sure at all if this is correct.
Quote from: Leon Sumter on July 25, 2009, 03:25:38 PM
Stephanie wrote, "When we moved to Oranjemund from Kolmanskop (in 50's) we lived in one till we got a cement house"
Hi Stephanie please tell us more about your early days in Kolmanskop.
Oi Leon, I was a bit young then. About 2 years. The only memories I have are the ones I heard the grown ups talking about. One thing I do remember very clearly is that the houseman who worked for us, Jonas, moved to Oranjemund with us and he worked for my folks till they retired. So he did not only help my mom to take care of us kids but my kids also had the privlege to know him. He spoiled them rotten.
Oh yes and my Mom use to tell about the great parties they had there.
On a Friday or Saturday evening if there was a knock on your door followed by a tin of floor polish rolling in, you had a choice. Keep the polish and in that way saying "ok, we can party in my house", or roll the tin back if you do not feel up to it.
I really need to get hold of the photos of those years and also of the wooden house in Oranjemund, but have no idea when that will happen.
Thanks for that Stephanie.
Are any of your parents alive still.
Wish we could get a first hand account from someone still alive that remembers Kolmanskop well Gunther Machts is too far away from me to visit a Mrs Resche is also too far away.
Gunther must have a ton of Kolmanskuppe photographs.....
Quote from: Leon Sumter on August 01, 2009, 07:26:39 PM
Thanks for that Stephanie.
Are any of your parents alive still.
Wish we could get a first hand account from someone still alive that remembers Kolmanskop well Gunther Machts is too far away from me to visit a Mrs Resche is also too far away.
Leon, unfortunately not.
Found this old wooden house on 9th ave, noticed it had a cement addition to it..... this one if for those of you who lived in them......
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abouttime
The last house pic looks like it should be somewhere in the Swamps of Mississippi and not in the middle of the desert....
Just my 2 cents...
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