Anyone want to try and put a year to this photo?
1962
1958
1956
Er..... not to piss anyone off, but I was asking that as a matter of fact, coz, I don;t have the answer either, but I was hoping one of you "older" timers, ie. Creedy, Molloy, Haycox might know more......
are-you-there
Flora FRY or Dianas" mom Elsie would definitly know.
I remember the store looking like that and we arrived in 1960. I had a pram like the one in the pic and my brother had that car/cart thingy on the top left. That was bought in O'mund so I'm guessing 1962. I would have been 7 and Keith 3. My mom also dressed that way.
That store was still in the building where the post office and butchery as we knew it was ... I would hazard .. mid 50 's .. the new store with the high ceilings I think came into existence late 50's //
The pic was almost certainly '56 or earlier for two reasons: skirt lengths were much higher at the beginning of the Sixties but, more importantly, the new store was already in operation by the late Fifties.
If my memory serves me right, that particular part of the old store building later housed the bottle store and another section a hairdressing salon.
I also just went according to clothing - have a picture of my Mom from 1956-57 with almost same dress and hairstyle...
If you zoom into the picture, on the left hand side of the counter is the Argus newspaper, you will see the date as April 1st 1954,
Anyone else see this?
are-you-there
Either I'm blind or you're looking at a different or "un-cropped" picture Mike. Don't see it at all. How about an arrow to show us??
Either I'm also blind or you drunk.
bravo Diana. Now I KNOW I'm not blind, and that SOMEBODY might very well be drunk and forgot about the 30 days....
secret(1)
Ag no man... Michael, you are so typical male. image061 Read the paper and threw it on the floor. Please put the paper back where is was... How are we suppose to see the date now??????
I took the picture ... saved it blew it up changed contrast etc ... still see no newspaper .. Yes Mike did throw it on the floor ... but then my time placing pretty accurate ... not bad for memoryrecall of a little tyke of 3-4 yrs old ... My memory is the store was in the section that when I left housed the post office .. the buthchery and then the ladies hairderesser , then the magistrates offices on the corner ..
Hehehehe! I just wanted to see who was still interested in these topics.... there were 19 hits on the photo and that shot up to 33..... so I reckon a lot of folk were viewing the photo, I do not think the Argus was in town in those years..... Bob?
are-you-there
Hoaxster! :nono1:
Hello1 In those days we did not get newspaper. hammer hammer
allgood Awww! Com'on guys, admit that you had 5 minutes of fun zooming into the snap and peering around, did you guys see the mp3 player on the right hand side of the counter?
catmusic
Yes, I saw it. It's right next to the DSTv decoder!
Re newspapers: I arrived in January '53 and was able to order newspapers up from the Cape on a weekly basis. Most people did. The papers arrived on a Friday, which meant that some editions were up to a week out of date. Incidentally the most responsive was the Burger. The only other source of news was the state-controlled SABC which gave twice daily bulletins. There was no telly, and FM was unheard of.
The station of choice in the workshops was LM Radio which operated out of Mozambique with David Davies as the DJ. It fed us a steady diet of pop rock and trained a whole host of DJs who went on to become household names both in SA and Britain.
In those days the Oranjemund correspondent for the newspapers the SABC was Pat Honeyborne who was also the liaison person for new arrivals.
Pat was a very friendly, helpful character who met every family on arrival, escorted them to their houses which he had first ensured were fully furnished and also had the makings of at least three meals - and basic crockery, pots, pans, cutlery, bed linen etc - to allow the newcomers time to find their feet (and the store of course).
He was a former policeman who once rode a camel around the Namib chasing diamond thieves. Mike has a copy of a newsletter with his life story and a few pictures of him. He passed his correspondent's job on to me when he left. It changed my life, I suddenly discovered I'd found my real career.
He also wrote a book on his life and times in the Namib and Oranjemund, still available from Clarkes Bookshop in Long Street, Cape Town. Ask for Honeyborne (P.) GATEWAY TO ADVENTURE, 233pp., illus., maps, paperback, Windhoek, 2003. R185. Autobiography of Pat Honeyborne, soldier, policeman and journalist in SWA from 1925.
Thanks Bob, never knew that there was such a book....... will make plans to obtain....
Bob !! your memories are amazing, and I can remember the music being piped through the Central Fields workshop, and of our transport to and from the township.
They were an articulated kind of coach and every one knew who's seat was who's and dare anyone else to sit there the Afrikaner's would sit more to the back of the bus, and all others up the front I suppose it was safety in numbers.
Yes I think many as I did had a look to see the date......................good one Michael you little scallywag. cuqui
This is a photo of my Mom, Peggy Smith ( nee Maclennan, then married to Basil Smith) taken at the general store, probably between 1940/50. Ken Maclennan-Smith