Only one thing, if you took the CDM matress of the bed, you had the most amazing trampoline in your bedroom...it improved , if you jumped of the top of those cement cupboards... hehehehehe!
memories!
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I recall the green blinds we had on the windows. They were a devil to pull down and, once succeeded, you could never get them to go up again! The spring we had on our beds would have done serious damage to your feet!
Remeber thos thin foam matresses in red and white striped plastic cover? And the lounge suite in that wiers Swedish style with awful material. Always got a static shock when I sat on the sofa!! ;D
Once again, an idea of what an amazing town we came to live in - how many employees would furnish your house for you? Quite a couple of years ago CDM sold off the furniture so you as the house occupant could buy the furniture for dirt cheap. My folks have still got a couple of items from the early 80's in their house, my mom keeps wishing the fridges would break so that she can buy more modern ones - I think they're great though - you just don't get big fridges like that anymore.
The mattresses were blue and white stripes and the blinds were yellow when we came.
CDM Furniture and the Alexander boys go hand in hand for me he he. Braais in Jock and Vi's were my enducation in what great trampolines the beds made. Everybody partying and all of us demolishing the rest of the house. Dont make beds like that anymore ;D
Geez Kathleen, you look just like your mom... wierd when you don't see somebody for a couple of decades... my avitar is, of course, just a graphic, I don't actualy look like that (well, unless you put a balaclava(?) on)....
Where's Larry Jnr. these days?
What about those fold out dining room tables, with that trapdoor in the middle?
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I remember we'd get new furniture, carpets and house painted every 7 years.
I remember the red stoep polish and screen doors.
Green blinds ring a bell, bunk beds and extendable tables, my mom still has the round table with the four smaller ones that fit under it.
How many of you had those book cabinets by the front door, Ours was stuffed full of comics and paperbacks, the door went missing at one of my father's infamous hogmannay parties!
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I still had one of those dining room tables with the extension in the middle until about 4 years ago. They were great for entertaining!! When I sold it, it still looked brand new.
Does everynody have to buy his own furniture nowadays?
I remember the days: free furniture, water, gas, electricity.
If your bulb wouldn't work you'd give township a call to get the bulb changed for free.
Water,gas,lights for free.....house still for free/....rubbish removed for free....... but no furniture...you bring your own....stoves still for free.... no christmas tree no mule derby...... no no nno no no...
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Anyone remember the old fashioned radios they used to give the occupants? In 1975 when I arrived in Oranjemund with my sister and brother in law, Suna & Eddie Engelbrecht, CDM issued their household with an extra chair and bigger refrigerator!!!
Charmain Meier (Heusdens)
I remember the old radios that were in the house.
When we arrived in the early 70's we had to get spesial permission to bring our own furniture. My mother had bought a beautiful laounge suit when we lived in Rhodesia and she had only had it for a year so when we left tsumeb she refused to sell it. Permission was granted but they told us whatever we brought in was not allowd out. When they left in 1978 it was sold to the smith family.
That old fashioned radio was the next best thing to a book in the early days - mine played day and night till it gave up the ghost.
Cheryl do you remember the old stereo in your brothers room? i think it was from your dads teens.
We'd play all the old musik of the 50s and 60s. Can't remember what.
Hey, that was the old Oranjemund radio ..... Mind you my dad was only just out of his teens when he moved there.
A lot of the old radio's in town were called GRUNDIG's
Quote from: Cheryl (van Greunen) on November 22, 2007, 03:34:18 PM
Hey, that was the old Oranjemund radio ..... Mind you my dad was only just out of his teens when he moved there.
The stereo I meant, was built like a cupboard. It had a recordplayer too. Are you sure it was an om radio.
Was it the one with the display cabinets on the side, middle doors where the radio/recordplayer was.Had ball and claw feet. I still have my mothers in my hallway.
Sorry Diana. This is 29 years ago.
As kids, the square cushions thAT fitted onto the lounge furniture , made awesome building blocks... to build a den outta!
catchball
@ Boy Georg, I KNOW I was in O'mund from 1969 - 1980. Went through all the furniture changes. Yes Micheal I remember those cushions,I was horrified,when I got MY first house,the cushions were bright orange. Mind you,you would have liked them.
They were called Radiograms Dianna .. ... the cabinets with the legs ,,,a must have in those days .. I remember my folks bought a new Hammerstein one .. in retrospect a most hideous piece of furniture but it had the same spndly legs as the company furniture .. and a shiny laquered finish ... top lid left was the reord player .. top lid right the reel to reel tape player and recorder .. and open the cabinet doors and ther was the radio .. it had pride of place in the lounge ... my Mom clung onto it for years .. when she moved into the duplex after my father died it took up so much room but she refused to part with it .. cruel me waited for her to go away on a business trip and carted it off to storage at swartkops garage .... thats wher it stayed untill the day she left O'mund .. sold it to someone before she left finally having come to terms with the fact that it was not working anymore .. and not really a nice piece of furniture ..
@ Diana...now I'm jealous, we had ugly brown coloured cushions.... I would have given my left.......er!...to have bright Orange cushions..... Although I am spoilt these days by Michele, as our bathroom has Orange, towels, faceclothe, soap, shampoo, curtains, bathmats,shampoo and toothbrush....... sigh! It's nice to an Orange individual!
cheerup
I didn't have much choice
yesno
I remember the day my Mom nearly murdered me for really staining her brand new company issued lounge suite .. the skinny legged swedish style ... it had charcoal upholstery .. in the late afternoon I was sitting and eating some lemon creams .. some of the filling fell on the upholstery and by the time I noticed it had kind of melted in .. rubbing made it worse .. instead of taking some soapy water .. I proceeded to try rectify the damage by rubbing some ink into the light creamy stain .. Oops ! too dark .. Ok rectify by rubing with some talc .. Oops too light .. this light / dark correction saga carried on with increasing panic and the size of the now oddly coloured blotch growing .. unbeknown to me the folks had by now got home from work ... Mom saw what was happening and immediately knew it was another of those paint or ink or whatever sagas ... ( as a toddler I got into trouble for using our collie dogs tail to paint a neighbours dog with white paint " creative spirit ?? " ) too much had happened with paints , pellet guns with pomegranate pips as pellets etc etc etc .. this was the last straw I imagine .. well enraged mother pounced like a lioness on the hunt , had me pinned on the ground and utterances of "knocking ten colours of sh... out of me " would most probably have happened if it was not for my father tearing Mom off and telling her to " leave the boy and make him make it right " wise old man he was and always ready to help one correct mistakes .. I was then given the upholstery shampoo applicator brushes etc and made to not only clean the stain but the entire sofa.. lesson learnt ?? yes for a while ... we all know what kids are ..
Hi Diana.
Is that you on that.
What a sweet smile...
yougogirl
Georg
Thank-you Boy Georg, Yip thats I, taken off a photo from my daughters wedding 2yrs ago.One looks presentable at weddings.
Mark Laubscher did gymnastics and used to somersault on his bed until one day he accidentally bit his tongue while somersaulting. Bit a hole clean through. The bedroom cupboards all had sliding doors and we used to climb above the cupboards on that cement ledge and jump off onto the bed. There were built-in dressing tables between the wall and cupboards.
@ Florrie ... we did that also, but you should rather take the mattrass off the bed first, those spring mesh parts of the bed made excellent trampolines.... who remembers the bunk bed version of those beds?
allgood
yes, i made my younger sister sleep on top so i could make a tent.
unfortunately she fell off and hurt her head on the bed side table
... and the mattrass was in a striped covered sleeping bag type afffair... blue stripes.....
I had nightmares involving those stipes a thick one with thinner one on either side - but they were great trampolines the beds that is.
where the mattresses horse hair or some such thing - heavy affairs before foam cos they sure lasted for ever.
... not sure what they were made from, but if you pulled the cover of the mattrass ( I know I'm spelling this wrong, kinda like an Afrikaans bastardised version) .... you could then put your baby brother in and drag them around the house.... really strange memory........
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I think you right Barbs 'coir' it was called. Then came those thick foam ones. The stripey ones always made think of prisons. Maybe I was a bady in a past life.
I didn't know how to spell it ?
:emot19: ok so horse hair will do
My lasting memory of those CDM beds was having my teeth bashed out as my mouth connected that metal bar at the foot end - i ran down the passage into my room and slipped on the loose mat we had in the doorway - the mat went one way and i went the other, straight into the end of the bed. Blood and gore everywhere and one kid screaming her lungs out.............. :emot78: Still have a scew tooth as a lasting momento.....
We also had the double bunk version as well - my sister Linda and myself shared a room and to irritate her when she had got me into some type of trouble, i'd lie below her, put both my feet up against her bed and kick and bounce her bed like crazy. But then she went to boarding school and I had no-one to irritate upstairs.........it's those moments when you miss your siblings, no-one to bug the hell out of.........
Yes our parents seemed to like having loose mats all over the house
I remember having a carpet in my room. The corner of the carpet would always "bend" up when opening the door. So I just nailed it to the floor. Don't know if my parents ever knew this.
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Well, I guess your father knows now!
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Quote from: barb (Fry) on August 05, 2007, 05:06:37 PM
I remember the red stoep polish and screen doors.
Oh boy do I remember those red polished stoeps. My left knee reminds me every winter that it used to get bashed badly whenever I slipped on the stoep because Gideon used to polish it so damn well.
The door screen and those window flyscreens. Living near a racehorse stable, I wish I had those windowscreens and doorscreen to stop the blubottle horse-arse flies entering the house. Summer is bad. Might as well be living in Australia let alone the green rolling hills of the Berkshire countryside!
The display cabinets were the best, they are highly sought after