Another magic memory of childhood in o'mund! R2 could get u in for 15c a ticket, stock up on sweets & ice cream and still go home with change. I remember the two queues along the fenced off flower beds outside the movies - 1 for those who already had tickets and the other for those who didn't. i think i was mostly in the queue that already had tickets (thanks mom)! To this day, i cannot hear the song "Daniel" by Elton John without being back in the movie house waiting for the movie to start - i think they had 1 tape which they played every saturday over & over again. Remember the cowboy & indian "shorts" they played before the main movie - there'd be those of us cheering for the cowboys and those cheering for the indians (i was always cheering for the indians) - could get quite hectic in the audience never mind on the screen.
I remember the lucky draw for the packets of sweets at every matinee. Based on your seat number or something...
I still wonder where they got some of those movies from? 'The kung fu muscrats vs. Godzilla', 'King Kong and the aliens from Pluto' etc.
My favourite movie at the time was 'Flash Gordon'. Brilliant soundtrack and mindbending special effects... I think that it was showing the same day I won a packet of sweets 8)
I remember Flash Gordon......"he saved everyone of us"
Saturday Afternoon Matinees ... cowboys and crooks ,, cops and robbers ..in the cinema , water bombs , chewing gum put in your hair , being chased out by ushers .. anything went .. In early 60's Mr Magnus ran the cinema , I also remember a german man running it as well sometime .. ( surname escapes me at moment ) then Mr Coffin later on ... The long queues to get in .. my favourite sweets were Sugus , intense fruit flavours .. all the while waiting in the queue my mouth would water as I would not touch them untill the lights went down and the movies started .. For some time I remember Margie Badenhorst commandeered the front of the queue and would then let people in to the front but it cost .. either sweets or a favour of sorts .. heaven forbid anyone cross her when she let others in to the queue . she could sort out even the tough guys ! later on when we started to sneak smokes in the back some poor guy got his hair burnt ... before movies his Mom had obviously plastered his hair with tons of Vitalis .. ( full of alcohol you know ) it had obviously not all evaporated so when somebody lit a ciggie and the match spattered , the resultant glowing spatter landed in the poor boys hair and it took flame with a venegance due to the residual alcohol .. somebody managed to put it out by hitting him on the head to stamp out flame .. we never saw the aftermath as we all ducked out of sight and movie house so as not to be associated with happening or caught out ..
Sandy, wasn't the german guy Fred Myer/Meyer or something like that?
Spot on .. Fred Meyer .. Thanks .. His two Daughters were at Wellington High with me ...
Where was the coolest place to sit in the bioscope?
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I remember Mr Coffin running the bioscope. I actually have the honour of being thrown out! When Mum was doing the boarders flight run, my Dad took me one evening to see "633 Squadron". Mr Coffin came over and asked my Dad to take me home because the film was 4 - 12 and I was too young! Can you imagine being banned from that film today!
hey the coolest place was k row you nonly got to sit there for 2 years thefirst time was in std 5 ( except school holidays ) ,and then in matric. why was there so much seat swopping when the movie started??????????
During the music by Elton John (Daniel) and some Greek music(when bazoukis play), there would be an announcement by Fred Meyer that went something like this ..... '' Now hear this, Now hear this ..... The winning ticket today is C15, repeat, C15..... I can remember this as if it was yesterday.
i rember being told by my older sister kay,who wanted to sit at the back and didnt want me to tell dad what boy she was sitting next to ,go and sit in the best place,rite at the front as i would get to see the film first,cant believe i fell for that one,ha ha
Quote from: Michael Alexander on July 20, 2007, 12:39:54 PM
Where was the coolest place to sit in the bioscope?
the coolest place to sit in the bioscope was on the far right hand side rows D<E and C!!!! I don't know why, it just seemed to be the chosen spot, well for the kids in my year anyway, Gavin Van Vyk, Jacques De Jager, Julian Louw, Billy Linkekar, Hazel Masterton, gee the list is endless!!
The back row of the movies was the best, you had to stand in the row for ages just to make sure that you got in first. My worst time in the movies, was our family dog arrived with my naughty brother (Billy) and the dog just won't move, very embarrassing..........
I remember the time when we used to crawl under the seats and nick the sweets that were on the ground! How terrible..... Sharon.
Yes, can you imagine. The movie house was the best and sadly they took it away from us a few years ago................
What, no movie house ?
I remember Bill Mitchell and Mavis got the two seats they sat in for every movie given to them at his retirement.
I remember the big turnstill ticket dispensor, the tickets for evening shows were printed at the printing works and had to be torn apart and placed into the wooden dispensor.
I did have a holiday job as an usher, for a holiday, so saw loads of movies free, and got a torch to torment kids with at matinees.
On the downside we had to put up with Fred.
We dont have a movie house as such, they use the Little Theatre for shows. Every now and then we dont have movies for a long while and then it starts up again, strange.......
Talking of Margie Badenhorst (who beat me up quite regularly - but then I did probably deserved it) - where is she? Does anyone remember her diving off the high diving board and hitting the concrete? Or was it someone else?
I remember a chap called gavin, who on the small diving board tried to do one of those backward dives and messed up , connected his front teeth with the board, rammed them right up through his gums.....mind you over the decades how many people we have all known who wiped out on those boards....
:P
Winstanley,
Badenhorst was only fulfilling the contracts we put out on you!!! Haahaahaa! Joke.
But was it you or a Webstock who put a gobby dob of Chappies buublegum into my hair during a movie? :D
I think I remember, Marggie doing that. The lady in charge of the pool was mrs Linthuis, she taught us all to swim.
I think she was Cora's mother.
I believe it was only a matter of time before one of us kids was going to break their necks on that big board,with the way we went off it.... Not surprised that they removed it.... sad though! End of an era!
Swallow Bomb
Bok N#@I Bobmb
Back Bomb
Knee Bomb
The WAve Bomb..
SO Many bombs, such little youth!
:'(
Bruce - Never me - definitely a Webstock ....carrying out my instructions - joke...can't really remember!
Cora's mother was Mrs Lindhout - her other daughter Francis went to Wynberg with us - heard she was still in CT. Mrs Lindhout unfortunately never taught me how to swim - my Dad just chucked us in the pool and we had to sink or swim - I suspect that's how most of us learnt in those days and probably accounts for the general O'munders' attitude!
if margie hit the concrete barbara,was the concrete ok after that,god we used to tease her,no wonder i could run fast,talking of characters,what ever happened to lorrain trollop,and her brother leon,theire dad was a painter and their mom worked on the habadashiry,f**** it,material counter in the store
I remember Mad Marggie and we were all scared of her...............
Remember before the start of any movie they had the adverts they always had the same ones in the same order . There was one about gilbeys gin and cbs . I can recall one time the slides ( as they seemed to be ) actually melted on screen . We all cheered.
Rumour has it.....that Margie Bardenhorst was alas killed by her husband in the 90 ies. I speak/type under correction of course. Shame, pity she had that notorius reputation but I knew her as a kid (they lived opposite us in 1st avenue) and she was always kind and fun to be around. Maybe :(she was just another mis-understood teenager....like many of us were.
Saturday matinees.....remember the mad sprint from the bioscope to the cafe to get first in line to buy sweets with the left over 10 cents? The sweets were kept under a large glass lid in small compartments in the far corner of the cafe...
It was a major accomplishment to be first in the line!!
Stephen .. Margie Badenhorst .. I will echo your sentiments there .. yes she was I think misunderstood ... I think partly the mind dulling medications that were prescribed in those long off days , they would make a person slow .. all she wanted was friends .. so yes people would tease and take advantage of her , and yes she would retaliate out of frustration by getting physical , I also think some parents did not help either ,, warning their kids to 'stay away " I think she used to get a kick out of people "fearing " her .. when " mad margie" emerged from the trees they would all run screaming .. one day I just stood my ground .. she was sort of surprised then got talking .. we both liked music so we became friends .. albeit a tricky friendship ... this friendship remained untill I left in 1980 ... The Murder , from my information apparently yes , .. she was married and had a child , the husband murdered her and tried to make it look like a break in ... I think you would get more from those still staying in OM ..
if your interested there are wedding pictures of Marggie in the Gazette section on this site.
You're right of course Sandy. Misunderstood. It happened a lot.
Manslaughter rather than murder I think
I remember her - Kathleen and I used to play with her son at the gun club , he was a lovely child. Lovely blond hair.
I remember the progress of movie seating.
Starting in the front row in sub A and moving back as you became more senoir in primary school.
The swimming pool boy that was great fun, I remember Wendly Lujeko did a back summie off the small diving board and hit her head. I had to go with her to the hospital and she had to have stiches, i nealy died when she had an injection in her head, she just laughed and I screamed.....
Marggie was defanetly misunderstood - but sadly with her passing has become another character in the history of Omund.
My memory of Marggie is one high school June holiday, 1972?, Marggies parents had gone on holiday and Marggie who I think at the time was already working.
We had gone to her house after the youth club for coffee - as you all know it was a done thing to go for coffee at someones house to finish of the evening.
As I recall when we got to her house, there were two things she instructed us not to do, one do not touch her Elvis records (Marggie was a big Elvis fan and had all his LPs) and two not to sit on her poof bag (I see they are back in fashion sold along the road in Cape Town) The girls were busy in the kitchen helping Marggie with the coffee and we boys were listening to Elvis in the lounge (forced music choice), when Peter Pote jokingly shouted from the lounge that he was going to sit on the poof bag.
Well all hell broke loose - Marggie rushed into the lunge - pushed Peter over and dived onto the poof bag - needless to say the poof bag exploded and we had snow in June!!
Richard 8)
:)Hi renee here seen Lorrain Trollop at Grand West Casino in cape town still looks the same just older.cheers.
Fred's daughter's name was Sabine and because she was our friend she used to keep us our "favourite" seats!! Was soooo cool we used to line up but didn't have to "run" for our seats.
I actually found an old cinema ticket one day not so long ago in an old Jacket now in our "fancydress" box.
Another great pastime was "themed" parties - shirt and hat was a "big" one for a long time.
Hi Patricia, great to hear that your Mom is well and still playing bridge. She must be real good at it now hey? Do you remember those dumb Beatle hairstyles that Patrick and I had during those junior school years? How embarrassing. Interesting that you mention Sabina, as I remember her well. Do you know what she's doing these days?
Cheers for now.
In my day I only got R1,00 and I too could but a ticket and sweets but what helped me was I all was used to win the free ticket every week. Once my sister Debbie asked me if she could swop with me so that for once she could win a ticket. Unfortunetly for her after we changed seats I won the ticket
I used to work at the Cinema every school holiday, taking over from Mr Coffin from 81 to 83. Had to be there 9am, go pick up the reels of movies, then the tedious task of running each reel through my hands to find cuts and nicks, and repair it, or the film will snap during the show. Also had to splice together the highlights reel for the night, featuring next attractions, adds, and off course, throw in a cartoon!.
Rest of the day was getting the ticket office in order,getting the tickets sorted in the right color and number order, and then at night, get he ushers going, pay then when they wee finished, and helped out in the projection room.
Best day was Saturday , were I ran the Matinee for the afternoon. I could play any music I wanted to, and I remember, MEN AT WORK was one of our favorite tapes to play, we cranked the volume, and the usher were dancing in the isles!
Best spot in the house, ...behind the screen!! I am not going to elaborate here what went down , pardon the pun ...
Yes remember appie days you would go show evening shows for extra cash I did a stint 1984-85 and then moved to the telephone exchange during my last year as appie that was very good money used to make more at the night shift exchange 6pm to 6am and then off to work at 7am
I recall more money working at the echange than my monthly salary