The Log Cabin

[Nicky Hodge]

Can anyone out there remember the Log Cabin, and some of the parties that were held there? I recall that they used to really go "OFF". I think it was situated off the beach road somewhere. Was this a company initiative, or was it a private concern? Does it still exist?

[Michael Alexander]

Nicky, just give me a few days and I'll take photo of the log cabin for you, it's being run as the off road club now and doing very well, lotsa drinking and singing. I think I posted more info about it in another post on the forum.

;D

[Delia]

if those log cabin walls could talk................remember the army parties we used to have - farewells each year for the guys that had been called up to do their 2 years............somebody in another post, either mike or paul, mentioned they can't drink coco rico or vincoco to this day.....likewise, got smashed with my boet on vincoco at one of those army parties and to this day cannot even stand the smell of coconut based suntan lotion.

[Nicky Hodge]

 
Coco Rico ........ Haven't touched the stuff since I was a teenager, but hell that taste seems to linger .... I swear I can taste it now!! The stuff of memories. The last occasion was at boarding school.
Leigh McBride and I saved up our tuck shop money for a few weeks, as an " Off Weekend " was approaching  and bought a bottle of Coco's. I can recall us sitting in a park in Plumstead on a Friday evening, downing the stuff on a park bench in the rain. This had been our first night out of " jail " for a while, and we were not wasting any time. Needless to say, we were totally wasted in no time, and spent the rest of the night trying to find our way back to Leigh's aunties house. She was not impressed as I remember.

[janet (carr) bradbury]

what awesome memories some people have. Was Coco rico very cheap? I think tha we all tried too much of it back inthe 80's. I remember going to the log cabin parties but having to tell my parents that I was going elsewhere. my mother had heard too many stories of what went on there.

[Michael Alexander]

Ahem,! Cough! Cough! .... so what did go on there then?



Ja, Coco Rico...... just the mention of that name, revokes bad memories, sick as a dog for a week....

[Leon Sumter]

I remember it being used for the off road scrambler club (John Smith et al) in the early 80's.

[Michael Alexander]

John Smith? Johnno Smith, married to Martha? Playing bowls with us last night, braai'd the meat....

[Leon Sumter]

you gotta be kidding Michael !
Is John still in OMD? Thought he'd left many years ago with Alwyn Huisamen to start an electrical shop....up the Garden Route somewhere???.....my memory fading  here....

[Michael Alexander]

Well Johnno was saying last night how he has been here 28 years, I think..... recalling the all the different Sports clubs in those days....

Same guy?

[Leon Sumter]

must be the John Smith I knew back in the day....electrician....was into scramblers...had a Yamaha 500 Scrambler.....in the Commando's....spent a few Commando camps in the Desert inland of Luderitz...

[Michael Alexander]

Ok.... Just phoned Jono..... Nope not him, he has been here 27 years and was not involved in the Off road.....

Damn! It would have made a good tale!

[Lance Olivier]

Think the log cabin was originally built by and for the Boy Scouts for their camping weekends. I can vaguely remember some of those parties down there, eish! but it was and maybe still is a good venue for a jol, far enough away from town so that noise etc ain't a hassle 'cept for the problem of getting home afterwards.

[janet (carr) bradbury]

hey Lance. Did your 50cc not make it that far? Did you not all have bikes back then?

[Gerda Cloete]

"Old Pops nights"...at the cabin...pictures to tell the stories !!!