The Post Boxes

[Debby Opperman (Biccard)]

Ok, My turn now. You would all of course remember the post boxes? Needless to say it was not just used for mail. In my youth, myself and Albert Lisser, Eddie Johnston and a few others would get Johnny Young to buy our Capenheimer 65c a bottle for us and then hide it in my post box. Of course I would always volunteer to check for mail and before going off to the "session" we would stand in the phone hokkie and down the capenheimer. Yechhh!! Just thinking of it now makes me want to BlergHhH!!!
Johnny Young was the "old teenager" of our time and we could get him to do anything for us.
     

[Michele Alexander (Voden)]

I had forgotton about the phonebooth by the post boxes! It is no longer there, there are two tikkie boxes around the corner by the entrance to the actual Post Office.

[Michael Alexander]

Debby , that tradition was still going on during the late 80's, sometimes on a friday night the post box's had a bigger crowd that the dance floor at the Youth Club, i also would'nt be surprised if more alcohol cjanged hands there than at the Sportsmans......

;D

[Yvette Kroukamp (Biccard)]

my my, nothing changed.  We did the same thing with cocorico!!!yuk,(hate coconut to this day) and smokes!!!  What was the box number again?  I remember losing the bloody key a few times too.

Yvette

[Michael Alexander]

Yvette, mine was Vincoco, cheap and nasty with the highest alcohol content, if I sniff the stuff today, I throw up......   :-\

And don't forget the Old Brown sherry.......

;D

[SandyB]

I  remember  the  girls  other  favourite  was  a  drink  called  happy  cow ...  a  milk shake  type  of  also  high alcohol  lethal   easy  to  drink  and  underestimate its  power  thing .. we  would  laugh  cos  I renamed  it " unhappy cow "  some  of the poor  girls  would  get out  of  it .. get  dronkverdriet  after  hurling to  no  end  and  end  their  evening  huddled  in a  corner  feeling sorry  for  themselves  and  trying  to  chew  the  wrists open in  the absence  of  a  razor blade ....

[Yvette Kroukamp (Biccard)]

Mike, we all had our fav doppie hey or should I say bottle!  I remember the first time I drank , couldnt feel my legs and ran races down 1st avenue and got lost!!!!!!

Deb, what was our post box number?  Was it 96? I remember our ph number was 558.

[SandyB]

PO Box 425  we  were .. funny never hid  booze in  there   ...  But  I had  a  nightmare and expensive  time  one  time  at high school  .. me, Robin ,Glynnis   and I  think  colin  hartley .. bought  our booze  .. I  hid  it on  the inside   lining  of  my  Duffel coat  ..  we  went into  the  city  gardens  ..  just  as  we started  supping  along  came a  cop ..  we  all  sat  there  trying to  look innocent ..  he  asked  us  what we  were doing  there  .. " Oh just looking at  the pidgeons and squirrels "  ..  he had  his officers  stick  with him  and  tapped  me  with  it  .. It  made  a  giveaway  clink  sound  ...    he  confiscated  all  our  booze   told  me  I  was  lucky  he  was  not going  to  lock  us  up  and  poured  it  all into  the ground ... We  wept  at  the  loss ... come  now I  hear silence  from the  girls  on   the happy  cow  drink .. or maybe  no-one  wants  to  remember that lethal  stuff  and  what  it did to  them ??

[Debby Opperman (Biccard)]

That's right Yvette. Box 96, Ph 558, I can hear the old grey phone ringing right now down the passage.   
 

[Michele Alexander (Voden)]

Spar's postbox number is 96 now!

[Juanita Lisser]

Clive used to work at the post office switchboard with Julie Hoffman

[Richard Opperman]

Opperman's Post Box 246 and Phone number 369.
Never forgotten if you new your 2 and 3 times table.

Richard  8)

[Charmain Meier (Heusdens)]

Those guys working on the exchange with Clive were earning R10.00 per night and they thought it was a fortune.  Their shift started at 20:00 and ended the next morning at 06:00.  The postmaster at the time was Oom Hennie.  A few of them I remember are Fritz Kubirske, Whitey Bredenhann, Willem Heusdens.  Some of the ladies were Louise, Bettie and Julie.  Those from Alexander Bay I cannot remember.  When the guys were on duty, they normally did not charge us for our calls to our beloved ones in the RSA.  Lekker ou Parrafin model skakelbord!!!

Charmain

[Debby Opperman (Biccard)]

Charmaine, Julie Hoffman is my aunt. She worked on the exchange for many years. Her and my uncle Jerry live in Villiersdorp.
Her daughter Karen married Hooman, the Iranian. They used to call him the Ayatollah.
 

[Yvette Kroukamp (Biccard)]

Hi Debby,

Hooman's nickname was the "flying Ayatollah" wonder how many remember him?? He used to play volleyball. 

Yvette