CDM Furniture

[barb (Fry)]

Noo Diana, you could bring stuff in but had to accept that you'd never leave with it..

[Barbara Eia (Brownless)]

thats correct Barb, they told my parents that they would not be able to remove it once it was in. My folks sold it to Grieta and Neville Smith, when they left for England in 1978.

Diana do you remember the day before i left for england in 78 I gave you all my shoes as i could not fit them in my suitcase.

[Teel]

Barb I too remember having to listen in complete silence while Dad listened to the news on our big wireless.  I also remember listening to a show on the wireless which we kids used to call "Jack Sixpence, no place to slide".  The real name of the show was something like:  "Jack (something or other) no place to hide.  Does anyone remember that?  We used to be glued to it as it was a serial drama of some sorts.  I think as kids our hearing was well tuned more than kids these days who actually get the visuals from t.v.  Gee I feel really old now!

[Michael Alexander]

I remember my dad and his mates all coming in to listen to the FA cup on the wireless in those days, the signal was never good, with all that noise, and whining..... it's amazing these days with sat tv, news as it happens when it happens, with video....

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

Noo Diana, you could bring stuff in but had to accept that you'd never leave with it..

You learn something everyday, I didn't know that.
Yip I remember the shoes. Barb E.

I hang out with a crowd of guys (Richard,Reiner,Gary,David ,Sandy) and they'd listen to the rugby on the radio.Dawie De villiers days. How boring i found that but sat and listened with great interest. Soos een van die manne ne.

[Carl Wrbka]

Naughty, Naughty, Susan. Wasn't CDM furniture supposed to stay at CDM when you left? See you at confession on Sunday...hee heee   

[Susan Kintscher (Lineker)]

M mom warned me about altar boys, no serious...CDM sold off all the furniture so a song and dance in the late 80's.

[Carl Wrbka]

Ok, u'r forgiven. I'll reduce your punishment to 5 Hail Mary's.

[Susan Kintscher (Lineker)]

Only 5, gee you are so kind

[Richard Opperman]

Real-to -real was big in the 70s, had a very good quality sound. Diana is right and saying that her mom recorded music for us troepies on the border. I served on the Angolan border from June 1974 to June 1975 and left before the shit hit the fan.

I served in the 1st Signal Regiment and was based at 1st HQ Rundu, which was in the 1st Military area about 7km from the Angolan border. Then life up on the border was like an extended safari, braaing on Sundays on the banks of the Okavango River, downing plenty of cuka beer and eating very large steaks - beer and meat was very cheap in those days.
The only thing missing was good music, so I asked my mom to ask Aunty Elsie if she would put all my LPs onto real-to-real tapes, so that we could rock and roll on the border!

We had inherited a real-to-real tape from our ou manne and this followed me all around the northern Namibia border. One of my duties in the 1st Signal Regiment was to setup coms at new bases in the Caprivi and other areas. Therefore, wherever I went my real-to-real came with and many an hour was spent listening to Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Beatles, Stones and rockers of that time. I even had the Bushmen listening and dancing to the music at one of the camps in the Caprivi. Must have confuses a few terrs as well - Ja nee!

When I left in June 1975, I sold it to one of the new Signal group.   

[Mike Voden (RIP)]

We still have as reel to tape reel recorder but haven't used it in years. Most of them were two track but the one I bought back in the mid sixties (I think) was a four track, new in those days. I'll keep it and hope one day that it will become a collectors item

Mike kept on asking what it was but he never saw it in operation, maybe i'll show him when he visits us in Gordon's Bay.

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

If I'm not mistaken Alfred has my moms........ Hello1 Alfred...do you ???????

[Mike Voden (RIP)]

I'll try and speak to Alfie before we leave on Saturday