Gangs and Names!

[Michael Alexander]

Sunday Afternoon TV also had the Waltons in Afrikaans, and Gentle on My Mind, the country music show.....

[Carl Wrbka]

Then there were those extremely long aerial poles that were needed to catch any decent signal in the beginning years of TV in OM. Most of us had B&W Tv's in those days and would slip out to watch colour TV at the Rec club.

[Michael Alexander]

Carl, do you remember watching video;s in the sun room of the rec club, on Sunday afternoons....?

I remember watching the movie ..."the Wild Geese" , with Roger Moore there..... I don't think the video's were intended for the kids, but for the contractors.....

[georg ruf jr.]

Sunday Afternoon TV also had the Waltons in Afrikaans, and Gentle on My Mind, the country music show.....

The Sweeny was in Afrikaans too. I always wondered why, until I saw the origanal version. Every second word was F***

[Carl Wrbka]

I think I watched a video there once. Mostly we just rented them. Just after TV began, somebody began a video rental business from home, they would rent out those massive betamax machines and a limited supply of videos. We only had a B&W TV then but it was better than nothing.

One evening when my parents were out, my brother and his gang of friends( Michael Dippenaar, Andrew Thurtell, Raymond and Pierre Gonzalez, Paul Mcarthy...) organized a naughty video from somewhere. During the movie Andrew  kept complaining about the picture quality and how it would look better on their colour TV. Eventually Raymond Gonzalez got fed up and decked him right there with a vicious right hook. Despite their differences they all remained good friends though till after Matric.

[Patricia Lotte]

Wow, I don't recall raymond being the violent type    Our families were always together (being French united us). Always spent Xmas and New Year together. We were like brothers and sisters. Raymond even came to my matric dance

[Patricia Lotte]

This just brought back another memory ... the Archies ... with the Gonzales brothers and some other guys, we had formed our own Archie gang with Archie, Reg, Betty, Veronika and the rest. We would use Raymond's mom's old peugeot station wagon to ride around in, when it didn't break down and we'd be pushing the damn thing  e180

[georg ruf jr.]

Wow, I don't recall raymond being the violent type    Our families were always together (being French united us). Always spent Xmas and New Year together. We were like brothers and sisters. Raymond even came to my matric dance

Weren't they Belgiumd.?  Are you still in contact? Raymond used to be im my class. Std. 3

[Patricia Lotte]

No, definately French. They all moved back to France and are living in and around Marseille. The boys are all married and have kids. They're doing well.

[georg ruf jr.]

Maybe I'm getting things mixed up again. I thought they had fled  from a former Belgium colony, Zaire/Congo whaterver...

[Patricia Lotte]

Ooh, the mystery deepens ... there were fugitives hiding out in Oranjemund 

[georg ruf jr.]

Of course. Now I remember: Robert Gilbert. We#ve had his name on the board before.

[Michael Alexander]

Alan and Pierre are registered on this forum, although i have not seen them in here for a while....

[georg ruf jr.]

Michael did you get Roberts adress from his brother recently at the wedding?

[Michael Alexander]

Sorry JNr, I mentioned it to him, but we never spoke again, I'll speak to Warren, he is Gilbert's Step Son..... and works here.... the last of the Weidemann's