Sunday newspapers

[Michele Alexander (Voden)]

After reading the dates some other people lived in Oranjemund I feel like a newcomer but considering the fact that after nearly 26 years I am still here I consider myself an almost born and bred Oranjemunder. We arrived in November 1981 and I turned 6 in Jan 1982.

Anyway, Mike and I are now in the retail trade and work every second Sunday and  every Sunday we get the same question of "What time will the papers be in?" Every time we answer with the same reply "We unfortunately don't know!"

As a child I can remember the hooter at the power station going off when the newspapers had arrived. I think at that time they were sold from the Old Penny Farthing.

I often wish we could do the same thing again now so that all of our customers would know when the papers are in and stop asking us!

[Ann Gander (nee Greenway)]

We didn't even have newspapers!  Our were shipped from the UK - I think especially the Daily Mirror - and were specially bound in weekly or even monthly folders.  I don't know whether this happened with any other papers.  And this was all pre-TV and the one Springbok radio,

[Vikki de Jager -- Summers]

I remember the siren for the Sunday newspapers. Pretty good idea that was ! They used it to signal lunchtime and the end of the workday during the week (it really helped if you were at the town swimming pool and needed to hotfoot it home to finish your homework before your parents arrived home) !

[mavis(Smith)]

  I remember Sunday newspapers comming to the tearoom on a sunday afternoon at about 5.                  As i worked in the tearoom.The tearoom was called the desertin  Mavis

[Michael Alexander]

I remember the Desert Inn, kinda like a half cafe/ half restaurant?

Bianca's mom, Cora ran the place?

:)

[mavis(Smith)]

      can you tell me Coras surname and did her mum run tthe simming pool in the 1960

[Michael Alexander]

Hi Mavis! Yes, it was Oliver, her daughter is registered on this forum, her name is Bianca. Ollie Oliver is the husband or father and I believe they are retired to the Helderberg somewhere!

As for working at the Town Pool, I am not sure?
Maybe somebody else can help!

???

[mavis(Smith)]

   Oranjemund was the best time of my life mavis

[bobbysmith]

hi all,i remember the desert inn,the great hamburgers, hamsalad sandwiches,icecream sodas,all the older teenagers parking their 50cc motor bikes out side ,the wise ones making metal sqared foot plates with a metal pin to put in the tar ,cos when it got hot ,yes you quest it,the tar melted and their pride and joys took a fall.the teenagers at the time who i knew had bikes were,ian buchannon,tony and peter freemantle,terence holland,andre pieterson,or was that his brother,who had a bad accident on the road going out of town and john delaney,every one of them gave me a ride on the back of their bikes,the older guys ,when they were APPIES,and my dad tought them,all went on to buy bigger bikes,great times

[Mike]

Terence Holland is married to Sharon Wilson and is still wandering around here somewhere!  ::)

[goofy]

YES CORA DID RUN THE SWIMMING POOL AS WELL
THE SIREN ALSO USED TO GO OFF IF THERE WAS A FIRE TO GET THE FIRE TEAM TO REPORT FOR DUTY.

[Mike Thurtell]

Michelle, saw your article about the sunday papers - back in the 70's the cafe had a telephone number that one could phone and a certain number of beeps or tone told you if the papers were in ( we lived in E12-5th so just kept a lookout for the truck and then jumped on a bicycle to make sure we got a paper).

mike thurtell

[Juliana Bester (Petersen)]

Hi Bobbysmith, I have been reading and looking at pics on this site when I came accross the teenagers names that you mentioned and it grabbed my attention! My brother was David Petersen who had a yamaha who had an accident. A person ran into him with a landrover. He was in hospital for a long time. He died at 37 years of age from complications of diabetes. Andre Petersen is my other brother who also had a , but not in Oranjemund. He was the only one of us who went to primary school in Oranjemund.
I remember Terence Holland as he was friends with the brothers and I think they use to go camping near the Orange River mouth when it was still open and not fenced.  The other names I cannot remember!
I will attach some photos of Dave and the bike soon. Our stuff is in storage at this stage.
Cheers, Juliana

[georg ruf jr.]

We didn't even have newspapers!  Our were shipped from the UK - I think especially the Daily Mirror - and were specially bound in weekly or even monthly folders.  I don't know whether this happened with any other papers.  And this was all pre-TV and the one Springbok radio,

We didn't even have paper...  :emot78:

We had to read the clouds ....


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[Michael Alexander]

and here is the scan from the CDM Booklet for new Residents, explaining how the papers worked....