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[Michael Alexander]

Hi Debbie, At Last a Wallace has surfaced!, I was just on the phone to my dad, trying to debate the 4 wallace kids and in which in order, He reckons, Debbie, Scott, Paula and Deena!.....

Last time he saw your folks was about 10 years back in a pub in Tableview.... Anyhow he sends his regards to all.

Did you see some pics of your folks on the main site?

I remember both your houses very well, the one in 2nd was directly opposite my folks and the one up at 14th ave was right next door to a substation..... I will be taking snaps again in the week....


Go well and stay in touch

MIke
;D

[Barbara Eia (Brownless)]

Hi Mike could you please take a photo of 7 outer crescent I lived there with my folks it was opposite, David Eyre and next door to Delia.

I also lived in 5 th avenue I think next door to Billy Summers it was us on the corner (a 2 bedroom house) and then Billy.

Would love a photo. If possible.

Mike tell your Dad that Stan my dad sends his regards and is sorry they couldn't make it to Oranjemund when the boys went to Namibia last year.

Thanks
Barbara

[Debby Opperman (Biccard)]

My My My, Debbie Wallace has finally surfaced!!   :D

Welcome to the site! Got your email...thanks. Will reply shortly...Lots to catch up on..like 25 odd years.
OOPS..I guess that's showing our age.

[Gary Mc Manus]

Thanks for the pics Mike.

Must show the folks.

I think we must have run down that alley (to get to park, 1st Avenue, etc) everyday we were in oranjemund.

Regards
Gary

[Michael Alexander]

Kinda like a Celtic Highway......Remember hurdling over the barriers at the start and end of each alley?

:)

[georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP)]

May be a picture of 34 and 36 - 3 rd Avenue

i am not sure which one, could be that 34 was the Lotte family they would also enjoy a Pic.

Thanks for your efforts

Video with Oranjemund Players Pictures < Oh what a lovely war >

http://www.livevideo.com/video/9C8940EE233147BEBC4BC84DDD1AD6A3/oh-what-a-lovely-war-and-the-r.aspx?lastvcid=76884

Georg Ruf

[Debbie MacDonald (Wallace]

Hi Mike

Your dad is absolutely right did see those photos of mom and dad also one of my ex hubby in a March Newsletter (spot the ball comp) he is the one at front.  My 2 eldest thought it was hilarious to see their dad with so much hair.

Mom and dad both asking for Jock they in Tenerife this week on hols lucky pair will get them all signed up soon as.

Love

Debbie

[Riaan]

Hey Mikey!!!

Please take a photo of Joel Stransky?

Thanx man...

[Michael Alexander]

Well Riaan, funny you should mention that, I just happen to have a photo of joel and you together, whats the chances.......

;)

[Riaan]

No way!!  Really?  How did you get that right?   ???

[Michael Alexander]

Well, while I was in Bloem this weekend, I bashed into a chap that laughs and looks just like you, Ol Joel happened to be walking past me, and I thought.."Gee! I wonder if....."

;D

[Cheryl Quantrill (van Greunen)]

Hi Mike
Looking through all the pics you have taken of the various houses, I can't help noticing how run down and sad the houses look today.  I can't remember the street looking so shabby and the gardens so drab. Maybe its just because it was so long ago and when you are kids you see things differently?

I think you are doing a stirling job - much appreciated and enjoyed. When next you do your photographic rounds, could you take in a couple of shots of 65 and 70/2nd Avenue. I haven't seen them since I left 29 years ago! Thanks.

[SandyB]

Cheryl  yes  I agree  sad  and  run  down ..  Our  house  55/2nd  was  a nice  blue  colour  and  our  garden  was  grown with  lots of  trees   flowers  etc ..  I  dont  think  its    just  our   childhood  perception  ...

[Michael Alexander]

@ Cheryl  Firstly Thanks, I enjoy doing the site....

As for the houses and streets, you are indeed correct, It feels as if the company is trying to distance themselves from the town and only concentrate on the mining side of their business, After independence the calibre of people moving into the town dropped, different culture. In the old days, the expats enjoyed looking after their gardens, sailing yachts and organising social events. The new crowd prefer ripping up the old gardens and planting maize everywhere.

There is no longer a real Township dept, where you could phone up and get things repaired promptly, the roads are starting to break up, and the buildings are not being painted. Now I'm not saying this does not happen, but rather it is not happening as frequently as it should. The school is currently being painted and repaired.

The standards at the hospital are shoddy, who do you blame? The company for appointing the wrong people? The government for not allowing more effecient expats to work there? I am always hearing customers in the store bitching about the hospital, and this is not just white customers, but black customers also. I also heard that the company intends to outsource the hospital next year. Yet another institution they are sacrificing, with the school being the big one.

At the shop, we have let the standards drop intentionally(with regard to the infrastructure), due to the fact nobody can tell us what the future is going to bring. The talk says 2009 we will see mass retrenchments, This shop is the only store in the Spar group that does not show growth in terms of Customers, because Oranjemund has not been allowed to develop when it should have....You also get a lot of illegals in town, unemployment in Namibia is so high, that the masses think that there is work a plenty down here, they get in here on a permit and then just don't leave when the permit expires, you can see them sitting around the streets by the post office..... nobody does nothing...so the times are indeed changing, and I fear in a few years, the last of us Oranjemunders from that era will be leaving, which makes this site so important..  to preserve what we had!

:36_2_24:

[SandyB]

Mike !ouch !  so sad ..... :36_2_24:  my sentiments  too ,,,,