Want A Photograph Taken!

Diana Rudd (Boehme) · October 13, 2009, 08:45:08 PM

While you there you can point your camera over the fence and take a pic of 37/1st for me. Lived there 1977.

Michael Alexander · October 14, 2009, 05:02:17 AM

Ok! But don't get a shock, all those empty wine bottles will noi longer be in the garden!

Michael Alexander · October 14, 2009, 11:29:57 AM

John your house is still there, so is Diana's, strange enough, they are in first avenue and are both inhabited ...... I did'nt take closer snaps, some people were eying me out way to strangely ...

Diana Rudd (Boehme) · October 14, 2009, 09:50:35 PM

Thanx Mike.....I'm sure it looked nicer when I stayed there. That was my very first house as a married women or rather girl I was all of 19 at the time. Beer was my drink of choice at that time.

Andrew Darné · October 15, 2009, 09:37:06 PM

@john... Your old house is very much still standing. I've been living in it for the past 12 years. Will downsize a couple of the pics we have taken and post them for you.
Tell me, was there a big white Iceberg rose bush outside the lounge window in your day? It looks like it's been there for decades.

sophie (de Lange) · October 16, 2009, 09:17:28 AM

Quote from: Andrew Darné on October 15, 2009, 09:37:06 PM
@john... Your old house is very much still standing. I've been living in it for the past 12 years. Will downsize a couple of the pics we have taken and post them for you.
Tell me, was there a big white Iceberg rose bush outside the lounge window in your day? It looks like it's been there for decades.

No when we left there was no rose bush. Left in 1993. Looking forward to seeing pictures. Thanks. Lived there for 13yrs. Thanks Sophi

Diana Rudd (Boehme) · October 16, 2009, 03:42:42 PM

OK now I'm totally confused. Sophie are you connected to "John321wil" or did you also live at 35/1st at a different time. Thought you were looking for a photo of 13/3rd. Oh yes Micheal Sophie has asked on 3 occasions for the 13/3rd photo.(In the shout box) So get your butt down there and do it for her or else I'll have to come and......................you.

Michael Alexander · October 16, 2009, 03:50:10 PM

er... that will only be on monday.....

john wilson · October 18, 2009, 02:52:24 PM

Hello Andrew, Sorry no rose bush when I lived there,but there was a large tree in the middle of the yard and the company wanted to take it down but never did while I was there.I also have a few photos taken in the yard will send to Mike some day. I am trying to get all the photos of my stay in Omund to post. Lived at 35-1st from early 1967-Dec 1973.

Uwe Leube · October 19, 2009, 08:05:04 AM

Michael - we lived at 1/12th Ave from 1969 to 1981. If passing, could you grab some photos please. Thanks

Johanvz · October 21, 2009, 05:59:30 PM

Hi Michael,
I would appreciate it if you could take a couple of pictures of the two homes I grew up in. I think it was 12/13th avenue and 7/14th avenue in those days. I include a satellite pick with the homes identified. It would be nice if you could get some distance shots of the house from across the road also. The house across the flats it the one that I would especially like to see.
I appreciate the time and effort you put into this site. Every time I find myself I am back on the site looking at pictures and reading the forum.

Andrew Darné · October 21, 2009, 07:01:53 PM

@John Wilson; here are a few pics for you of what 35-1 looks like now.
First 3 pics... the front of the house. The last 2 are looking west then east along 1st Avenue (ie the back street) to show what replaced the 1st Avenue tree belt. Sad, as it was lovely out back in the summer evenings; owls would perch in the treetops and you could watch them with bino's just before it got dark. Now... only crows and more crows... kaaw kaaw!

Enjoy; shout if you want any others taken.
:) Andrew

Uwe Leube · October 22, 2009, 07:51:42 AM

Hi Michael - Johanvz lived at 1/13th - right behind us at 1/12th.

john wilson · October 22, 2009, 12:03:43 PM

Hello Andrew,Thanks for the pictures of 35-1st,I appreciate it a lot,my what a change on the other side of the house was a lot better with the trees as I remember it all. Thanks again, John

Michael Alexander · October 22, 2009, 02:26:22 PM

Sophie, here you go......sorry for the delay..... when I saw this place, i felt a sense of Dejavu.... I had been here before, in fact I think I might have been here twice before, once as a kid, not sure why and then in the late 80's early 90's when Riaan and Rebecca Blignaut lived here.... I remember the alleyway, the Shusters lived on the other side......

The McKays lived across the road, as with a number of the homes in Omund, the house has now been abandoned..... the lawn and tree;s left to the elements....... years of gardening and watering going to pot......