The Weather in Omund Today!

[Michael Alexander]

...and two hours down the line... the wind is pumping... remember riding your school bike home against the wind after school... the days of CHoppers!

[Patricia Lotte]

Oh yes, I remember the choppers. I had a goldish colour one that had thinner tyres. I think they were called chippers, no?

[Michael Alexander]

Yes, you are right, Chippers.... who had one of those plastic sirens that emulated a police,ambulance and fire engine siren?

[Patricia Lotte]

No Mike, we didnt ride around dressed like Erik Estrada in Chips ... lekker tight pants

[Michael Alexander]

Chips, 240 Robert, Die Man van Interesek, The Million Dollar Man, Dallas and of course Buck Rogers in the 21st Century.....

[Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)]

 ::  @ Diana  -  and in this day and age the "moment" of the video has also gone  -  we now have CD's, memory sticks etc.   So true what the old saying states:  What comes around, goes around!  Again your grandchildren will then say to their children - "We did'nt have videos in our day and age"

Also - us lot who remember all the paddling on the bicycles in the wind, or rain or fog  -  our grandchildren will laugh at this some day and say to their grandchildren  -  we never owned bicycles, or motorbikes etc  -  we owned some sun power vehicle/contraption.  And some of them might remember that a few hundred years ago there was a civilization called the Inkas, that also had made use of sunpower to generate energy for lots of uses.

[Michael Alexander]

Sticking a piece of cardboard with a clothes peg between your spokes turned your bike into a roaring ...Yes! It did!

I laugh in awe how I know plug a flashdrive into my DVD player and watch the movie from the flash, no moving parts.... compared to a VHS video cassette... and don't even start on Betamax!

[Rhona]

What about the three stooges on the dining room wall from a projector...........

[Michael Alexander]

Hahaha... With the Keystone Cops, Laurel and Hardy on the famous Charlie Chaplin.... What we watched before there was TV in the desert!

[georg ruf jr.]

Hey Guys. These old movies were very big sensations in those days.
My oldman had several of these movies on super8.

[Michael Alexander]

Thats right .. all these movies were on Super 8, my dad took the projector to Beauvallon one weekend and showed the movies on the wall by the pool.....

[Michael Alexander]

Here's a scan of a scout chopper in 1975

[georg ruf jr.]

75? I must've been there to. Who could the fellow be?

[Michael Alexander]

Here's two more from the same article....

[georg ruf jr.]

The first one might be Mark van Greunen. His sis Cheryl is on the forum.
Second???