The Single Quarters

[Leon Sumter]

Lead Zeppelin, Iron Butterfly, Rolling Stones, Bread, ah yes those were the days. Each one of us had loud powerful stereo sets and we all tried to play our music louder than the guy in the room next door. Dieter Heiser, Keith Gass, Derek Anderson, and company.

Then there was the mess where slap up meals were served three times a day. Some of the contractors we had there in those days were quite rough guys from some eastern countries who probably had never seen this kind of food. One guy used to pile his porridge on top of his scrambled eggs and then pile a couple of slices of bread on top of that.

Leon

[SandyB]

The mezzanine beds a lot of guys built from  timber skived  from  whchever building site ...  that allowed  more  room to party .. problem was  if  you  fell out of bed ....

[Leon Sumter]

Was it Johan Schripzek?? who kept on oversleeping and eventually rigged up a siren in his room to wake him up in time for work?

[Leon Sumter]

The gang outside single quarters circa '73
Kneeling up front: Pepe
On green Honda S50: Me (Please note, this bike was legal)
On yellow Yamaha 125: Jakes
Behind Jakes: Andre Hanekom.
Can't remember the other guys.

2nd Photo:
Me on the (Unlicensed) Honda C110 built up from bits and pieces, on which I was eventually bust by old man Selby. Is this what I looked like, Jees.
Leon

[SandyB]

which  one  did you  fit the  mercury  switch   alarm  to ... ??

[Leon Sumter]

to my big green meanie (750 Honda) which I brought into town just before my first departure form OMD in '76.
You've got a damn good memory Sandy.....forgot about that.....
Leon

[Leon Sumter]

...remember the contractor guy that was always on the binge and when completely passed out  would suddenly jump up and jive whenever "jumping Jack Flash" by the rolling stones was played.......

[Michael Alexander]

Wow...nice pics Leon....what  I would give to hear the music from that era... the fashions.... the talk...the times...

great stuff....

[pam spackman]

Have got ALL the music from that era.......

Stones ,Deep Purple,Black Sabbath,Led Zepplin etc etc

All on Vinyland some we're told are worth quite a bit!!

[joco Mueller]

I remember the students comming to work at X'mas time to work during the holliday to earn some extra money.Talking abou the  the good food served in the mess, also some of some were surely not used the be served with anything and as much that was on the daily menue.Everybody heard about the one 'big eater' who re-ordered for his MixedGrill one mutton chop after the other untill he finaly finished his plate with 24 chops. Every Sunday lunch  Ice cream was served, there were many of us who ordered it in a soup plate.There was nobody to tell you :   Now you have enough,no matter of what
and how much you asked for. This all happened around the sixties. man were 3 chiefs,a German,a South African and an
Italian, each in turn responsible for the food prepared for one week. Whatever was served First Class.

[spiesa]

Hi Guys, first time on the Forum.
Wow Leon what memories, I have no idea how we survived our time there.
Anyone know what happened to Pierre Cloete?
Andre Spies

[Michael Alexander]

Hi Andre' , Welcome onboard, You guys are a bit before my time,   

Keep posting the memories...

[Charmain Meier (Heusdens)]

Leon

You surely brought back memories. Still remember the breakfast runs we used to have?

Charmain

[Clive Symes]

Charmaine,
Cleared the attic the otherday and found photos of those breakfast runs.
Just need to get the scanner up & running again.

No Sandy I did not find the ones of the "pink jetstream" of your famous technicolour yawn

Have got some of a sexy Juanita doing her thing at the yacht club and a couple of other slides of her in a bikini ???

[SandyB]

Hooey .. safe for now ...