Teenagers of Your Time

[Richard Opperman]

Hi Mavis,

Erwin has a photograph of you, Aunty Joan and Paul crossing the Oranje River at Vooilsdrift at your way to or from Bloemfontein.
I get him to email it to me to post.

Keep well.

[SandyB]

Oh migawd  I look  like a scruffy orphan  in front  of  hugenot high ??

[SandyB]

Another ohmigawd ,,,  page 14 .. I  look  dronkverdriet there ...

[Michael Alexander]

Wow, great stuff Richard...... it may be a wee bit before my time, but hell ..I can feel the history....

[SandyB]

Great  times ... and yes history ...

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

Wow.....Richard...how cool is that, I'm sure we had the best teenage years ever.
Nice to see photo's of Paul.   

[Keith Margetts]

Hey Richard,

That was such a cool trip down memory lane, especially since I was around when a couple of those photos were taken . . . Wendy and I were wondering where that skinny couple went to in the intervening 32 years!!

It was great to see those - Thank you so very much!!

That Canadian Guy (with a big Pole),
rooster

[Richard Opperman]

Below Keith's email to me:

Thanks Oppie . . . what a great trip down memory lane , , ,

The guy in the red shirt is Dave Hasseleu (sp?), who came up with me for a visit . . . he ended up in O/mund as an operator or something for a while . . . last I heard, he was a Chief Engineer on one of the Gold Mines!!!!!

I wonder what the occasion was at the Lissers?

My reply:

This occasion must have been a big one, going on the amount of children!
I recon a Sunday braai involving parents and children?

I have other photographs taken at the same time showing parents dancing inside which were of poor quality (the photographs and not the parents).

Erwin was in the air force at the time the group photo was taken – so 1971 – some years back.

Keep well and love to all
Love Richard and Debby

[Richard Opperman]

Hi guys,

The photograph mid 70s attached is one that Keith Margetts posted on my Facebook.

Keith's comment: "My 21st birthday get-together . . . the Oranjemund crew . . . Sandy Buchanan, on the left . . . my good buddy to this day, Richard Opperman on the right - with Rainer Siebers and another good buddy to this day, Erwin Lisser . . ."

Thanks for the memory Keith!

[Richard Opperman]

After a day of squash...when squash racquets were squash racquets!

[SandyB]

Hey mr  canandian pole .. your 21st ..  I recall giving you  a gift book .. it was  ' sex manners for men "  remember  it  .. your Mum  frowned a bit  .. but then its their job  to  frown at their sons hey ??  ..??  and as  for the skinny thing .. I'm still there ...  freak of nature i suppose ... 

[Chris Macpherson]

Looks like you all enjoying the old "CHATEAU BOX" lol.

[Clint Ebstein]

Yo Mike where are the photo`s of our great teenage years?

[Michael Alexander]

You know that the police used them as evidence.....

[Clint Ebstein]

About time you could never behave yourself those days.