Google Earth images of Oranjemund

[Alfred Boehme]

I only recall the police station at 3 different places
1st where the commando camp is today just before pcc
2nd the house in outer crescent
3rd where it is today old x ray facility when you left town to go on leave

Anybody out there shed light on topic

[Patricia Lotte]

I only remember it opposite to the seven sisters.

[Alfred Boehme]

White - Eric Davis Hall
Light Blue - Old Veggie Market now (Furnmark)
Green - Old Bottle Store now (it has been many shops)
Yellow - Old Butchery next to post office now (Cafe)
Blue - Sporting facilities (squash, badminton, karate, gym, volleyball and I think the section to the top left was the bridge club?)
Red - Window dressers workshop now (club house)

[Gerda Cloete]

IS there still a cinema in towm?

[Alfred Boehme]

The yellow circle marks the last cinema no longer in use

[Alfred Boehme]

Green - Appie single quarters
White - Laundry
Purple - Dry cleaners
Light blue - Cinema now (night club)
Red - Rec club
Yellow - Was the cinema past few years now it's closed, the cinema used to be here in the very old days this area was also the Oranjemund Players

[Gerda Cloete]

Sad that there is no longer one. Was in liine every Saturday !

[toonfandangl]

 
I remember the Bioscope well! 1969 mans first walk on the moon was shown there, had my oldest son with me at the time he was about five years old he said 'he would like to become a space man' I think he achieved that ambition in life ........................but it had nothing to do with going up in a rocket........... remember the drive ins in Cape Town sadly like the Bioscope  all gone. 

[Patricia Lotte]

We're such a sad bunch ... always reminiscing the past ... how better things were back then ... but hey, we have the O'mund virus and there's no cure for that ... 

[Michael Alexander]

Sigh!

[Gerda Cloete]

Ditto !!

[Andrew Darné]

Not long after the cinema was "outsourced" to an entrepeneur who turned it into a night club the Little Theatre underwent a face lift, was redone inside and was fitted with a projector and serious sound (which seldom worked to its best capability). Movies were shown for a couple of years until the scheduled flics didn't always show. (You went to see Bambi with the kids, sat down and Doom's Day started to roll... awesome. You go out for a bite and a movie and end up only having the bite... sign on the door says films did not arrive.)
Sure it must have been as frustrating for those managing / running the cinema side of things as for the patrons.
Little theatre and the Oranjemund Players still exist, though the Players could probably do with a few more inspiring actors and actresses...
Then again the song "Video killed the radio star" comes to mind... the likes of DSTV, Blue Ray, internet (ADSL) do have their adverse effects on the attendances and production of live stage performances.

[Alfred Boehme]

White - Who remembers the scrap cars and the press they had to box all the stuff with?
Light Blue - Was the old petrol pumps not somewhere in this are?

[Patricia Lotte]

I thought the petrol pumps were on the same road as the shooting range and the dumps. Opposite to 1st avenue. I also remember when we weren't allowed to bring cars into town. Every few months my parents would rent a little VW beetle for a week. Wow, we would drive around town like kings.

[Michael Alexander]

The current petrol station is indeed situation opposite 1st ave on Industrial Road....

Without a roof I may add, thanks to the Advance Transport company......