CDM Furniture!

[Michael Alexander]

Only one thing, if you took the CDM matress of the bed, you had the most amazing trampoline in your bedroom...it improved , if you jumped of the top of those cement cupboards...  hehehehehe!

memories!

:-\

[Ann Gander (nee Greenway)]

I recall the green blinds we had on the windows.  They were a devil to pull down and, once succeeded, you could never get them to go up again!  The spring we had on our beds would have done serious damage to your feet!

[Robert Bruce]

Remeber thos thin foam matresses in red and white striped plastic cover? And the lounge suite in that wiers Swedish style with awful material. Always got a static shock when I sat on the sofa!!  ;D

[Michele Alexander (Voden)]

Once again, an idea of what an amazing town we came to live in - how many employees would furnish your house for you? Quite a couple of years ago CDM sold off the furniture so you as the house occupant could buy the furniture for dirt cheap. My folks have still got a couple of items from the early 80's in their house, my mom keeps wishing the fridges would break so that she can buy more modern ones - I think they're great though - you just don't get big fridges like that anymore.

The mattresses were blue and white stripes and the blinds were yellow when we came.

[Kathleen McCullagh]

CDM Furniture and the Alexander boys go hand in hand for me he he. Braais in Jock and Vi's were my enducation in what great trampolines the beds made. Everybody partying and all of us demolishing the rest of the house. Dont make beds like that anymore  ;D

[Paul Alexander]

Geez Kathleen, you look just like your mom... wierd when you don't see somebody for a couple of decades... my avitar is, of course, just a graphic, I don't actualy look like that (well, unless you put a balaclava(?) on)....

Where's Larry Jnr. these days?

[Michael Alexander]

What about those fold out dining room tables, with that trapdoor in the middle?

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[barb (Fry)]

I remember we'd get new furniture, carpets and house painted every 7 years.
I remember the red stoep polish and screen doors.
Green blinds ring a bell, bunk beds and extendable tables, my mom still has the round table with the four smaller ones that fit under it.

[Michael Alexander]

How many of you had those book cabinets by the front door, Ours was stuffed full of comics and paperbacks, the door went missing at one of my father's infamous hogmannay parties!

:o

[Cheryl Quantrill (van Greunen)]

I still had one of those dining room tables with the extension in the middle until about 4 years ago.  They were great for entertaining!! When I sold it, it still looked brand new.

[georg ruf jr.]

Does everynody have to buy his own furniture nowadays?
I remember the days: free furniture, water, gas, electricity.
If your bulb wouldn't work you'd give township a call to get the bulb changed for free.

[Michael Alexander]

Water,gas,lights for free.....house still for free/....rubbish removed for free....... but no furniture...you bring your own....stoves still for free.... no christmas tree no mule derby...... no no nno no no...

[Charmain Meier (Heusdens)]

Anyone remember the old fashioned radios they used to give the occupants?  In 1975 when I arrived in Oranjemund with my sister and brother in law, Suna & Eddie Engelbrecht, CDM issued their household with an extra chair and bigger refrigerator!!!

Charmain Meier (Heusdens)

[Barbara Eia (Brownless)]

I remember the old radios that were in the house.
When we arrived in the early 70's we had to get spesial permission to bring our own furniture. My mother had bought a beautiful laounge suit when we lived in Rhodesia and she had only had it for a year so when we left tsumeb she refused to sell it. Permission was granted but they told us whatever we brought in was not allowd out. When they left in 1978 it was sold to the smith family.

[Cheryl Quantrill (van Greunen)]

That old fashioned radio was the next best thing to a book in the early days - mine played day and night till it gave up the ghost.