CDM Furniture!

[georg ruf jr.]

Cheryl do you remember the old stereo in your brothers room? i think it was from your dads teens.
We'd play all the old musik of the 50s and 60s. Can't remember what.

[Cheryl Quantrill (van Greunen)]

Hey, that was the old Oranjemund radio ..... Mind you my dad was only just out of his teens when he moved there.

[Michael Alexander]

A lot of the old radio's in town were called GRUNDIG's

[georg ruf jr.]

Hey, that was the old Oranjemund radio ..... Mind you my dad was only just out of his teens when he moved there.

The stereo I meant, was built like a cupboard. It had a recordplayer too. Are you sure it was an om radio.

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

Was it the one with the display cabinets on the side, middle doors where the radio/recordplayer was.Had ball and claw feet. I still have my mothers in my hallway.

[georg ruf jr.]

Sorry Diana. This is 29 years ago.

[Michael Alexander]

As kids, the square cushions thAT fitted onto the lounge furniture , made awesome building blocks... to build a den outta!

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[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

@ Boy Georg, I KNOW I was in O'mund from 1969 - 1980. Went through all the furniture changes. Yes Micheal I remember those cushions,I was horrified,when I got MY first house,the cushions were bright orange. Mind you,you would have liked them. 

[SandyB]

  They were  called  Radiograms  Dianna  .. ...  the  cabinets  with  the  legs  ,,,a  must  have  in  those  days  ..    I  remember   my  folks  bought  a  new  Hammerstein   one  .. in  retrospect a most  hideous  piece  of furniture  but  it  had  the  same  spndly  legs  as  the   company  furniture .. and  a  shiny  laquered  finish ...   top  lid  left  was  the  reord  player  .. top  lid  right  the reel  to  reel  tape  player  and recorder .. and  open  the  cabinet  doors   and  ther was  the radio .. it  had  pride  of  place in the  lounge ...  my  Mom  clung  onto  it  for  years   .. when  she  moved  into  the  duplex  after  my father  died   it  took up  so much room  but she  refused  to  part  with it  .. cruel  me  waited  for her  to go  away  on  a  business  trip  and  carted  it  off  to  storage at swartkops  garage ....   thats  wher  it  stayed  untill  the day  she  left  O'mund  .. sold  it  to  someone  before  she  left  finally  having  come to  terms  with the  fact  that  it  was    not working   anymore ..  and  not  really  a nice  piece of furniture ..

[Michael Alexander]

@ Diana...now I'm jealous, we had ugly brown coloured cushions.... I would have given my left.......er!...to have bright Orange cushions.....  Although I am spoilt these days by Michele, as our bathroom has Orange, towels, faceclothe, soap, shampoo, curtains, bathmats,shampoo and toothbrush....... sigh! It's nice to an Orange individual!

[Michele Alexander (Voden)]

I didn't have much choice

[SandyB]

I  remember  the  day  my Mom  nearly murdered  me  for   really  staining   her  brand  new company issued  lounge  suite ..  the  skinny  legged  swedish  style ...  it  had  charcoal  upholstery .. in  the  late  afternoon   I  was  sitting  and  eating  some lemon  creams   .. some  of the  filling  fell  on the  upholstery  and  by  the  time  I noticed  it  had  kind  of melted  in .. rubbing  made  it  worse .. instead  of  taking  some  soapy  water  .. I  proceeded  to  try  rectify  the damage  by  rubbing  some  ink  into  the  light creamy stain .. Oops ! too dark .. Ok  rectify  by   rubing  with  some  talc .. Oops  too  light ..  this light / dark  correction   saga carried on  with  increasing  panic   and  the  size   of the  now  oddly  coloured  blotch   growing   ..  unbeknown  to  me  the  folks had by now  got  home  from  work  ... Mom  saw  what  was  happening  and  immediately  knew  it  was another  of  those   paint  or ink  or  whatever  sagas ...  (  as  a toddler  I  got into  trouble  for  using our  collie  dogs  tail to paint   a neighbours  dog  with  white  paint " creative  spirit ?? " )    too  much  had  happened  with  paints , pellet  guns with  pomegranate  pips  as pellets etc etc   etc  .. this  was  the  last  straw  I  imagine ..  well  enraged mother pounced  like  a   lioness  on the hunt ,   had  me   pinned on the  ground  and  utterances  of  "knocking  ten colours  of sh...  out  of  me "  would most probably have happened  if  it was  not  for my  father  tearing  Mom  off  and  telling  her  to " leave the  boy  and  make  him  make it  right "  wise  old man  he  was    and  always  ready  to  help  one  correct  mistakes ..   I  was  then  given the  upholstery  shampoo  applicator  brushes  etc  and made  to  not only  clean  the  stain  but  the entire  sofa..    lesson learnt ?? yes for  a  while ...  we  all know  what  kids are ..

[georg ruf jr.]

Hi Diana.
Is that you on that.
What a sweet smile...


Georg

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

Thank-you Boy Georg, Yip thats I, taken off a photo from my daughters wedding 2yrs ago.One looks presentable at weddings.

[Florrie van Zyl (Muir)]

Mark Laubscher did gymnastics and used to somersault on his bed until one day he accidentally bit his tongue while somersaulting. Bit a hole clean through. The bedroom cupboards all had sliding doors and we used to climb above the cupboards on that cement ledge and jump off onto the bed. There were built-in dressing tables between the wall and cupboards.