The traffic circles on 5th!

[Michael Alexander]

Do you find the older you get ...the more paranoid you become on the roads?

[georg ruf jr.]

I'm not sure if I'm more paranoid about the others, or the others about me... hahaha
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[georg ruf jr.]

By the way Michael. Carefull about using words like paranoid. Might get you a one way ticket.....

[Carl Wrbka]

Hi,

I remember this traffic circle well. During my time in Oranjemund it had a rocky flowerbed in the middle though. I remember once in the early 80's trying to get my dad's car out of the flowerbed after he had managed to unceremoniously park it there after a night out at Caseys. Does Caseys still exist today ? The circle was also the hangout for the local gemsbok population.
Many nights on my way home from the movies I would bump into a few of them grazing there and on the grass patch behind the power station.

Regards,

Carl Wrbka

[Keith Margetts]

Hey Diana,

I did the same strenuous drivers licence test from the old cop station around that circle . . . way back in 1975, at the ripe old age of 21!!

That Canadian Guy,
Keith.

[Michael Alexander]

The bar of Casey's is still there, but is now know by the name The Coolbox, and is run by a private guy..... It has changed a lot inside, with a beer garden, gambling machines and a take away restaurant..... you do not really find any white people in there these days, they are all next door in the Snooker and Darts Club......

[Carl Wrbka]

With all this talk of strenuous drivers licences, didn't you know that you could have gotten one at Casey's in those days. The local speedcop at the time (I won't mention his name right now) was a regular at Casey's, and If you got him drunk enough he would issue you one right there and then. You probably won't get away with it nowadays, but in those days your licence was just a hand written form signed by the speedcop who took you for your test. The form was then just glued into your ID book. (The big black ones in those days).

My father in law got his code 10 licence that way. I heard there were quite a few others too.

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

That must have been after our time Carl,remember we got our drivers in ox-wagons.

[georg ruf jr.]

And you had to be the ox to get your licence...
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[Alfred Boehme]

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[SandyB]

Carl .. I remember another time .. must  ahve  been  one  of  those  caseys episodes again  .. Your Dad used to  pick your Mom  up  after work at  the  shopping  center .. my father  gave that job  to  me to  pick  my  Mom  up ..  I  remember the  one  day  your  Dad  arrived  and  parked next  to  me  .. the  car if I  remeber  correctly  was  a  valiant  station  wagon  cream  colour .. anyhow  the  entire  drivers  side  was   kind of  totalled ..   scraped  and  looking  like  crumpled  tissue  paper ... i  remeber  your  Mom  ( By  the  way I always  looked  upon  her as a very  unusualy attractive  different  features to  the  ordinary ) coming  out  after  work  looking  still  very angry at  your  Dad .  anyhow  he  must  ahve done  his  best  to  make  amends  as he  did  the  entire  repair  job  himself .. I  observed the buildup of  bodyfiller   each  time  to try  make  good  the  damage .. wonder   how  much more  the  drivers  side  ended  up  weighing with all that  boyfiller ??  It  seemed  to  be  a regular  feature of  Oranjemund caseys nights out and  cars  looking  sorry  the  next  day ....

[Carl Wrbka]

The famous Valiant incident. My mom was  :emot186: after too many  . The rest is history.

[Michael Alexander]

That reminds me of a Billy Summers Story, Billy bought a brand new car in Cape Town, drove all the way back to town, and instead of doing the right thing and going home with it.... he went to Caseys to have a beer or two with th elads, but he was clever and did not park the new car in the usual spot, for fear of a drunk coming out of caseys and trashing his new car, so he parked across the road.... But it did not help, coz my dad was parked next to him, trying to avoid Big Dirk also, so he trashed Billy's car instead...    :emot19:

[SandyB]

@ Carl  it  was  your Mom .. no  wonder  she  looked  so  tense ..

[Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)]

Wonder why everyone always tried to avoid Big Dirk after a Casey's hang out?

I think the main reason  -  he always offered to drive them home and they were scared sh*tless of that  -  he's driving was often more dangerous than their own intoxicated efforts.      

We checked him and Piet Steyn out one night  -  did we crawl home with laughter!  Should get Johan Steyn to tell me the whole story again, 'cos he and my brother Leon followed them all over town.  They passed Piet Steyn's house - (got lost they said later) that's where tannie Aida and my mom waited for them and we girls were ordered not to trail on with the boys.