Saturday afternoon matinees....

[barb (Fry)]

if your interested there are wedding pictures of Marggie in the Gazette section on this site.
You're right of course Sandy.  Misunderstood.  It happened a lot.
Manslaughter rather than murder I think

[Claire Mc Cullagh]

I remember her  - Kathleen and I used to play with her son at the gun club , he was a lovely child.  Lovely blond hair.

[Richard Opperman]

I remember the progress of movie seating.
Starting in the front row in sub A and moving back as you became more senoir in primary school.

[Sharon]

The swimming pool boy that was great fun, I remember Wendly Lujeko did a back summie off the small diving board and hit her head. I had to go with her to the hospital and she had to have stiches, i nealy died when she had an injection in her head, she just laughed and I screamed.....

[Richard Opperman]

Marggie was defanetly misunderstood - but sadly with her passing has become another character in the history of Omund.

My memory of Marggie is one high school June holiday, 1972?, Marggies parents had gone on holiday and Marggie who I think at the time was already working.

We had gone to her house after the youth club for coffee - as you all know it was a done thing to go for coffee at someones house to finish of the evening.

As I recall when we got to her house, there were two things she instructed us not to do, one do not touch her Elvis records (Marggie was a big Elvis fan and had all his LPs) and two not to sit on her poof bag (I see they are back in fashion sold along the road in Cape Town) The girls were busy in the kitchen helping Marggie with the coffee and we boys were listening to Elvis in the lounge (forced music choice), when Peter Pote jokingly shouted from the lounge that he was going to sit on the poof bag.

Well all hell broke loose - Marggie rushed into the lunge - pushed Peter over and dived onto the poof bag - needless to say the poof bag exploded and we had snow in June!!

Richard  8)   

[Renee Esterhuizen.]

 :)Hi renee here seen Lorrain Trollop at Grand West Casino in cape town still looks the same just older..

[Patricia(nee)Lineker]

Fred's daughter's name was Sabine and because she was our friend she used to keep us our "favourite" seats!!  Was soooo cool we used to line up but didn't have to "run" for our seats.

I actually found an old cinema ticket one day not so long ago in an old Jacket now in our "fancydress" box. 

Another great pastime was "themed" parties - shirt and hat was a "big" one for a long time.

[Nicky Hodge]

Hi Patricia, great to hear that your Mom is well and still playing bridge. She must be real good at it now hey? Do you remember those dumb Beatle hairstyles that Patrick and I had during those junior school years? How embarrassing. Interesting that you mention Sabina, as I remember her well. Do you know what she's doing these days?

Cheers for now.

[Lindie]

In my day I only got R1,00 and I too could but a ticket and sweets but what helped me was I all was used to win the free ticket every week. Once my sister Debbie asked me if she could swop with me so that for once she could win a ticket. Unfortunetly for her after we changed seats I won the ticket

[Henk Coetzee]

I used to work at the Cinema every school holiday, taking over from Mr Coffin from 81 to 83. Had to be there 9am, go pick up the reels of movies, then the tedious task of running each reel through my hands to find cuts and nicks, and repair it, or the film will snap during the show. Also had to splice together the highlights reel for the night, featuring next attractions, adds, and off course, throw in a cartoon!.

Rest of the day was getting the ticket office in order,getting the tickets sorted in the right color and number order, and then at night, get he ushers going, pay then when they wee finished, and helped out in the projection room.

Best day was Saturday , were I ran the Matinee for the afternoon. I could play any music I wanted to, and I remember, MEN AT WORK was one of our favorite tapes to play, we cranked the volume, and the usher were dancing in the isles!

Best spot in the house, ...behind the screen!! I am not going to elaborate here what went down , pardon the pun ...

[Alfred Boehme]

Yes remember appie days you would go show evening shows for extra cash I did a stint 1984-85 and then moved to the telephone exchange during my last year as appie that was very good money used to make more at the night shift exchange 6pm to 6am and then off to work at 7am
I recall more money working at the echange than my monthly salary