Saturday afternoon matinees....

[Susan Kintscher (Lineker)]

Yes, can you imagine.  The movie house was the best and sadly they took it away from us a few years ago................

[barb (Fry)]

What, no movie house ?
I remember Bill Mitchell and Mavis got the two seats they sat in for every movie given to them at his retirement.
I remember the big turnstill ticket dispensor, the tickets for evening shows were printed at the printing works and had to be torn apart and placed into the wooden dispensor. 
I did have a holiday job as an usher, for a holiday, so saw loads of movies free, and got a torch to torment kids with at matinees.
On the downside we had to put up with Fred.

[Susan Kintscher (Lineker)]

We dont have a movie house as such, they use the Little Theatre for shows.  Every now and then we dont have movies for a long while and then it starts up again, strange.......

[Barbara du Plessis (nee Winstanley)]

Talking of Margie Badenhorst (who beat me up quite regularly - but then I did probably deserved it) - where is she?  Does anyone remember her diving off the high diving board and hitting the concrete?  Or was it someone else?

[Michael Alexander]

I remember a chap called gavin, who on the small diving board tried to do one of those backward dives and messed up , connected his front teeth with the board, rammed them right up through his gums.....mind you over the decades how many people we have all known who wiped out on those boards....

:P

[Robert Bruce]

Winstanley,

Badenhorst was only fulfilling the contracts we put out on you!!! Haahaahaa! Joke.

But was it you or a Webstock who put a gobby dob of Chappies buublegum into my hair during a movie? :D

[barb (Fry)]

I think I remember, Marggie doing that.  The lady in charge of the pool was mrs Linthuis, she taught us all to swim.
I think she was Cora's mother.

[Michael Alexander]

I believe it was only a matter of time before one of us kids was going to break their necks on that big board,with the way we went off it.... Not surprised that they removed it.... sad though! End of an era!

Swallow Bomb
Bok N#@I Bobmb
Back Bomb
Knee Bomb
The WAve Bomb..

SO Many bombs, such little youth!

:'(

[Barbara du Plessis (nee Winstanley)]

Bruce - Never me - definitely a Webstock ....carrying out my instructions - joke...can't really remember!

Cora's mother was Mrs Lindhout - her other daughter Francis went to Wynberg with us - heard she was still in CT. Mrs Lindhout unfortunately never taught me how to swim - my Dad just chucked us in the pool and we had to sink or swim - I suspect that's how most of us learnt in those days and probably accounts for the general O'munders' attitude!

[bobbysmith]

if margie hit the concrete barbara,was the concrete ok after that,god we used to tease her,no wonder i could run fast,talking of characters,what ever happened to lorrain trollop,and her brother leon,theire dad was a painter and their mom worked on the habadashiry,f**** it,material counter in the store

[Susan Kintscher (Lineker)]

I remember Mad Marggie and we were all scared of her...............

[darryl weidemann]

Remember before the start of any movie they had the adverts they always had the same ones in the same order . There was one about gilbeys gin and cbs . I can recall one time the slides ( as they seemed to be ) actually melted on screen . We all cheered.

[Stephen Brooke]

Rumour has it.....that Margie Bardenhorst was alas killed by her husband in the 90 ies.  I speak/type under correction of course.  Shame, pity she had that notorius reputation but I knew her as a kid (they lived opposite us in 1st avenue) and she was always kind and fun to be around.  Maybe  :(she was just another mis-understood teenager....like many of us were.

[Stephen Brooke]

Saturday matinees.....remember the mad sprint from the bioscope to the cafe to get first in line to buy sweets with the left over 10 cents? The sweets were kept under a large glass lid in small compartments in the far corner of the cafe...
It was a major accomplishment to be first in the line!!

[SandyB]

Stephen  .. Margie  Badenhorst .. I  will  echo  your sentiments  there  .. yes  she was  I  think  misunderstood  ... I think  partly  the  mind dulling  medications  that were  prescribed  in those  long off  days , they  would  make  a person  slow .. all she wanted  was  friends  .. so  yes  people  would tease   and take  advantage  of   her  , and  yes  she  would  retaliate   out of frustration  by  getting  physical , I also  think  some  parents  did  not  help  either ,, warning  their  kids  to  'stay  away "   I think  she  used  to  get  a kick  out  of   people   "fearing " her ..   when  " mad  margie"  emerged  from  the  trees  they  would  all  run  screaming  ..  one day  I  just  stood  my  ground .. she  was  sort of surprised  then  got  talking  .. we  both  liked  music   so  we  became  friends ..  albeit a tricky  friendship  ... this  friendship  remained  untill  I  left in  1980 ...  The Murder , from  my information  apparently  yes  , .. she  was  married  and had  a child   ,  the  husband murdered  her  and  tried  to  make  it look  like  a  break in ... I  think  you would  get  more  from those  still  staying  in  OM ..