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« Reply #220 on: July 15, 2012, 08:31:14 pm »
wow, so baie skade, kyk voor op koerant en dodetal was 7 op daai stadium
« Reply #221 on: July 16, 2012, 10:28:07 am »
Dankie Jup, lekker gewees om die fotos te sien. Ek het in 1981 amper verdrink in van Stadens mond. Die see kan nogal moeilik wees daar maar n heerlike plek gewis! Bestaan Happy Valey nog, as ek reg onthou het hy weer weggespoel later in die 80's?
« Reply #222 on: July 16, 2012, 10:55:19 am »
My Ma moes uit n winkel aan die onderkant van Oxford straat in Oos Londen gehelp word in '81. Enige fotos van die huidige vloede? Ek hoor die 3de Ave dip in Newton park was onder water?
« Reply #223 on: July 16, 2012, 11:55:04 am »
Ek hoor 2 ouens met rubberducks daar in 3rde laan rond gejaag tot die Polisie hul moes stop!
« Reply #224 on: July 16, 2012, 02:16:52 pm »
Quote from: Hotwire on July 16, 2012, 11:55:04 am
Dit klink nou soos regte PE scabangas
« Reply #225 on: July 16, 2012, 03:51:29 pm »
Quote from: TVB on July 16, 2012, 10:28:07 am
Ja en dis mooi. ek wil nou 'n foto neem dat die ouens die magtige Sharkrivier kan sien as hy nie histeries is nie
Quote from: Geotraveller on July 16, 2012, 10:55:19 am
Hy was en die Bakens het sterk afgekom, maar ek was te lui gister om rond te ry ek kiekies te neem. Weer was baie stormagtig. PE se watertafel is nou so hoog dat net bietjie reën die Dip oorvloei, so dis nie meer snaaks nie.
« Reply #226 on: July 16, 2012, 07:39:17 pm »
PE se watertafel is nou so hoog
Ek hoor hulle praat deesdae van n Pooltable.
« Reply #227 on: July 16, 2012, 07:56:04 pm »
Quote from: nemodakar on July 16, 2012, 07:39:17 pm
Dis 'n krisis. Die water dreineer nie en loop net orals.
Re: My Port Elizabeth and Roundabouts (10/07/2012 - Despatch)
« Reply #228 on: July 18, 2012, 06:31:15 pm »
Quote from: XT JOE on July 11, 2012, 01:36:36 pm
dankie, waardeur regtig. Daai kerk was so paar honderd meter van waar ons gebly het en dit was my laerskool so paar jaar terug, n hele paar ok. Wanneer jy weer gaan laat weet ek het nog n stop of twee
Wie was Susanna Fourie se hoof daai tyd??
Jan de Waal?
« Reply #229 on: July 18, 2012, 06:58:34 pm »
Quote from: Runner on July 18, 2012, 06:31:15 pm
Dis reg, en vir 'n ou man kon hy nog hard bliksem. 1971. Was ook die tyd dat Blits Fourie nog daar skool gegee het.
« Reply #230 on: July 18, 2012, 08:07:30 pm »
Quote from: jupiter on July 18, 2012, 06:58:34 pm
« Reply #231 on: July 18, 2012, 08:37:04 pm »
Just stumbled on this rather long vid clip of some dudes chasing PE flood water on the 14 July 2012. Shows pretty much all flooding areas in PE
« Reply #232 on: July 18, 2012, 08:49:48 pm »
Quote from: TornadoF5 on July 18, 2012, 08:37:04 pm
Update Morgan’s thread to let us know how your baby girl is doing please
« Reply #233 on: July 21, 2012, 01:41:44 pm »
Took a bit of a Down Town ride today. First to see what the staion looks like inside nowadays. Totally unimpressive. Gone is the little shop where we bought our Coke and chips while waiting for the train. progress kills the romance
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« Reply #234 on: July 21, 2012, 01:52:24 pm »
Earlier we saw what was done to The Square. The rest of Main Street(now Govan Mbeki) went the same way. It used to be a great place where we spent our childhood. Sugar Bush, Hastings Sports and Tackle shop, where I used to drool over the knives, OK bazaars with its little cafeteria where my mother would buy us an ice-cream if we behaved.
I sat there a while dreaming of the Good Old Days, remembering the little side streets running down to Strand Street. Could never as a child figure out why one of them was called 'PIEL' Street. Later I found out it is 'PEEL' Street.
This is it today. The city center died when businesses moved to Newton Park in the seventies after the free-ways were built. To get people back they tried to modernize and rejuvenate it. FAIL.
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Re: My Port Elizabeth and Roundabouts (21/07/2012 - Down Town )
« Reply #235 on: July 21, 2012, 01:58:21 pm »
parralel to main Street and running next to the free-way is Swatkops Street. There used to be lots of factories making all sorts of stuff. Most of the buildings are now derelict
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« Reply #236 on: July 21, 2012, 02:07:27 pm »
We move up along mainstreet to North End. Here is where the smaller shops and businesses were and some still are. I remember the beautiful old buildings fronting on the street. Some are gone now and others delapidated.
1. The law Courts building in the first pic is still beautiful
2. Accross the road used to be Lion's Fisheries. Dirty as anything but the best fish and chips anywhere.
3. A genaral view
4. The Red Lion Hotel in the back ground. Very popular joint in days gone by where arguments were settled witha broken bottle neck outside in the street.
5. Typical of what the buildings looked like.
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« Reply #237 on: July 21, 2012, 02:19:47 pm »
It would be wrong to ride through North End and not get a few pics of The Stadium.
First a view from the front and then looking accross the lake, with a final wide shot which I thing looks pretty nice.
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« Reply #238 on: July 21, 2012, 02:28:04 pm »
With the building of the free-ways, traffic by-passed the City Centre and businesses moved to Newton Park on Old Cape Road. The old Fair View race course sat on a prime piece of property that they could not afford. In its place came Greenacres Shopping centre, old buildings and houses were torn down and modern monstrosities built. Today Newton Park is the business centre of PE.
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« Reply #239 on: July 21, 2012, 02:51:57 pm »
You realy love this place Jup!