Author Topic: My Port Elizabeth and Roundabouts (19/5/13) (Read 9457 times)
Re: My Port Elizabeth and Roundabouts (12/07/2012 )
« Reply #200 on: July 12, 2012, 07:36:43 pm »
Eish Jup - jy was met jou voete in die water.!!
Ek het daardie tyd op Uitenhage gewoon en en onthou steeds die skade en verslaentheid van die mense. Ek was so 7 jaar oud.
« Reply #201 on: July 12, 2012, 07:46:37 pm »
Natuurlik as 'n agtjarige het die ware impak van die vloed ons nie op daai stadium getref nie. Dit was meteens verbysterend, en al die water 'n jol. Ek onthou wel goed ons histeria soos ons pa's die rivier ingegaan het om mense wat op die oorkant op hulle huise se dakke vasgekeer was te gaan haal.
Re: My Port Elizabeth and Roundabouts (12/07/2012 & the '68 Floods )
« Reply #202 on: July 13, 2012, 12:33:23 pm »
Baie mooi, sal graag daai koerant detail wil sien. My tyd alhoewel in PE gebore was min, net familie kuier army kampe in forest hill.
« Reply #203 on: July 13, 2012, 01:15:51 pm »
Jup, ipv scan, sit jou kamera op "makro" (gewoonlik so 'n blommetjie ikon), en neem die koerant fotos weer af van naby.
Klein tye was darem maar die beste. Ek skryf so mettertyd dinge neer wat ek onthou van daai dae. Weet nog nie of ek dit "Kaalvoetdae" of "Kommervrye Dae" moet noem nie. Wil dit los vir my kenners. Wens so ek het my Oupa se stories destyds neergeskryf (hy was nou interessant!), maar as mens nog kind is, is daar mos nog leeftye om alles te doen...
« Reply #204 on: July 13, 2012, 02:38:43 pm »
Dis nou maar die laaste klompie jare wat ek rekord hou van my wedervaringe. My pa het my altyd aangemoedig om uit te kom en avontuur te soek en ek het dit gedoen. Ek is net bitter spyt hy het my nie ook aangemoedig om fotos te neem en dagboek te hou nie.
Die gevolg is ek het omtrent geen rekord van my vele avonture in my jong dae nie, behalwe natuurlik my geheue, en die is besig om te crash
« Reply #205 on: July 13, 2012, 04:12:47 pm »
Jupiter kan jy onthou wat het n Something Good hamburger gekos in die 80's?
Ons en vriende het nou die dag daaroor gepraat maar ons kon nie onthou nie.
« Reply #206 on: July 13, 2012, 04:20:26 pm »
Quote from: Wayne on July 13, 2012, 04:12:47 pm
In my geheue was dit hier tussen R5 en R7.
« Reply #207 on: July 13, 2012, 04:22:31 pm »
Daai ou Despatch Hotel was deur ons weermag eenheid gebruik in die laat 80's en 90's. Ons was opgeroep vir maand kampe om wag te staan. Ja right. Hel ons het darem aan een gesuip vir n hele maand lank.
« Reply #208 on: July 13, 2012, 08:19:02 pm »
A view of Boet Erasmus from LaRoche drive a day after the flood.
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« Reply #209 on: July 13, 2012, 08:33:35 pm »
Very cool pics and story. I have just come across this thread. Makes me homesick for the ocean and good life. I grew up just outside Durban and my grandparents lived on the beach, south of Durban. Keep the pics coming.
« Reply #210 on: July 14, 2012, 10:49:45 am »
The river flowing through Boet Erasmus. You can see where it exits next to the old Coloured stand, then it runs across the B-field and into Happy Valley.
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« Reply #211 on: July 14, 2012, 10:57:09 am »
1. Standing in Forest Hill again, on the same corner of Protea Ave as before, looking towards Boet Erasmus. See that Combi on the left, I saw it being rolled down the river like a matchbox.
2. Turning around and looking down Protea Ave towards EP Command again. On my previous pic thye red Ranger would havestood where you see the Fiat in the ditch.
3. Another victom of the river, found down stream by the stadium when the water subsided.
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« Reply #212 on: July 14, 2012, 11:03:25 am »
Next we going to have a look at what the river did to Happy Valley
1. Before the floods
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« Reply #213 on: July 14, 2012, 12:23:10 pm »
Daai arme ou Fiatjie! Hier in my buurt ry nog so ene rond... Jup, jy't jou vloed gehad, ek was 9 toe ek deur die groot aardbewing in die Bolands ('69) is. Het direk gelei dat ek uiteindelik geofisika studeer het...
« Reply #214 on: July 14, 2012, 12:39:03 pm »
A variety of fotos showing the river mouth at Humewood as it exits Happy Valley
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« Reply #215 on: July 14, 2012, 12:41:50 pm »
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« Reply #216 on: July 14, 2012, 12:44:05 pm »
In the last pic above you can see a bull-dozer constructing a temporary road accross the river. We could not go to school for a week.
« Reply #217 on: July 14, 2012, 12:55:57 pm »
I found lots more old newspaper pics and if you want me to post them, let me know.
Some time ago I showed you the Square in front of the City Hall and how sad it was that it got destroyed for the sake of progress.
1. Today. City Hall is behind my right shoulder
2. How it was. More or less the same view with City Hall behind the photographers left shoulder.
Sad this. As kids we used to pass the time in the garden while waiting for the bus eating cones from Sugarbush.
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« Reply #218 on: July 14, 2012, 01:23:37 pm »
What a fark-up driving through city centre nowadays. For the first time in many years I went past there last week. Almost took 20 minutes from Russel rd to old library!
« Reply #219 on: July 14, 2012, 02:08:53 pm »