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dustedmagazine · 3 years ago

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Listening Post: The Clean

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The details of the Clean’s existence are pretty well known, so let’s just sketch an outline here. In 1978, brothers Hamish and David Kilgour started playing shows around Dunedin, New Zealand with a shifting assemblage of local chums. In 1980, after a few false starts and break-ups, multi-instrumentalist Robert Scott joined the Kilgours, establishing a group that accidentally changed the face of music, both at home and around the world. Their first single, the exuberant “Tally Ho!,” cracked the country’s top ten on sales alone, despite radio’s disinterest in playing something with such amateurish production. Over the next couple years, their concerts and home-recorded EPs granted permission to a generation to local musicians as disparate as the Chills and the Dead C. And even though the band broke up (not for the last time) in 1982, that influence spread around the world. The Clean have reunited periodically to make albums and tour the globe, and while it currently seems unlikely that there will be a follow-up to their most recent LP, Mister Pop, which was released in 2009, Merge Records keeps cycling parts of their catalog back into print. The most recent reissues are duplicates of the group’s first two efforts, “Tally Ho!” and the EP Boodle Boodle Boodle.

By Bill Meyer

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Justin Cober-Lake: "Tally Ho!" is just an absolutely perfect bit of pop, but it's still sort of astonishing that these tracks (along with the Dunedin Double EP and the Chills and the Verlaines not long after) would launch an entire school (genre? subgenre?) of music. The sound — the lo-fi qualities and the jangle in particular— fits the time well, but "Anything Could Happen" with its heavy debt to the Velvet Underground hardly seems poised for a (NZ-level) music takeover. That the members scattered makes it even more surprising that the songs had the sort of staying power they did, and each artist did music with other partners that still holds up.

You could make a reductive case that it was all downhill from here, and it might be true. It's not a criticism of the later albums, but a comment on just how good these early releases are. The weirder, the better. The organ in "Tally Ho!" is indelible, and "Billy Two" lingers, the drone-y pace of "Sad Eyed Lady" has never completely worked for me, but the EP recovers with "Point That Thing Somewhere Else." Their personal strangeness there marks the way that they could take VU influence and move into somewhere their own. I'm not sure it's even fully realized, but that's part of the pleasure of it; a fulfilled hi-fi version of this cut probably wouldn't be nearly as satisfying.

Bryon Hayes: I agree with you there, Justin. My introduction to The Clean was with the Merge Anthology double-CD set back in, I think, 2003. I found myself drawn to the rougher, lo-fi recordings on the first CD (early singles and EPs) rather than the (what sounded to me) more polished full-lengths compiled on the second disc. "Point That Thing Somewhere Else" and "Oddity"— two very different songs — are my favorites.

Bill Meyer: I think that the familiarity one might experience when hearing the Clean in 2021 is, in part, a result of having lived with the Clean, people inspired by the Clean and the forces that converged to help push the Clean into being for 40-odd years. In 1981, there was nothing like “Tally Ho!” on the radio around the world, outside of John Peel’s radio show. The radio sounded like Sheena Easton, Styx and Michael Jackson, not like some kids in a garbage can combining the Velvet Underground and The Beach Boys. While kindred souls existed, such as Swell Maps and the Television Personalities, they were fairly underground. And in a pre-internet time, as I know some of here can remember, it was possible for stuff to be inaccessible in ways that are hard to imagine now. The Clean’s inspirations included some pretty classic, high profile figures — The Beach Boys and The Rolling Stones for sure — as well as figures that would become more iconic than they were at the time. Even people who liked the Velvet Underground weren’t trying to sound like them, and while some people might have dropped Syd Barrett’s name, Pink Floyd was getting hits by dropping that prog stuff and adopting disco beats and anthemic riffs.

New Zealand's isolation was pretty profound. While the place was culturally tied to England, in the late 1970s, it still took a month for music magazines to come from the UK to NZ. Punk scenes in the UK and the USA experienced a different kind of isolation; you might only get gigs in Manchester or San Francisco, but you could still get a cheap train or flight to your cultural capitol. And for music to move beyond local scenes, it was still pretty dependent on higher-level commercial entities, like Columbia Records or EMI. It wasn’t a common thing anywhere for some young guys from a backwater town to record a single for $50 (that’s $50 NZ, 1981 dollars) and sell enough copies to get into the national charts without radio play, which is what the Clean did with "Tally Ho!” Of course, this partly reflects that it didn’t really take that many sales to get a top ten record in NZ. But it also signaled a cultural moment that hadn’t really existed in that country before, and fed into a way of doing things that would become much more prevalent in the USA and Europe in the 1990s.

Jonathan Shaw: Like Andrew, I was lucky enough to hang around with a bunch of college-radio punks (the mighty WKDU in Philly). That was in 1987 and 1988, and the whole Flying Nun scene landed in my ears in a sudden clump. Tuatara and Tall Dwarfs' Hello Cruel World were heavy rotation records, on radio shows and in apartments. So, I knew about the Clean, but didn't have a sense of the narrative of NZ music, or the band's instrumental nature in it. The Bats, the Clean, Gordons, Sneaky Feelings — they were all in the same bin in my head.

I liked "Fish" and especially "Anything Could Happen" but didn't really listen to the Clean and Clean-adjacent stuff in a sustained way until the mid-1990s, when my then-girlfriend now-wife played Compilation and those terrific early-1990s Mad Scene records all the time. Even then, I didn't quite get the band's peculiar charms. I finally came around to their records about six or seven years ago, when she curated a Clean A-Z playlist for her KDU radio show. Then it was another ridiculously big clump of songs — huge slab-sized portions of the Clean playing in the house for hours. I was convinced.

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Andrew Forell: So true. A lot of the bands who outgrew NZ in those days ended up in Sydney or Melbourne as the next step away from isolation. I’m thinking Split Enz, the Swingers, Mi Sex, Dragon, all of whom were commercial successes there. In Australia, bands from, for instance Brisbane (The Go-Betweens, The Saints, Laughing Clowns) and Perth (The Triffids, The Scientists), did the same before moving to London, which was the first stop for The Birthday Party, Dead Can Dance and The Moodists among other locals we saw a lot. The Dunedin bands seemed happy to stay put which we found odd but I guess it was formative for that distinct sensibility.

NME and later the initial runs of The Face were our Bibles. Also, older friends, musicians we knew or saw regularly, record shop guys & RRR deejays who turned you on to NYC bands, English post-punk and early stuff like VU, Modern Lovers etc. I had a group of friends at Uni & in shared houses, and we’d see bands sometimes three or four nights a week and hang out at record stores listening and buy one or two records each which we taped and shared. I was trying to remember if we ever saw The Clean in those days and was surprised to find out they only toured Australia twice back in the day so I’m guessing not.

In the pre-internet days, you had to dig a little, and that was the great thing about finding and sharing discoveries. And being part of those subculture groups was a big part of our identities especially in the early 1980s when we were dragging our thrift shop black clad, weirdly coiffed selves around sunny Melbourne to the general apathy and occasional derision of our peers and elders. In any case, the Flying Nun bands certainly struck a chord with us and our sense of being an enclave of difference, looking to London, Manchester, Liverpool, NYC which we imagined were havens of taste while also believing the local scene we loved was on a par with those places. I think that sense of a “family of choice” based around music was a vital component in shaping the scenes outside the traditional big music centers and The Clean were exemplars of a DIY ethos that is a big part of their legacy and influence.

Jennifer Kelly: I've been listening to this over the Christmas break again, and really loving it. Unlike a lot of you, I came to the Clean backwards, via David Kilgour's solo albums, beginning with Frozen Orange (Feather in the Engine is one of my all-time favorite albums), and I was delighted at the time (early aughts when I got seriously into writing about music) to find out how rowdy and rough-edged it was compared to the solo stuff.

I'm intrigued by the way these cuts shift from really brash, primitive, organ-jamming garage tunes to a dronier, more driving, psychedelic kind of thing ("Scrap Music," for instance.) I've been reading some interviews, though, and it sounds like there was very little premeditation going on in developing the sound.

Chris Liberato: Totally, Jenny. I’ve been thinking about the mix of sounds on these records too. It must have been an awesome experience in 1981 to buy Boodle Boodle Boodle and hear a big psychedelic monster like “Point That Things Somewhere Else” after the “Tally Ho” single!

Getaway (2001) was my introduction to the band, which I find to be a really sunny-sounding and listenable album in the best way. It has its share of weird moments and a handful of song sketches mixed in, but nothing that's very disruptive to its flow. Then I picked up the Slush Fund tour disc a few months later (Other Music Cambridge had copies, I didn’t see the band in concert until 2012), and it really blew my mind. The live version of “Fish” on there is wild and wavy, and “Point That Thing Somewhere Else” is great too and played on piano instead of guitar, giving it a very different vibe from the Boodle version. I mention it because I think the band’s range — both from song to song, and from the records to the live setting — is something that really sets them apart from other groups.

But back to "Tally Ho." Our talk about these releases re-stoked my curiosity about what the phrase "Tally Ho" means in the context of the song. Which meaning of the word is it referring to and why? A huntsman’s cry? A simple hello or goodbye? Surely not a reference to the open-topped carriage. Searching around this time, I found this post from David Kilgour on the Audioculture site where he explains it. And it seems that my confusion was apt because it’s a song about… confusion. He said he wrote the lyrics at breakfast the morning of recording while he was still shaking off the effects of a bad acid trip from a couple of days prior, and he was confused and wanting to connect.

Bill Meyer: Andrew, part of what separated the Clean and other Flying Nun bands at the time was their disinclination to follow either the local “pay your dues” track or the well-worn path to Australia’s bar circuit. Chris Knox probably had a lot to do with that. Toy Love went to Australia, and had a terrible time; the experience pretty much broke the band. Tall Dwarfs was kind of a start-over, discarding everything that ground Toy Love down. Established studios and engineers, major labels and heavy touring before audiences that don’t already know the band were all out. Instead, the early Flying Nun bands started in the towns where they were based, spread out to university audiences, and (at least in the case of the Clean) the rest of the country.

In the recent Chills movie, Graeme Downes of the Verlaines describes the difference between the early Flying Nun bands and what had come before. Basically, they started writing their own songs right away, and recorded as soon as they could, rather than play for a few years, build up their chops and pay their dues. Even when the sound wasn’t very punk, the attitude was, and the practice was more punk than most punk rock. At any rate, no one was looking to Sandy Pearlman or Dennis Bovell to produce their sessions.

And Jen, It’s a rare day that could not be made better by adding a listen to Feather in the Engine.

The Clean had actually been experimenting with recording in 1980, which was the year before they started making records. They had a two track machine available in rehearsals for a while. Some of the music they recorded that way ended up on the Odditties tape (which was reissued decades later as a double LP). The songs that were done first that way didn’t change a huge amount later, except that the Boodle Boodle Boodle version of “Sad Eyed Lady” is less stoned, goofy, and long. The stuff that made it onto their two singles and two LPs was all recorded between July 1981 and the end of 1982, which is when they broke up.

And finally, Chris, for a little insight into what David might have sounded like either just before or while he was on acid, listen to “Platypus” and “Odditty.” Both of them were recorded live at the Gladstone in Christchurch on July 4, 1981. "Tally Ho!” Was recorded July 6-7 at Nightshift Studios, Christchurch. I bet that July 5 was quite a day.

I think that the Clean’s recordings were widely considered by fans at the time to be quite swell, but nowhere near what the Clean sounded like live. David Kilgour was using cheap, locally amps and not so great guitars, turned up as loud as they could possibly go. The people I’ve talked to who saw the Clean in the early 1980s said that it was like hearing airplanes taking off, or three guitars going at once; it was way too big a sound to capture on a four track. It was very trebly. The closest one might get to hearing what it was like would be the live tracks at the end of the CD version of Compilation, a Clean comp that was put together in the late 1980s. The version of Point That Thing on there was recorded onto a cassette, but you can still kind of hear the sound bouncing around the room.

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In this interview with Nightshift proprietor Arnie van Bussel (which still exists in a small building behind his house in Christchurch), there is some information about the recording of Tally Ho:

“Kilgour says Tally Ho cost $50 to make. He doesn't want to quibble but van Bussel thinks it was actually $48. "It was done using cheap mics, very quickly one evening," says van Bussel. "I charged $10 an hour.” “Those are New Zealand dollars, by the way, which even then were worth less than American dollars.”

Jonathan Shaw: It was the stoned quality (stoned is the better word here, not psychedelic) of some of the songs that hit me right back in the day — also of some of Tall Dwarfs' stuff, like "Crush" or "Pictures on the Floor." Don't do any of that sort of stuff anymore, but I still gravitate toward the slower and more distorted tunes. "End of My Dream" has an unmistakably NZ rock vibe to me, an off-the-cuff genius that's less studied in its slackness than the songs that everyone went nuts for when Pavement put out Slanted and Enchanted. Or "Do Your Thing," which glistens like a flattened beer can in the sun.

Bill Meyer: You can’t underestimate the influence of the Clean on early Pavement; if the Compilation LP and the Swell Maps reissues hadn’t happened, I don’t think that Pavement as we know it ever would have existed.

Bryon Hayes: I don’t have any direct evidence in interviews or what-have-you, but I was thinking that the Clean had an influence on Yo La Tengo as well. The vibe on Electr-o-Pura reminds me of “Point That Thing Somewhere Else.”

Andrew Forell: Yes, that rings true and I think it was the feeling those bands were just doing their thing without much care for the rest of the (industry) world that made them so compelling. Seeing the odd film clip — “Anything Could Happen” for instance — reinforced the impression. And it was the sound of the music as much as the songs that really caught the ear. Not so much that they sounded “cheap” or “homemade” but that the energy hadn’t been dampened or destroyed by the production which was the case with some of the local bands in Melbourne whose early records were nowhere near as powerful as their live shows either having been cleaned up to make them more palatable (Door, Door) or simply flattened into oblivion (Dead Can Dance).

Jonathan Shaw: I don't know any of the biographical details, so I don't know what sort of money the Kilgours had, or didn't have. And I like the idea of their sound being more lived-in than thought-of, anyways. But the use of cheap instruments and production equipment seems to provide a sort of end-run on "cleaning up" the songs for records. The weird throbbing and trebly vibrations in "Platypus" are nearly as interesting as the riff, and just about as effective. Clean that stuff out and the record isn't the same record. If those were intentional decisions, they were well made. Almost even better if the records just happened that way.

Jennifer Kelly: Bill’s comment about the live show sounding like three airplanes taking off had me trolling YouTube for videos, where I found this.

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Bryon Hayes: Oh wow, that is bombastic! It really underlines the point that the Clean’s live sound was too big to be done justice by a four-track recorder. I also like that in the comments of the video, the person says that the Clean took the audience down “a roller coaster of treble nostalgia” — it’s an apt description, for sure. And they made an audience member faint; I’ve only ever seen Mogwai do that before (in person).

Bill Meyer: By the time they were in their teens, I believe that the Kilgours lived in a single parent household. Their mom was very supportive. I think she worked as a nurse. I interviewed the band in 1995 at her kitchen table, and got my hand stuck in the cookie jar that she put out, to the amusement of the band.

There has been a very strong connection with Yo La Tengo since the 1980s. YLT has toured with the Clean and with David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights, jammed onstage with all of them at various times, and recruited David Kilgour as a member of the 2020 Yo La Tengo big band that toured in support of And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out. Georgia Hubley also played guitar in a later version of the Mad Scene, which was Hamish’s band with his (now ex)-wife, Lisa Siegel.

Jennifer Kelly: That’s right. I had tickets to Kilgore/YLT years ago but he bagged out, can’t remember why.

Bill Meyer: A bit of trivia: Kilgour is pronounced kilGOUR, rhymes with hour.

Jennifer Kelly: That will help with the limerick portion of this.

Here’s another vintage live clip.

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Jonathan Shaw: Man oh man, that Rumba Bar footage is just about enough to bring a tear to the eye. What a shitty, shitty decade, and what superb music emerged from it — likely in proportion to the shittiness. I wonder about songs like "Too Much Violence," and where the impulse to turn up so loud came from. Being young, sure, but our current imaginary of NZ seems very much to figure it as a sane place, where nukes aren't welcome and COVID is met with deadly serious policy and public action. Peter Jackson's early films seem to suggest the place was pretty buttoned up in the 1980s. The scene at Rumba Bar has a sweetness to it. But some of the songs are full of angst.

Jennifer Kelly: There was a bit in the Chills documentary about how Dunedin Harbor is sort of a bowl where weather gets trapped...and could be very oppressive and closed-in feeling, FWIW. I always picture NZ as being breathtakingly beautiful and green, but Dunedin is apparently not so much like that.

Bill Meyer: Jonathan, a couple songs you have referenced (“Too Much Violence” and “Do Your Thing”) are from Modern Rock, the album that they recorded in 1994.

From a distance, New Zealand seems sane, but it’s like the rest of the world, good mixed with bad, racial tensions, class tensions, etc. The music we like was generated mainly by fringy types, not mainstream folks. They first wave Flying Nun types would have been people on the anti- side of the Springbok protests in the southern winter of 1981. The Springboks were South Africa’s rugby team, and rugby is New Zealand’s biggest national sport. The country was severely divided between people who advocated a boycott as a means of challenging repression and racism, which the country was just beginning to reckon with, and people who said lined up more pro-commonwealth, pro-rugby, and small town values. There were fights outside the games, with people in light airplanes dropping smoke bombs into the fray, and a couple games was canceled due to concerns about the violence. The fall-out from the 1981 conflict was that in 1984, a landslide win for Labor ushered in the anti-nuke stance and a lot of progress on social issues.

Another thing to keep in mind is that the people starting college bands in the early 1980s would have been the last to have a memory of the effects of six o’clock pub closing. From WW I until 1967, New Zealand had a law mandating that pubs closed at six PM. The outcome was that a lot of guys finished their work shift, piled into pubs for an hour and slammed down as many drinks as they could, then came home drunk, with a consequent level of domestic violence. When I visited in the 1990s, the people who told me about the six o’clock closing related their memories with a PTSD-level shudder.

On a lighter note, what I know about the Kilgour brothers’ youth is that they were big into music and surfing. David still surfs to this day, I believe. Robert Scott, the third member, grew up in a farming community near the Taieri river south of Dunedin.

Jen, a lot of New Zealand is quite gorgeous. The whole world knows the foothills of the Southern Alps, on the South Island, because of the Lord of the Rings movies. The whole country is the product of volcanic activity, with mountains, gorges, old growth forests, and big expanses of pastureland. Because it’s an island nation, you can drive through a few drastically different weather conditions in the same day. Starting up north above Auckland, it’s semi-tropical. The further south you go, the colder the climate, and the sparser and more European-descended the population. Dunedin is nice in the summer when I was there. But I gather that in the winter it is cold, dark and wet, and since most of the country’s housing stock doesn’t have central heating, it’s hard to ever get warm. I guess it’s a bit like San Francisco without furnaces. People don’t wear those heavy wool sweaters for fashion’s sake.

Jonathan Shaw: Thanks for the bits of social history, Bill. I knew a little about the rugby riots, but didn't put them in context of NZ's scale; they must have been significant in their destabilizations of standards of public conduct. "Anything Could Happen" is sort of interesting to think about — the desire for something, for anything, to happen, and the strangeness that follows. I think that's part of what strikes me about the video footage from the Rumba Club. The kids are clearly having a good time, dancing, but they make space for one another. It's all rather polite — I don't say that with a stink on it. Just a culture's sensibility expressing itself even at its fringes.

The video for "Anything Could Happen" is pretty great. Looks to me like David K is dressed up like Bob Dylan c. 1965, the dandy troublemaker. The shots of them goofing around in Dunedin are even better. They seem to be provoking response, longing for something to happen.

Bill Meyer: If memory serves, the lyric to "Anything Could Happen” was written by Hamish Kilgour after he had a chat with an uncle about what to do with his life.

Ian Mathers: Coming in as maybe the only one here who's being introduced to the Clean by this exercise (I'm absolutely sure I've heard at least some bits and pieces before, while watching the Flying Nun documentary if nowhere else), I was definitely repeatedly struck by what Bill referred to, the way in the years since an awful lot of other bands have tried to sound at least a little like the Clean. I can hear the Pavement and YLT others mention for sure, but in terms of the singing not only did I have to keep reminding myself Robert Forster isn't in this band, I also kept hearing bits of Sonic Boom and early Thom Yorke. But in both cases really just in vocal timbre/performance, not so much lyrics or songwriting.

I think largely I'm still where Jonathan was some years ago — it all sounds good to me, but I think it would take some pretty determined and focused listening to get things to really pop into focus (lo fi stuff can still be in focus!). Weirdly enough my early gateway seems to be "Getting Older" — I really love the trumpet on that one.

Jonathan Shaw: It's a great song, Ian. And it sure resonates a bit differently with me now, in 2021, than it did in the late 1980s. "Getting Older," indeed.

That noted, the songs on Anthology are still so interesting and engaging to listen to. The freshness of their sound somehow preserves itself. "Lo-fi" wasn't schtick.

Bill Meyer: The recording technology, whether lo-fi or hi-fi, was never the point.

Justin Cober-Lake: I wonder if someone more knowledgeable than I am can talk this question through? It seems to me that their trebly sound is more emphasized by the lo-fi technology. This wouldn't have to be true (you could certainly produce a trebly tone in a state-of-the-art studio), but it seems like a nice confluence of sound, technology, and attitude, with each part of that trio amplifying the other.

Bill Meyer: I think that the two and four-track reel to reel machines they used for everything except “Tally Ho!” would necessarily fail to capture a lot of frequencies, and probably more bass frequencies than treble frequencies were lost. But they would also fail to capture the full-spectrum impact of a live band. The Clean live in 1982 were really loud. The recordings are enduringly marvelous, but they are their own thing, and no one I talked to who saw them at the time thought that the recordings captured what was great about the band’s concerts.

Chris Liberato: Since we’re talking about how loud the band is, one thing that I didn’t fully appreciate until I caught The Clean live is how hard Hamish hits his drums. And also, how much his (kind of unpredictable and very active) style is responsible for adding tension to the songs. Here’s a clip from the show I saw (in 2012 in Boston) where you should be able to get a pretty good idea of these things, especially towards the end. He really drove the band energy-wise that night, much more than Robert or David, who was in subdued, sunglasses-and-headband Dick Dale mode.

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In any case, it was a very different Hamish than the one I saw play with The Mad Scene in Philly a few years earlier. That night he played the entire set slumped down against one of the poles on the stage, strumming his guitar and singing, while the rest of the band stood up.

There's also an interview with David in a recent issue of Maggot Brain where he says that the secret to getting The Clean's drum sound is to "get a drummer that can hit the shit out of his kit."

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kickmag · 4 years ago

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Throwback: Shalamar-This Is For The Lover In You

Shalamar's reputation as exclusive makers of party music was challenged in 1980 with the release of "This Is For The Lover In You." The group was known for their feel-good songs like "Take That To The Bank," "Uptown Festival, " "Right In The Socket" and "Second Time Around." As the brainchild of SOLAR Records founder and Soul Train booking agent Dick Griffey and Soul Train's creator Don Cornelius, Shalamar was originally intended to make dance music. Group member Howard Hewett and songwriter Dana Meyers co-wrote "This Is For The Lover In You" which revealed Shalamar's ability to deliver a ballad. Three For Love was their fourth album and was seen as the highest point in their creativity. "Make That Move" was the leading hit single from the album but "This Is For The Lover In You" became a "wedding song" and would be Shalamar's entry into subsequent generations. Babyface made his own version in 1996 and got the classic lineup of Hewett, Jody Watley and Jeffrey Daniel on it with LL Cool J. They all performed the song together that year on the UK's Top of The Pops. Shalamar recorded 10 albums collectively with various members before breaking up in 1990. Jody Watley left the group and went solo and became a Grammy-winning pop star before the decade was over. Howard Hewett disbanded from Shalamar to become a platinum-selling R&B singer. Jeffrey Daniel taught Michael Jackson how to moonwalk and worked as a choreographer with Vanessa Williams, Sheena Easton, Paul McCartney and more. He became a judge for Nigerian Idol in 2010. Hewett, Daniel and Griffey's daughter Carolyn still tour as Shalamar.

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#shalamar #jody watley #jeffrey daniel #howard hewett

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trouserweasel · 5 years ago

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smilelikeyouneedit replied to your post “what’s everyone’s Meyers-Briggs personality type?”

I’m INFP as well!

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annelapedusbrest-blog · 6 years ago

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MY MEMORIES OF JOHANNESBURG - City of GOLD.

article published 4 Feb 2009. Written and compiled by Anne Lapedus Brest.

MEMORIES OF JOHANNESBURG, CITY OF GOLD

Written and Compiled By

On the 4th February 1961, when I was 14 years old, and my brother Robert was 11, our family came to live in Johannesburg.

We had left Ireland, land of our birth, leaving behind our beloved Grandparents, family, friends, and a very special and never-to-be-forgotten little furry friend, to start a new life in South Africa, land of Sunshine and Golden opportunity…………… The Goldeneh Medina…...

We came out on the “Edinburgh Castle”, arriving Cape Town 2nd Feb 1961. We did a day tour of Chapmans Peak Drive, Muizenberg, went to somewhere called the “Red Sails” and visited our Sakinofsky/Yodaiken family in Tamboerskloof.

We arrived at Park Station (4th Feb 1961), Jhb, hot and dishevelled after a nightmarish train ride, breaking down in De Aar and dying of heat.

We lived in Becker Street, Yeoville, Robert went to K.E.S and I went to Barnato Park (aka Johannesburg Girls’ High) in Berea. Robert was in Cadets , I played hockey, and bunked school (with Gilda Goldblatt!!) Our next-door neighbours were Michael and Sandra Golding, Zena and Teddy Cohen lived in Becker Street also and Ronnie and Nigel Baskin lived in Yeo Street near the Richters - Selma and Charles Richter,.

Girls at Barnato Park lived in mainly Hillbrow, Berea, Yeoville, Bellevue, Houghton, Orchards, Melrose and Dunkeld. After school, many of us would catch the 19 bus from Tudhope Avenue Berea to Raleigh Street, Yeoville, but many girls were collected by beautifully coiffed and bee-hived mothers with long painted nails, arriving to collect them in huge fancy Chevrolets, with big cats’ eye tail-lights.

ONLY IN SOUTH AFRICA …………………………….

Oy, but I had to get used to so many new expressions ……..

“ See you this arvy, Hey? “ and “See you just now, Annie” (I learnt the hard way that “Just Now” didn’t mean immediately)

“There’s the new girl in Form 3, …….. Shame!!” “My sister’s baby is so cute, …… Shame!

People would give me directions and tell me to turn at the robot.

Can I Lend your book?

Whatever I said, the girls would answer “Is it” ?

The shul is full of KUGELS……………….

Why did the bus-conductor call us all “Donkey” when he collected our tickets???? “Thank you,… Donkey” and the Klippies would say it in a high-pitched voice. “Thank you, donkeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyy”

You MUST come visit this arvy, see? You MUST go and see Cliff Richard at the Collosseum. You MUST buy the latest Elvis Presley record. MUST, MUST, MUST (only in South Africa! Say that “MUST” to people overseas, they think you are a control-freak). (took me a while to get used to it!!)

G.C. EMMMMM

Girls would talk about great talent at a party, and they talked about Chracks , boys talked about “good stock” .

It’s a blerry gemors!! Stoep. Goeie Môre , Lekker Bly,

My skat. Klop Dissel Boom gaan! Klappies. Lappies.

Wag ‘n bietjie. I’m Gatvol !!!! Deurmekaar.

Yislaaik! Herrrrrrre ! (Yurrah) Magtig!! …..Maggggggtigggggg !!! Vragtig! …….Vragggggtigggggg !!!!!!

Where’s the jol tonight, hey? Do youse know?

Don’t tune me kak, hey? Ag! Yes no fine. Stovies. He’s fab - such a doll !!!, He thinks he’s such a big Bok. It’s not so lekker.

Howzzit, my China. I smaak you.

Don’t chaaf my cherry, hey! Don’t grip my cherry…

Who do you think you’re looking at, China?

Don’t tune me grief, ek sê. Voetsak! Sies! Ag! Siestog, Jong!

My bike is buggered.

Bugger off !

He donnered her.

She Bliksemed him

They Revolting!

Sommer so …………………..

Don’t talk to them, they are all such Rubbishes.

Stiffies.

It’s Kwaai……..

Well, yes , no fine, Those were the days my friend we thought they’d never end …...

SUBURBS

In those days a majority of the Jewish community seemed to be living in Hillbrow, Berea, Bellevue, Yeoville , Cyrildene, Observatory, Dewetshof, Judith’s Paarl, Highlands North, Houghton, Dunkeld, Melrose, Hyde Park.

Suburbs where a lot of Jews also lived were Kensington, Emmarentia, Greenside, Doornfontein, Mayfair. Remember Fordsburg (Fitas). Also a Jewish area once upon a time.

Robert and I went to Yeoville Chader (The Bernard Patley), - Mr. SHATCHAN was the headmaster, and teachers I remember were Miss AARONS (Bella Golubchick) , Mr. Solly GOLDBERG, Rev. HIMMELSTEIN, and the Shammas was a Mr. CHAZEN (His daughters, Gertie and Hannah both went to Barnato park) and Mrs. MAGID

Chader Children I can remember the names of some of the “ Chader children”. Colin Koransky, Dorian Hersch (Shear), Terroll Hersch (Z”l), Gilda Goldblatt (Galvad), Brenda Goldblatt (Spitz) (O”h) Frances Taylor, and her older sister, Sharon (now in Israel), Carmella Shapiro, Marsha Furman, Gerald Pokroy, Philip Eliason, Harry Sacks, Alan Kaye, Susan Kaye, Dorothy Lewis, Harry Sacks, Philip Sacks, Ada Freedman, Ilanah Himmelstein, Julian (Julie) Kaplan, Meyer Kaplan, Brian (now in Oz) and his sister Jewel Rosenthal, Eugene Klatzko, Martin Chaitowitz, Hymie Symanowitz(Z”l), Ruth Seeff, Sandra Katzen (Pokroy) Robert Hershfield, Mervyn Gerszt, Bernard Kromelick, Derek Hammerschlag (I think that was his name) Wolfie Tepper, Marlene Tepper, Stanley Chitiz, Manny Magid, Melanie & Beverley Segal.

I must have been a real “chrack” in those days, coming from Ireland, funny clothes, and even funnier out-of-control curly hair, and an accent nobody could understand. I found it hard to make friends, but I eventually palled up with Gilda Goldblatt (now Galvad) , (daughter of Leslie (Z”l) and Mona Voloshen Goldblatt (O”h), from Webb Street. Leslie (Z”l) was a Choirester in Wolmarans Street Shul) and Gilda and I have remained friends to this day.

Girls at Barnato Park whom I remember offhand, Pam Ginsberg (Melzter) Pam Gladstone (Nathan), Denise Seeff, Ruth Seeff, Susan Simon, Molly Robinson, Rhona Shroder (aka Rhondie Shrondie) (Ullman) , Phyliss Goldblatt (Rubin), Geraldine Blumberg, Debbie Rabinowitz, Jacqui Hotz, Sharon Rafel (Rubin), Leah Smith, Ann Kaiser, Ann Moscow, Barbara Diane Levy, Barbara Levy, Lynette and Jennifer Margolis, Carol and Margaret Kowalsky , Gloria (Gola) Levine (Ash), Gilda and Brenda Goldblatt, Eugene Klatzko, , René Mazelle, Jill Gonski, Felicity Nathanson, Avril Kaye, Jackie Susman (Woolf) (her sisters Helen and Andy went to Athlone) . Pam Kohn, Lydia Burstein, Ada Folb, Sharon Cooperman (Fehrer) Beryl Andrews, Heather Round (Levy), Joan Gracie, Merriel Pratt, Hilda and Charlotte Brinkman, Ann Mullins, Susan Simon, Doreen Simon, Marilyn Silansky, Carole Silansky (Sands) Verite Hirshowitz, Ruth Samuel (Segal), Vivien Alexander, Renée Kunz, Lorraine Goldberg, Marilyn Silansky and her sister Carol Silansky, , Yvonne Shochet, Janet King, Pam Kewley, Adah Ben Yehuda, Roslyn Abramovitz, Joan Cooper, Bernice Frid (Vunck), Suzanne Lutrin (Resnick) (O”h), Helen Rothschild, Joyce Tischauer, Helen Leftin, Maureen Nagel (Ruskin), Gabriella Albrecht, Sharon Smith (Munitz), Pam Levy, Deborah-Ann Fanaroff, Jacky Centner (Cannon), Lydia Burstein, Ronelle Shepherd, Cynthia Muller, Marsha Sosnovick, (Jansen) Karen Israelsohn, Joan David (Elkon), Sheina & BatSheva Romm, Lorraine Nussbaum (Silver), Susan Hommell, Kela Saltzer , Barbara Beira, Shoshanna Kaplan (Kaplan) , Myrna Katz, Isobel Strasbourg (Mehl) , Isobel Thomson, Vivienne Lee, Meryl Michaelmore, Vivienne Fritz, (Head Girl) Patsy Coetzee, (Vice Head Girl) Philla Moller, Gillian Coleman, Sheena Haarhof, Glen Marshall, Naomi Tabachowich, Ailsa Bowley, Sheena Hayworth, And some girls from Mrs. Oppenheimers extra Afrikaans lessons class were, Vasiliky someone from Greece, Daria someone from Italy, Jean Smith (?) from Rhodesia, Jacqueline someone from England, Marilyn Patricia Myers from England, and teachers, Miss Todd, Roberta Evans, Miss Cohen (later Mrs. Gevisser), Miss Miles with DOG - George, Miss Langley (head), Miss Rosewarne, Miss Walmsely , Miss Hodkin, Miss Jones (Vice Head), Miss Horn, Miss Dankwerths, Miss Martin, (later Mrs. Gold), Mrs Morrison, and one or two Barnato Park Dogs, who came along to school with teachers. I think Miss Evans had a little Muttie trouping along next to her?

SCHOOLS Athlone Girls , Athlone Boys, Waverly girls, Highland’s North, Parktown Girls and Parktown Boys, Northview, Greenside High, King David Linksfield (King David Victory Park was to follow later on) Yeshiva College, Rodean, Brescia House, St. Vincents (for the hard of hearing). Helpmekaar, Damelin College, Yale College (Marcus (Marky) Luntz) , Regis College, Princeton College. Yeoville Boys, Observatory Girls, , Hyde Park, The Tech. K.E.S (King Edward School), St. Johns, Redhill, St. Stithians, Marist brothers, Yeoville Convent, Hirsch Lyons, Yiddish folk, Jeppe Boys, Jeppe Girls. H.A Jack, Jewish Government.

SCHOOL UNIFORMS. Mc Cullogh @ Bothwell.

Remember Yeoville? The Yeoville Post Office in Raleigh Street, C.N.A, the Picadilly Bioscope the Bug House (Oi) next door to Yeoville Home Industries (owned by Simon and Leah Kaufman), Kenmere Pharmacy (owned by the Marams) (next to the fruit shop in Kenmere Rd) and Yeoville Pharmacy (owned by the Joffes) (diagonally opposite the Yeoville Baths in Raleigh St.,) Yeoville Fruit and Flowers (Jorge aka George), Hill Fisheries, Crystals, Yeoville Baths, (and a swimming coach there called Bernard Green) and the Apollo Café across the road where they played pinball and the ducktails always hung around there with their chains, and motor bikes, all the Brekers. Theo Hommel (fabrics), Fitz Bakery where the OK Bazaars in Yeoville built their new shop, corner Raleigh and Bedford, diagonally opposite the Yeoville Library. And opposite where the 19 bus went into Berea and town), Hub Stores, Emdins – Haberdashery – (one or two shops down from the Apollo Café,) Denbo Jewish Bookstore, Scotch Corner! Billy’s Hairdresser in Rockey Street (near Raymond St) Faigels and the Dae-nite Pharmacy Rockey Street, cor. Bezuidenhout, Squires (clothing, school uniforms/shoes)

Portuguese Fish and Chip shop in Rockey Street, all the Tailor shops going down into Rockey Street, and Jekisons Tailors, and a guy called Bokkie Jekison who was the Tailor there (great looking bloke, with a great looking brother, I think his name was Eugene) both so easy on the eye!). Bokkie recently told someone that on the 7th April he will have been at the shop for 55 years California Tailors, and the Yeoville Recreation Center in Raleigh St, where Sandra Stein won the “Miss Yeoville” competition in about 1962 .(Bokkie Jekison died before the 7th April, suddenly, whilst out on a walk)

Water Polo at the Yeoville Baths. Richard LEE was a water-polo player, he lived in Yeo Street, Yeoville, I think. Had a brother Eric LEE. They were Highlands North school boys. Lionel GILINSKY, another water-polo player.

And does anyone remember the Purdy Boys, Neville and Leonard?

Some MORE of the YEOVILLE, CYRILDENE, OBSERVATORY people …… Jeff Wittles , Linda Shapiro, Rex Schwartz, Sharon Schwartz , Ivan Sabbath, Arnold Messias, Ivan Sandler, Louise Lazersohn , Barry Sacks, Barry Bloch, Barry Black, Michael Walldorf (Vorsie), Sonia Barsol, Gerald (Jake) Fox (Z”l) Jonny Grossmark, Vivian Stillerman, Charmian Clayton, Max Gur, Ruth Margolis, Elaine Margolis, Heather Garrun, Yvette, Esther & Naomi Sofer. Sharna & Nadja Isaacs (aka Lerman), Colin Opwald, Frances Siegenberg, Nicky & Costa Kapitanopoulos, Alfie Wood and his sister Margie Wood (now Horn), Locky Lockstone, Shirley Shtub (probably Sztab), Reuel Kaplan, Geoff (Geoffrey) Landsman (Z”l) , Reina Cohen (O’h), Sandra Stein (Ezra) , Nola Stein (Fox), Charmion Clayton, Ivor Cohen, Sandra Deitz , Spencer Hodgson, Heather Garrun, Linda Chitiz or Chitters , Marlene Teper, Leonard Kahn & his sister Maureen Kahn. (now Puterman) Maureen and her husband were one of the first people to move into a new block of flats called “La Contessa”, in Yeo & Bedford St. Yeoville) Arnie Jones, Jennifer Jones, Bernard James, Abel de Freitas, Sandra Tucker. The Griffith Girls (Virg, Bernice (Bunny) and Diane –still great friends of mine) and their brother Cedric) The Matthews Girls Hazel, and Norma, there were more sisters but I can’t remember the names) .

GREENSIDE/EMMARENTIA People, - Clifford Price, Howard Price, Brian Ruskin, and I think Barry Pillemar , Suzie & Gaby Henshel, (de Groen), June and Yalta Gervis, Suzanne & Linda Myers, Aubrey Gamsu Ada Gamsu, Maurice Hockman, Margo and Peter Philips,

HOUGHTON people. Michael, Brian & Jennifer Lever, Molly Robinson, Harry & Philip Sacks, Sharon Smith (Munitz)

HIGHLANDS NORTH People. - Brian, Stanley & Karen Feinstein (Joseph), Max Schiff (O”h)

WHO REMEMBERS - Hymie Brest, (Mayfair/ Kensington) and his friend (to this day) Alec Ross (Bez Valley). Certainly part of the “Main Manne” crowd.

ONLY IN SOUTH AFRICA …………………………………

Where’re you okes jolling to? Jollers. Lekker Jol.

Where are your folks tonight.

Volkspeeler. The Sakkie sakkie

I’m only chaafing, man? Sweet Obeet.!! Lekker soos ‘n krekker (cracker)

Wat ‘s goedkoop is duur koop. Stille water – Diepe grond,

Eina! Skyfies. Veldskoene. Breekers.

Don’t tune me Chandies

Check that little lightie, he’s two bricks and a tickey high

Ever since Pa fell off the bus.

Give me a bell, hey? Bell me. Love you stax. I’ll fetch you just now

African women sitting on the street corners calling out HEY Mielieeeeee - Tickey Mielieeeeeeeee.

Vrystaat!

Vat hom Fluffy.

I’ve got Sut.

They’re so larnie!

My ou’ man is giving me uphill

My Skattebol.

I feel up to Paw-Paw. I feel up to Maggots.

‘Strue’s Bob…?? No….. You LIE !!!

SHOT !!!!!!!! (SHOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT)

Skit ‘n donner (donder) (the movies)

And Observatory café where boys played pinball and they had ‘Pennyline Sweets’ where you could buy 2 for a penny and cafés had Jukeboxes . Remember the old 78 records (those were in the fifties though) and then the LPs - wow, and when those came out we thought we’d died and gone to Heaven, and the 45 speed records. Cassettes, and tape recorders, reel-to-reel tape-recorders (I still have one).

Boys had a way of walking, hands in pockets, only the thumbs visable and rolled from side to side with a sort of rolling gait, and the more they rolled as they walked, the more macho they felt!

Who remembers ????…… Debras (Schmaltz), and when a tub of Yoghurt cost 8c, and an Appleltizer cost the same, a bar of Cadburys chocolate cost 5c and there was a chocolate bar called “Honeycrisp” also for 5c, and you could get a Toasted Cheese for 15c. Stamps cost 2½ cents . If you left the envelope open, it was cheaper… Airletter forms in green, airmail writing paper, airmail envelopes and Basildon Bond writing paper.

STREETS in Yeoville/ Bellevue, - Raleigh St, Rockey St, Bezuidenhout St., Isipingo St., Raymond St , Hopkins St, Yeo St, Kenmere Rd, Fortèsque Rd, Becker St, Cavendish Rd, Bedford Rd, Webb St, Natal St, Isipingo, St. Georges Rd, Ellis St.,

YEOVILLE BOXING CLUB - Sammy Samson and his son Cedric who sang as a child, and he had a group at some stage called “the FireFlies” I think Alan Goldstein who was also a child singer may well have been part of that band ( later known as Alan Gold) .

How many people remember……. The Black Steer in Yeoville - fab apple crumble and double thick cream and in the 1960s the price of a Steerburger, with Pickled Cucumber, fried onions and salad was 45c ……….but at the Golden Spur, the Burger would cost you 50c and the Yeoville crowd felt that was too expensive!) Norman’s Grill (for Prawns!) in the Jeppe Hotel. East Africa Pavilion (well known for it’s curries, where the waiters wore a red “fez”, The 252 Tavern. His Majesty’s Cellars, 69 Grill.

and Kosher - Connoisseur Hotel,(Gloria Rootshtain) (long gone)

And remember- The Rosenkowitz 6 from Cape Town, first surviving Sextuplets in the World

And when Arcadia (Jewish Orphanage and Home for Jewish children) was in Forestown

DAENITE Pharmacy, Orange Grove. Owned by Chookie BRENNER . and the okes that worked there, Mervin Rappoport, Issy Peimer, Cecil Chweidan (O”h), Ivan Dorff, Solly Branstein, and a girl called Lola but I can’t remember her surname. And Dr. Chris Barnard, (Heart Transplants Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town)

And the …… the motor racing at Kyalami Race Track

And the Motor Rallys?. Anyone remember Lionel Gilinsky? He raced something called “Production cars” in “Endurance Races” at Old Grand Central Circuit ( Halfway House, now called Midrand) in the late 60’s and 70’s - and later “Historic” Cars at Kyalami Race Track. He was known to be amongst South Africa’s Top 3 Racing and Motor rally drivers in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. Not bad for a boy from Welkom!!

Attorneys. - Moss Morris & Ettlinger, (Lennie Ettlinger, Max Levenberg, Selwyn Cohen, Hilliard Gordon, articled clerks then - Rodney Berman and John Gilbert, Also a Selwyn someone articled clerk). Routlege Douglas Wilson Auret & Wimble, Wides , Chain & Berman (Cyril Wides, Inky (Ian) Chain and Rodney Berman), Edward Nathan. Israel, During & Kossuth

Tour Operators - Springbok (Atlas) Safaris, (Julie Lapedus).

Accountants. Sussman and Lange (Trevor Sussman and David Lange) (cousin of Myron Lange, the Surgeon) later known as Sussman Goddard.

HILLBROW. We always went to The Curzon and Clarendon for 7/6- , ( later 75c,) and then a Bioscope called the International (owned by Herman and Maxwell Youngelson) was opened at the top of Pretoria Street and there it would cost you between 90c and R1.00, but the seats were so comfy and the whole bioscope was so plush, that the Yeovillites felt it was well worth the extra.

Anyone remember The French Hairdressing Saloon (a Mrs. Sher was the manageress) and the OK Bazaars and Carnival Novelty.

ONLY IN SOUTH AFRICA ………………………….

I’m going for a goof this arvy. ‘Scopes, Flicks, Flik, What’s the “Aggie”?

Hy het haar uitgeskop, verstaan jy my?

Check my new jammy!

We going to Durbs with the car, probably see lots of ‘Vaalies there, all the ou toppies, tannies and ooms, nie waar nie?

My ol’ lady! My ol’ man.

My broer ! My sussie. My Ouma, My Oupa

Knobkerrie. Sjambok

It’s so hot, I’m vrekking off here.

D’is Baie Mooi

He lives in the Gramadoelas….

She lives in the Bundu…

The Dingas

I was with Ruth, Heather and them

Drink your SUP !! there’s a plate on the Zinc

Let’s make a plan…..

Cows give us MULK!

My one aunt My one leg, My one arm, My one finger My one toe

Broekies

The word “THE. ” I learned in school that before a consonant we say “THE” . “THE” bed, “THE” table, “THE” book. And before a vowel the have to prounce the “the” as “THEE”……………. “THEE” Apple, “THEE” elephant, “THEE” egg.

So why then, do we hear (only in South Africa) people saying “THUH” apple, “THUH” Elephant, “THUH” egg. Please hold for “THUH” Operator. And why do some of us say “the PHOTA” when it is clearly “PHOTO”.

FOLKSINGING Era . Who remembers the Nite beat, run by Abe (who ran the tuck shop at the Yeoville Swimming Pool), and the folk-singers Ian & Ritchie ( Ian Lawrence and Ritchie Morris), Des and Dawn (Lindberg)(“And the Seagull’s name was Nelson”) (Dawn wore her hair in two pigtails then) Colin Shamley, Dave Marks (“Mountains of Men” and “Master Jack”) Cornelia, And The Troubador, The College Set - Andy Levy, Hugh Solomon, Norman Cohen) Keith Blundell and the Baladeers, Aubrey and Beryl Ellis. Mervyn and Jocelyn Miller (from Potch). Mel, Mel and Julian (Mel Miller, Mel Green, and Julian Laxton.

BIKERS and the Hell’s Angels, wearing black leather jackets, chains and the peace sign often around their necks, roaring down Pretoria St and Kotze St on Harley Davidsons making a helluva racket, some of the more nervous Biker girls precariously hanging onto their boyfriend’s backs, but “the in girls” didn’t hold on, they somehow balanced themselves by placing their hands nonchelantly behind the seat, looking around, throwing their hair back, with a “don’t- sig–with- me” look, lazer- beam- eyes, -looking–out- through- thick- black- fringes, and a tattoo here and there.

And nobody did “sig” with them, either.

The FLYING SAUCER is where they all met. Pretoria Street, Hillbrow.

Hillbrow’s Eateries and Coffee Bars Doney’s coffee bar for the best cappuccino in town (who remembers Jeftah and George, the Duke) Café Wien (later on), with the most comfortable seats, it was like sitting in your own lounge, Café Krantzler, Dunk-a-donut, The Milky Lane, the Florian (where the bus turned to go down Twist street to Town). Mi Vami, Lucky Luke (Steak House in the 70s), Fontana, open 24 hours a day, (famous for their chickens roasted on a spit,) Pikin-a-chicken, Porter House (Frulatto and the best Pink Sauce in town) not to mention the steaks (not that I ate them being one of the Kosher Kids, but I was sorely tempted, HA HA HA) and the German Beer Keller, The Hamburger Hut, Golden Egg, Bella Napoli. Kiss-Kiss.

The CHEZA in Jeppe Street. Famous for Muesli.

HAIR STYLES and fashion. We dyed our hair black with Palette where you dropped a white tablet into some black gunky muck and we all had pitch black hair. The Blacker your hair, the more “sharp” you were. We teased it and wore it in Wings, and the bigger the Wings were, the more “with it” you were. And remember the stiff petticoats under your many Flared skirts, and cat-eye glasses? Helanca stove-pipes, in all colours. Studded Belts, Box Pleated skirts, and ID Bracelets (with your boyfriend’s name engraved on the inside), Plaid pinafores came later on, and a ridiculous little narrow velvet bow on a clip or hairgrip which we found a space for in the teased bird’s nest, usually just to the back of the fringe. And also a thin chiffon scarf tied around the hair. White high-heeled shoes (I wouldn’t be seen dead in half the things we wore then)

My Mom always said that my hair was like a Bird’s Nest at the back, but then I didn’t have eyes at the back of my head, (just as well). Boys wore their hair sleeked back with Brylcream and Vitalis and all bought their t-shirts from the Skipper Bar. (Arnie, Mervyn, Earle and Barry Sacks) Black t-shirts with thin white and red stripes around the neck. And a corresponding white tee-shirt, with black and red stripes. If you didn’t have one of those, you were not one of the “in” boys!!!!

And then girls started to iron their hair. I remember my Mother used to plonk my head onto the ironing board, and put a brown paper bag on top of it, and iron away until I had sleek straight hair, but then the minute it rained, I looked at though someone has plugged me into an electric socket…. Durbs did the same to all those who had out-of-control hair - Frizzed them out in 2 mns flat, in fact as soon as you got to Van Reenen’s Pass into Natal, you knew you were there because your hair suddenly was on its own mission……..

and who Whirled their hair????? Oy - a bittereh gelechter….. We whirled it One way, then the other way, and you had dead straight hair (until you hit the 505 Club and the first thing you’d notice is that your fringe was just “not there” anymore) and the rest of your poor hair style was all moving in different directions. If it was raining, and you opened your front door, bang went the straight hair.

Remember those little DOEKs we wore on our head when we went to Durbs. I have a photo of myself wearing one.

COME ON GIRLS - who used to sleep with curlers/rollers in their hair!! and who remembers using the inside of a TOILET ROLL as an emergency roller??????? And all this lot would be covered over by a hairnet. Of course morning brought a splitter- of- a- headache from the curlers digging into your head. Anyone remember? Bet you do!!! I DO!! There you are, the big ADMIT………. What on EARTH did we look like? I don’t even want to think about it …………………

I always say that if I have to come back in another life, I want to come back as ME but with dead straight hair. Second choice, I wouldn’t mind coming back as one of my spoilt-out-of-control Dachshunds either (but the straight haired type, not the wiry haired) (ha ha)

GYM: Bodybuilders, weight-lifters and wannabes came strutting out of Gyms such as Sam Busa and Monte Osher all fit and glistening, with huge shoulder muscles, and killer smiles - carrying black gym bags. And Reg Park’s Gym, ALSO somewhere in Hillbrow.

YOGA: Mannie and Alan FINGER, Nina OBEL

MODEL AGENCIES: . Stella Grove and Gianna Pizanello

DANCING STUDIOS and DANCERS: Natalie Stern the late Mercedes Molina, Jeffrey Neiman (Enrique Segovia) & Rhoda Rifkin, Bernice Hotz , Gitanella (Spanish, Ballet,) Shirley Klitzner (O”h) (later in the 70s Hilary Etkind - taught with Rhoda and Jeffrey) (anyone who ever loved Spanish dancing, will remember Mercedes Molina/ Jeffrey Neiman as a brilliant dance duo) (and will remember the very sad passing away of Shirley Klitzner (O”h) when she was barely into her twenties).

PHOTOGRAPHERS. Maurice, Kurt Slesinger, Karklin, when it was fashionable to stand your wedding photo on an small easel on the floor. Either carpet or parquet flooring. Stella Nova .

RUGBY. Alan MENTER Springbok Flyhalf, and Sid NOMIS Springbok - Center, and later Wing), Alan is married to Pam (ex Pretoria) and his Brothers are Brian, Robert (Robbie) and Mandy (Malcolm (Z”l)) Menter. Their Mom Esmé (O”h) grew up with mine, in Dublin. Syd is married to Ann.

CRICKET. Dr. Ali BACHER former South African cricket captain and one of the greastet cricketers in South Africa. Ali BACHER received South Africa’s Sports Merit Award, the country’s HIGHEST athletics honour. Ali is married to Shira (I am friendly with Shira’s sister Marsha KARKLIN,) and I remember their daughter Ann being a Tennis champion when she was just a little kid of 11 in the days of the “Jewish Guild” Other well known South African Jewish cricketers came later on, Mandy YACHAD , and later Adam BACHER, nephew of Dr. Ali Bacher

TYPEWRITERS. My first memory of a type writer was that old black thing with with a keyboard with round circular lettering and a typewriter ribbon. My Mom used one in Dublin, Then I remember the Olivetti and also a swiss typewriter, but the ones where you would have to bash a silver thing on the upper right to go to a new line. I remember electric typewriters, and using a white powdery Tippex thing for covering up mistakes, except that they never quite covered them up, particularly on the carbon copies. And remember the carbon copies.. HA HA, and when I worked for lawyers, they didn’t allow those tippex rub-outs, so one little mistake and you had to start all over again. Remember STENCILS and Roneo-ing various blurb. I can remember using a bright shocking pink liquid with the stencils, I think. We wrote to “Messers. So and so”, and we’d end off with “ I remain, Yours Faithfully”

WEDDINGS and when the Bride/Kallah would change into her “going away outfit” and the blissful couple would leave the wedding to go off on their honeymoon. When Bride’s kept their vails on the entire night. When there were only 4 pole-holders and the Bride’s parents paid for the entire wedding, and the Groom/Chossen’s parents would pay for the booze, the photographer and the flowers.

THE CIRCUS Boswell-Wilkie. I hated the circus, terrified of the animals and sorry for them at the same time, a hypnotized crocodile once got out- of- control and strarted climbing out of the ring into the screaming audience. Clowns clowning around were never my scene, and when the trapeze artists or the tight-rope walkers did their act, my heart was always in my mouth, terrified they would fall or something. One did once, I can never get that memory out of my mind.

ONLY IN SOUTH AFRICA ……………………………………

I dopped my exams and my folks are having a cadenza - *Snot ’n trana all round ….. (*Yiddish Equivalent is Vainin ‘n Kloggin, well, that is the Yiddish we used in Ireland).

Chips, here comes the Teacher.

I’ll have a dop of brandy.

Ops me a pencil.

Baie Dankie…….. hoor! Aseblieftog!

Plaasjapie.

Safe my mate !!!! (and the hand movement – very important) - forefinger/little finger pointed up while thumb was holding middle/ ring finger down) - done with a wag-type-movement, like fast- mode windscreen wipers.

We’re Chommies

Cheers!

There’s a Miggie in my room.

Kyk daai (Daardie) Goggoh (as in insect, not as in “GOGO” - Zulu for Granny)

Boeremeisie. Mevrou, Mejuffrou/Juffrou, Meneer

Kyk na daardie lelike ding………………

Kombi

Gooi

Waneer u die syn hoor, is dit agtien uur, twee en vyftig minute en dertig sekondes…………..

Around 1964 came the Beatles, (“8 days a week”, “Love Love me do” and later, “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s club Band” “Hey Jude”) The Rolling Stones, (Angie) the Mini Skirt era and Mary Quant and the birth of the Discothèque . Op Art earings in gaudy colours and the skirts continued to get shorter. Girls wore double breasted Pin stripe suits which made a come back. The Boutiques were born. I remember the BENATER family had a great boutique “Carnabies”, at the top of Rissik Street, or near there. It was, I think, the first shop of it’s kind. Very modern, trendy and for the young (20s and 30s). And the Pink Panther was in Hillbrow - Also very trendy gear.

Remember Twiggy?………. She was on every Magazine cover, often holding her Teddy Bear, feet pidgeon-toed, with beautiful big brown eyes, and a body so thin, she could fit through a crack in the wall. She started a trend, her, and “the Shrimp” - (Jean Shrimpton), and Mary Quant.

AND Op Art Earings in strange shapes and gaudy colours, shorter skirts, and flattie shoes.

The First Disco was at the Summit Club, Marrakech, (around 1966) with Go-Go dancers Dixie, Felicity Fouché, and Christine all dancing away in the micro-est of Mini-Skirts. Johnny Martin (previously known as Martin Raff) was the owner, and I heard he also owned a club called 007.

Someone called Neville Peacock was the Marrakech DJ and there were psychdelic and ultra violet lights and if you stood under the latter, all your “klein-goed” shone like a beacon for all to see.

And the 505 also in Hillbrow. Eddie Eckstein and Paul Ditchfield - The Bats played there on a Sunday ), and the Diamonds and Gene Rockwell (Heart!”) as did the Basemen (Ronnie Cline on Keyboard, Ralph Simon – Singer, Rodney Caines – Bass Guitar, Leon Bilewitz – drummer and Irwin Kalis – Lead Guitar) and Clive Calder, (Les Markowitz on drums) also played at “Club-a-go-go” and also they toured around the countryside and played at various venues.

Also Johnny Congos (“Sealed with a Kiss”), Johnny and the G-Men, and Johnny Sharp, 4 Jacks and a Jill. The Staccatos. Did I mention Manfred Mann? (“pretty Flamingo”)

MORE CLUBS - TJ’s (town) and The Yellow Submarine (Hillbrow) (owned by Martin HART) and the Boat (Buccleuch) were in the latter part of the sixties and the Downstairs later called The Purple Marmalade somewhere in Hillbrow. Another Disco was owned by George McCauley, brother of Ray, opposite Joubert Park (Club-A-Go-Go), His Granny worked in the tuckshop and was always so nice to everyone. The Band there was the “Falling Leaves” and George was in the Band. The Electric Circus, And Raffles , a very fancy disco/restaurant but that was in the late 70s. Owned by Dave Kerney. (I think). The Stable in Jan Smuts Avenue. The Out of Town Club

And who remembers the other Bioscopes - The Colosseum with the twinkling lights, Cliff Richard sang there once, and a few girls from Barnato Park were expelled for bunking school and going to his concerts. His Majestys, Monte Carlo (French Movies), The Empire, 20th Cen. Fox - Pritchard Street, Cinerama (Claim and Noord) In those days there was an interval after the News and the Cartoons, and Usherettes would be standing at each exit with a tray with all the Munchies and Chocolates, cold-drinks, etc. The Apollo in Doornfontein. I’ve already mentioned the Yeoville Bioscopes earlier on. Who remembers the “Midnight Shows” the Astra and the Victory in Orange Grove, The Rex in Greenside. The Plaza, the Bijou in town and some flea-bitten run down Café Bio which no decent self-respecting girl would touch with a barge-pole, but I can’t remember it. A lot of the Yale College boys went there. But not the girls!!!!

People smoked in the bioscopes (“scopes”) then and when you looked up, you saw it all swirling around in smoke from the projector. Nice and healthy!! but nobody ever noticed it. It was just a part of life in the sixties.

REMEMBER WHEN ………. we went to Bioscope on a Saturday night, dressed up in your A-line dress, or a Box- Pleated skirt, or tiny hound’s-tooth straight skirt in black/white and your black patent high-heeled shoes, with a Black Patent leather bag to match, and your gloves (which you carried in your hand). And later you wore your Dress with the shorter hemline, Mini-Skirts, and your “A-line evening coat” (Jackie Kennedy), just on the knee, and your flattie shoes, the hair teased up to the high heavens and lacquered so heavily that if it rained, you looked like glue. (Boys hated teased and lacquered hair)

And the boys wore jarmins and Elvis Presley hair-styles with thin ties made of nylon or similar in a machine-crochet style. (Later when the Beatles came in, boys’ hairstyles changed forever, and no boy would be seen dead with Brylcream or Vitalis plastered on his head). Boys would never previously been seen in pastel colours, but the Beatles changed all those dark shirts for pink, mauve and lemon, with a pin collar near the tie.

Boys would buy you a 75c box of Black Magic chocolate at Interval. If you put it into your black patent leather handbag and never offered him one, then your name was mud, and girls judged boys by whether they opened the car door for you …. or not!

AND SOME OF THE MOVIE STARS …., Natalie Wood, Kathryn Hepburn, Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Steve McQueen, Sohia Loren, Alain Delon (the heart-throb of the 60’s) (who remembers him in “Purple noon”) Gina Lollobridgida, Raquel Welsh, Bridgitte Bardot, Ursula Andress, Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson (One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest), Shirley McLaine, Julie Christie, Michael Caine, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Paul Newman, Sal Mineo, Suzanne Pleshette, Richard Burton, Sean Connery, Omar Sharif, Charlton Heston, Gregory Peck (to die for?) James Dean

POPULAR MOVIES. West side story, King Kong, Gone with the Wind, Exodus, Dr. No, *From Russia with Love, * (Remember in that movie, the Russian woman (was her name someone KREBBS?) who had a knife come out of her boot and it shot straight into poor Sean Connery’s shin bone. EINA! Just thinking about it, hurts me) Bridge on the River Kwai, Dr. Zhivago, Goldfinger, (it had a great theme song in it by I think Shirley Bassey) Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Annie Get your Gun, Dingaka.

And the DRIVE INs Old Pta Road - Jhb Drive in, The 5-Star (Eloff St.Ext), The Velskoen (If a girl was seen at the drive in with a boy, she got a “bad name” and the same for the Café Bio’s. It was just not for a nice Jewish girl!!

REMEMBER WHEN ….. there was NO Bioscope on Sunday nights

THEATRES. Alhambra (Doornfontein) , Brian Brooke (Braamfontein), Market Theatre ( Newtown), Alexander theater , Jacques Brel, Apollo (Doornfontein).

Remember the Adverts for all the Cigarettes, Players, Craven "A", Dunhill (remember the maroon Rolls Royce?) Benson & Hedges (Gold) , Lexington (That’s the one!), Gunston (remember him on a raft, all macho,manly, unshaven and rough and ready tumbling through impossible rivers?) Horseshoe Tobacco, Gold Dollar, Texan, (which the boys would hold between their thumb and middle finger) Lucky Strike, Gauloise and Peter Stuyvesant (for the fun lovers, remember the wonderful places they went to and the great clothes they wore, swimming in glorious lagoons, skiing down snow-capped mountains, all the beautiful people,all having wonderful fun?) I never smoked,(well, I have to say that, in case my family read this article, ha ha) but after I watched the Peter Stuyvesant adverts, I really felt like buying a packet , so that I too, could go to all those magical places, and I’d look glamerous too, HA HA - (the power of advertising!) (A Bittereh Gelechter!!)

But it just looked so “in” to see people smoking, and girls would hold the cigarettes at the tips of their fingers, and waved their hands for effect as they spoke, shaking their fringes out of their eyes. People who didn’t smoke, were “squares”.

I remember Celeste GREENBLATT, taught me how to apply black pencil inside my eyelids, and ‘base” onto my face and to wear white lipstick and I taught Sandra STEIN (later Ezra) to dye her hair black, and the blacker the better, (her Mother had a FIT) - Golda (née Kaufman) (O”h) whom I saw yearly in LA and she never failed to remind me !

FLORA and FAUNA in South Africa. I remember once being enthralled by the most magnificent yellow creeper we had growing on the fence in Becker Street. I took photos of it, and sent it to my friends in Dublin to show the exotic flora and fauna is this beautiful sunny South Africa, until Michael GOLDING next door, laughed his head off and said “but that’s only Canary Creeper, it’s not much better than a common garden weed”!! African Violets, Jasmin, Golden Shower, Begonia Sherera, Bougainvillea, Pointsettia, Birds of Paradise, Cycads?. Maybe they do grow overseas too.

PARTIES in Observatory, Cyrildene and Dewetshof. We rock ‘n rolled to Elvis Presley’s “Jail house rock” & “Don’t step on my blue suede shoes”, “Rock around the Clock” in our flared skirts with stiff petticoats underneath, the more the better, and huge belts around our waists, and we wore flat shoes (75c at Maram’s chemist, and 95c for the leopard skin ones). And later we twisted with Chubby Checker (Let’s Twist again, like we did last summer ) We also did a dance called the Shake – anyone remember the song “I’ll do the Shake, the hippy- hippy shake” and also a dance called the Madison.

The Bez Valley Ou’s, on a Sat night Jol, and the Lebs would sometimes gatecrash. Usually a Scuffle and the girl’s father would have to ask them to leave. Sometimes, in stubborn cases the police would have to be called in to skop them all out. And then the party continued on, Little Richard, Cliff Richard, - sometimes a few of the kids would have a bit of “dagga”, (a zol), on the stoep or in the back garden when they thought nobody was looking, and the only way anyone kopped on was because they would come back to the party with a manic laugh, and red eyes. (and of course the smell, but if you admitted to knowing the smell, then it meant you were a dagga smoker yourself!) Trini Lopez. “If I had a hammer”

SOCIALS at Oxford Shul, The Vrede Hall, Yeoville Recreation Center, Temple Shalom, and Bands like “Dinkie and the Deans” - Jake (Gerald) Fox (Z”l) (rhythm Guitar), Barry Sacks (Lead Guitar), Spencer Hodgson (Bass guitar) and Errol Sack on the drums, would play, they also played at the Club 505 in “the Brow”. Peter Lotus well known Jhb Disc Jockey, I think he sang as well. Lots of singers used to go to Margo’s on a Sunday Afternoon, and the crowd would all hot-foot it out there after them to hear music. I think it was Bapsfontein, or near there). There was little else to do on a Sunday, so many places were closed. Just remembered another band, Dave Levine and the Swinging Angels. Les Gutfreund was one of the band and made a name for himself as Les Goode. “Dickie Loader and the Blue Jeans” Gene Rockwell – Heart.

NIGHT CLUBS and Bands. Bennie Michaels, Archie Silansky and his daughter Carole Sands The Coconut Grove at the Orange Grove Hotel, Dan Hill (Ichilchik), The Colony at the Hyde Park Hotel, Sardi’s, The Mediteranean (I Cinque di Roma), Diamond Horseshoe, The Greek Taverna, Ciro’s (Kruis Street)

STORES. John Orrs, The Belfast, Greatermans, ABC Shoes, Dodo’s, Barnes Shoes, Ackermans, Ansteys later Garlics, Katz & Lourie, Mr. Man, Man about Town, Stuttafords, Woolworths, Deans Mans’ shop, Skipper Bar, O.K Bazaars, Cuthberts, Markhams, Millews, K. Marks ( curtains), Juta's, Bothner & Polliack (records, Henri Lidji Gallery, Derbers Furs, FDF (Fruit & Dried Fruits) Vanité (Ladies clothes) Bradlows, Geen & Richards, Shepherd & Barker (Furniture), CAN, Jaffs (Fabrics), Mosenthals, Dicks (Sweets) - Rissik Street, and later on Morkels, your two year guarantee store! Putzys. McCullogh & Bothwell (School Uniforms).

REMEMBER WHEN we would get all dressed up to go to town, to have tea at Ansteys sitting alongside Ladies in beautiful outfits, white gloves, smart, elegant, men in suits, with white shirts and ties

MUSIC Soul music was popular in the 60s, Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, Carla Thomas, Otis Redding (“sitting on the Dock of the Bay”), Percy Sledge (“ Midnight Hour”, and Music from Brasil, Sérgio Mendes, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana brass.

And of course, Johnny Mathis, Charles Aznavour, Simon and Garfunkel, José Feliciano

And …. REMEMBER WHEN , our Mothers would ring a little bell at suppertime, and the “servant” (oi, how COULD we have??) would come in with the next course. And when your “boy” did the garden and the “girl” cooked.

SHULS Lions Shul (Doornfontein), Wolmarans street ( Rabbi Rabinowitz 50’s and 60’s, then Chief Rabbi Casper) Yeoville Shul (Rabbi Lapin), Adas Yeshuran (Yeoville) , The Bnei Akiva Shul (Raleigh Street), Greenside Shul, Emmerentia, Fordsburg, Sydenham Highlands North, Mayfair (Rabbi Zagenov) , Kensington Shul (Rabbi Rabinowitz), The Curve (Observatory), Berea Shul (Rabbi Bender and Rabbi Aloy), Oxford Shul (Rabbi Bernhard), Chassidic Shul (Rabbi Lipskar) Cyrildene, Temple Emanuel (? and Rabbi Assabi), Temple Israel (Rabbi Super), Temple Shalom, Temple Beth-El (Rabbi Ben Isaacson) Sandton Shul (BHH) Rabbi ZS Suchard (but that was in the 70’s) Yeo Street Shul. Reverend Symanovitz from Yeoville Beth Din. The Beth Din was in Raleigh Street then.

CHAZONIM. Chazen Hass, Chazen Bagley, Chazen Dudu Fisher (1970s early 80’s), Chazen Johnny Glück (Wolmarans) in the eighties (Choirmaster Prof. David Cohen). Chazen Hasdan, (Warmbaths) Chazen Badash, (Yeoville, Choirmaster *Malovany) Chazan Mandel (Berea Shul) – Gus Levy choirmaster. (* a world reknowned Chazen - I did attend a concert of his here in Jhb a number of years ago), Chazen Berele Chagy

Yeoville Shul Choir, Lionel Levin, Kenny and Colin Koransky and their father, Natie Koransky, Martin Harris, Len Bobroff, Stanley Feinstein, Brian Feinstein, Robert Lapedus, David Shapiro. The Choirmaster was Mr. Himmelstein, I think his son Lior, was in the Choir too. Colin Opwald. Benny Lipchick (Z”l)

KIDS at the Yeoville Shul…. Percy Suntup, Fivie (Phillip) and Hymie (Z”l) Symanowitz, Olga Berelowitz, Joan Morris, Karen Feinstein, Linda and Stanley Chitiz, Wolfie and Marlene Teper, me and my Boet, Robert Lapedus, Gillian Erster and her brother Moishe Erster, Naomi Shapiro, Marilyn & Sheila Atkins, David Shapiro, Rhoda Shapiro, Jenny Winnick, Alan Kaye, Philip Eliason, Sheila Hahn and Irma Keifer I remember David and Daniel Lapin, ( Rabbi Lapin’s sons) being at the Shul .

Beni Akiva and Habonim Camps. Betar. Hashomer Ha’tza-ir (spelling, whoops!!)

AND REMEMBER WHEN the only children at a barmitzvah function were the Barmitzvah boy and his siblings, who were allowed to stay up for the night. The entire Simcha was for adults and the only time you heard the Barmi boy, was when he made his speech. Robert’s Barmitzvah was a Kiddush at home after Shul, and a “tea” that evening for a few friends of my Parents. Many kids had that kind of Barmi. Who knew then from Theme Barmitzvahs.

AND …..When Children were children, and played snakes and ladders, and ludo, dominoes, monopoly, yo-yo’s, and they read out of the Local Libraries and they played Cowboys and Indians, ( just entertained themselves. No Video games, computers, cell phones, I-pods, Electronic everything… and No TV then either.

BANKS and Building Societies. Barclays, Volkskas Bank, Allied Building Society, SA Perm(inent) The UBS (United Building Society) SA Perm, NBS (Natal Building Society) Trust Bank

ONLY IN SOUTH AFRICA ……………………………….

J’’’’enesburg!

Ag Shame, man, were you home stokkies aleen??

Wikkel. Sikkel. I’ve got no tom, hey?

Koeksusters. Konfyt. Biltong. Vet-koek. Braaivleis.

Boerevors en Pap. Poitjiekos. Mielie. Rooibos Tea.

Grondboontjiebotter

Ouma se Rusks. Fanny Farmers

“Hau”

The Tokoloshe is coming… Dorp ! Pandotjie!

He rocked up in an old Skedonk.

Question. Hallo Meneer………. Hoe Gaan Dit met jou vandag?.

Answer. Ag , No….. Fine ….Jaaaaa,………. Kan nie Klaar Nie !

My Oom se Bakkie

My Gran did the “Charlston”, but that was back in Nineteen voetsak

Why are you still Gaan-ing on? you Poepal !!

He is so Grotty….. A real Dweet …….A Drip.

It’s …Kwaai. It’s …. Skarm.

HOTELS : The Carlton (original Carlton) , Moulin Rouge, The Chelsea Hotel (Hillbrow) (I think this is where the Jacques BREL theatre was) Casa Mia, Langham , Gresham, the Jeppe Hotel (Norman’s Grill) Victoria ( Plein Street near Station), Criterion , Landrost hotel (Anabelles nightclub). Tollman Towers – (next to Jeppe Street Post Office), The President Hotel (Eloff Street), Anlar Hotel (Hillbrow), Courtleigh Hotel (Berea), Jocelyn Residential Hotel (Claim Street Joubert Park), the Quirinal, Waldorf , and Balalaika which was then way out in the “country” - Sandown, which is today, a hub of activity. The Skyline, The Capri and The Park Royal

SQUAD CARS. HOT RODS and the name Buddy Fuller comes into my head for some reason.

MOTORTOWN. Remember when all the motor dealerships were in Eloff Street, Ext. Motortown. And names like Rillstone Motors (Agents for the Simca), Lawson Motors, (Agents for Volvo), Lucy’s Motors (Katz) (Agents for Fiat), Curries Motors, Grosvenor Motors ( Agents for Ford), Sydney Clow (Agents for Peugeot), and a dealeship in Anderson Street called T.A.K. Motors, (Agents for Lancia and Ferrari), Ronnie Bass, (Sigma)

And then Main Street became the used car center for Jhb. Austin , Chevrolet, Mercury, Buick, Dodge, Morris Minor, Mini Minor, Hillman Minx, Ford Fairlane, Vauxhall Victor, Ford Cortina, (Ford) Zeyphyr, Sunbeam. Killarney Toyota. Lionel Gilinsky (Pilot, Motor Rally Driver/Racer) Brenner Toyota in Braamfontein, Chookie Brenner

PETROL Shell, BP, Mobil (Engen), Sasol, Trek, Caltex, Total,

REMEMBER WHEN Milk was delivered to the house????, in proper Milkbottles with red tinfoil caps, and the cream would be all at the top of the bottle? And Nel’s Rust Dairy in Victory Park.

DOORNFONTEIN. – Apollo Cinema near Crystals, Crystals, Beit Street (who later moved to Yeoville) Wachenheimers, Goldenbergs, and Nussbaums, all in Beit Street, and Dairy Alhambra (Zama Levine) - opposite the Alhambra Theatre in Beit Street. Zama Levine had the shop for about 40 years (according to his daughter Gloria Levine Ash). Gloria’s mom was from the ICHILCHIK family (Dan Hill and Gloria’s Mom, Emma Ichilchik Levine (a cellist) were siblings. Dembo’s in Beit Street. The famous sculptor Anton Von Wouw lived next door to the Alhambra and opposite Gloria Levine’s (Ash) Grandfather, Mr. Ichilchik in Doornfontein. American Café for ice-cream, Sour Kraut, Hot Dogs, Millers Antiques on Simert Road. Campbells. Cohen’s Café. And Ellis Park.

Doornfontein Streets Beit Street, Siemert Road, Siveright Avenue.

And Segall’s Sausages (Alf Segall) (spelling?). Kerk Street, York House.

ROADHOUSES. Dolls House (Highlands North), Casablanca (Nugget Hilll) Dakota (Crown Mines), and Uncle Charlies.

Ice CREAM. Papagallo.

WITS RAG Down Eloff Street, with the floats, remember? and the Rag Queens and Princesses. I remember one particular Jewish Rag Princess of 1971, and still a beautiful girl to this day - Blond hair, gorgeous and looks like she just stepped out of vogue magazine - June Gervis ( - two sons, Grant and Richard Reichlin, both of whom were at school with my children, Angela and Gregory Brest)

ONLY IN SOUTH AFRICA ………………………………..

“She took me around” Around where?

And what about “See that ou?? - he threw me with (wif) a stone”

The Spanspek is Vrot!

Takkies.

Ag Dame! …………………..

Listen, Lady ………………

And how many South.Africans when they first arrived in America, England, Australia, Israel etc talked about taking their “costume” or “Cozzie” to the Beach.

She’s the most prettiest girl.

My ou’ man caught me smoking dagga, hey, and I got such a SKRIK.

I bumped her on the corner of Cavendish and Becker Streets

I didn’t scale anything

*Spek and Eiers ( *Just because I know the name, doesn’t mean I’ve eaten it, see !)

Ek is a Ware Suid Afrikaaner.

Melktert! Guavas, Grenadilsh!! Marmite, Anchovette Paste, Jungle Oats.

Comment - That bike is Kwaai, so lekker…. Answering comment - MOH-SELFFFFFFF

YIDDISH/Jewish sayings - In alle Schvartze Yohren, He lives in Alle Drerderin, Meerskeit, Fahrpackt, Fahrkakte, Fahrkrimpt, Fahrbrempt, Fahrshtunkender, Farrible (Litvak word, in other countries they talk about a “Broigas”) He’s a Shlemazzel, He’s a Hundt, He’s a Chaleria, He’s a Peruvian, He’s a Shlemiel, … a Chazzer …. a Mamzer, She’s a plapper…. a Yenta, Gei n Drerd, Vos Macht Tzu?, Shreklich, Chader (not the Chader where we learned Hebrew or Barmitzvahs) , Kitke, Lax (lox in the USA) I need that aggravation like a loch in kop? I’m chalishing for some Petzah (In Dublin, we called it “Calves Foot Jelly”) Alter Kakkers , Bobbe Meises, Ebberbottled. She’s such a kochelefel.

Question - How are you today Bobba ‘Chuma ???

Bobba’s answer - Nu, does it do any good to complain???

RADIO. LM Radio who remembers the signature, “Aqui Portugal Moçambique, fala-voz do Radio club em Lourenço Marques, transmitindo ondas curtas e médias

(This is (here is) Portugal, Moçambique, the voice of the Radio club in Lourenço Marques, transmitting in short and medium wave) with Evelyn Martin (Martins) . David Davies and the LM Hit Parade and was it a little prayer ending off at midnight ? With a sort of mournful depressing music to accompany it. Peter de Nobrega… not sure which station..Bob Courtney Eric Egen Springbok Radio , Paddy O’Byrne, David Gresham (Gruesome Gresh) and Clark MacKay (Clackie MacKay) and Esmé Euverard (not sure if she was Springok Radio or what) Charles Fortune (Cricket commentator) Programmes like “Pets’ Parade”, and “the Creaking Door” –skriklig !!!! David Gresham - Gruesome Gresh - (keep your feet on the ground ,and reach for the Stars) Everyone remembers “JOHN BERKS” !! - “Long John Berks” - I always listened to the Talk shows and one show in particular has stayed in my mind. The Jhb Station Master, complete with an Afrikaans accent, (guess who) called a Yiddishe guy living somewhere in Killarney, to tell him that his consignment of chickens were on their way over. You could hear what sounded like a few thousand chickens all clucking their heads off and the poor fellow was protesting, saying that it was the wrong number, it wasn’t him, some mistake and besides, he had a small balcony, and he didn’t have room for crates of chickens, but The “Station Master” kept on saying that he has nowhere for them either, the fellows’ name and address were on the crates and the chickens were going to be on their way, shortly.. What a “lag” that was. Although this article is about the 60s, I can’t help but mention my fellow countryman, John Robbie, and John, if you ever get to read this “Go mbeanna Dia Duit” and enjoy Lá na Pádraig.

AND the Requests – I think It might have been Esmé Euverard who ran a programme, was it called “Forces Favourites”? with Messages from girlfriends to their ou’s in the army, with requests like this “ Poppie, het jy ‘n boodskap”??? Poppy, are you there? Speak up Poppie……., Poppie?? Crackle, crackle….. Hallo, crackle crackle ……….. Hallo, ja, D’is Poppie wat praat, Ag, man, I’d like to send a message to my boyfriend at Voortrekker Hoogte?????? Daw-ling, I love you Verrry much???????? , ek het jou lief, my skat??? I hope you are orite and I cawnt wait til you are home again awready, Vasbyt en Baie Liefde, van Poppie, hoor? En Frikkie says howwzit. LOURENÇO MARQUES. Polana Hotel, Avenida 24 Julho (July), o Zambi, o Cisno Negro (Black Swan), Xai Xai, S. Martinho de Bilene (aka San Martino) wonderful beaches, prawns to die for (*just because I said that, doesn’t mean I ate them!!!) “Cerveja” at sidewalk cafés, Caldo Verde (soup), wonderful buildings, Pregos.

BUILDINGS such as Palace Buildings, Rand Club, Old Arcade, Markhams Technical College, Manners Mansions. Broadcast House, Essanby House, Ponte - Harrow Road, Rissik Street Post Office, Union Grounds – Twist and Claim,Joubert Park. The City Hall - Rissik Street. And in Jeppe Street the Medical buildings ... Jenner Chambers , Lister Buildings, * Drs. Jacobson, Broer and Smith, later “and Barnard”, and later still, “and Kaplan”, Pasteur Chambers , Medical Centre , Archie Jacobson, Ivor Broer, Mervyn Smith. Michael Barnard and Neville Kaplan (not all at the same time.)

HOSPITALS: the Lady Dudley, Florence Nightingale, Princess, Marymount, Franklin, Queen Victoria, Garden City Clinic Parklane Clinic. Fever Hospital, Jhb Gen. (General Hospital) The Childrens’ Hospital, Baragwanath. The Frangwyn –(Maternity )

ARMY. The Drill Hall in Joubert Park! Voortrekker Hoogte (Pretoria) The first 3 months you were a rookie, and after you got out 9 months down the drag, you went to Camps for about 3 weeks a few years later. Boys went meshugah when their hair was cut so short.

And Polio – two major epidemics in 1947 and 1954/55, when schools were closed, and public swimming pools too, children in iron lungs and leg braces. Infantile Paralysis, they called it. (I wasn’t here then but I know about it)

Around the late fifties, a movie came out with Danny KAYE and Barbara Bel GEDDES (Miss Ellie in Dallas) , called the “FIVE PENNIES”. Story of Red Nichols, and his young daughter (played by both Susan Gordon and Tuesday Weld) who contracted polio. .

And “Interrupted Melody” Another polio movie about the Opera singer, Eleanor PARKER. Terrible epidemic, wiped out today, as far as I know . And then they found an immunization against Polio.

WHO REMEMBERS …... Gilooly’s farm, Boksburg Lake, Zoo Lake, Florida Lake, Wemmer Pan - Wembly stadium Ice rink , The Wilds, The Snake Park, Melville swimming Pool, Hillbrow Indoor Pool (at the Summit Club), and the Squash courts there, Brixton Swimming Pool, Rand Show/Skou, Milner Park, Tower of Life.

THE ELLERINE brothers, Sidney (O”h) and Eric

RESORTS. Lover’s Rock in the Magaliesberg, Little Roseneath (Ndaba, Fourways). Margo’s (where the bands all played on a Sunday afternoon. I think it was near Bapsfontein). And lazy days sitting on top of the Wilds, admiring the Flora and Fauna and watching the world go by (not today!) Linksfield Ridge.

ADVERTS.. Mac Phails - Mac won’t phail you

NAMES CHANGES Jan Smuts Airport – O.R Tambo , Halfway House - Midrand, Verwoerdburg – Centurion,. Hendrik Verwoerd Drive - Bram Fischer Drive, Hans Strydom Drive Malibongwe, DF Malan - Beyers Naudé, Harrow Rd - Joe Slovo Drive - , Sandown Square - Nelson Mandela Square. Transvaal – Gauteng, Eastern Transvaal – Mapumelanga. Warmbaths - Bela Bela, Pietersburg - Polakwane

NEWSPAPERS/magazines Rand Daily Mail. Die Vaderland, Die Beeld, The Star (still going strong) Sunday Express, Sunday Times AND Back Page of the Sunday Times… Scope Magazine

I thought I’d end off with a little song ………………….. anyone want to sing along? You all know Sarie Marais? Here we go. Een, twee, drie……..

My Sarie Marais is so ver van my hart,

Maar’k hoop om haar weer te sien,

Sy het in die wyk die Mooirivier gewoon,

Nog voor die oorlog het begin.

O bring my t’rug na die ou Transvaal,

daar waar my Sarie woon

daar onder in die mielies by die groen doringboom

Daar woon my Sarie Marais.

Lekker Bly Skatties, and Alles van die Beste.

Anne Lapedus (Brest)

one of the “SIXTIES ROCKERS” … still ROCKING ON !!!!

Uitlander, no more

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DISCLAIMER. This article has been written from my memories of S.Africa from 48 years ago, and if a Shul, or Hotel, or a Club is not mentioned, it doesn’t mean that they didn’t exist, it means, simply, that I don’t remember them. I can’t add them in, either, because then the article would not be “My Memories” any more.

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Bryan and Ryan " Home Sweet Home"at "Sensorium" repost. While in the process of moving yet again, I curated fifteen empty lofts with Chi Essary, Rebecca Romani, and Tatiana Sizonenko, for Vanguard Culture's "Sensorium". The event was in a new development called IDEA1 in downtown San Diego’s East Village district. A big thanks to all of the artists and Vanguard Culture. Artists: Seagge L. Abella, Jason Acton, Dan Adams, ADillaTheGenius, Adrian Arancibia, Alanna Airitam, Eric Arnold, Siobhan Arnold & Meagan Shein (SIEN Collective), Farhad Bahrami, Stephanie Bedwell, Mike-David Bliss, Melissa Browder Beck, Nigel Brookes, Bryan & Ryan, John Burnett, Heloise C. Buntin, Larry Caveney, Randal Christopher, Lucas Coffin, Andrew “Swan” Coronado, Christian Dahmann, Crystal Daigle, Dornob (with Farhad), Stacy Ardis Dyson, Kristine Diekman & Tony Allard, Sheena Rae Dowling, Michelle Esbensen, Claudia Fernety, Arianna A. Feliz, Jeremy Field, Laurie C. Fisher, David Fobes, Grace Gray Adams, Janice Grissell, Becky Guttin, Kirsten Imani-Kasai, Haydeé Jiménez, Rachel Jimenez, Yasmin Kasem, Richard Keely, Neil Kendricks, Lamia Khorshid, Dana Kotler, Anqi Liu, Maldonado (Maldodanz), Adeeb Maki, Ted Meyer, Andrew Meyers, Teresa Mill, Mary Moreno, Colin J. Moyer, Tim Murdock, Edwin Nutting, Jeremy D. Orton, Erika Paniagua, Sara Parent-Ramos, Ratishma Petre, Michael Ruiz, Astha Saini, Devin & Jeanne Scott, Stay Strange, Veronica Santiago Moniello, Aiyana Sphere, Rich Stewart, Anna Stump, Perry Vasquez, Xavier Vasquez, Wendy Vasta, Victorio Villa, Javier Arreguin Villegas, Katie Ward, Chris Warren, James E. Watts, Alisa Wechsler, Gunner Williams, Molly Whittaker, Anna Zappoli, Tiange Zhou, Janice Grissell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #performanceart #athenaeumlajolla #galleryart #regenprojects #bergamotstation #artexhibition #sculptural #broadmuseum #hammermuseum #laartshow #artnow #onthewall #artcontemporary #juxtapoz #artoftheday #thethingsisee #frieze #beautifuldecay #ArtWatchers #artbasel #artlosangelescontemporary #artfairs #artspace #newart #sdai #gallery #emergingartist #americanartcollector #museumart #christies (at Art Basel Miami Beach)

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World Refugee Day

Observed June 20 each year, dedicated to raising awareness of the situation of refugees.

World Refugee Day, international observance observed June 20 each year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the situation of refugees throughout the world

The Metropolitan Museum Shrouded a Mark Chagall Painting to Draw Attention to World Refugee Day

The museum shrouded the painting to ask the question: “What would the Met’s walls look like if there were no refugees?” Works by other famous artists including Max Ernst, Piet Mondrian, and Mark Rothko are labeled as works “made by a refugee.”

Since Monday, visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City have been encountering an unusual sight at the museum’s Modern and Contemporary Art galleries, finding Marc Chagall’s “The Lovers” (1913-14) hidden behind a large cloth. A sign posted next to the painting asks: “What would the Met’s walls look like if there were no refugees?” Chagall’s painting will remain shrouded until this evening, June 20, for the World Refugee Day, to symbolically illustrate what the answer to this question might have been.

This gesture is part of a global campaign organized by the humanitarian aid organization the International Rescue Committee (IRC) to highlight the contributions of refugees to their hosting countries. As part of the campaign, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Met Breuer are spotlighting nine artworks created by refugee artists including Max Beckmann, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Max Ernst, Piet Mondrian, Sopheap Pich, and Mark Rothko. A yellow sign posted next to each one of the works reads, “This work was made by a refugee.” The yellow labels (the color is taken from the IRC’s logo) encourage visitors to share the works on social media using the hashtag #WorldRefugeeDay. Tate Galleries and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London are collaborating with the IRC on similar initiatives.

“The Lovers” (1914-15) depicts Chagall with his wife and muse Bella Rosenberg during their life together in Paris. The Belarus-born couple fled Nazi-occupied France in 1941 and resettled in New York City. Chagall’s granddaughter Bella Meyer, owner of the flower studio fleursBELLA in Greenwich Village in Manhattan, was the Met’s guest of honor at the shrouding ceremony. “I wouldn’t have been here if my grandparents were not accepted into the US,” she told Hyperallergic while standing next to her grandfather’s shrouded painting. “I’m very moved by [the Met’s] gesture towards refugees,” she continued. “Our culture is made out of all these extraordinary creators.”

Since June 2000, the UN World Refugee Day has been observed every year to raise awareness of the plight of refugees around the world. “We’re trying to puncture the animus that is swelling towards the refugee populations at the moment,” said David Miliband, President and CEO of the IRC, at a press conference at the Met on Monday.

“We’re living at a time of a double emergency,” Miliband contended. “On the one hand, we have more refugees and displaced people than ever before,” he said, adding that as of 2019, 68.5 million people are either refugees or internally displaced. “The second part of the emergency is that there are more and more places that are turning their back on these people,” he added. “It’s bad enough that millions of people from places like Syria, Myanmar, or South Sudan are fleeing for their lives, but the fact that they should then be seen as a burden or a problem rather than as people in need of help doubles the load. It’s a very important time for people to stand up and recognize global responsibility,” he said.

“There’s an increasingly popular conviction that museums cannot any longer be neutral sites, but they hold responsibility to be vehicles for social justice and civic exchange,” said Sheena Wagstaff, the Met’s chairman of the department of Modern and Contemporary art. “Art can inspire a different kind of understanding, one grounded in the sense of common humanity. While the personal lives of these artists and their devastating experiences as refugees are beyond our comprehension, they are not beyond our empathy or imaginings,” she added.

Marc Chagall, “The Lovers” (1914-15) (courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Chagall was one of 1,500 refugees who were transported out of France under the Vichy regime in 1941 as part of a rescue effort by an organization that later became the IRC. Mark Rothko, born Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz, arrived at Ellis Island with his mother at age ten in 1913 to escape persecution in Imperial Russia. Leipzig-born Max Beckmann, whose work was labeled as “degenerate art” by the Nazi regime and banned from museums, arrived in the United States in 1948 after a period of exile in the Netherlands. Max Ernst, who was persecuted by the Nazi Gestapo police and cast out to an internment camp in France with other surrealist artists as “undesirable foreigners,” arrived in the US in 1941 with the help of his future wife Peggy Guggenheim. Dutch painter Piet Mondrian, who lived in Paris in the 1930s, escaped France after the Nazi occupation and immigrated to the US in 1940 after a period in London. Cambodian artist Sopheap Pich fled from the Khmer Rouge’s regime’s massacres and fled to the US with his family as a teenager. Ibrahim El-Salahi, a Sudanese artist and former politician, was imprisoned by the Nimeiri regime in Sudan in 1970 on charges of participating in an anti-government coup. He is now based in Oxford in the United Kingdom.

The IRC was founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, himself a refugee, who lived in New York at the time. The organization helps resettle war refugees in new countries. “It’s not an accident that [Einstein] was in New York and it’s not an accident that he stayed in New York,” Miliband said, “This is a city that has been opened to the world during the best of its times.”

On Monday evening, President Trump announced mass arrests and deportations of immigrants in the US starting next week. “Next week ICE will begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the United States,” Trump tweeted. “They will be removed as fast as they come in.”

Max Beckman, “The Beginnings” (1946-49) (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)

Miliband, who was a former member of the British parliament and the UK’s Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs between 2007-2010, sent a measured, diplomatic nod toward the Trump administration’s immigration policies saying, “The Federal Government has not always allowed the United States to be open to the world, but the best of New York has come from its remarkable openness: what it gives, as well as what it takes from the wider world.”

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TOP TEN TUESDAY #31: Top Ten Authors I'm Dying To Meet

Hosted by Jamie, Jana and Lauren of BrokeandBookish.com, Top Ten Tuesdays is a weekly book meme that presents top ten lists on Tuesdays that promotes favorite bookish themes.

This week's theme:

Top Ten Authors I'm Dying To Meet / Ten Authors I Can't Believe I've Met (some other "meeting authors" type spin you want to do)

I haven't met any of my faves in person, but I do talk to a lot of them on Twitter, so here are some I'd love to meet.

10. Tonya Kuper - I talk to this fab Anomaly author almost constantly on social media, and it's a shock that we haven't officially met yet! Then again, she's all the way from Omaha, Utah, and I'm from New Jersey. I keep hoping for a book tour or book event near the both of us so we can meet in the middle somewhere!

9. Sheena Hutchinson - Sheena and I talk a lot on Twitter too, but unlike Tonya and I, Sheena had actually done an interview with me once. We talked about her latest book at the time, Uncovering Officer Smith, her first book Discovering April, among other things. She's super sweet, and I'm hoping for the day we can meet in the city someday.

8. Tahereh Mafi - I've actually never read her Shatter Me series, but I know so many of my fave Booktubers who love it. Also, her snaps on Snapchat are adorable!! And she's having a baby!! So so happy for her and her husband, fellow author Ransom Riggs. But yeah, I'd like to meet them both.

7. Ingrid Seymour - Another indie author I chat with constantly on social media! I loved her first book, Ignite the Shadows, and I'm a part of her ARC Street Team, so I get first dibs on all of the future books she puts out! I'd love to meet her one day.

6. Inger Iversen - I haven't read all of her books, but Inger is another author I talk about a lot, both on and offline. I feel bad because I've been missing her most recent sign-ups for her books and stuff, but I still liked her 2014 book, "Running in the Dark".

5. Ryan Ringbloom - This girl is such a hoot on Instagram!! She's so funny and sweet and smart. I loved her 2014 book, "Books, Blogs and Reality" so much, that she sent me two copies of her last books, "Fake Boobs" and "Hooker Heels". And she's from New Jersey too, so I'm like, 'why haven't we met yet?!' Gotta make that happen!!

4. Cassandra Clare - Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of "City of Bones" publication, the first book of the "Mortal Instruments" series, and it brought back so many feels for me!! I first read the first three books when I was 16 in 2009, when my best friend Kim got them for me as a gift. And I fell in love with the Shadowhunter world, and the characters --- especially Clary, Simon, Jace, Isabelle and Magnus. If I ever had the chance to meet Cassie, I'd just tell her how grateful I am to have fell into this new world and to keep writing it.

3. Luvvie Ajayi - Luvvie is a new author --- go get her book, "I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual", I'm still DYINGGG to read it --- but I've been following her wacky, crazy, hilarious words on her website, AwesomelyLuvvie.com. If I met her, I'd just die and hug her and cry, and talk all day about how much we need Blaxit. I am all for a Blaxit, getting on an island or a planet and taking all the Black things with us!!

2. Stephenie Meyer - For obvious reasons, I'd love to meet the one woman who has made me not so afraid of vampires, and for introducing me into the YA-fantasy-romance book world. Edward and Bella from Twilight have shown me what it means to fight for love, fight for hope, fight for what you want your life to be like, with someone who truly loves you. I don't care about how much Twilight gets pissed on, I still to this day defend it and defend Stephenie. I'd definitely ask her about Midnight Sun, though. When is that being published?!?!

1. JK Rowling - I would love to meet her but I wouldn't know what to say. How much I love her writing? How many times I've seen the movies more than I've read the books? How much Hermoine Granger means to me as a smart girl? How much I want to go back to Harry Potter World even though I haven't been there in years? There's so much I'd like to say to her, how grateful I was for her in my childhood.

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