#hayworth avenue

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Let’s find Peter Lorre!

Caricature by Al Hirschfeld (1954) for the Fifth Avenue Cinema in New York City of various Hollywood actors from the first half of the 20th century.

I do believe Peter Lorre is located in the middle of the left side, below Edward G. Robinson:

Among those pictured are:

Adolphe Menjou Alec Guinness Anna Magnani Bela Lugosi Ben Turpin Bette Davis Bing Crosby Bob Hope Boris Karloff Buster Keaton Charles Boyer Charles Laughton Charlie Chaplin Chico Marx, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx Clara Bow Clark Gable Douglas Fairbanks Edward G Robinson Erich von Stroheim Fernandel Fred Astaire Gary Cooper George Arliss Gerard Philipe Gina Lollobrigida Gloria Swanson Greta Garbo Harold Lloyd Harold Lloyd Hedy Lamarr Ingrid Bergman Jean Gabin Jean Harlow Jimmy Durante Joan Crawford John Gilbert Judy Garland Katharine Hepburn Laurence Olivier Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish Lionel Barrymore Lon Chaney Louis Jouvet Mae West Marie Dressler Marilyn Monroe Marlene Dietrich Mary Pickford Maurice Chevalier Michel Simon Michele Morgan Mickey Mouse Mickey Rooney Myrna Loy Norma Shearer Orson Welles Peter Lorre Raimu Rita Hayworth Rudolph Valentino Shirley Temple Spencer Tracy Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy Stepin Fetchit Theda Bara Vivien Leigh Wallace Beery Warner Oland WC Fields William Powell William S Hart

Have some more Hirschfeld - Peter Lorre caricatures:

Peter Lorre in "Crime and Punishment," drawn June 1936

Peter Lorre in "M", 4/9/33

Peter Lorre & pals in the "You'll Find Out" trade ad, 1940

[arte-e-homoerotismo]

Farley Granger

Farley Earle Granger Jr. (1 de julho de 1925 - 27 de março de 2011) foi um ator americano.

Granger foi notado pela primeira vez em uma pequena produção teatral em Hollywood por um diretor de elenco de Goldwyn , e recebeu um papel significativo em The North Star (1943), um filme controverso que elogiava a União Soviética no auge da Segunda Guerra Mundial, mas depois condenado por sua posição política. Outro filme de guerra, The Purple Heart (1944), veio depois, antes do serviço naval de Granger em Honolulu , em uma unidade que organizava entretenimento de tropas no Pacífico . Aqui ele fez contatos úteis, incluindo Bob Hope , Betty Grable e Rita Hayworth . Foi também onde ele começou a explorar sua bissexualidade , que ele disse nunca ter sentido necessidade de esconder.

Seu papel emRope , de Hitchcock , um relato ficcional do caso de assassinato de Leopold e Loeb de 1924, rendeu-lhe muitos elogios da crítica, embora o filme tenha recebido críticas mistas. Hitchcock o escalou novamente em Strangers on a Train , como uma estrela do tênis atraída para uma trama de assassinato recíproco por um psicopata rico ; ele descreveu isso como sua experiência cinematográfica mais feliz.

Granger continuou a aparecer no palco, no cinema e na televisão até os 70 anos. Seu trabalho variou de drama clássico na Broadway a vários filmes em italiano e grandes documentários sobre Hollywood. Por sua contribuição à televisão, Granger tem uma estrela localizada em 1551 Vine Street na Calçada da Fama de Hollywood .

Vida pregressa

Granger nasceu em San Jose, Califórnia , filho de Eva (nascida Hopkins) e Farley Earle Granger Sr. Ele morava na 1185 Hanchett Avenue no bairro Hanchett Residence Park. 

Seu pai rico era dono de uma concessionária de automóveis Willys-Overland , e a família frequentemente passava um tempo em sua casa de praia em Capitola , na Baía de Monterey . Após a quebra da bolsa de valores em 1929 , os Grangers foram forçados a vender suas casas e a maioria de seus pertences pessoais e se mudar para um apartamento acima do negócio da família, onde permaneceram pelos próximos dois anos. Como resultado desse revés financeiro e da perda de seu status social, ambos os pais de Granger começaram a beber muito. Eventualmente, o restante de seus bens foi vendido em leilão para liquidar suas dívidas, e o Granger mais velho usou o último carro em seu lote para levar a família para Los Angeles no meio da noite. 

Na década de 1930, a família vivia em um pequeno apartamento em uma parte decadente de Hollywood , e os pais de Granger trabalhavam em vários empregos temporários. O consumo de bebida aumentou, e o casal brigava com frequência. Esperando que ele se tornasse um dançarino de sapateado , a mãe de Granger o matriculou no Ethel Meglin’s, o estúdio de instrução de dança e teatro onde Judy Garland e Shirley Temple começaram. 

O pai de Granger encontrou trabalho como escriturário na filial de North Hollywood do Departamento de Desemprego da Califórnia , e seu salário permitiu que ele desse uma pequena entrada em uma casa em Studio City , onde seu vizinho era o ator/dançarino Donald O'Connor . Em seu escritório, o pai de Granger conheceu o comediante Harry Langdon no início da década de 1940, que o aconselhou a levar seu filho a um pequeno teatro local onde estavam sendo realizadas audições abertas para The Wookey , uma peça britânica sobre londrinos lutando para sobreviver durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. O uso de um sotaque cockney por Granger, aos 17 anos, impressionou o diretor, e ele foi escalado para vários papéis. O público da noite de estreia incluiu o agente de talentos Phil Gersh e o diretor de elenco de Samuel Goldwyn, Bob McIntyre, e na manhã seguinte Gersh contatou os pais de Granger e pediu que o levassem ao seu escritório naquela tarde para discutir o papel de Damian, um adolescente russo no filme The North Star . 

Granger fez o teste para o produtor Goldwyn, a roteirista Lillian Hellman e o diretor Lewis Milestone . Hellman estava tentando convencer Montgomery Clift a deixar a peça da Broadway em que ele estava atuando, e quando seus esforços se mostraram inúteis, o papel foi dado a Granger. Durante a década de 1940, Goldwyn assinou com ele um contrato de sete anos por US$ 100 por semana. 

Carreira posterior

Apesar de suas três experiências malsucedidas na Broadway, Granger continuou a se concentrar no teatro no início dos anos 1960. Ele aceitou um convite de Eva Le Gallienne para se juntar ao National Repertory Theatre. Durante sua primeira temporada, enquanto a companhia estava na Filadélfia , John F. Kennedy foi assassinado. O presidente compareceu à noite de abertura da NRT e à gala pós-apresentação na capital do país, então a notícia atingiu todos na companhia de forma especialmente dura. Granger se tornou um amigo próximo do supervisor de produção Robert Calhoun e, embora ambos sentissem uma atração mútua, nunca discutiram isso. Naquela noite, eles se tornaram amantes. 

Granger finalmente alcançou algum sucesso na Broadway em The Seagull , The Crucible , The Glass Menagerie e Deathtrap . Ele estrelou ao lado de Barbara Cook em uma reestreia de The King and I no off-Broadway New York City Center , e em 1979 ele foi escalado para a produção da Roundabout Theatre Company de A Month in the Country . Em 1986 ele ganhou o prêmio Obie por sua atuação na peça Talley & Son de Lanford Wilson .

No início da década de 1970, Granger e Calhoun se mudaram para Roma, onde o ator fez uma série de filmes em italiano, mais notavelmente o Spaghetti Western They Call Me Trinity (1970) e o filme giallo What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974), ao lado de Mario Adorf , dirigido por Massimo Dallamano . [ 43 ] Ele apareceu em um episódio do drama policial da ABC Nakia em 1974 e também apareceu em várias novelas, incluindo One Life to Live em 1976, na qual sua interpretação de Will Vernon lhe rendeu uma indicação ao Daytime Emmy Award de Melhor Ator Principal em Série Dramática , The Edge of Night em 1979 e As the World Turns em 1987-1988, produzido por Calhoun.

Mais tarde, ele apareceu em vários documentários discutindo Hollywood em geral e Alfred Hitchcock em particular. Em 1995, ele foi entrevistado na câmera para The Celluloid Closet , discutindo a representação da homossexualidade no cinema e o uso de subtexto em vários filmes, incluindo o seu próprio. [ citação necessária ]

Em 2003, Granger fez sua última aparição no cinema no documentário Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There . Nele, ele conta a história de deixar Hollywood no auge de sua fama, comprar seu contrato de Samuel Goldwyn e se mudar para Manhattan para trabalhar no palco da Broadway. 

Em 2007, Granger publicou o livro de memórias Include Me Out , coescrito com seu parceiro doméstico Robert Calhoun (nascido em 24 de novembro de 1930). No livro, que leva o nome de um dos famosos erros de linguagem de Goldwyn , ele discute livremente sua carreira e vida pessoal. 

Morte

Granger morreu de causas naturais em seu apartamento em Manhattan em 27 de março de 2011, aos 85 anos. Seu corpo foi cremado e suas cinzas doadas à família após um serviço no restaurante The Riverside. 

Farley Granger as Arthur “Bowie” Bowers in They Live by Night (1948) dir. Nicholas Ray

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list of the worst movies Ive seen in the 20th century

14 Hours (Fourteen Hours) 1951 (grace kelly paul, Douglas)

A Summer Place 1959

-Any wednesday 1966 (jane Fonda, jason robards, dean jones)

Affectionately yours 1941 (dennis morgan, rita hayworth)

Allegheny Uprising 1939 (John Wayne, Claire trevor)

Bandolero! 1968 (James stewart, Dean Martin, racquel Welsh)

Bell book and candle 1959 (James Stewart, kim Novak, Jack lemmon)

Blonde venus 1932 (dir josef von Sternburg; marlene dietrich, cary grant)

Blood alley 1955 john wayne Lauren bacall

Boomerang! 1947 (Dana Andrews)

Breezy 1973 (william holden, kay lenz)

Clash by Night 1952 (Barbara stanwyck, Marilyn monroe)

Cry of the city 1948

Desire 1936 (Gary cooper, Marlene dietrich )

Desire me 1947 Greer garson robert Mitchum

Destry rides again 1939 james Stewart, marlene dietrich)

Dream wife 1953 Cary Grant Deborah Kerr Walter Pidgeon

Every girl should be married 1948 (Cary Grant, betsy drake)

Father goose 1964 (cary grant)

Fifth avenue girl 1939 (ginger rogers)

Forty guns 1957 (barbara stanwyck)

Giant 1956 (Dir. George Stevens| Elizabeth taylor, rock hudson, james dean)

Green Fire 1954 (Grace Kelly, Stewart granger)

Green Mansions 1959 (Audrey Hepburn)

Houseboat 1958 Cary Grant Sophia Loren

Indecent proposal 1993 (Robert Redford)

Julia misbehaves 1948 (Greer Garson Walter Pidgeon, elizabeth taylor, Peter lawford)

Kangaroo 1952 Maureen O'Hara, peter Lawford

Legal Eagles 1986 (Robert redford)

Man of the west 1958 gary cooper

Midnight 1939

Moontide 1942

Ninitchka 1939

The Nun’s Story 1959 (Audrey Hepburn)

Peyton Place 1959

Platinum blonde 1931- Capra; Jean Harlow

Room for one more 1952 Cary grant betsy drake

Separate Tables 1958

Seven sinners 1940 Marlene Dietrich john wayne

Shane 1953 Jean Arthur

SOB 1981

Stuart little 1999

Streets of Laredo 1949 William Holden

Sylvia scarlett 1935 Cary Grant Katharine Hepburn

The burning hills 1956 Natalie Wood tab hunter

The chase 1966 Robert Redford, Jane Fonda

The Children’s Hour 1961 Audrey Hepburn

The Far country (1954) james stewart

The fighting kentuckian 1949 john wayne vera raltson

The girl he left behind 1956 (natalie Wood, tab hunter)

The grass is greener 1960 (cary Grant)

The Great race 1965 (natalie Wood)

the key 1958 (william holden Sophia Loren

The Lion 1962 (william Holden)

The lusty men 1952

The man from Laramie 1955 (James stewart)

The moonlighter 1953 (fred macmurray barbara stanwyck)

The Night of the Hunter 1955 (robert Mitchum)

the proud and the profane 1956 william holden deborah kerr

The rounders 1965 (henry fonda)

The strange love of Martha Ivers 1946

The toast of New York 1937 (Cary grant)

The Unforgiven 1960 (Audrey hepburn)

The Way We Were 1973 (robert Redford)

The wild Rovers 1971 (William Holden, Ryan O'Neal)

The Window 1949

The women 1939 (norma shearer, Joan crawford, rosalind russell)

They all laughed 1981 (Audrey hepburn)

They Live by Night 1948

Tom Dick and Harry 1941 (ginger Rogers)

Vera cruz 1954 (Gary Cooper, burt lancaster)

Winchester 73 (1950) (James Stewart) Dir Anthony mann

The brave little toaster 1987

The gay bride 1934 carole lombard

Red headed woman 1932 jean harlow

ET 1986

all dogs go to heaven 1989

Home alone 3 1998

Babe 2 pig in the city 1998

Mr hobbs takes a vacation 1962 maureen o'hara, James stewart

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Southern California Home Builders (Photo taken by Rachel Hughes in 2023 around Silver Lake in Los Angeles, CA)

They owned property in Los Angeles, El Cajon, San Diego, and Tulare County.

Apparently this legal understanding stems from the California appeals court case Southern California Home Builders v Young: "the right of the corporation to recover from those to whom corporate assets may have been unlawfully transferred does not affect the statutory liability of the directors who made the unlawful distribution, unless the corporation, in the exercise of the first right, causes the replacement, in whole or in part, of what was taken from the corporation. In that event the liability of the directors would be diminished proportionately or expunged, since the corporation would be entitled to what was taken and no more. "

In 1913, they placed an advertisement selling shares of the business in the Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe New Mexican, January 28, 1913, pg. 3, New Mexican Printing Company, accessed via the University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository).

This photo, entitled "Building a new bungalow" is from the Herald Examiner Collection held by the Los Angeles Public Library. It shows the "construction of one of five new bungalows built in one week on Eighty-third Street, by the Southern California Home Builders."

As of 1917, the Southern California Home Builders had their headquarters at 321 Walter P. Story building, at the southwest corner of Broadway and Sixth streets (610 N. Broadway) in downtown Los Angeles. They only paid $50/month for rent, which also included the use of the telephone and the "valuable services from an experienced manager, Sydney B. Brown" (born in Carthage, Missouri on January 15, 1884). Pretty crazy that would be included, so I feel like I must not be understanding correctly. He collected rents, handled insurance, kept houses in good condition for rental or sale, and handled the "payment of taxes, assessments on properties, interest payments on mortgages, renewals of mortgages and collection of payments on trust deeds and other collections." Brown was also an agent for so many other companies in the Story building, including New Jersey Insurance Co of Newark, NJ; British & Federal Fire Underwriters of Norwich, England; Southwest Farming Co.; Repubilc Casualty Company of Pittsburg. It seems Brown ran all of these operations out of his own company, Sydney B Brown Co. with several employees: a telephone operator (Laura V Small, who lived on Laurel Canyon), a secretary (Mrs. Minnie T Leavitt, who lived on N Normandie Ave.), and someone else who worked in the insurance department (Lolah Boal of Alhambra). While the company's phone number was "Bway 24," his home phone number was 10783 (Los Angeles Director Co's Los Angeles City Directory, The Los Angeles Director Company, Los Angeles, CA, 1921, accessed via the Los Angeles Public Library).

They "closed a deal whereby a nine-room residence at 1527 Hayworth avenue, in Hollywood, was sold... to Margaret Robinson. Sydney B. Brown had charge of the deal." However, when they rented Burbank Hall to hold an annual meeting, they couldn't because the secretary had the flu and "there was not sufficient stock represented." At that time, the president of the company was named Charles A. Sessions, McCullough Graydon was VP, M. T. Leavitt was secretary, R. N. Earl was treasurer, and E. Fossler was director. Later that year, the company had an "assessment sale" and apparently it "showed the largest percentage that had ever been paid at any stock sale... The company is now considering the increasing of rentals" - I have no idea what that means. Nonetheless, I know the business wasn't doing too well in 1919. It was already "the second time that most of this corporation's assets were wiped out."

Quick interlude from some information about Sessions. He was born in 1843 in Michigan and died in 1933; he is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, CA (Findagrave.com). He was married to Mary Ellen Jay and had a son named Horace, who was a Private (though I don't know in what).

Another tangential person is Thomas Chalmers Vint. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1894 but had moved to Los Angeles, CA by the time he attended high school. He went to UC Berkeley and graduated with a BS in Landscape Architecture in 1920. He had also spent a semester at the Ecole des Beaux Arts at the University of Lyon, France and studied city planning at UCLA in 1921. He eventually had a four-decade career with the National Park Service! But, while in school, so I assume around the same time as the above folks where involved, he worked for A. S. Falconer, who designed bungalows for our company of focus! He had also worked as an assistant to Lloyd Wright.

The below are advertisements they took out, which show they both built homes but also underwrote insurance policies for fire and automobile. You'll also see their logo which is in their contractor stamp - rare to see a logo like this in a stamp!

Another fun find is this war bonds advertisement, which was partially paid for by Southern California Home Builders.

I don't know what ended up happening to the company. But many decades later there was a (seemingly unrelated) Southern California Home Builders Association.

Sources not listed in-line:

Albuquerque Morning Journal, February 9, 1913, Journal Publishing Company (1913), accessed via University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository.

American Globe: Investors Magazine, Volumes 15-16, 1917

The Codes of California: As Amended and in Force at the Close of the Forty-third - forty-fourth Session of the Legislature, 1919-1921, Bender-Moss Company, 1922.

The Credit Crunch and Reform of Financial Institutions: Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, First Session, United States Congress House Committee on Banking and Currency, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973.

Pioneers of American Landscape Design II: An Annotated Bibliography. Bimbaum, Charles; Fix, Julie. National Park Service. 1995. Clemson University Libraries.

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Peter Clarke (born April 7, 1952), known professionally as Clarke Peters, is an American-British actor, writer, and director. He is known for his roles as Lester Freamon in The Wire (2002–08) and Albert Lambreaux in Treme (2010–13).

He starred in The Corner, portraying a drug addict named Fat Curt, as well as in Damages, as Dave Pell. He appeared in two episodes of Life On Mars (2008) as NYPD Captain Fletcher Bellow.

He appeared in the UK show Holby City, as Derek Newman, the father of nurse Donna Jackson. He voiced a part in Doctor Who and In Plain Sight. In 2010, he read Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption for BBC 7. He had a guest appearance as Professor Mark Ramsay in Covert Affairs. He had a recurring role as Alonzo D. Quinn in Person of Interest.

His movie credits include Mona Lisa (1986), Notting Hill (1999), K-PAX (2001), Freedomland (2006), Marley & Me (2008), Endgame (2009), Nativity! (2009), Red Hook Summer (2012), and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).

He narrated the audiobook version of Telegraph Avenue. He narrated the BBC radio series Black Music in Europe: A Hidden History.

He was born the second of four sons, in New York City, and grew up in Englewood, New Jersey. At the age of 12, he had his first theater experience, in a school production of My Fair Lady. He began to have serious ambitions to work in the theater at the age of 14. He graduated from Dwight Morrow High School.

He has five children. He and his first wife, Janine Martyne, had two children: a daughter. A subsequent relationship with Joanna Jacobs produced two sons. He has a son with his second wife, Penny; Max played the young Michael Jackson in the West End production of the musical Thriller – Live. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[arte-e-homoerotismo]

Farley Granger, Rome, 1953

Farley Granger

Farley Earle Granger Jr. (1 de julho de 1925 - 27 de março de 2011) foi um ator americano.

Granger foi notado pela primeira vez em uma pequena produção teatral em Hollywood por um diretor de elenco de Goldwyn , e recebeu um papel significativo em The North Star (1943), um filme controverso que elogiava a União Soviética no auge da Segunda Guerra Mundial, mas depois condenado por sua posição política. Outro filme de guerra, The Purple Heart (1944), veio depois, antes do serviço naval de Granger em Honolulu , em uma unidade que organizava entretenimento de tropas no Pacífico . Aqui ele fez contatos úteis, incluindo Bob Hope , Betty Grable e Rita Hayworth . Foi também onde ele começou a explorar sua bissexualidade , que ele disse nunca ter sentido necessidade de esconder.

Seu papel emRope , de Hitchcock , um relato ficcional do caso de assassinato de Leopold e Loeb de 1924, rendeu-lhe muitos elogios da crítica, embora o filme tenha recebido críticas mistas. Hitchcock o escalou novamente em Strangers on a Train , como uma estrela do tênis atraída para uma trama de assassinato recíproco por um psicopata rico ; ele descreveu isso como sua experiência cinematográfica mais feliz.

Granger continuou a aparecer no palco, no cinema e na televisão até os 70 anos. Seu trabalho variou de drama clássico na Broadway a vários filmes em italiano e grandes documentários sobre Hollywood. Por sua contribuição à televisão, Granger tem uma estrela localizada em 1551 Vine Street na Calçada da Fama de Hollywood .

Vida pregressa

Granger nasceu em San Jose, Califórnia , filho de Eva (nascida Hopkins) e Farley Earle Granger Sr. Ele morava na 1185 Hanchett Avenue no bairro Hanchett Residence Park. 

Seu pai rico era dono de uma concessionária de automóveis Willys-Overland , e a família frequentemente passava um tempo em sua casa de praia em Capitola , na Baía de Monterey . Após a quebra da bolsa de valores em 1929 , os Grangers foram forçados a vender suas casas e a maioria de seus pertences pessoais e se mudar para um apartamento acima do negócio da família, onde permaneceram pelos próximos dois anos. Como resultado desse revés financeiro e da perda de seu status social, ambos os pais de Granger começaram a beber muito. Eventualmente, o restante de seus bens foi vendido em leilão para liquidar suas dívidas, e o Granger mais velho usou o último carro em seu lote para levar a família para Los Angeles no meio da noite. 

Na década de 1930, a família vivia em um pequeno apartamento em uma parte decadente de Hollywood , e os pais de Granger trabalhavam em vários empregos temporários. O consumo de bebida aumentou, e o casal brigava com frequência. Esperando que ele se tornasse um dançarino de sapateado , a mãe de Granger o matriculou no Ethel Meglin’s, o estúdio de instrução de dança e teatro onde Judy Garland e Shirley Temple começaram. 

O pai de Granger encontrou trabalho como escriturário na filial de North Hollywood do Departamento de Desemprego da Califórnia , e seu salário permitiu que ele desse uma pequena entrada em uma casa em Studio City , onde seu vizinho era o ator/dançarino Donald O'Connor . Em seu escritório, o pai de Granger conheceu o comediante Harry Langdon no início da década de 1940, que o aconselhou a levar seu filho a um pequeno teatro local onde estavam sendo realizadas audições abertas para The Wookey , uma peça britânica sobre londrinos lutando para sobreviver durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. O uso de um sotaque cockney por Granger, aos 17 anos, impressionou o diretor, e ele foi escalado para vários papéis. O público da noite de estreia incluiu o agente de talentos Phil Gersh e o diretor de elenco de Samuel Goldwyn, Bob McIntyre, e na manhã seguinte Gersh contatou os pais de Granger e pediu que o levassem ao seu escritório naquela tarde para discutir o papel de Damian, um adolescente russo no filme The North Star . 

Granger fez o teste para o produtor Goldwyn, a roteirista Lillian Hellman e o diretor Lewis Milestone . Hellman estava tentando convencer Montgomery Clift a deixar a peça da Broadway em que ele estava atuando, e quando seus esforços se mostraram inúteis, o papel foi dado a Granger. Durante a década de 1940, Goldwyn assinou com ele um contrato de sete anos por US$ 100 por semana. 

Carreira posterior

Apesar de suas três experiências malsucedidas na Broadway, Granger continuou a se concentrar no teatro no início dos anos 1960. Ele aceitou um convite de Eva Le Gallienne para se juntar ao National Repertory Theatre. Durante sua primeira temporada, enquanto a companhia estava na Filadélfia , John F. Kennedy foi assassinado. O presidente compareceu à noite de abertura da NRT e à gala pós-apresentação na capital do país, então a notícia atingiu todos na companhia de forma especialmente dura. Granger se tornou um amigo próximo do supervisor de produção Robert Calhoun e, embora ambos sentissem uma atração mútua, nunca discutiram isso. Naquela noite, eles se tornaram amantes. 

Granger finalmente alcançou algum sucesso na Broadway em The Seagull , The Crucible , The Glass Menagerie e Deathtrap . Ele estrelou ao lado de Barbara Cook em uma reestreia de The King and I no off-Broadway New York City Center , e em 1979 ele foi escalado para a produção da Roundabout Theatre Company de A Month in the Country . Em 1986 ele ganhou o prêmio Obie por sua atuação na peça Talley & Son de Lanford Wilson .

No início da década de 1970, Granger e Calhoun se mudaram para Roma, onde o ator fez uma série de filmes em italiano, mais notavelmente o Spaghetti Western They Call Me Trinity (1970) e o filme giallo What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974), ao lado de Mario Adorf , dirigido por Massimo Dallamano . [ 43 ] Ele apareceu em um episódio do drama policial da ABC Nakia em 1974 e também apareceu em várias novelas, incluindo One Life to Live em 1976, na qual sua interpretação de Will Vernon lhe rendeu uma indicação ao Daytime Emmy Award de Melhor Ator Principal em Série Dramática , The Edge of Night em 1979 e As the World Turns em 1987-1988, produzido por Calhoun.

Mais tarde, ele apareceu em vários documentários discutindo Hollywood em geral e Alfred Hitchcock em particular. Em 1995, ele foi entrevistado na câmera para The Celluloid Closet , discutindo a representação da homossexualidade no cinema e o uso de subtexto em vários filmes, incluindo o seu próprio. [ citação necessária ]

Em 2003, Granger fez sua última aparição no cinema no documentário Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There . Nele, ele conta a história de deixar Hollywood no auge de sua fama, comprar seu contrato de Samuel Goldwyn e se mudar para Manhattan para trabalhar no palco da Broadway. 

Em 2007, Granger publicou o livro de memórias Include Me Out , coescrito com seu parceiro doméstico Robert Calhoun (nascido em 24 de novembro de 1930). No livro, que leva o nome de um dos famosos erros de linguagem de Goldwyn , ele discute livremente sua carreira e vida pessoal. 

Morte

Granger morreu de causas naturais em seu apartamento em Manhattan em 27 de março de 2011, aos 85 anos. Seu corpo foi cremado e suas cinzas doadas à família após um serviço no restaurante The Riverside. 

[paysagesinterieurs]

🇫🇷 Apparition sublime sur la marche qui me mène de Brooklyn à Manhattan. Vautrée sur le trottoir, piétinée, malmenée par le vent, la poussière et pourtant bien présente. J’en fais ma guide pour mes dernières semaines à New York. Elle me fait penser à Rita, #ritahayworth mais je ne suis pas sûre que ce soit elle. Divine apparition sur le trottoir, au 900 de la Metropolitan Avenue, à Brooklyn, devant un garage et juste à côté d’un tas de poussière noué à un gobelet écrasé rose.

🇺🇸 Sublime apparition on my way for a walk from Brooklyn to Manhattan.

Sprawled on the sidewalk, trampled, battered by wind, dust and still present. I make my guide for my last weeks in New York. She makes me think of Rita, #ritahayworth but I'm not sure it's her. Divine appearance on the sidewalk at 900 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, in front of a garage and right next to a pile of dust, tied to a crushed pink goblet. 

[oldshowbiz]

The former apartment building home of Phil Silvers, Huntz Hall, and Fatty Arbuckle at 1345 Hayworth Avenue.

[krinsbez2]

Also, this video.

BTW, it seems it’s no longer pinned in the video’s comments section, so here is a full list of the films and the major performers (distinct film numbers in square brackets):

EDIT: Belatedly realized the list is stupid long, so I’m putting it under a cut:

1. [1] Red-Headed Woman (1932) – Jean Harlow. 2. [2] The Littlest Rebel (1935) – Shirley Temple and Bill Robinson. 3. [3] The Barkleys of Broadway (1949) – Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. 4. [4] Sensations of 1945 – David Lichine and Eleanor Powell. 5. [5] Broadway Melody of 1940 – Fred Astaire. 6. [6] Honolulu (1939) – Eleanor Powell and Gracie Allen. 7. Broadway Melody of 1940 – Fred Astaire. 8. [7] Lady Be Good (1941) – Eleanor Powell. 9. [8] Girl Crazy (1943) – Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. 10. [9] You Were Never Lovelier (1942) – Rita Hayworth and Fred Astaire. 11. Broadway Melody of 1940 – Eleanor Powell and Fred Astaire. 12. [10] Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949) – Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly. 13. [11] Colleen (1936) – Ruby Keeler and Paul Draper. 14. [12] Gilda (1946) – Rita Hayworth. 15. [13] It Happened in Brooklyn (1947) – Frank Sinatra and Jimmy Durante. 16. [14] Animal Crackers (1930) – Groucho Marx. 17. [15] For Me and My Gal (1942) – Judy Garland and Gene Kelly. 18. [16] Summer Stock (1950) – Judy Garland. 19. [17] The Little Princess (1939) – Shirley Temple. 20. The Barkleys of Broadway (1949) – Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. 21. [18] Easter Parade (1948) – Ann Miller. 22. [19] Second Chorus (1940) – Fred Astaire. 23. [20] Footlight Parade (1933) – James Cagney and Ruby Keeler. 24. [21] Kiss Me Kate (1953) – Bob Fosse and Carol Haney. 25. [22] The Pirate (1948) – Gene Kelly and the Nicholas Brothers. 26. [23] Carefree (1938) – Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. 27. [24] On the Town (1949) – Frank Sinatra, Jules Munshin, Gene Kelly, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller and Vera Ellen. 28. [25] Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929) – unidentified. Any suggestions? 29. [26] The Gay Divorcee (1934) – Fred Astaire. 30. [27] A Day at the Races (1937) – Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers. 31. [28] Go Into Your Dance (1935) – Al Jolson. 32. [29] Stormy Weather (1943) – the Nicholas Brothers. 33. [30] Babes on Broadway (1941) – Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. 34. [31] Ship Ahoy (1942) – Eleanor Powell. 35. [32] The Sky's the Limit (1943) – Fred Astaire. 36. [33] Small Town Girl (1953) – Bobby Van. 37. [34] Anchors Aweigh (1945) – Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra. 38. [35] Show Boat (1936) – Sammy White and Queenie Smith. 39. [36] Top Hat (1935) – Fred Astaire. 40. [37] Broadway Melody of 1936 – Eleanor Powell. 41. [38] Roberta (1935) – Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. 42. [39] Love 'em and Leave 'em (1926) – Louise Brooks. 43. [40] Singin' in the Rain (1952) – Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds and Gene Kelly. 44. [41] Babes in Arms (1939) – Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. 45. [42] 42nd Street (1933) – chorus. 46. [43] Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) – Judy Garland. 47. [44] The Band Wagon (1953) – Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire. 48. [45] Born to Dance (1936) – Eleanor Powell. 49. Broadway Melody of 1936 – Eleanor Powell. 50. Honolulu (1939) – Eleanor Powell. 51. [46] Rosalie (1937) – Eleanor Powell. 52. [47] Swing Time (1936) – Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. 53. [48] Ziegfeld Follies (1945) – Lucille Ball (with whip). 54. Top Hat (1935) – Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. 55. [49] Follow the Fleet (1936) – Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. 56. [50] Cover Girl (1944) – Gene Kelly, Rita Hayworth and Phil Silvers. 57. [51] Thousands Cheer (1943) – Eleanor Powell. 58. Anchors Aweigh (1945) – Jerry Mouse and Gene Kelly. 59. [52] Royal Wedding (1951) – Fred Astaire. 60. [53] Way out West (1937) – Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel. 61. [54] The Red Shoes (1948) – Moira Shearer. 62. [55] Blue Skies (1946) – Fred Astaire. 63. [56] Boarding House Blues (1948) – the Berry Brothers. 64. [57] Panama Hattie (1942) – the Berry Brothers. 65. [58] The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939) – Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. 66. [59] Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) – James Cagney. 67. [60] Broadway Melody of 1938 – Buddy Ebsen, Eleanor Powell and George Murphy. 68. [61] An American in Paris (1951) – Georges Guétary. 69. [62] The Little Colonel (1935) – Bill Robinson and Shirley Temple. 70. Stormy Weather (1943) – the Nicholas Brothers. 71. [63] Shall We Dance? (1937) – Fred Astaire 72. Easter Parade (1948) – Fred Astaire. 73. [64] On the Avenue (1937) – the Ritz Brothers. 74. [65] Hellzapoppin' (1941) – Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers. 75. Lady Be Good (1941) – Eleanor Powell. 76. Stormy Weather (1943) – the Nicholas Brothers. 77. Panama Hattie (1942) – the Berry Brothers. 78. Singin' in the Rain (1952) – Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds and Gene Kelly. 79. Stormy Weather (1943) – the Nicholas Brothers. 80. Panama Hattie (1942) – the Berry Brothers. 81. [66] That's Entertainment, Part 2 (1976) – Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. 82. Ziegfeld Follies (1945) – Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. 83. That's Entertainment, Part 2 (1976) – Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly.

[arte-e-homoerotismo]

Farley Granger

Farley Earle Granger Jr. (1 de julho de 1925 - 27 de março de 2011) foi um ator americano.

Granger foi notado pela primeira vez em uma pequena produção teatral em Hollywood por um diretor de elenco de Goldwyn , e recebeu um papel significativo em The North Star (1943), um filme controverso que elogiava a União Soviética no auge da Segunda Guerra Mundial, mas depois condenado por sua posição política. Outro filme de guerra, The Purple Heart (1944), veio depois, antes do serviço naval de Granger em Honolulu , em uma unidade que organizava entretenimento de tropas no Pacífico . Aqui ele fez contatos úteis, incluindo Bob Hope , Betty Grable e Rita Hayworth . Foi também onde ele começou a explorar sua bissexualidade , que ele disse nunca ter sentido necessidade de esconder.

Seu papel em Rope , de Hitchcock , um relato ficcional do caso de assassinato de Leopold e Loeb de 1924, rendeu-lhe muitos elogios da crítica, embora o filme tenha recebido críticas mistas. Hitchcock o escalou novamente em Strangers on a Train , como uma estrela do tênis atraída para uma trama de assassinato recíproco por um psicopata rico ; ele descreveu isso como sua experiência cinematográfica mais feliz.

Granger continuou a aparecer no palco, no cinema e na televisão até os 70 anos. Seu trabalho variou de drama clássico na Broadway a vários filmes em italiano e grandes documentários sobre Hollywood. Por sua contribuição à televisão, Granger tem uma estrela localizada em 1551 Vine Street na Calçada da Fama de Hollywood .

Vida pregressa

Granger nasceu em San Jose, Califórnia , filho de Eva (nascida Hopkins) e Farley Earle Granger Sr. Ele morava na 1185 Hanchett Avenue no bairro Hanchett Residence Park. 

Seu pai rico era dono de uma concessionária de automóveis Willys-Overland , e a família frequentemente passava um tempo em sua casa de praia em Capitola , na Baía de Monterey . Após a quebra da bolsa de valores em 1929 , os Grangers foram forçados a vender suas casas e a maioria de seus pertences pessoais e se mudar para um apartamento acima do negócio da família, onde permaneceram pelos próximos dois anos. Como resultado desse revés financeiro e da perda de seu status social, ambos os pais de Granger começaram a beber muito. Eventualmente, o restante de seus bens foi vendido em leilão para liquidar suas dívidas, e o Granger mais velho usou o último carro em seu lote para levar a família para Los Angeles no meio da noite. 

Na década de 1930, a família vivia em um pequeno apartamento em uma parte decadente de Hollywood , e os pais de Granger trabalhavam em vários empregos temporários. O consumo de bebida aumentou, e o casal brigava com frequência. Esperando que ele se tornasse um dançarino de sapateado , a mãe de Granger o matriculou no Ethel Meglin's, o estúdio de instrução de dança e teatro onde Judy Garland e Shirley Temple começaram. 

O pai de Granger encontrou trabalho como escriturário na filial de North Hollywood do Departamento de Desemprego da Califórnia , e seu salário permitiu que ele desse uma pequena entrada em uma casa em Studio City , onde seu vizinho era o ator/dançarino Donald O'Connor . Em seu escritório, o pai de Granger conheceu o comediante Harry Langdon no início da década de 1940, que o aconselhou a levar seu filho a um pequeno teatro local onde estavam sendo realizadas audições abertas para The Wookey , uma peça britânica sobre londrinos lutando para sobreviver durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. O uso de um sotaque cockney por Granger, aos 17 anos, impressionou o diretor, e ele foi escalado para vários papéis. O público da noite de estreia incluiu o agente de talentos Phil Gersh e o diretor de elenco de Samuel Goldwyn, Bob McIntyre, e na manhã seguinte Gersh contatou os pais de Granger e pediu que o levassem ao seu escritório naquela tarde para discutir o papel de Damian, um adolescente russo no filme The North Star . 

Granger fez o teste para o produtor Goldwyn, a roteirista Lillian Hellman e o diretor Lewis Milestone . Hellman estava tentando convencer Montgomery Clift a deixar a peça da Broadway em que ele estava atuando, e quando seus esforços se mostraram inúteis, o papel foi dado a Granger. Durante a década de 1940, Goldwyn assinou com ele um contrato de sete anos por US$ 100 por semana. 

Carreira posterior

Apesar de suas três experiências malsucedidas na Broadway, Granger continuou a se concentrar no teatro no início dos anos 1960. Ele aceitou um convite de Eva Le Gallienne para se juntar ao National Repertory Theatre. Durante sua primeira temporada, enquanto a companhia estava na Filadélfia , John F. Kennedy foi assassinado. O presidente compareceu à noite de abertura da NRT e à gala pós-apresentação na capital do país, então a notícia atingiu todos na companhia de forma especialmente dura. Granger se tornou um amigo próximo do supervisor de produção Robert Calhoun e, embora ambos sentissem uma atração mútua, nunca discutiram isso. Naquela noite, eles se tornaram amantes. 

Granger finalmente alcançou algum sucesso na Broadway em The Seagull , The Crucible , The Glass Menagerie e Deathtrap . Ele estrelou ao lado de Barbara Cook em uma reestreia de The King and I no off-Broadway New York City Center , e em 1979 ele foi escalado para a produção da Roundabout Theatre Company de A Month in the Country . Em 1986 ele ganhou o prêmio Obie por sua atuação na peça Talley & Son de Lanford Wilson .

No início da década de 1970, Granger e Calhoun se mudaram para Roma, onde o ator fez uma série de filmes em italiano, mais notavelmente o Spaghetti Western They Call Me Trinity (1970) e o filme giallo What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974), ao lado de Mario Adorf , dirigido por Massimo Dallamano . [ 43 ] Ele apareceu em um episódio do drama policial da ABC Nakia em 1974 e também apareceu em várias novelas, incluindo One Life to Live em 1976, na qual sua interpretação de Will Vernon lhe rendeu uma indicação ao Daytime Emmy Award de Melhor Ator Principal em Série Dramática , The Edge of Night em 1979 e As the World Turns em 1987-1988, produzido por Calhoun.

Mais tarde, ele apareceu em vários documentários discutindo Hollywood em geral e Alfred Hitchcock em particular. Em 1995, ele foi entrevistado na câmera para The Celluloid Closet , discutindo a representação da homossexualidade no cinema e o uso de subtexto em vários filmes, incluindo o seu próprio. [ citação necessária ]

Em 2003, Granger fez sua última aparição no cinema no documentário Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There . Nele, ele conta a história de deixar Hollywood no auge de sua fama, comprar seu contrato de Samuel Goldwyn e se mudar para Manhattan para trabalhar no palco da Broadway. 

Em 2007, Granger publicou o livro de memórias Include Me Out , coescrito com seu parceiro doméstico Robert Calhoun (nascido em 24 de novembro de 1930). No livro, que leva o nome de um dos famosos erros de linguagem de Goldwyn , ele discute livremente sua carreira e vida pessoal. 

Morte

Granger morreu de causas naturais em seu apartamento em Manhattan em 27 de março de 2011, aos 85 anos. Seu corpo foi cremado e suas cinzas doadas à família após um serviço no restaurante The Riverside. 

Farley Granger

[desperadc]

meet OLIVER FORD !! to read more about him click the link below !!

full name: oliver hayworth ford

nicknames: olly, ford

age: 23

birthday: june 23

zodiac: cancer

gender: cismale

sexuality: bisexual

height: 5′10

body type: muscular 

distinguishing features: freckles across his cheeks & tops of his shoulders

tattoos/piercings: left ear pierced 

about - *TW DEATH/CHILD-EMOTIONAL ABUSE/VIOLENCE/CPTSD*

norma earl never wanted children and she stood by that until she met terrance ford. it was the kind of love that hit hard and fast. the duo fell so quickly that the people in their lives had a hard time catching up. they moved in with each other within two months of dating and by the fourth month, norma was pregnant. terrance wanted to do the noble thing and proposed, wanting to step for the kid. norma was hesitant, having always planned on never having children but she loved terrance so much that she figured it wouldn’t be so bad with him around to help. everything was going fine for the couple until 8 months into the pregnancy, terrance got into a car accident which involved a drunk driver which unfortunately took his life. norma was stuck, too far along in the pregnancy to get rid of it and now completely alone with a soon to be born child she didn’t even really want to begin with. when terrance died, norma broke in a way that could never be fixed and she held onto so much anger about his death that she pointed onto her child. 

as soon as oliver was born, norma barely touched him or even looked at him. her and terrance’s parents would take turns looking after the baby because to them norma was still mourning her husband which wasn’t untrue. soon there wasn’t much of an excuse for norma to never be alone with her child and her anger started to become an issue. she blamed oliver for terrance’s death, using the logic that if she hadn’t gotten pregnant that none of that would of ever happened and she would be happy without him. every second she got, she’d remind him of that. before he could even speak, she’d drill it into him that he was to blame for his fathers death. 

as oliver grew older, his mother’s insults and anger turned to violence. she knew he’d never hit her back or fight because he was taught not to hit women. it all escalated the day he accidentally broke a vase which was the last straw for her and she pushed him to the ground before kicking him in the stomach. occurrences like this became more and more normal along with the constant reminders of how much of burden he was, how he is the reason his fathers dead and how much his mother wished he didn’t exist. 

while this was all happening, no one knew. his grandparents, his teachers, his friends. no one knew that his mother was treating him this way because he’d gotten so used to her abuse that he wanted to please her and make her happy because he thought he deserved it all. it wasn’t until he started high school that he started to realize that this wasn’t normal and he had to get out. olly secretly got a job and told his mother he was studying late so he could save money to move away after high school. he worked and saved until he finally had enough combined with the money his grandparents gave him as a graduation present. olly left the day after graduation, got on a plane and stepped off in nyc. he called his grandparents and told them he left the uk because he needed to ‘find himself’ because it was easier to say that i can’t be in the same country as my mother. 

olly stumbled into the avenue one night, not knowing the history or significance of the place. he was deep in the closet, still in the denial about being bisexual but with his new found bravery, he walked into himbo’s and walked out with a job. he came out three months after starting there and has worked there ever since. his life has gotten so much better, so much happier and for once he wasn’t faking his smile most of the time but the memories and pain he suffered in his childhood was too much for him to just move on from. he has trouble sleeping, riddled with nightmares that plague his sleep and remind him of the horrible things his mother did. everything is starting to catch up with him but he’s too stubborn to ask for help or let anyone know that he needs help to begin with.

personality

olly has always been a friendly guy who can make people smile. very literally the type of guy to give you the shirt off his back if you need it even if you don’t ask but would rather pull out his own tongue than express his own feelings. his childhood is at fault here, the abuse making it hard for him to trust himself and his judgement of other people so he’s constantly worried if people would judge him or think he’s too damaged or unlovable so he just pretends nothing bad is ever going on with him. that being said, he doesn’t do relationships or love and gravitates towards unattached arrangements like hook ups. 

wanted connections:

friends, hookups, fwb, romantic interest ( pls mssg me if ur interested in this bc im picky lmao ) etc ! if u have any open connections u think olly would fit dont hesitate to hmu !

[evanderwoodsen]

Eric’s Condo: some useful facts for writing

Address: Hayworth Condominium, 1289 Lexington Avenue, residence 11D

On the corner of Lexington Avenue and East 86th Street

Three bedrooms, three bathrooms and a powder room

Custom designed kitchen

24/7 concierge & doorman

[the-record-obituaries]

Dec. 4, 2019: Obituaries

Debra Bauguess, 65

Debra Lou Bauguess, age 65, of  North Wilkesboro, passed away Sunday, December 1, 2019 at Wake Forest Baptist Health-Wilkes Regional. Debra was born December 19, 1953 in Wilkes County. She was preceded in death by her father, Clint Call; mother, Evelyn Sparks Lyall; brother, Randall Call; and sister, Mary Acosta.

Surviving are her husband, Mark Bauguess; daughter, Tina Bauguess Durham and spouse Brock of Roaring River; son, Michael Bauguess of North Wilkesboro; grandchildren, Gralan Durham, Hayden Durham, Allie Brooke Durham; several nieces and nephews.

Graveside service was  December 3  at North Wilkesboro City Cemetery with Rev. Victor Church officiating. The family has requested no flowers. Memorials may be made to the American Stroke Foundation, 6405  Metcalf Avenue, Suite 214, Overland Park, Kansas 66202. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.

 Shelba Church, 82

Shelba Jean Church, age 82, of Wilkesboro, passed away Sunday, December 1, 2019 at Forsyth Medical Center. She was born February 20, 1937 in Wilkes County to Cecil Lee and Mildred Marie Whittington Church.

Mrs. Church was a member of Lewis Fork Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, Rex Lee Church and Cecil Ralph Church.

Surviving are her husband, Loyde Church; son, Tim Church and spouse Courtney of Wilkesboro; grandchildren, Madalyn Church and Alexis Church; brother, Kenneth Reece Church and spouse Sheila.

Service was December 3, 2019 at Lewis Fork Baptist Church with Pastor Dwayne Andrews and Rev. Sherrill Wellborn officiating. Burial followed in the Church Cemetery.   Flowers will be accepted. The family has requested no food, please. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.

  Randall Wagoner, 49

Mr. Randall Shannon Wagoner, 49, of Wilkesboro, passed away on Thursday, November 28, 2019.

Randall was born on Wednesday, March 18, 1970 in Wilkes County to Linda Mae Wagoner.

Randall is preceded in death by his brother Rex Allen Parsons and step father Rex Elisha Parsons.

Randall is survived by his wife, Kimberly Porter Wagoner of the home; daughters, Kaitlyn Nicole Wagoner of North Wilkesboro, Erica Hannah Wagoner of Wilkesboro; mother Linda W. Brown and Christopher "Chris" Brown of North Wilkesboro.  

A graveside service was held December 1, at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Cemetery with Rev. Brady Hayworth and Preacher Scott Wagoner officiated..

In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be given to the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Cemetery Fund.

Adams Funeral Home of Wilkes has the honor of serving the Wagoner Family.

  Margaret Call, 76

Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth Shepard Call, "Doll" passed away Tuesday, November 26, 2019 at Wilkes Senior Village.

Funeral services were November 30, at Fishing Creek Arbor Baptist Church with Rev. David Welborn and Rev. Allen Bouchelle officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery.  

Mrs. Call was born January 2, 1933 in Wilkes County to Clarence and Ermma Staley Shepard. She was retired from American Drew Dining Room Plant. Mrs. Call was a member of Fishing Creek Arbor Baptist Church. Doll as she was called, was a hard worker. She always had an open door for friends, family and her neighbors. She was an excellent caretaker for family and friends, loved to sew, cut hair and especially loved her grandchildren and was a Jack of all trades.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband; James Phillip Call three sisters; Beatrice Williams, Mary Curry and Betty Minton, two brothers; Mack Shepard and Joe Shepard and two grandchildren; Barney Call and Emily Call.

She is survived by a daughter; Peggy Byers and Robert Foster of North Wilkesboro, four sons; Rex Allen Call and wife Nancy of Wilkesboro, Charles Call and Michelle Stanley of Wilkesboro, Randy Call and wife Shirlene of Wilkesboro and Terry Call and Regina Dowell of Wilkesboro, nine grandchildren; Tabitha, Jason, Angie, Anthony, Zach, Dusty, Jamie, Amy and Amanda, sixteen great grandchildren and a brother; David Shepard of North Wilkesboro.

Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made at Fishing Creek Abor Baptist Church Building Fund 2446 Fishing Creek Arbor Road Wilkesboro, NC 28697 of Alzheimer's Association 4600 Park Road Suite  250 Charlotte, NC 28209.

  Nadine Anderson, 86

Ms. Nadine Opal Anderson, age 86 of North Wilkesboro, passed away Tuesday, November 26, 2019 at Gordon Hospice in Statesville.

The family received friends November 29, at Reins Sturdivant Funeral Home.

Ms. Anderson was born December 1, 1932 in Wilkes County to James Cicero and Drusey Soots Anderson. She retired from Carolina Mirror. Ms. Anderson loved to cook, bake and read. She loved to read her Bible and loved her family. Nadine was crowned the Farmer's Queen and Miss Wilkes County of 1951.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a son; Scott Tevepaugh, two sisters and four brothers.

She is survived by seven daughters; Vernell Powers and husband Gary of Moravian Falls, Bobbie Glass of Moravian Falls, Phyllis Spicer and husband Barry of Yadkinville, Terri Guion and husband Bobby of Taylorsville, Julie Tevepaugh of North Wilkesboro, Brenda Tevepaugh of Wilkesboro and Beth Pennell and husband Jody of Stony Point and a son; Robert C. Tevepaugh of North Wilkesboro, eleven grandchildren; twenty one great grandchildren three great great grandchildren and two step grandchildren .

Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to Gordon Hospice Home 2341 Simonton Road Statesville NC 28625 or Alzheimer's Association 4600 Park Road Suite 250 Charlotte, NC 28209.

   Stella Couplin, 70

Stella Colleen Couplin, age 70, of North Wilkesboro, passed away Monday,

November 25, 2019 at her home. Stella was born August 22, 1949 in Buncombe County to Joseph Wayne and Anna Belle Cothern Simonds. She was preceded in death by her parents; and sister, Betty Catherine Waddell.

She is survived by her daughter, Michelle Erwin of North Wilkesboro; brother, Larry Wayne Simonds and spouse Crystal of Granite Falls; sister, Barbara Simonds of North Wilkesboro; grandson, Zachary Michael Erwin of North Wilkesboro; brother-in-law, Chris Waddell of North Wilkesboro; several nieces and nephews.

Memorial service will be held at a later date. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.

  Brenda Church, 72

Mrs. Brenda Kay Henderson Church, age 72 of North Wilkesboro passed away Sunday, November 24, 2019 at SECU Hospice Home in Yadkinville.

Funeral services were November 30, at Second Baptist Church with Rev. Danny Dillard and Rev. Wiley Boggs officiating.  Burial was in the Church Family Cemetery.       Mrs. Church was born July 27, 1947 in Iredell County to Mull and Frankie Keever Henderson.  Brenda was Phi Theta Kappa in college, world best cook, accepted with full honors to the University of Chapel Hill at age 59, she loved spending time with her grandchildren, best private detective, huge Tarheel fan and world's best mother, grandmother and a caring loving wife.  She was a member of Second Baptist Church.

In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by a sister; Paulette Cloer, a brother; Jerry Henderson and fur baby; Tiny.

She is survived by her husband; Eugene Church of the home, three daughters; Gina Hall and husband Gregory of Hays, Lori Church of North Wilkesboro and April Wilburn and husband Roger of Hays, two sons; Johnny Eugene Church of North Wilkesboro and Matthew Boyd Church and wife Haillee of Millers Creek, twelve grandchildren; Maria Church, Matthew Church, Monica Church, Brittany Church, Zoey Church, Reed Church, Cameron Hall, Noah Hall, Chance Kohlmeier, Autumn Transeau, Hunter Transeau and Philip Wilburn, four great grandchildren and a brother; Paul Henderson of Statesville.

Flowers will be accepted or memorial may be made to Mountain Valley Hospice, 243 North Lee Avenue, Yadkinville, NC 27055.

[ritahayworrth]

Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Hedy Lamarr and Fred Astaire

answers after the cut!

put an actor/actress in my ask and i’ll tell you all the things i’ve seen them in

Rita Hayworth

Twelve!

Gilda

Affair in Trinidad

The Loves of Carmen

Separate Tables

You Were Never Lovelier

You’ll Never Get Rich

Cover Girl

Down to Earth

The Strawberry Blonde

Pal Joey

The Lady in Shanghai

The Lady in Question

Ginger Rogers

Thirty-one!! + every time she was What’s My Line? (I think she was mystery guest six times?)

Flying Down to Rio

The Gay Divorcee

Roberta

Top Hat

Swing Time

Follow the Fleet

Shall We Dance

Carefree

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

The Barkleys of Broadway

I’ll Be Seeing You

Kitty Foyle

42nd Street

Gold Diggers of 1933

Stage Door

Monkey Business

The Major and the Minor

Vivacious Lady

Bachelor Mother

Roxie Hart

Black Widow

Once Upon a Honeymoon

Storm Warning

Fifth Avenue Girl

Tom, Dick, and Harry

Heartbeat

Lucky Partners

Having Wonderful Time

Professional Sweetheart

The First Traveling Saleslady

Week-End at the Waldorf

Hedy Lamarr

Seven, and when she was on What’s My Line?:

Ziegfeld Girl

Her Highness and the Bellboy

The Heavenly Body

The Strange Woman

Come Live With Me

Algiers

Dishonored Lady

Fred Astaire

Twenty + the two times he was on What’s My Line?:

Flying Down to Rio

The Gay Divorcee

Roberta

Top Hat

Swing Time

Follow the Fleet

Shall We Dance

Carefree

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

The Barkleys of Broadway

Funny Face

The Band Wagon

Silk Stockings

Easter Parade

Royal Wedding

You Were Never Lovelier

You’ll Never Get Rich

Ziegfeld Follies?

Holiday Inn

Broadway of Melody of 1940

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Poem by Jade Blackmore - Small Talk

Poem by Jade Blackmore – Small Talk

Small talk, Transparent and barely tolerable, Drops to the checkered sidewalk. A chunk of cement strapped stilettos, Costly and void, but always 90 proof, Doesn’t sway the heart Or stick to the ribs.

Butterfly stalker. Fairfax Avenue graffiti Covers up Rita Hayworth With bountiful scars. these words mean less Than when A bubble girl sang it. That says a lot.

Words bounce back to you And then up to…

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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

©  ANNE LAPEDUS BREST

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

!!!!  

 © Anne Lapedus Brest,   (Ex Dublin, Ireland)  Sandton, South Africa.

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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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