With reference to ‘Fond memories of Brakpan’ (January 20): An enjoyable read and it’s certainly good to see some places still exist today, like the golf course, the Casbah and Regina Café.
Let’s not forget the Springbok and Brakpan drive-ins.
During times when there was no television, the drive-in was a real outing with families squeezed into cars and children in their pajamas, or sweethearts huddled under blankets on garden chairs in the back of a bakkie, with the crackling sound provided by speakers hung from the car window.
Who remembers the bakery opposite the town hall with their delicious cream horns or the Gethsemane Centre where the forbidden LP Jesus Christ Superstar was played?
And the Lone Star (the group of waitresses was one of the first to wear hotpants), and the St Imelda Convent, now Bethany Retirement Home, with its strict regiment of nuns (our primary school teachers)?
How many of us learned to swim in the Brakpan pool with its then 15ft ‘deep-end’ and a dauntingly high diving board?
éVoid returned to Brakpan in 2014, not only to visit parents but for their South African tour.
So let us be proud of our former hometown. It was a big part of the persons we have become.
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