- 3-cent bus tickets
- ‘AC Kermans’ and as teenagers we used to be embarrassed to go in!
- Airline bags to carry your books in
- Annuals
- Autograph books
- Bay City Rollers
- Beano
- Bessie Bunter
- Bioscope
- BM Cotton
- Body Fashions
- Book Exchanges
- Bonanza (especially Little Joe)
- Braaivleis, rugby, sunny skies and Chevrolet – the advert
- Cadbury’s Kiddies Club at the movies
- Cake mascara
- Carlos coffee shop (forbidden to HRC girls but oh so attractive)
- Cassette tape decks
- Charles of the Ritz beauty products
- Ché jeans and tops
- Cheesecloth
- Chopper bicycles
- Collecting the insides of cold drink bottom lids and filling albums with them
- Colleen coloured pencils
- Coppertone QT QuikTan
- Coppertone suntan lotion
- Crocodiles
- Curly Wurlies
- Cuthberts on Main Street
- Dallas
- Darling magazine
- David Bowie
- David Cassidy
- David Essex
- David Gresham
- Dingbats
- Donny Osmond
- Dr White’s Sanitary Belts
- Elastic games in the playground
- Espadrilles
- Fingerlik Steak House
- Galoobs
- Gap
- Garlicks and the way the perfume hall smelled
- Getting your first bra at Body Fashions in Newton Park
- Glooks
- Goya Aqua Manda perfume
- Grannies with blue rinses
- Grease sandals
- Greatermans
- Greatermans’ Rose Room
- Groovy cooldrink
- Hamburger Hut
- Heatherbank
- Heatherbank Discos
- Hifra fountain pens
- Home made sherbert at school cake sales
- Iodine
- Jackie magazine
- Jet Jungle on the radio
- June magazine
- Knickerbockers
- Kolnicks
- Le Sabot leather sandals with wooden platforms
- Life Magazine
- Louise photo comics
- Lucky dips
- Maths tins as pencil cases with pictures tapes onto them
- Men from the Ministry on the radio
- Mercurochrome
- Michael’s record bar
- My Fair Lady Talc by Cussons
- Nail Polish called Copper Penny
- Naturama
- Nick Nack Knockers
- On The Go Show
- Pantie and hemline inspections at HRC
- Paper Dolls
- Personality magazine
- Photo comics like Louise
- Pikkies
- Pink magazine
- Pip Freedman
- Popshop
- Princess Tina magazine
- Purdy from The Avengers
- Rabbitt
- Rainbow skates
- Roll O’ Gloss lipgloss
- Sanitary towels with loops
- Sarah Moon paintings
- Saucy Cat boutique at OK Bazaars
- Scope magazine
- Screwball icecreams with bubble gum at the bottom
- See magazine
- Shane
- Shelly Shop
- Shipwreck in gym class
- Skipping games
- Spectrum
- Springbok Hits
- Sister Bernard at HRC
- String games on hands
- Sugarbush
- Sylvia’s mother by Dr Hook (my mother hated that song)
- Squad cars (they prowl the empty streets at night, in cars and on foot. These are the men of….Squad Cars!)
- T Rex
- Tammy magazine
- Teddy Bear annuals
- Tennisette
- The 55 bus on the way home
- The flood of 1968
- The clipcard for the bus
- The ice rink
- The lift operator at OK Bazaars
- The Mutual Arcade
- The old roneo machine the nuns used to use to make copies. And how they smelled.
- The periscope on the double decker buses
- The Pick n Mix carousel at OK Bazaars in main street
- The smell of furniture polish on the last day of the school term
- The Stage Door
- The Sugarbush
- The Sweet
- The Tempting Tray at OK Bazaars
- The thrill of getting into over-18 movies
- The TV test pattern
- Thick multicoloured slip slops in blue or brown
- Toff O Luxe
- Tramp perfume by L’Entheric
- Two hours of TV a day
- Up and Down the Stairs Boutique
- Using baby oil or Brylcreem as tanning lotion
- Waffles at Greatermans
- Waiting for the bus in Russell Road
- Valderma and Clearasil
- Wearing hats to school
- Viewmaster
- Village Gate
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Any more to add?
Chappies bubble gum with the message inside the wrapper.
Milky Lane.
Donkin Reserve and ‘Carrots’ feeding the birds.
HRC 1965.. I’ve lost contact with pretty much all of the girls who were at school with me. I worked at the Fingerlik (first steakhouse in PE) and received R1 in wages per night. Sister Servatius was my piano teacher and Sist Unwin the principal (I think?). We moved to South Australia in 2010 but I still miss PE and can drive around it in my mind taking short cuts, with no problem!
Lyn Dickason (Sullivan)
A shout out to all old HRC 1960s pupils.
Fingerlik was the first restaurant I ever ate at! We lived in Central (Oklahoma flats) before moving to the suburbs, but I went to HRC for 12 years (mid 1968 to 1979)
Does anyone remember ‘Michael’s Record Centre’? I worked in the Newton Park branch in the early 70s…
I can remember the one in Central. I loved going there!
Stumbled across your post now…such amazing memories. You missed Happy Valley and the PE Show on your list…lol
Thank you!
I just stumbled across this post of yours… wow you have reminded me of so many awesome memories. I still live in Port Elizabeth and I still love this city (town?) so much. Yes, a lot has changed and yes a lot of it is crappy… but I stil love it. Xxx sending love from little old PE.
Thank you!
Simply amazing. What a lovely trip through time back to a childhood of innocence and wonder. I am living the USA, since the 80’s. Visit family most years, and am feeling nostalgic and am looking for ways to spend more time when I visit. Can you remind me what the ‘cool’ record store was called just off main street, a side street. My first album was the Moody Blues, bought that there, and then went to the Tempting Tray OK for lunch with my grandmother. WOW. Thanks again a lovely contribution. Best, Richard
Glad you liked it Richard! Was the record store ‘Michael’s’?
what a nice site, thanks, I was looking for a picture of the white tractor and trailer , milk , guava and orange juice home delivery, tokens in glass bottles in the 70/80’s , grew up in Port Elizabeth, Algoa Park, want to show my daughter, we were so fortunate to grow up like that, also the guy that came every Saturday with his little truck through the streets selling fruits and veggies, and the best was Coca Cola came every year with their big truck and trailer full of the small glass little cooldrink bottles, parked on our school field and we can help ourselves to as much pop as we want !
Well done Janet and thank you. I emigrated to SA in January 1970, when I arrived at EH Walton Military Road, PE, I was told that the Director who had offered me a position had left the company and there were no longer any vacancies. I managed to persuade the new Director to give me a job.
I spent two years in PE, enjoying the windy sunshine in the Friendly City.
I went on to work in East London and Johannesburg before traveling the world and building a successful career, eventually becoming the Chairman and CEO of a large international company. I regarded my period in PE as an important starting point. The products you captured in your photos may seem dated to 2020 eyes, but for us they were ground-breaking and provided us with enjoyment and fun, without the need to be glued to a mobile phone.
Best Wishes
Alex
You are most welcome Alex. Thank you so much for sharing!
An amazing, amazing list – and wonderful pics! Brought back such OLD, dear memories of my past and childhood! Loved it all!
Omw I remember it all so well. So enjoyed your post, thanks. I matriculated at HRC in 1974. Was back in PE 2 weeks ago and the decay of HRC is so sad.
Wow remember nearly all of them. Lynette Genders HRC 1950 – 1955
Just saw this post and it brought back so many memories
Patricia Howcroft (Mains-Sheard) HRC 1980
I was 1979 so you must have been the year below me!
Omw I remember it all so well. So enjoyed your post, thanks. I matriculated at HRC in 1974. Was back in PE 2 weeks ago and the decay of HRC is so sad.
What school Is HRC?? We lived in Uitenhage 60-70’s.
Holy Rosary Convent
Dear Janet,
Thank you so much for the memories. Just yesterday I was discussing pretty much all of the above.
Regards
Shakir Smith
St Augustines,Clarendon Park and Victoria Park High were the schools I attended.
I remember the 2c bus rides 😊
Is Janet Carr your maiden surname
Yes it is my maiden name 🙂
Dear Janet,
Thank you so much for the memories. Just yesterday I was discussing pretty much all of the above.
Regards
Shakir Smith
St Augustines,Clarendon Park and Victoria Park High were the schools I attended.
I remember the 2c bus rides 😊
Hi Janet, This is all amazing, Jean Taylor. Matric 1974 HRC. Grew up in Prospect Road Walmer.
Oh, thank you, for all those lovely memories of our youth.
OMG! Did you have Tiger Beat magazine in South Africa? With Donny Osmond, David Cassidy, etc. on the covers every month! Herbal Essence is making a comeback here in the state with a new tv commercial using the old bottle from old advertising and then transforming into the new bottle!
We did indeed!
VIEW MASTER watching slides
WINDOW SHOPPING IN MAIN STREET
THOSE PINK AND BLUE LUCKY DIPS AT OK BAZAARS
CUCUMBER SANDWICHES AND TEE AT HE BIRD CAGE IN GARLICKS
Not a lot different to England then. The phots are wonderful Janet and they have stirred so many happy, innocent memories. Now, I might be very thick, but why the embarrassment in going into AC Kermans? Am I missing something very obvious?
It was a very low price budget clothing chain.
Having a pie and gravy at the inhouse restaurant at OK Bazaars sticks in my memory. Then Wimpy moved in there.
Funny how we can still remember it, even all these years later!