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Post by 14liney on Oct 23, 2009 4:02:17 GMT 12
I have many blurry memories of Ohakea in the 60's.....it was a great place to be....right Shorty?
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Post by chewy on Oct 23, 2009 21:17:13 GMT 12
Who remembers Egor, Woof and Bot and the yellow letter boxes called the DB south . Was it Woof who dived off the bulls bridge and landed on a matress on the roof of a van. The burning pianoes pushed off the bridge. When i was at AMS we had home brewing contests at the monthly happy hours.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 25, 2009 21:04:00 GMT 12
Gee, how did Ohakea go from what sounds like a scarfie village on acid to total boredom by the time I got there?
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Post by chewy on Oct 26, 2009 14:41:36 GMT 12
When Geof Ford was warrent officer at AMS we had good happy hours. The Power Plant Bay had a squash game ladder and there was a two dollar penalty if a challenger lost a match. Always enough money in the pot for beers on a friday afternoon. The base had great village green sports days at the end of the year. One year Mike Fordyce got blown through a window by the prop wash off a C130.
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Post by beagle on Oct 26, 2009 15:20:32 GMT 12
Yep, i remember that. The captain got a bit of a repremand over that.
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Post by chewy on Oct 26, 2009 19:03:23 GMT 12
I met Paulette Bradley a few weeks ago when she was visiting CHCH, she filled me in on all the gossip from Ohakea. Her other half, Morty is still playing with steam things.
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Post by junior on Jun 4, 2012 22:22:54 GMT 12
at a happy hour many years ago, a guys girlfriend turned up to take him home............. in a local school uniform. it was her school uniform....... LOL.... wasnt one of your girlfriends was it Beags'? .... oh... no, sorry she was the one in latex and riding crop <wink> I think I remember that particular Happy 4 Hours... but cant remember the poor guys name.
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Post by beagle on Jun 5, 2012 0:54:22 GMT 12
pretty sure it was Joe jessup
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Post by ngatimozart on Jun 5, 2012 16:29:41 GMT 12
Wigram Xmas draws in the 70's. And the baggies club pay night discos. I remember them trying to get a sleeper & studs themed disco announcement into BROs. Management were not amused so the announcement had to be changed. Then there was the cross dressing themed nights. Bavarian Beer fests with Sgt Shultz and the Ompah band. Very few went home sober from that. Yes Wigram was pretty social. The Cpls club used to do a roaring trade in take away beer from the inmates of Block 6. The WOs & SNCOs had the best Xmas draw prizes and they weren't fussy about who they sold tickets too. I went to Hobby after Wellington & Shelly Bay and the Cpls club at Hobby was pretty lively. More than once staggered across the airfield to the MQ patch. Shelly Bay was an alcoholics paradise Very good food in the JRs mess too.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 5, 2012 20:17:17 GMT 12
Where was the Cpls Club at Hobsonville? I'm trying to recall. I remember the Officers Mess, W/O and S/NCO's Mess and the Airmans Club....
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Post by jonesy on Jun 5, 2012 20:38:05 GMT 12
I remember AMS (OH) in the late 80's there were chili nites, and also home brew competitions. They certainly were great times werent they?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 5, 2012 22:06:02 GMT 12
Does the RNZAF still have any of this sort of culture now or has it all disappeared with the recent crackdowns on drinking and the massive drop in morale thanks to the Government cuts?
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Post by junior on Jun 5, 2012 22:11:39 GMT 12
Where was the Cpls Club at Hobsonville? I'm trying to recall. I remember the Officers Mess, W/O and S/NCO's Mess and the Airmans Club.... From memory, Dave, the Cpls Club was in the top floor of the barrack block next the the baggies club but it wasnt well patronised so sometime around mid 80's they closed it and made the "Baggies" a combined "Aimans Club". I remember one of the last "Oktoberfests" held at the Hobby Airmans Club.... It started at 12pm on a Saturday afternoon (although we were there by 10am as usual) and didnt finish til midnight. We brought in four bands ... The Blow Monkeys, The Exponents, The Mockers, and some other band whose name eludes me. It was a screaming success. The first 150 or so that bought a ticket got an etched beer mug (I still have mine). About 400 people turned up. The committee organised for a DB Export Mini-tanker to come in and the beer was administered directly from the tanker ..... oh the memories! There was almost a riot as about 5pm or 6pm we had drunk the mini-tanker dry!!! Another load was hastily delivered and the party continued. Brilliant! Great days... great times. ;D
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Post by beagle on Jun 5, 2012 22:17:23 GMT 12
There was a guy at ARS in the 80's called Nibby who wasn't allowered to stay too long at Happy Hours. We managed to keep him there till late one night then took him home. His mrs was outside with this big cast iron fry pan. next day he came to work with a few bruises.
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Post by beagle on Jun 5, 2012 22:30:50 GMT 12
Mind you, ARS happy hours wern't the best of times for me for a few months in a row. One time i ended up driving home after wards, as you did in those days, and went into the ditch on the southern side of renwick. Carless and on bike for next happy hour, the ditch got me again and rolled through a blackberry bush. Didn't feel anything till the next morning.
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Post by junior on Jun 5, 2012 22:43:18 GMT 12
Wigram Happy Hours in the 80's were great.... you always knew it had been a good one when Mouse Moyes came to work the next day bandaged up or in a sling or with a multitude of cuts and bruises where he had fallen off his bicycle on the way home.
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Post by beagle on Jun 5, 2012 22:45:49 GMT 12
Wigram Happy Hours...... The main thing was to stay clear of Cam Cameron. He would have you in a head lock real quick and you were captured for the night. Pretty sure that happened each base he went to.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 5, 2012 22:47:46 GMT 12
Ah yes, that's right, Hobby and Whenuapai were both Junior Ranks (JR's) clubs. I knew that of Whenuapai but had forgotten Hobby was as we never saw any Cpls int here from the RNZAF, though one or two 5 Movements Army Cpls did use it.
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Post by zolteg on Jun 5, 2012 23:25:03 GMT 12
Hobby & Whenupai only went JRC in the oh, late late '80s.
Last time I saw the old Hobby Cpls club Army 6 had taken it over. It was upstairs at the end of one of those two story barrack blocks.
Whenuapai Cpls Club was like Ohakeas - in the main block next to the WO's & SNCOs. It went back & forth during my ten years there, first split, then JRs, then back again. Pretty sure they turned it back to JRC just after I got posted to Woodbourne in '95.
Last pissup at the WP Cpls club I went to was a toga night. The committee had gone to the set design people at TVNZ & hired some big polystyrene plinths with Roman heads on it. After a few (ok, far too) many, I recall kicking one of the heads about outside the clothing store.
DIdn't realise they were worth a couple of hundy each 'til the Sqn WO told me & my fellow drunks the morning after....
Late '80s were an epic time for bands though....remember the Mockers, Exponents etc at the opening of the WP JRC. And the comedy nights....can't remember the guys names, but they were on the telly at the time. That tall bloke with the big ears, and his short mate. And the guy who played the piano and took the piss outta people if they went for a leak....
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Post by phil82 on Jun 5, 2012 23:29:01 GMT 12
I have many blurry memories of Ohakea in the 60's.....it was a great place to be....right Shorty? It was...and I'm saying nothing else! Oh..alright then....I do recall taking a ladder around to the WRAF Block in broad daylight. and removing the outside light.... Told the Queen Bee were doing it as favour!
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