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From: Doug & Pat Frykberg <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] John Orr Department Store
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 13:24:36 +1200


Not genealogical strictly though this is the kind of thing that make our
histories live......Worse still, my three year old saw a woman in a most
gorgeous fox fur across her shoulders,( you know the kind where the head
hangs down one's back?). In a loud voice came this "Mum,, what's that lady
doing with a dead dog on her shoulders"
exit me....fast.
Pat
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Rodger <>
To: <>
Date: Tuesday, 18 June 2002 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: [ZA] John Orr Department Store


>Sorry to hear of John Orr's demise, it was an institution, in Natal also.
>
>A friend of mine when living in Pietermaritzburg was in John Orr's one day
>with her little girl, to whom she had just confided that she was pregnant
>(though not visibly so). She was mortified when the child suddenly
>announced to the world at large, and the fashionable clientele of John
>Orr's in particular, in the piercing tones of the very young: "My Mummy's
>going to have a baby!" She had a real struggle to pretend that there was
>no connection between them.
>
>This was in the late fifties -- how things have changed since then!
>
>Andrew in Australia
>
>>The store that you are referring to went out of business in the early
>>1980's. Though the name survived for a number of years, it was a totally
>>different operation, different shareholders & all. Even that now seems to
>>have disappeared. If you are looking for company records, you might like
to
>>try one Nic Labuschagne in Durban. Nic was a director of the old John Orr
>>Co.,
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Doug & Pat Frykberg" <>
>>To: <>
>>Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 03:46
>>Subject: Re: [ZA] Resending John Orr posting!
>>
>>
>>> Always called John Orr's.
>>> Pat
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Ann TENTHY <>
>>> To: <>
>>> Date: Monday, 17 June 2002 11:45 AM
>>> Subject: [ZA] Resending John Orr posting!
>>>
>>>
>>> >Sorry Group
>>> >Mind was running ahead of me. Am looking for the Department Store run
by
>>> John Orr & Co in Johannesburg in 1939! Suppose it was referred to as
>>Orr's!
>>> >Thanks
>>> >Ann
>>> >
>>> >
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