What are the brands of your youth ?
Sep 13, 2011 Uncategorized
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There are two brands (maybe 3) that evoke within me a memory of a period that only two other people i know today (@thamintuli and @GlenLewisSA can bear witness to.
I was 10, barely pre-teen and there was nothing in the world more important to me than after school playing with my friends.
Walka
As I think of it now, I realise that for a black person living in apartheid South Africa in the early 80′s, we were quite the privileged.
When you consider the two brands in question you will realise just how fortunate we really were.
The brands are the Sony Walkman and Bauer.
See in the early eighties it was all about roller skating and manufacturers fell over themselves to capture this market as everyone was on skates. Bauer wasn’t really all that popular. Jokari was the popular brand then because the price was right.
It was my street smart brand conscious 15 year old brother @thamintuli that shocked us all with a R300.00 (or was it R600 ?) Bauer. R300 was a lot of money in 1982 so you can imagine how shocked we all were when she showed up with his pair on Saturday at “TimesSquare”
If you have lived in the era, you would know what I am talking about.
So, what are the brands of your youth ?
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September 18th, 2011 at 4:08 am
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