
This sign: “post” meaning post of course, “Kraft” meaning power in German is from a time when post services changed from stagecoaches transporting people and mail to buses transporting people and mail. This bus service (including delivering mail overland) ran from 1904 to the 1950s when the German post office stopped transporting passengers. They tried again in the 2010s to join the burgeoning passenger bus service in Germany but they stopped that business after a few years.
Oh, and I just had to do a Brian and include a music link. PJ Powers and Hotline was the biggest band in South Africa in the 1980s, the first commercially successful crossover band (crossover meaning they had fans with all the different population groups). PJ Powers had (has?) a successful solo carreer afterwards, and international fans might have heard her in the movie “Invictus”. One of the biggest hits was “Jabulani” (meaning “be happy!”), not quite incidentally our eldest son’s middle name.
Oh my, there were a lot more words today.
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It’s good the sign is still around. The song was fun
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I’m glad you like the song. Both our sons have names that are also South African song titles: Jabulani (we are happy) and Bongani (thank you – as in “thank you, two is enough), both are also pretty common names in isiZulu and isiXhosa.
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They are good middle names
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I enjoyed the song, Elke.
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I’m glad you did (see my answer to Brian).
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❤️
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