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holiday with his parents. He was asked by an elderly couple, who owned a grocery store
on Main Road, whether he would like to run the business for them. From this small

beginning he eventually bought the business in 1922, and then in 1926 two plots farther
along the road where he built the Triangle Garage in 1929. It took its name from the

nearby triangular intersection of Main Road with Kommetjie and Simon’s Town roads.

(Fig. 5.7). This became a circle only in the 1960s. During the 1940s he started selling
second-hand furniture and eventually the furniture took over and so Wakefords Furniture

was born. The Triangle Garage moved further down the Main Road to the building now
occupied by Pep Stores.

A. P. Jones was a Cornishman who emigrated to South Africa after World War 1. He had

previous experience in a gentleman’s outfitters and joined Garlicks as a travelling

salesman. This routine did not suit a young family man and he joined his brother in Fish
Hoek in 1921 where he opened a clothing, materials, and grocery business in a newly-

built shop between Warwick House and Wakefords. Later, as the clothing and materials

component expanded, he sold off the grocery section. When Oxleys, a clothing and
drapery business in Warwick House, was put up for sale he bought it and moved the

ladies’ clothing department there. The men’s department was run from another shop
along Main Road but, as this separation proved to be inefficient, the two departments

were eventually combined in new premises on Main Road where they remain to this day.

Fish Hoek may be unique in having two businesses still run by the families that started

them in the 1920s.

In 1924 a new building was erected at the corner of Main and Recreation Roads.
Originally known as Santoy Tearoom the name was changed to the Green Parrot

Tearoom when it was sold to an owner who brought her parrot with her. (Fig. 5.8). It was
demolished in 1964 and replaced by the present building. But if you look up at the corner