When I was a kid.......

[Zimmie]

This might not mean much to anyone...unless you're from around here...but it used to cost 20p admission to J.B.s, and Newcastle was 15p a bottle...that was in 1972...and no I wasn't 18....I'm still not

[The GodMother]

I forgot about the candyfloss van:)

 

Never had one of those but our post would be threw the door by 7am and the milk man use to charge about 30p a pint for milk. We use to get at least 14 pint of milk a week delivered to our door daily it never cost more than about £4.20. We also use to get the tall thin glasses then te introduced the short stubbie thing whichnow cost 80p a pint and they dont deliver daily.

[fluffy_bunny]

Lol isnt it funny how nostalgia has a very rose tinted lens, we dont seem to hark back to the three day week, power cuts, sunday closing, nothing on the telly, bad fashion (until it becomes retro and then its fasionable again) riots, union rule...it wasnt all wagonwheels and chips!

 

don't remember that, must have been too busy building dens and generally running wild

[Guest wino]

Remember when the telly did not broadcast during the night? You would sit there until the white dot disapeared before going to bed!

[hilaryfrances]

when we moved into our first house in the seventies we were mystified as to why an ice cream van used to come down the road around 10pm. He was very poplular with a big queue forming each night. We could not understand what was going on with the ice cream thing. Eventually we were told he sold cigarettes!

 

Anyone remember the pink racing paper being sold on Saturday afternoons? They used to come around the streets with it so people could read the racing results!

[ukaviator]

I remember the Milk adverts, "The Humphreys". They were never-seen creatures who stole people's milk in 1970s milk commercials, with the catchphrase "Watch out, there's a Humphrey about". All you ever saw of a humphrey was a straw.

 

[fuzzybobble]

I remember the humphreys advert lol. Also other classics were Shake n Vac, Cadbury's Smash Martians, and The JamesBond inspired Milk Tray ads.

 

I remember my dad having Davenports beer deliver a crate of bottles every thursday. And the Party 7 giant can of beer that tasted like chemicals.

 

When I was little the best part of the week was when we went shopping in Fine Fare then I had a can of coke, (where the ring pull was fully removeable and razor sharp) and a huge bag of salt and vinegar chip sticks. The I used to lie behind the sofa with my head sticking out and watching the Generation Game with Larry Grayson, who used to say "shut that door".

[ukaviator]

Ohhh i remember the Party 7, drank one all to myself at a party listening to Pink Floyd, hugged a Party 7 under one arm, girlfriend at the time under the other. . .

 

The Golden Shot i remember quite well. .. with Bernie the Bolt catch phrase.

[MONX]

Anyone else remember BJ and the Bear. It was my favourite tv show in the 70's and it was about a young (extremely goodlooking) man trucker and his side kick called bear who was a monkey?

 

 

Of course a tv programe now with that title, I am sure would have something quite different as its content!

[Mr lex]

Ohhh i remember the Party 7, drank one all to myself at a party listening to Pink Floyd, hugged a Party 7 under one arm, girlfriend at the time under the other. . .

 

The Golden Shot i remember quite well. .. with Bernie the Bolt catch phrase.

 

OMG, the party seven !!

 

I'm so old I'd forgotten about that

[The GodMother]

I remember the humphreys advert lol. Also other classics were Shake n Vac, Cadbury's Smash Martians, and The JamesBond inspired Milk Tray ads.

 

I remember my dad having Davenports beer deliver a crate of bottles every thursday. And the Party 7 giant can of beer that tasted like chemicals.

 

When I was little the best part of the week was when we went shopping in Fine Fare then I had a can of coke, (where the ring pull was fully removeable and razor sharp) and a huge bag of salt and vinegar chip sticks. The I used to lie behind the sofa with my head sticking out and watching the Generation Game with Larry Grayson, who used to say "shut that door".

 

They still do a form of the old shake and vac ads its just not as erm old.

[summerbreeze]

I am so old I remember the Rag and Bone man ... he used to arrive on a cart pulled by a horse and we gave him a bag of old clothes and he gave us .....a balloon

[summerbreeze]

Also I remember doing my paper round and when I got paid I always bought a Marvel comic ...many 1st editions .

When I left home my mum threw them all away !!!!

 

OMG they would be worth a fortune these days :mad:

[Mr lex]

I am so old I remember the Rag and Bone man ... he used to arrive on a cart pulled by a horse and we gave him a bag of old clothes and he gave us .....a balloon

 

My Dad used to give me a balloon for Chirstmas every year, and, as a treat, he would blow it up for me for my birthday !! Then again, I was spoiled :-|

Edited March 12, 2010 by Mr lex

[summerbreeze]

When I was a teen I wore bell bottom jeans and we sewed little bells inside the hems ...I hear you laffin

[summerbreeze]

We didnt have hair straighteners .... so we ironed our hair ...or we pulled it straight and stuck it to our face with sellotape ...I kid you not :D

[summerbreeze]

we wore stockings and if we got a ' ladder ' we put a blob of nail varnish on it to stop it getting worse .... ..I am having so much fun remembering these things ....

[summerbreeze]

Our local newspaper sometimes publishes ' nostalgia ' pics ...They did a 60's Special and yes ..there I was in my Go Go outfit at the disco .

 

My kids nearly wet themselves laughing

 

They have saved it to show to my grandkids !!!

[gezwee]

Saturday morning pictures for threepence in the balcony seats. Mind you, never paid a penny, used to sneak in through the side doors and spend it on flying saucers and a pack of no.6 (if there was enough of us )

[maroondevo52]

I got a 'plastic' record, (the Bee Gees, I think) free with a magazine which had been folded by the shopkeeper, my brother tried to iron the fold out

Knackerd the Iron and got a slap from my mum