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Morningside
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98 months
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I remember the long car trips where everyone and the dog were piled in and of you set for what seemed hours.
As an adult you go searching for all those places you were taken as a kid and shockingly most of them are less than 10 miles away!
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stevejh
589 posts
73 months
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I remember getting really excited when the TV announcer said that the next programme, The Rolf Harris Show, would be shown in colour and then being very disappointed when it was in black and white - well she never said you needed a colour TV to watch it in colour.
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oilandwater
1,039 posts
59 months
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I had my own TV show in the 70's. (Just showing off now.  )
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Morningside
16,764 posts
98 months
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oilandwater said: I had my own TV show in the 70's. (Just showing off now. ) Really? Tell us more 
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Morningside
16,764 posts
98 months
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croyde said: I still have one of these  Given to me for my 'O' Levels in the mid 70s. It looks as good as new apart from the fact it doesn't power up anymore.  I have won an auction on eBay. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261081634634?ssPageName=...Really looking forward to using it. RPN should confuse the wife 
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sday12
4,193 posts
80 months
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Eric Mc said: sday12 said: Gaspode said: St John Smythe said: He has a point. It was a pretty miserable decade but at least the 80s came along afterwards Looking back, it was pretty miserable in absolute standard of living terms, but at the time I loved it. I was 11 years old in 1970, and left university in 1980. I learned to fly model aeroplanes, smoke, drink, play guitar, ride motorbikes, and fool around with girls in the 1970s. In the 1980s I learned how to be an adult. That was far less fun on the whole, although my material standard of living improved enormously.  1970s were the start of the improvement of living standards for all: http://econ.economicshelp.org/2010/02/economy-of-1... With hindsight we can see that - but it wasn't altogether obvious at the time. Indeed, economic well being had been improving from the end of the 50s. Indeed potatoes fuelled most of the house buying panic of 1967. However the Morris marina started the downturn that ended in mass riots. See, we can all do that.
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oilandwater
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59 months
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DoctorX
1,210 posts
36 months
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oilandwater said: Ooh, I remember that. Thanks for the link - I've finally discovered the name of a programme I've been trying to remember the name of for years - "Hattytown"
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Eric Mc
67,253 posts
134 months
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sday12 said: Indeed potatoes fuelled most of the house buying panic of 1967. However the Morris marina started the downturn that ended in mass riots.
See, we can all do that. You obviously have a clearer insight into things than most of us - although I do know for sure that the Shah of Iran was overthrown in 1979 as a protest against the proponderence of Hillman Hunters in that country.
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Justin Cyder
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18 months
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SlimRick
1,418 posts
34 months
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Only just scraping into the 70's. I bought the re-released one recently, not overly impressed   But it still impresses the young 'uns 
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230TE
527 posts
55 months
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AJS-
9,987 posts
105 months
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Just watched Vanishing Point. I'm suddenly more sympathetic to this thread. Even though I was -9 when the film was made...
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DoctorX
1,210 posts
36 months
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More comics: 
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tangerine_sedge
560 posts
87 months
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oilandwater said: Wow! I remember that one... goes off to hum the theme tune
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oilandwater
1,039 posts
59 months
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tangerine_sedge said: oilandwater said: Wow! I remember that one... goes off to hum the theme tune Happy days. No children's programs like that anymore.
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grahamw48
9,871 posts
107 months
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Great music and wonderful new experiences, like pop festivals. I still have this programme/flyer I got at the event, plus my half ticket. I was late teens then...weekend hippy. . 
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Zad
8,705 posts
105 months
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grahamw48 said: Great music and wonderful new experiences, like pop festivals. I still have this programme/flyer I got at the event, plus my half ticket. I was late teens then...weekend hippy. . That was approximately a mile away from, and just 3 months before the first Glastonbury Festival!
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Eric Mc
67,253 posts
134 months
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grahamw48
9,871 posts
107 months
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Yes, my personal favourites based on performance were Santana and Pink Floyd. Donovan also just showed up and played (very well) for an hour or so free of charge. Sadly there seems to be virtually nothing on youtube except for a couple of short vids of Led Zep with very poor sound quality. The weather was fantastic, and I and a bunch of friends went down from York for the weekend...me sleeping under a cycle cape with my girlfriend. 
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