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Getting a 'big boy' (11 yr old) to buy a packet of 10 bangers for 2/- from the newsagent. I can't remember if you had to be 11 or just that he was braver than me!
Either lit and thrown at each other or dropped into a tube to see if they'd launch like a mortar. (and lived, uninjured to tell the tale)
Either lit and thrown at each other or dropped into a tube to see if they'd launch like a mortar. (and lived, uninjured to tell the tale)
Your local suburban record shop was a section in a small electrical appliance & repair shop.
Opening a new pack of weetabix, ignoring the food and delving down to reach the Dr Who collector cards (cybermen again).
Everything you sent off for (x-ray specs) took 28 days to arrive and disappointed you.
Single trifles from the local bakers with a tiny plastic shovel.
Opening a new pack of weetabix, ignoring the food and delving down to reach the Dr Who collector cards (cybermen again).
Everything you sent off for (x-ray specs) took 28 days to arrive and disappointed you.
Single trifles from the local bakers with a tiny plastic shovel.
p1doc said:
Gav147 said:
Trawling through the pages of Autotrader dreaming about your first car.
and circling them good timesCan you imagine the horror of actually having to phone a real person, hope they were in and actually speak to them? None of this "best price for cash?" message nonsense.
Just shows how the internet has changed everything, my last car the seller sent me 120 pictures and a video. Back then we had to look at a postage stamp sized black and white image and 40 words or description.
Great days.
Milkyway said:
p1doc said:
S2r said:
Going to block buster on a Friday
still did this at uni in 90's in dundee there was a huge blockbusters in really dodgey area so had to drive there with company lolMy main memory of blockbuster is largely the same, but with added driving to the store at 11:30 on a Sunday night to post the film through the letterbox as I had forgotten to return it earlier.
bigpriest said:
Your local suburban record shop was a section in a small electrical appliance & repair shop.
Opening a new pack of weetabix, ignoring the food and delving down to reach the Dr Who collector cards (cybermen again).
Everything you sent off for (x-ray specs) took 28 days to arrive and disappointed you.
Single trifles from the local bakers with a tiny plastic shovel.
When i was a kid, there were two local record stores in the town i lived inOpening a new pack of weetabix, ignoring the food and delving down to reach the Dr Who collector cards (cybermen again).
Everything you sent off for (x-ray specs) took 28 days to arrive and disappointed you.
Single trifles from the local bakers with a tiny plastic shovel.
One was a single shop kind of like the Virgin Record stores from back in the day
The second one was an alladins cave. Basement was all tapes and cd's, ground level was vinyl, first floor was vhs video rental.
WH Smith had a section back then too and i can remember buying all sorts of singles and lp's cheap when they wanted to get rid of the music section for arts & crafts instead
Gav147 said:
Trawling through the pages of Autotrader dreaming about your first car.
Trawling through the pages of Exchange & Mart dreaming about your first car."Dad! The AC Ace for a hundred pounds is still for sale."
"The unroadworthy AC Ace?"
"Yeah, but, we should buy it and do it up."
"No."
"Oh, why not?"
"Where would we put it?"
Lost Soul said:
bigpriest said:
Your local suburban record shop was a section in a small electrical appliance & repair shop.
Opening a new pack of weetabix, ignoring the food and delving down to reach the Dr Who collector cards (cybermen again).
Everything you sent off for (x-ray specs) took 28 days to arrive and disappointed you.
Single trifles from the local bakers with a tiny plastic shovel.
When i was a kid, there were two local record stores in the town i lived inOpening a new pack of weetabix, ignoring the food and delving down to reach the Dr Who collector cards (cybermen again).
Everything you sent off for (x-ray specs) took 28 days to arrive and disappointed you.
Single trifles from the local bakers with a tiny plastic shovel.
One was a single shop kind of like the Virgin Record stores from back in the day
The second one was an alladins cave. Basement was all tapes and cd's, ground level was vinyl, first floor was vhs video rental.
WH Smith had a section back then too and i can remember buying all sorts of singles and lp's cheap when they wanted to get rid of the music section for arts & crafts instead
Gav147 said:
Trawling through the pages of Autotrader dreaming about your first car.
IIRC, they used to send a photographer round - no digital cameras in those days.
40 or so words. All acronyms that became more and more obscure. FSH and such was easy, others less so
The local 'paper was another one. Pre-internet, this was the place that you found
A house - in the houses section. Similar to cars, one picture and some text.
A car - in the motoring section. Just text, very few pictures if any.
A job - in the jobs section. Some companies sprung for a logo'd ad but a lot were just text in a box. Getting a job out of town? sheesh, I didn't even know how.
A trip to the cinema - in the leisure section. Films and times were listed, you went down and bought a ticket at the box office, hoping there was space.
Different times....
Muzzer79 said:
And the process of selling your car
IIRC, they used to send a photographer round - no digital cameras in those days.
40 or so words. All acronyms that became more and more obscure. FSH and such was easy, others less so
The local 'paper was another one. Pre-internet, this was the place that you found
A house - in the houses section. Similar to cars, one picture and some text.
A car - in the motoring section. Just text, very few pictures if any.
A job - in the jobs section. Some companies sprung for a logo'd ad but a lot were just text in a box. Getting a job out of town? sheesh, I didn't even know how.
A trip to the cinema - in the leisure section. Films and times were listed, you went down and bought a ticket at the box office, hoping there was space.
Different times....
A companion in the escorts section.IIRC, they used to send a photographer round - no digital cameras in those days.
40 or so words. All acronyms that became more and more obscure. FSH and such was easy, others less so
The local 'paper was another one. Pre-internet, this was the place that you found
A house - in the houses section. Similar to cars, one picture and some text.
A car - in the motoring section. Just text, very few pictures if any.
A job - in the jobs section. Some companies sprung for a logo'd ad but a lot were just text in a box. Getting a job out of town? sheesh, I didn't even know how.
A trip to the cinema - in the leisure section. Films and times were listed, you went down and bought a ticket at the box office, hoping there was space.
Different times....
beagrizzly said:
Lost Soul said:
bigpriest said:
Your local suburban record shop was a section in a small electrical appliance & repair shop.
Opening a new pack of weetabix, ignoring the food and delving down to reach the Dr Who collector cards (cybermen again).
Everything you sent off for (x-ray specs) took 28 days to arrive and disappointed you.
Single trifles from the local bakers with a tiny plastic shovel.
When i was a kid, there were two local record stores in the town i lived inOpening a new pack of weetabix, ignoring the food and delving down to reach the Dr Who collector cards (cybermen again).
Everything you sent off for (x-ray specs) took 28 days to arrive and disappointed you.
Single trifles from the local bakers with a tiny plastic shovel.
One was a single shop kind of like the Virgin Record stores from back in the day
The second one was an alladins cave. Basement was all tapes and cd's, ground level was vinyl, first floor was vhs video rental.
WH Smith had a section back then too and i can remember buying all sorts of singles and lp's cheap when they wanted to get rid of the music section for arts & crafts instead
My second local choice was in the "precinct" - a bookshop with a spiral staircase leading to a small area with a few racks of records. Amazingly the bloke who owned this shop seemed to get all the new releases before anyone else, must have had a contact in the music retail industry.
A few from me:
Those jelly octopus things you’d throw at windows and they’d slime their way down, would just end up covered in grit and useless, well, more useless than they were to start!
80s Panini football stickerbooks that covered every league
Raleigh burners
Crappy foam kit aeroplanes, mostly spitfires that would break when assembling
Hubbabubba gum
Quarter of Choc-lick from sweet shop, saying that, you don’t really see dedicated sweet shops anymore
Global hyper colour T-shirts
Those jelly octopus things you’d throw at windows and they’d slime their way down, would just end up covered in grit and useless, well, more useless than they were to start!
80s Panini football stickerbooks that covered every league
Raleigh burners
Crappy foam kit aeroplanes, mostly spitfires that would break when assembling
Hubbabubba gum
Quarter of Choc-lick from sweet shop, saying that, you don’t really see dedicated sweet shops anymore
Global hyper colour T-shirts
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