One for those over a certain age

[Wacky Racer]

Dog Star said:

There used to be all these adverts for Warrington - Runcorn on tv where you would be urged to call Eileen Bilton or Tina White - there was an answerphone number.

Me and my dad used to leave rude messages. About 25 years later I found that a fellow employee and his dad where I was working used to leave obscene messages as well! I imagine that these two ladies used to rock in on Monday mornings to a full answerphone tape of heavy breathing, infantile chortling and "tell me what you're wearing"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgxzmEZKihs

Don't remember Tina White, but I certainly remember Eileen Bilton

[Dog Star]

Wacky Racer said:

Don't remember Tina White, but I certainly remember Eileen Bilton

Hmmm - google yields nothing. Yet I swear she was mentioned. My memory is usually good on these things.

[nonsequitur]

Johnspex said:

Does anyone else remember the boys' and girls' exhibition at Olympia?

Attended a few in the late fifties. Was called ' Exibition for Boys' at the time. Girls was added later. There was usually a star footballer signing autographs, I got my Fulham hero Graham Leggatt at one show.

[The Don of Croy]

Exige77 said:

NDA said:

Exige77 said:

Anyone remember Laskys ?

A proper Hi Fidelity shop.

I worked in the Hi Fi industry in the early 80's and Laskys were huge. But I'm not sure I'd have called them 'proper hi fi' - they had some good brand names, but I always thought of them as a bit like Comet.

Your probably right but after our 1960’s Grundig radiogramme, all the laskys stuff looked so cool to a 13 year old.

We had a local HiFi shop - Paul Lee Kemp in Tubs Hill Road (Sevenoaks). Now it's 'Sevenoaks HiFi' and he's spawned a franchise empire.

Did anyone else watch daytime TV - the Galloping Gormet on ITV seemed to be the eppy-toam of sofistikashun at the time;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mY4Qi7J4ag

[GetCarter]

The Don of Croy said:

Exige77 said:

NDA said:

Exige77 said:

Anyone remember Laskys ?

A proper Hi Fidelity shop.

I worked in the Hi Fi industry in the early 80's and Laskys were huge. But I'm not sure I'd have called them 'proper hi fi' - they had some good brand names, but I always thought of them as a bit like Comet.

Your probably right but after our 1960’s Grundig radiogramme, all the laskys stuff looked so cool to a 13 year old.

We had a local HiFi shop - Paul Lee Kemp in Tubs Hill Road (Sevenoaks). Now it's 'Sevenoaks HiFi' and he's spawned a franchise empire.

Did anyone else watch daytime TV - the Galloping Gormet on ITV seemed to be the eppy-toam of sofistikashun at the time;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mY4Qi7J4ag

I was selling TV and hi fi in the 1970s, and can confirm that Laskys were indeed the ‘Daily Mail’ of hi fi. Big empty boxes that pretended to be full of speakers.

Still, they were at least moving us away from our Dansettes.

[Johnspex]

nonsequitur said:

Attended a few in the late fifties. Was called ' Exibition for Boys' at the time. Girls was added later. There was usually a star footballer signing autographs, I got my Fulham hero Graham Leggatt at one show.

The Dad of a girlfriend I had at the time often worked on the Met Police stand. He was a dog handler. He was a lot scarier than his Labrador I can tell you.

[Robbo 27]

And do you remember transistor radios on the parcel shelf of a car because it didnt have a radio?

[Johnspex]

Robbo 27 said:

And do you remember transistor radios on the parcel shelf of a car because it didnt have a radio?

Your mum with the radio on her lap "steering" it because every time you went round a bend the signal dropped. And the aerials which fitted over the top of the window glass which was the wound up to secure the aerial in the top window groove.
God, I'm old!

[V8 FOU]

Exige77 said:

Anyone remember Laskys ?

A proper Hi Fifelity shop.

We bought our first family Hi Fi there in the mid 70’s.

I remember we bought some Super hi fi LP’s that you played at 45. I think Dark Side of the moon was one of them.

We had some rather large Marantz speakers that the foam resembled a chocolate bar.

They and GW Smith bought out a Hi Fi shop in Tunbridge Wells that I worked in in 1973. Left soon after, terrible company.
Previous owner was briliant. We used to sell Amstrad amplifiers marketed by Alan sugar. Had the misfortune to deal with him with regard to warranty problems. Total nob then... nowt changes, eh?

[Wacky Racer]

Anyone else have an "Airfix" junior driver?

You stuck a steering wheel on the dashboard on the passenger side and "steered" the car while your dad drove.

(No seatbelts in 1959)

[nicanary]

Wacky Racer said:

Anyone else have an "Airfix" junior driver?

You stuck a steering wheel on the dashboard on the passenger side and "steered" the car while your dad drove.

(No seatbelts in 1959)

As seen on TV - Maggie Simpson.

[alfie2244]

Wacky Racer said:

Anyone else have an "Airfix" junior driver?

You stuck a steering wheel on the dashboard on the passenger side and "steered" the car while your dad drove.

(No seatbelts in 1959)

I had one of those when my dad had a Thames 15cwt van.

[Wacky Racer]

Wonder if they brought them out now, they would have a built in airbag?

[tedmus]

AMG Merc said:

Some people used to arm theirs then shove it down the front of their trousers to look cool...

... and sometimes it went off

Used to fill them with fishing shot, not very effective.

Was shot in the leg with a dart from one many a time, like a dead leg competition.

[RBH58]

Wacky Racer said:

Anyone else have an "Airfix" junior driver?

You stuck a steering wheel on the dashboard on the passenger side and "steered" the car while your dad drove.

(No seatbelts in 1959)

Had one

[zb]

AMG Merc said:

Some people used to arm theirs then shove it down the front of their trousers to look cool...

... and sometimes it went off

A favourite of travelling fairs and the shoot the dart into the playing card stall, they used to bend the barrels slightly to make it impossible for your average punter. 1 shot to see how far out the sight was, adjust, then present your female companion with a large teddy bear, leaving the showman puzzled.

[rovermorris999]

Wacky Racer said:

Anyone else have an "Airfix" junior driver?

You stuck a steering wheel on the dashboard on the passenger side and "steered" the car while your dad drove.

(No seatbelts in 1959)

Yes I had one, great fun. But not as much fun as sitting in the middle if the front bench seat of my Dad's MK1 Consul and changing gear using the column shift. He used to operate the clutch and I did the shifting. He reckoned it was like having a semi-auto. At the risk of trumpet-blowing it worked extremely well, upshifts and downshifts. All the while with him smoking Guards cigarettes and knocking the ash out of the quarterlight window.

[anonymous-user]

V8 FOU said:

Exige77 said:

Anyone remember Laskys ?

A proper Hi Fifelity shop.

We bought our first family Hi Fi there in the mid 70’s.

I remember we bought some Super hi fi LP’s that you played at 45. I think Dark Side of the moon was one of them.

We had some rather large Marantz speakers that the foam resembled a chocolate bar.

They and GW Smith bought out a Hi Fi shop in Tunbridge Wells that I worked in in 1973. Left soon after, terrible company.
Previous owner was briliant. We used to sell Amstrad amplifiers marketed by Alan sugar. Had the misfortune to deal with him with regard to warranty problems. Total nob then... nowt changes, eh?

Now does anybody remember the Amstrad jingle ?
It was a bombastic tune and I am sure the "lyrics" were:

"Amstrad makes it happen
Amstrad has the power ....
To fill your home with sound"

[davhill]

rovermorris999 said:

Yes I had one, great fun. But not as much fun as sitting in the middle if the front bench seat of my Dad's MK1 Consul and changing gear using the column shift. He used to operate the clutch and I did the shifting. He reckoned it was like having a semi-auto. At the risk of trumpet-blowing it worked extremely well, upshifts and downshifts. All the while with him smoking Guards cigarettes and knocking the ash out of the quarterlight window.

Yep, I was put in charge of our A35 van's central indicator switch but only when Mum was driving.

[V8 FOU]

techiedave said:

Now does anybody remember the Amstrad jingle ?
It was a bombastic tune and I am sure the "lyrics" were:

"Amstrad makes it happen
Amstrad has the power ....
To fill your home with sound"

Joke was most of their stuff was useless. The amplifiers used to overheat etc,,,,

OK. Phillips cassette recorders. EL3302 and 2204. All the rage in 1972.......

We used to sell an Elizabethan 14" b&w portable TV. £42. Weekly wage was £32. Transistor radio MW only was £9. Sinclair calculator was £98 trade!!