I'm old enough to remember when........

[julian64]

The first moon landing. One of the earliest memories I have was sitting with three generations watching it, and being bored, annoyed, no one would play with me.

[Dr Jekyll]

When St Paul's was the highest building in London.

When you could wander into Downing street whenever you felt like it.

When every building in London was covered in black dust.

[daddy cool]

When you stunk of fag smoke after a night in the pub.
Then again, people didn't just sit there staring at mobile phones, so it was swings and roundabouts I suppose.

[Eric Mc]

julian64 said:

The first moon landing. One of the earliest memories I have was sitting with three generations watching it, and being bored, annoyed, no one would play with me.

To be fair, there wasn't much to see during the landing itself as there was no TV image being broadcast from the descending Lunar Module (the radio bandwith was not wide enough to support both essential radio communications/telemetry and non-essential TV). During the landing stage this is all we saw on the live broadcast -

[C0ffin D0dger]

...... all this were fields!


I dunno, Multicoloured Swapshop on a Saturday morning, cars that had handles with which you wound down the windows, Atari 2600, three channels of telly, video recorders, first CD players, etc.

[Doofus]

When my local primary school had a climbing frame in the (tarmac) playground

[Vanordinaire]

HTP99 said:

MJ85 said:

You could buy penny sweets.

Pahh, I remember half penny sweets!

DoublePahhh, I remember 1/4 penny sweets! (Blackjacks and Fruitsalads were 4 for a penny). (And that was an old penny, so eight sweets for a modern penny)

Edited by Vanordinaire on Tuesday 25th September 08:56

[ApOrbital]

MJ85 said:

You could buy penny sweets.

You still can.

[Eric Mc]

Doofus said:

When my local primary school had a climbing frame in the (tarmac) playground

You had a playground?

[anonymous-user]

HTP99 said:

MJ85 said:

You could buy penny sweets.

Pahh, I remember half penny sweets!

Fruit salads and black jacks. 4 for a penny

[Vanordinaire]

Eric Mc said:

Doofus said:

When my local primary school had a climbing frame in the (tarmac) playground

You had a playground?

We had a playground, but we didn't have a climbing frame, you just shimmied up the chains of the swings and hung from the top bar or if you were brave, tightrope walked along the top. Did for a few of my baby teeth.

[4x4Tyke]

I'm old enough to remember when...

• going out during the summer holidays only coming home when I got hungry
• kids went scrumping
• kids walked to school without adults
• when kids learn how to spanner by helping dad service the car
• when public information ads were common and interesting
• people made mix tapes off the radio
• when channel 4 was launched
• the Betamax - VHS format war
• the first space shuttle launch and the future looked awesome
• the Corona wagon delivering a crate of pop each week.

Edited by 4x4Tyke on Tuesday 25th September 09:33

[55palfers]

Only my Nan collected teaspoons.

[anonymous-user]

A 'canny bag of Tudor' (crisps) for 2p.

[silverfoxcc]

Trams in London esp the 33 up to Manor House

Steam Locos in Kings Cross painted Purple ( or was it LNER Garter Blue?

KGVI funeral

Bit of a bummer as it was on my 5th birthday and therefore no party(those were the days, when there was a death in the family, all the curtains were drawn until after the funeral)

Watching the Coronation on a 9in TV screen, my uncle worked at Bairds in Hastings and we were one of the few in the street to have a TV

ITV starting, and Janet Patch's dad had a set, so every Sun PM all the kids went round to her house to watch Vincent Ball announce Robin Hood!!

The East Anglian Floods

The failed rescue of the Flying Enterprise ( worth a google)

Naming my two goldfish Ramadin and Valentine after the West Indian spinners

[thebraketester]

Free milk at school.


When people bought CDs........

[Dr Jekyll]

4x4Tyke said:

the Betamax - VHS format war

Wasn't there another format at one time, V2000?

[RTB]

I'm only a lad, nowhere near as old as many (most) of you on here, however I can still recall the utter wonder of being given one of the new 20 pence pieces,when they were introduced. You could buy a lot of sweets with 20p.

[KP328]

Michael Jackson was black.

Steve Martin was funny.

[Adenauer]

Taking Embassy cigarette coupons out of my Dad's jar at home and being able to exchange them for a few bob at the local shop.