Blast from the past - remind us of a thing
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Playing 33 rpm records on 45 rpm.
Blue salt packets in Smiths Salt n Shake crisps
A bowl of Puffa Puffa Rice
Esso Coin Collections
Putting playing cards in between my bike spokes and holding them there with wooden pegs
Crème Eggs wrapped in normal foil but with green highlights
Cheap cars - FSOs, Ladas, Yugos, Talbots and Skodas
Lyon’s Maid collectors cards
Brooke Bond collectors cards
Blue salt packets in Smiths Salt n Shake crisps
A bowl of Puffa Puffa Rice
Esso Coin Collections
Putting playing cards in between my bike spokes and holding them there with wooden pegs
Crème Eggs wrapped in normal foil but with green highlights
Cheap cars - FSOs, Ladas, Yugos, Talbots and Skodas
Lyon’s Maid collectors cards
Brooke Bond collectors cards
V1nce Fox said:
All the sounds and smells of any amusement arcade in the mid 80s.
This is still the favourite time of my life even now for me. I'd finish school and head straight to the arcade back then, and I just loved the atmosphere and the good time vibe for sure. It could occasionally get a bit quite a bit edgy, but overall it was just a wonderful time for definite. 
maccboy said:
undred orse said:
Top Deck shandy.
Some really, really sugar laden pop the name of which escapes me but it had a polar bear on the can/in the ads.
Cresta. Some really, really sugar laden pop the name of which escapes me but it had a polar bear on the can/in the ads.
I think that was the tag line anyway.
Clackers...as I went to school in the 1970s I saw these first hand. They got banned due to H&S and probably also due to the annoying noise they made when you got them going at full tilt.
maccboy said:
undred orse said:
Top Deck shandy.
Some really, really sugar laden pop the name of which escapes me but it had a polar bear on the can/in the ads.
Cresta. Some really, really sugar laden pop the name of which escapes me but it had a polar bear on the can/in the ads.
NHS giving post-operative patients and blood donors 'alcohol' (free bottle of Guinness) as a 'health' benefit.
Coca Cola in green glass bottles out of the vending machine. Put empty bottle back to get your returnable deposit (we were so ahead of recycling back then in the late 50s).
Then came sugar laden fizzy (hmm!) Corona - large bottles delivered to your door by the crateload (several flavours, Limeade was my fave) every Friday by the 'Pop' man. Empties all picked up in the crate. Didn't have to move a muscle, what lazy b
ds we were back then.Sugar was consumed by the ton.
No dining table in the land was not complete without the obligatory 'bowl full of sugar lumps'. My gran would devour a bowl full in a sitting!
Go to the Fish and Chip shop every Friday, 'covered' in salt and vinegar and wrapped in newspaper.
If you were short o' cash you'd ask for a bag of 'Scrumps' (free) ie: loads of fatty left over batter bits.
'They' (so-called 'experts') tell you we all 'exercised' back then... did we f
k! 'They', of course, were not alive back then.No shops were open after 5.30 pm, most shops had an 'half day early closing' ...and not forgetting every Sunday was a 'Day of Rest'.
Nobody 'jogged', nobody 'ran', the only people you'd spot on the sides of roads were 'hitch hikers', invariably female!
How stuff changes.
NOBODY was fat, let alone obese. The only fat person was Billy Bunter and he was in a comic.
Borrowing your mate’s Top Trumps, day dreaming about impossibly exotic Alfasud and Maserati Boras.
The Corona pop lorry coming round every Thursday.
Bonfires.
Watching the afternoon repeats of Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) and UFO when throwing a sticky from school.
Perving at Mrs.Jarvis the English teacher and her winking back at you.
The Corona pop lorry coming round every Thursday.
Bonfires.
Watching the afternoon repeats of Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) and UFO when throwing a sticky from school.
Perving at Mrs.Jarvis the English teacher and her winking back at you.
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