General Chat

It took five minutes for the TV to warm up?
Nearly everyone's Mum was at home when they got home from school?
Nobody owned a purebred dog?
When a shilling a week was decent pocket money?
White dog poo in the street?
You only had to be home when the street lights came on?
Your Mum wore stockings that came in two pieces?
All your male teachers wore ties

Female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels?

You got your windscreen cleaned, oil checked, and petrol pumped, without asking, all for free, every time?
Cereals had free toys hidden inside the box?
It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?
Schools threatened to keep kids back a year if they failed. . .and they did?
When a Ford Capri was everyone's dream car?

No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?

Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a… “

Playing footy and cricket with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
Stuff from the shop came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
When being sent to the headmaster's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited you if your parents heard that you had been sent to the headmaster?

And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savour the slower pace, and share it with the children of today?

Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc.
Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat!

But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.

who can still remember Laurel and Hardy, The Famous Five, Secret Seven, Biggles, the Lone Ranger, Phantom, Roy Rogers and Trigger at the flicks?

As well as summers filled with bike rides, cricket games, Hula Hoops, monkey bars, Frozen jubblies, visits to the beach and lemonade powder.

Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say,
"Yeah, I remember that"?

How many of these do you remember?
Sweet cigarettes,
pogo sticks,
marbles,
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with foil tops
Newsreels before the movie
Sandshoes/Desert wellies
Four digit Telephone numbers
Press button A then button B
45 RPM records
Hi-Fi s
Metal ice cubes trays
Mimeograph paper
Spud guns
Ford Capris
Twin Tubs
Izal toilet paper
Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
houses made of cards
Meccano Sets
Anglo/Bazooka Joe pink bubble gum
MoJos/black jacks/fruit salads
Two bob for a gallon of petrol

Do you remember a time when...
Decisions were made by "eeny-meeny-miney-mo"?
"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"?
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "boy or girl germs"?
Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a catapult?
There were no Saturday morning cartoons with 30-minute adverts for action figures?
Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?
The worst embarrassment was being caught playing doctors and nurses by your parents

Putting playing cards in the spokes
transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
Taking drugs meant the Polio injection in school
Nitty Nora
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?

If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!!
Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their "grown-up" life ... I double-dare-ya!

Damn old like me Stan LOL

Oh my giddy aunt l think l can remember all if not most as well and l had a good laugh:o)))

jude :o) x

Sheesh! TW.....just read through that lot..and remember them all......did we go to school together? Lol....brought back happy memories of a simpler life.


Susan
x

Yes, it seems like yesterday. And I know it is a cliche and we did not appreciate it at the time. But those were good times. My Mum died in 1994, I don't think even she would believe what we read in the papers these days.

Ann
Glos

Gawd

Has that bought back memories lol

Only kid in the street to have a tele, KB, dial on side, used to play bus conductors with it lol

My 1st reel to reel, I was 10, my b'day pressie

My 2nd car was a Ford Capri 1600 GT XLR

and I still have a spud gun pmsl

I could put a memory to nearly all of those

Ta TW

Kim x

Kim

Oh I remember all of that well most of that.:-)
Making stilts out of old baby milk tins. Trolleys out of old pram wheels. Making mud pies that was my most favourite game I had jam jars on a shelf in the back and that was my shop. All full of different kinds of mud. My mum never worrying how far i roamed because I had the dog with me.
Oh we hadn't much but we had fun.
Germaine
x

Gee Whizzzzzz!

My first car was a Capri!

And 78s played on a Gramaphone!

My gran had a chrystal set! Well before wirelesses!

Anyone remember Hop-a-long Cassidy on T.V.????

And the Leerie who lite the gas street lamps???

Hi TW I remember most hun,!!!


Caz xxxxxxxxxx

*blushes...I had quite forgotten about playing doctors and nurses......lol BC XX

Hop a long cassidy and Highway patrol and Whirlybirds

Pink paraffin being delivered

also the stores van coming round with veg and everything

LD - You're talking my language!

Everything used to stop for "Wagon Train"!

Oooooh! Robert Horton!!!! Mmmmmm!

I remember most of it.

A meal at a Wimpy Bar where you ate your burger in a bun and chips with a knife and fork while listening to that awful background music and looked forward to your knickerbocker glory was the ultimate of sophistication....

A mobile shop came round every friday evening and my treat was a 6d bar of choc or a choc ice for 1s

banana custard for pudding at school

My Mum used to send me out to the ice cream van with a basin......"fill it up please".....can't remember how much it cost ,a few pennies I suppose......those were the days.......lol
Amanda

LD

I went to a posh one lol

Custard or coffee was offered

Kim