Do do do you remember?

Nostalgia aint what it used to be, ADD YOUR MEMORIES OBJECTS STYLES ETC

While recuperating I have a little free time and realize what a host of memories we can share

A few I recall from the 70s

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Hot pants, platform shoes, bell bottoms, and the car cassette player. Other stuff no clue.
Nice family pic 44. :)

I WAS FOREVER BUYING GFS FLAKES A DELICIOUS 'SHREDDED' CHCO BAR, I WONDER WHY

FLAKEY OR WHAT

Cadbury's Flake advert - 1985 - YouTube

Cadbury's Flake - Summer Rain (2007, UK) - YouTube

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While recuperating

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sorry to hear that

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Nostalgia

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one of the lasting impressions of the 70s was nylon clothing, shirts, trousers and the misery they caused in summer - not tights before Dill chips in :)

I remember tabs of acid - £10 for ten. Bargain.

Alas, it has been a long while...

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I can still remember we had to walk all the way across the room just to change channel on the television and we only had 3 channels all in black n white.

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I can still remember we had to walk all the way across the room just to

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hit the side if the TV to get the picture to stop juddering

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hit the side if the TV to get the picture to stop juddering

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That was my job. That and endlessly fucking about with the antenna. Different times

watching golf with dad on TV in black and white. They tee off and the camera pans through the white sky trying to track the white ball. Eventually the camera swings about and finds the ball against the grey background of the grass having had someone spot it for them.

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That and endlessly fucking about with the antenna.

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There was the antenna on top of the TV and antenna on the roof era too. Fuck knows how many people ended up in an emergency room after a sudden fall to Earth from up there, the last words they heard were "You nearly had it! Go back the other way again!!" :)

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watching golf with dad on TV in black and white.

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I've watched old golf footage in black and white and it's really hard on the eye, but I guess if that's all you'd ever seen it must have been brilliant! First thing I ever saw on a colour TV was a cricket match, the difference colour made to the experience was beyond enormous.

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Other stuff no clue.

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I think the computer is a Spectrum (Made by Sir Clive Sinclair)

The title of this thread is from here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA4ROLQF4cs

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and the car cassette player

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8 track

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the last words they heard were "You nearly had it! Go back the other way again!!"

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We had a rotor attached and could control from the TV room.

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^Rich family 'aye? :)

I remember the signal dropping out and the first thing to check was if their were any birds perched on the antennae, had a slingshot to deal with them if that was the case!

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I think the computer is a Spectrum (Made by Sir Clive Sinclair)

The title of this thread is from here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA4ROLQF4cs

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I knew Fish from Edinburgh in the late 80’s, he had not long left the band. He is a big Hibernian FC supporter. We would chat in the corporate hospitality area during half -time.

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Good ones, but I can’t work out the 3rd pic

That is the best one. A yank and you know for sure.

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An overrun drive in movie theater.

^ Spoil sport, could have been a fun run.

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Wow... that brings back some memories.

If we didn't have a gun we used to just sit on the pavement hitting the caps with a hammer... I grew up on an estate and this must have driven the neighbours mad.

I still remember hitting a whole roll of caps with a hammer and the bang made my ears ring for a week.

Good times! :)

Great stuff guys keep 'em coming

I asked gf in Florida why folks went to drive ins

Of course unlike Europe most teenagers had or had access to a car

The plot was often irrelevant as the action was often in the car, cheaper than a motel with a horror slasher thriller thrown in

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as the action was often in the car

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moving from base to base

Music

There was a tranny under the sheets at nigh to listen to the only modern music on Radio Lux and later the Pirates , London, Atlantic and of course CAROLINE, WHERE MANY FAMOUS DJs paid theor dues, I later had the pleasure to meet Johnnie Walker

Small portable generally HK or Jap transistors were crackly lightweight but cheap and with an earpiece changed the world.
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Cost barely a fiver, I later had stylish Bush but the Roberts was the best
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Then came the Radiogram my parents had disguised as furniture, like this monster, low fidelity but Scandi box was the norm.
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In my room I had like almost every teenage a Dansette (theoretically portable 6kg record player with a stacker so could load up 6 x 45rpm singles or eps

Mine looked just like this
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As young adult separate units came in and I built huge KEF speakers and a Goodmans /Tosh/Technics with diamond styli you had to change deck that would shake me and the neighbours on full blast

Then cassettes in the car and mini disc CD and of course soon all digital

At some point a guy walked into Sony chief and said boss I've invented a tape recorder that doesn't record

The SONY walkman and billions of cheap clones allowed portable music beforeIiPods and cell phones Deezer or Spotifty were thought of

I was in multi cultural London well there were the English a few Celts and handful of others, food was as bad as Ireland outside 5 star unaffordable French restos until the curry houses spread with their late lager and burning Vindaloos to every town and village, an era before delivered Pizza or Tikka Masala , Baltis and Nans were heard of in Blighty.

In 70s I visited Irish Polish Russian Persian and Danish places with dad Thai and Vietnamese was unknown and suburbs had greasy Chinese or Fish Chip Burger take aways.
The only options for a date with a tablecloth and waiter were Chinese or Indian having lived in China and India the food bore no similarity and was either Sweet Sour missing cat with crispy noodles plus 6 lagers or Burning hot Cat/dog/horse curry with 5 lagers. The menus just said meat and teh Sylheti waiters dare not admit the source,

Slim pickings and fry up in a greasy spoon/Fred"s cafe deals was usually better, pub lunches were basic pickled egg and scotch egg medley until some marketing guru invented the Ploughman's, Carveries and the microwave layers of lasagne and endless chicken in the basket

Haut Cuisine blighty style where sardines on toast were sold in public!!!


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A quirk of mine in the early 70s when it was cool to smoke. Sadly F&T closed in the 80s.

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Spud guns

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Spokey dokeys

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Panini sticker albums

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Atomic Fireballs

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I think the computer is a Spectrum (Made by Sir Clive Sinclair)

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It is the second generation Spectrum, following the ZX80, an 8-bit computer with a whopping 1K of RAM. I vaguely recall you could buy an additional 1K extension pack.

^ got a lot of kids into programming

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Later years

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Some dounche is gonna say Sony subs sucked and Rockford Punches were the best. Fondles seems like a Rockdord kind of guy

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whats going on here ? a bottle cap tied to the shoes but does it serve a purpose?

Fighter jet gummies. The stealth bomber was special and not available in every pack. The Mig 27 was included too.

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whats going on here ? a bottle cap tied to the shoes but does it serve a purpose?

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Wow... that brings back some memories.

If we didn't have a gun we used to just sit on the pavement hitting the caps with a hammer... I grew up on an estate and this must have driven the neighbours mad.

I still remember hitting a whole roll of caps with a hammer and the bang made my ears ring for a week.

Good times! :)

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We broke into a remote signal hut on a railway and found loads of giant caps that were placed on the tracks to warn railway workers that a train was coming.


Needless to say we lined them all up on the track under a bridge for cover and hid.

The sound of those percussion caps going off still rings in my ears to this very day.
Must have been something similar to "Shock and awe" in Baghdad .

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whats going on here ? a bottle cap tied to the shoes but does it serve a purpose?

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It was a fashion accessory.
We used to put a penny in our loafers at the Mod and Soul dos.
Must more sophisticated imho.

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Sweet Sour missing cat with crispy noodles plus 6 lagers or Burning hot Cat/dog/horse curry

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It was in the 1970's that the dog/cat rescue centres put a ban on Asians adopting then later a price that made it economically unviable for them to fill a van with strays and head back to their takeaway for a mass slaughter.