Thread: Do do do you remember?

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Seeing david's Aids "Don't Die of Ignorance" poster from the London Underground made me think of this advert.



I wasn't even old enough to have a sherman tank, but it still shit me up.

cool memories, anyone remember push up ices?

This one brought back some memories from the 1960's. Getting free wafers from the ice cream van and the F.A.B. lolly, which my sister and I always associated with Thunderbirds...



...and if we were really good we got a 99...



Come to think of it, I can only remember my sister being good enough to get one...

Today my wife has around 20 loyalty cards from Watsons to Makro Boots you name it, I still have some airline ones, back in the day cigs and supermarkets used paper tokens or stamps to hook you into a brand.

I recall an era when Tesco UK offered double stamps some midweek low traffic days then rivals did 3x then another 4x .
Celebrities like Hughie Green would open stores cuttingribbns with teh inane publicity grins similar to Thai pointing Police after a yabba bust

The tokens were pennies but if you licked the books after 3 years a Toaster seemed to be the "PRIZE" the gift books like could be pored over like Argos Tandy or SEARS and made good door stops as as heavy as Yellow pages.

I didn't collect but odd stamps were saved behind teh Mantel Clock aunts grannies . To get a boke from Kensitas you'd probably need to smoke enough to get cancer!!!

Originally Posted by Troy

This one brought back some memories from the 1960's. Getting free wafers from the ice cream van and the F.A.B. lolly, which my sister and I always associated with Thunderbirds...



...and if we were really good we got a 99...



Come to think of it, I can only remember my sister being good enough to get one...

I remember getting FABs and Zooms from the ice cream man at school. I wonder if they still do them today?

For sure, a 99 is still popular.

Edit: just googled it and both are still going strong! You can't beat quality!

^^I would go to my grandma’s house on the weekends and she would have me put her S&H Green stamps into the saver books. I was so happy to get that chore.

In 60s teenagers did not have tvs in bedrooms which were usually unheated so week nights it was TV round teh fire in the living room in most homes, Dads might be at clubs pubs so mums aunties tuned in to soaps , quizzes or dreadful Terry and June type so called comedies

Richard Chamberlain and George Chakaris seem to excite teh Ladies .Monica Rise and Lulu twitched the pencils
I avoided being dregged to teh endless runs of teh Sound of Music but mums pal took me to The Great Escape on a huge screen in Technicolour , I've been on the run ever since

Before Bernie the Bolt and the excruciating "Golden Shot" there had been Micahel Miles

Take your pick with his catch phrase?

Take your pick or.........? anyone


These shows were interspersed with ads for Flake, Whiskey dog food Brentford Nylons OMO , Persil and Daz , yes they were soapy in ways

Old comedies have dated one I still find funny via radio repeats is HancOk with Sydney James , Bill Kerr Hattie Jacques and Sydney Tafler as a foil for
"THE LAD HIMSELF"

A fine character actor Richard Wattis whose best part was as Flanagan and Allen setc during Colditz escape with Ian Carmicaheal

First photo is great Lionel Jeffries in many comedies

Below wry dry contrast to Lucy and Dick Van Dye was Eric Sykes often with enormous wife of John Le Mesurier Hattie Jacques

Often had the excellent Derek Guyler as Corky the cop





here with Richard Wattis again

Early memories of UK comics , Tommy Cooper did funny often failed magic tricks withh his memorable punch line anyone...?

Palmer and young Eric Idle

Peak Cleese