Thread: Do do do you remember?

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

Originally Posted by david44

While recuperating

sorry to hear that

Originally Posted by david44

Nostalgia

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...

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.

Originally Posted by BLD

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

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

Originally Posted by malmomike77

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

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.

Originally Posted by BLD

That and endlessly fucking about with the antenna.

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!!"

Originally Posted by malmomike77

watching golf with dad on TV in black and white.

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.

Originally Posted by Norton

Other stuff no clue.

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

The title of this thread is from here...

Originally Posted by Bogon

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

The title of this thread is from here...

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.

Originally Posted by Norton

and the car cassette player

8 track

Originally Posted by Headworx

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

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

^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!

Originally Posted by Headworx

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!

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.


Cost barely a fiver, I later had stylish Bush but the Roberts was the best



Then came the Radiogram my parents had disguised as furniture, like this monster, low fidelity but Scandi box was the norm.

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



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

Originally Posted by david44

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

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.

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

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

Originally Posted by Iceman123

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

An overrun drive in movie theater.

^ Spoil sport, could have been a fun run.