Seeing the ancient advert for Foxes Glacier Mints made me think of other things and adverts from my younger days.
Cresta fizzy Drinks
Texan Bar
Sweet Tabaco made from strings of coconut.
Proper Sherbert fountains - made of cardboard with a Liquorice tube (its now a straw)
What else can you lot remember.
The rest of my family watching all six hours of TV every evening because it had just been introduced.
The "road to Damascus" experience of first tasting a Cote d'Or praline chocolate.
The first topless scene I saw on a South African cinema screen.
(And sherbert fountains too. Damn it, the liquorice straw was the best part!)
My name....Sometimes.
Cadbury's choccy bars at 1d, 2d, 3d and 6d (For those of you too young...or not from the UK......1d is one 'old pence'.....There were 240 0f those to the pound...£1)
Sweet cigarettes ......Bet those don't exist anymore.
Fruit salad sweets, at a farthing....(There were 4 farthings to an old penny.)....(There were 'Black Jacks' at the same price.....But I can't STAND liquorice.....And I can't spell it either.)
Oat Crunchies.....(I loved them .......But apparently there was too much salt in those, to be healthy, nowadays)
Coca Cola in glass bottles.
Vinyl 7 inch singles at 6/8......A third of an old 240d £1.
Petrol at the same price....Per GALLON.
I could go on forever. X_X
Cheers - Phil
Hmmm, also the terror of hearing the drill starting up while in the dentist's chair; even in this age of efficient anaesthetics, the fear hasn't quite left me.
Wooden escalators.
People smoking in cinemas and restaurants.
Racially divided 'busses.
Being hit by teachers.
Having a concert interrupted for the MC to announce that the Apollo 13 crew had landed safely.
There seems to be a bit of a resurgence of those 'old style' sweets. I know of one shop in Rye, another in Canterbury and also at the Black Country Museum in Dudley. They stock sherbert dips, salad and liquorice chews, coconut tobacco and a whole host of others that it's difficult to choose. I loved them all.
I also remember being able to buy a piece of liquorice wood to chew for 2d but I think they had to withdraw it because the soggy fibres were a choking hazard.
Clackers -those bl**dy balls on pieces of string that used to send loads of kids to the local A & E with bruised or broken wrists.
My all time favourite toy that I never got...A JOHNNY SEVEN multi-weapon toy! (Now I am making myself feel as old as Techno!) :)
Apologies, But... White dog poo. [that's excrement that was white in colour, for those who never saw that stuff - I won't post a picture]
Magazines with the number of copies sold / average circulation stats printed for readers to see.
The Sun's Page 3 Girls. Tabloid newspaper that featured a woman showing her breasts, on page 3 of the paper - hence the name. [not that we got The Sun - The Northern Echo used to make the odd appearance, and we now get passed on to us a copy of the Darlington and Stockton Times (North Yorkshire version).
I know the bar staff in my local don't remember the Cresta ad - "Its Frothy Man", quoted when the beer has ab excessive head.
IanS
White dog poo !
Whether it's true, or an urban myth......
But I've 'heard' that you don't see that anymore, because dogs don't chew on as many knuckle bones....shin bones...whatever.
It was the calcium (?) in those, which turns the 'poo' white....Once it's been lying around for a while.
Quote from: Subedai on 18 February 2016, 11:56:38 AM
(Now I am making myself feel as old as Techno!) :)
GO AWAY ! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Al Beback.
Quote from: Techno on 18 February 2016, 11:25:14 AM
Fruit salad sweets, at a farthing....(There were 4 farthings to an old penny.)....(There were 'Black Jacks' at the same price.....But I can't STAND liquorice.....And I can't spell it either.)
Cheers - Phil
Unfortunately I can remember Fruit Salad sweets and Black Jacks at a farthing each . NO I AM NOT NEARLY AS OLD AS TECHNO !!!!!!! You can still get both in Asda. 39p a pack or 5 for £1 (not sure they are very good at maths in Asda)
Buying 2 ounces of sweets from the jar
Pyramint
Quote from: ianrs54 on 18 February 2016, 12:23:34 PM
I know the bar staff in my local don't remember the Cresta ad - "Its Frothy Man", quoted when the beer has ab excessive head.
Was that the one with the polar bear shouting "Rrrrrrrrrimskikoirsikov!" ?
"I cannae get the matches to light"
more recently "No man is an island... unless his name is Madagascar"
White dog poo definitely existed in the 50s and 60s. Five Boys chocolate bar - it was my favourite, but not been around since the 60s. Opal Fruits will always be Opal Fruits and another of my favourites is Marathon. Coconut Ice - where did that go? The Mivvi ice lolly; the flat fronted post office van with the sliding doors and Muffin the Mule and Mr.Turnip Head on Whirligig - all gone!
Pretty much all of the above plus Chlorophyll chewing gum (it was green), Hedgehog flavoured crisps (suitable for vegetarians so possibly not much real hedgehog in there!) and toys in cereal packets.
I did like liquorice root, used to buy it from the grocers near my primary school.
At secondary school I discovered a passion for Japanese dried seaweed sheets and ate them as a snack. I was forbidden to take them in to exam rooms as it might put off other candidates.
Quote from: Subedai on 18 February 2016, 11:56:38 AM
There seems to be a bit of a resurgence of those 'old style' sweets. I know of one shop in Rye, another in Canterbury and also at the Black Country Museum in Dudley.
Try searching online, you'll find every sweet you ever heard of from a dozen sweet shops...
Quote from: Ithoriel on 18 February 2016, 01:52:18 PM
Hedgehog flavoured crisps (suitable for vegetarians so possibly not much real hedgehog in there!)
From Highlanders crisps. I believe you can actually still get those (but I think they've admitted they were just bacon flavouring). Highlandes were great crisps, any flavour.
On the porcine front, how about Swan (was it Swan?) chopped ham & pork, with the Executioner opening the tin...
Quote from: Wulf on 18 February 2016, 01:41:01 PM
Was that the one with the polar bear shouting "Rrrrrrrrrimskikoirsikov!" ?
That's the beast, in shades.....
IanS
Quote from: Wulf on 18 February 2016, 01:57:26 PM
From Highlanders crisps. I believe you can actually still get those (but I think they've admitted they were just bacon flavouring). Highlandes were great crisps, any flavour.
On the porcine front, how about Swan (was it Swan?) chopped ham & pork, with the Executioner opening the tin...
The ones I had were from a small place in Cornwall and had the authenticity of the flavour attested to by a real live didakoi ... purportedly. I imagine the fledgling enterprise sank like Tawa's lead baboon :)
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 18 February 2016, 01:03:52 PM
NO I AM NOT NEARLY AS OLD AS TECHNO !!!!!!!
No...You're not, Mark.....You can have that one. :P
Flying Saucers ?......Filled with sherbet .....Though I think I've seen those in shops that sell 'old fashioned' sweets.
OOOOH !......And how about tins of fizzy 'pop' which didn't have a handy ring pull.
(If I remember correctly.....That was one of the earliest blood letting accidents I had.....By stabbing at the top of the can with an old fashioned can opener.....I slipped, and made a right mess of my thumb !)
Things don't change.... ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Had sherbet flying saucers just before Christmas ... turns out nostalgia is flippin' expensive!!
Quote from: Wulf on 18 February 2016, 01:41:01 PM
Was that the one with the polar bear shouting "Rrrrrrrrrimskikoirsikov!" ?
"
Yep and here it is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9fDhWEJBD0
Quote from: Ithoriel on 18 February 2016, 02:30:47 PM
Had sherbet flying saucers just before Christmas ... turns out nostalgia is flippin' expensive!!
They're in our local pound shop, couple of dozen in a plastic box...
But what did they cost, when we were nippers ?.....Anyone remember ?.....I certainly can't.....Oodles for a 'thruppeny bit ?'
Cheers - Phil
My recollection was the school "tuck shop" sold them at 6 for 1d. Being right at the school gate they had a captive market so possibly you could get them cheaper elsewhere.
Childhood memories... [sweets don't feature, so, now, off-topic]
2-Star Petrol.
4-Star Petrol.
Talbot Alpine car.
Bob Carolgees and Spit the Dog.
Rod Hull and Emu.
Matthew Corbett with Sooty, Sweep and Sue.
Sunday afternoon wrestling on ITV.
Being completely satisfied if I got to go out for an afternoon, on a weekend, up the Yorkshire Moors and splashing about in a very shallow stream bed, just off the side of the road. Moor grass, heather, sheep and other cars with people there too, all of us just getting on together - children playing with each other happily - until it got to around five o'clock then we all went home.
Eagerly awaiting for the A-Team to come on the TV. Thinking Mr. T (as B.A. Baracus) was brilliant, and laughing at Mad Murdoch's antics. Loving to watch the bit were B.A. built a heavily armoured vehicle out of bits of scrap, all to the sound of the theme tune.
Harvest Festival.
Cadbury's Wildlife Bars anyone?
My childhood memories:
Thunderbirds being shown on TV for the first time
Action Man
Tudor Crisps
Texan Bars
Highland Toffee, sold in long strips
Alpine Pop it was sold from a van that went round the streets
OMG..............I AM OLD ;D ;D ;D
Who made the shoes with the animal print soles? Clark's was it?
Quote from: skywalker on 18 February 2016, 03:48:35 PM
Thunderbirds being shown on TV for the first time
3 brand new episodes will soon be available, lovingly recreated just like the original, but on DVD, using audio recordings from the original cast released at the time on vinyl. Kickstarted and made in the original studios...
No ray its not off thread - just reminicing
I can remember getting very cross when I was told that my Action Man was a "Doll !!"
NO ITS NOT ITS AN ACTION MAN!!!!!!
We always said white dog poo came from poodles. No idea why, we just did!
Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 18 February 2016, 03:24:15 PM
Being completely satisfied if I got to go out for an afternoon, on a weekend, up the Yorkshire Moors and splashing about in a very shallow stream bed, just off the side of the road. Moor grass, heather, sheep and other cars with people there too, all of us just getting on together - children playing with each other happily - until it got to around five o'clock then we all went home.
Ah yes, I remember it well! </Maurice_Chevalier>
Cadbury's wildlife bars! =P~
Soda Stream machines - we had one like this - (https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/ca/dc/85/cadc850885ff152ab948c114210da06d.jpg)
The Bill (only on TV once a week).
I can remember when Thunder Cats was shown on BBC1, on Christmas Eve for the first time ever. Don't think they ever showed that (pilot) cartoon episode ever again.
Particular to those my age and can remember things from the 80s;
Chernobyl Disaster.
Anti-Nuke protesters up at RAF Fylingdales.
Quote from: WikipediaIt is a radar base and is also part of the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS).
Berlin Wall coming down.
Everyone being scared about the world-wide spread of AIDs (seeing Deutschland 83 the other night made me remember this)
Oh, I remember a good one. I went to see one of these at Teesside Airport. Concorde.
(https://www.museumofflight.org/files/ConcordeInFlightBA_P2_0.jpg)
Brannigan's crisps, easily the best crisps ever and they were only available from one shop near us. I think they might still be in production, but I've only ever seen them online.
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 18 February 2016, 02:40:22 PM
Yep and here it is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9fDhWEJBD0
There's a Cresta bear model at Legoland in Windsor :o :D
He's sunning himself in a deckchair by the boat driving ride 8)
Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 18 February 2016, 04:29:47 PM
Berlin Wall coming down.
Got a small chunk if that..... (Mum and Dad knew some good friends from Berlin....And they brought some small bits over, when they came here on holiday, one year.)
And one of Mrs T's first 'computer jobs' was on Concorde's components for BAC (?)
She laughs at how small the 'pieces' of computer code the programmers had to use in those days.
Cheers - Phil.
Does anybody remember:-
Aztec bars and a hard boiled sweet called - 'blobs', loved going to the sweet shop and asking for a pack of blobs!!!! :D
Quote from: Leon on 18 February 2016, 06:17:40 PM
Does anybody remember:-
Aztec bars and a hard boiled sweet called - 'blobs', loved going to the sweet shop and asking for a pack of blobs!!!! :D
Its not leon its me dave, leons too young to know these things ;)
White dog poo yes (see episode 1 of "Life on Mars" - the original British one, not the white dog US one.)
Being in hospital and my brother telling me about this new TV series that had a spaceship and a man with pointy ears in it.
Being in hospital and my parents bringing me one mounted or two foot Timpo ACW figures when they visited every week.
Going to hospital and being awed by the big green tanks on carriers on the authbahn.
Moving up from plastic headed Action Man (who all became Germans) to realistic hair Action Man (British para.)
Thinking how great X rated films must be.
Getting the Airfix Beach Defence set.
Sherbert dib-dabs
Bazooka Joe bubble gum with the mini cartoon inside
Cutting out "collectable" cards of footballers off the side of TyPhoo tea packs (loose tea, not bags.)
Green Shield stamps.
Proper money - pennies that dates from the 1800's. Earliest found was almost smooth from 1797.
My dad's box of Embassy Cigarette Coupons.
Getting a free glass when you filled up with petrol. I still have somewhere the badges of the regiments of the British Army from Texaco, and I seem to remember World Cup coins from ESSO(?)
The Magic Roundabout
Blue Peter with Valerie Singleton, Peter Purves and the Great John Noakes (none of the Magpie for me - that was for the sort of people who watched ITV)
Department S
Being in hospital and my parents bringing me a War Picture Library comic when they couldn't get Timpo.
Being in West Germany during the 1966 World Cup
The sound of English Electric Lightning's scrambling.
Radial and Cross Ply tyres
Ski Yoghurt being a luxury
TV weathermen attaching fuzzy felt symbols to an outline map of the UK
The first TV in the UK: a wooden box with shutter doors, on a tripod. First program I saw (in B&W) was the film with Dirk Bogarde kidnapping a German general in Crete.
Going to the cinema with a supporting and a main feature, with a proper interval, and ladies with ice creams in trays. They had wooden spoons and if you chewed on them you'd get a splinter in your tongue.
Apollo missions
Seeing the 1970 World Cup being broadcast from Mexico - in colour.
Snooker in B&W
Smokers
The Beatles (insert name of band here) releasing tracks.
Catching the Top 20 on the radio,
Getting up to change the TV channel to the other one.
Books in dust jackets.
Thinking Napoleon's Young Guard was strange and exotic.
Being in hospital and having to down an awful pink liquid that was supposed to calm me down but wound me up because I hated it.
Talking to veterans of WWII being quite commonplace. WWI vets were also around.
Worrying about nuclear Armageddon.
Packs of ACW collectable cards, fake confederate money and bubble gum.
(http://media2.cardboardconnection.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/1962-Topps-Civil-War-News-Confedate-Currency-20.gif)
Quote from: fsn on 18 February 2016, 06:22:50 PM
Being in West Germany during the 1966 World Cup
Strangely - so was I.
On train going into Berlin during the final and we were stopped by the East Germans for nearly 40 minutes. We were told later that it was so they could get the final score. Remember carting around a World Cup Willy bag I'd gotten in London.
Ron Manager remembers ....
Egg Shell Piercer. What a diabolical kitchen instrument! Looked like a large concave orange 'button,' with an interesting hole in the middle, set on a white oval base (looked like a fried egg - how cute). Ours was attached to the fridge door by my dear sweet mother and curious young men and women (like me and my girlfriend) would then come along and say, "what's this?" and press the 'button' with his/her thumb.
One bleeding thumb, and expletive, later ..... :'( >:(
You can still get them.
For those yet to encounter these booby traps, when the button is depressed, it moves back to reveal a small spike which pierces the egg shell.
Quote from: fsn on 18 February 2016, 06:22:50 PM
White dog poo yes (see episode 1 of "Life on Mars" - the original British one, not the white dog US one.)
Being in hospital and my brother telling me about this new TV series that had a spaceship and a man with pointy ears in it.
Being in hospital and my parents bringing me one mounted or two foot Timpo ACW figures when they visited every week.
Going to hospital and being awed by the big green tanks on carriers on the authbahn.
Moving up from plastic headed Action Man (who all became Germans) to realistic hair Action Man (British para.)
Thinking how great X rated films must be.
Getting the Airfix Beach Defence set.
Sherbert dib-dabs
Bazooka Joe bubble gum with the mini cartoon inside
Cutting out "collectable" cards of footballers off the side of TyPhoo tea packs (loose tea, not bags.)
Green Shield stamps.
Proper money - pennies that dates from the 1800's. Earliest found was almost smooth from 1797.
My dad's box of Embassy Cigarette Coupons.
Getting a free glass when you filled up with petrol. I still have somewhere the badges of the regiments of the British Army from Texaco, and I seem to remember World Cup coins from ESSO(?)
The Magic Roundabout
Blue Peter with Valerie Singleton, Peter Purves and the Great John Noakes (none of the Magpie for me - that was for the sort of people who watched ITV)
Department S
Being in hospital and my parents bringing me a War Picture Library comic when they couldn't get Timpo.
Being in West Germany during the 1966 World Cup
The sound of English Electric Lightning's scrambling.
Radial and Cross Ply tyres
Ski Yoghurt being a luxury
TV weathermen attaching fuzzy felt symbols to an outline map of the UK
The first TV in the UK: a wooden box with shutter doors, on a tripod. First program I saw (in B&W) was the film with Dirk Bogarde kidnapping a German general in Crete.
Going to the cinema with a supporting and a main feature, with a proper interval, and ladies with ice creams in trays. They had wooden spoons and if you chewed on them you'd get a splinter in your tongue.
Apollo missions
Seeing the 1970 World Cup being broadcast from Mexico - in colour.
Snooker in B&W
Smokers
The Beatles (insert name of band here) releasing tracks.
Catching the Top 20 on the radio,
Getting up to change the TV channel to the other one.
Books in dust jackets.
Thinking Napoleon's Young Guard was strange and exotic.
Being in hospital and having to down an awful pink liquid that was supposed to calm me down but wound me up because I hated it.
Talking to veterans of WWII being quite commonplace. WWI vets were also around.
Worrying about nuclear Armageddon.
Did your life just flash in front of eyes?
;D ;D =D>
[It was a good list though, Nobby!]
Jubblys-had to be frozen
The Eagle comic with Dan Dare
LPs for £1 12s 6d
Gobstoppers
Record booths in shops where you listen to records before buying them
Pint of beer at less than £1
Saturday morning cinema opening for kids
Hopalong Cassidy, the Cisco Kid, Range Rider, etc.
Radio Luxembourg
Box Brownie Cameras
Rugby Union when it didn't look like Rugby League
Eddie Waring commentating on Rugby League
Chad
Penny chews costing a penny
Cheers
Ian
Quote from: Fenton on 18 February 2016, 07:38:51 PM
Did your life just flash in front of eyes?
Yes. It's hard to type and tread water at the same time. Going down for the third time ... tell Techno ... tell him ...
Quote from: Chad on 18 February 2016, 07:59:38 PM
Jubblys-had to be frozen
The Eagle comic with Dan Dare
LPs for £1 12s 6d
Gobstoppers
Record booths in shops where you listen to records before buying them
Pint of beer at less than £1
Saturday morning cinema opening for kids
Hopalong Cassidy, the Cisco Kid, Range Rider, etc.
Radio Luxembourg
Box Brownie Cameras
Rugby Union when it didn't look like Rugby League
Eddie Waring commentating on Rugby League
Yes, to all of these except that the beer was much cheaper than £1.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 18 February 2016, 06:35:48 PM
Packs of ACW collectable cards, fake confederate money and bubble gum.
(http://media2.cardboardconnection.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/1962-Topps-Civil-War-News-Confedate-Currency-20.gif)
Oh yeah!
Batman bubble gum cards with a puzzle on the back, so you
needed the whole set.
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/72/61/ec/7261ec3d6ec7dc9a44081334c1796167.jpg)
Mars Attacks bubble gum cards - banned as too scary by the government and confiscated by my parents! ACW bubble gum cards, infinitely more gory, but permitted as they were 'historical', the excitement of finally swapping about fifty 'spares' to get the Battle of First Bull Run which completed my set. Purnell's History of WW1 in weekly episodes. Shared with three school friends and subdivided when the series finished. Berni's Inn's, the height of sophistication, with a menu of Prawn Cocktail, Steak, and Black Forest Gateau. Even more sophisticated, WINE. Real Wine, Don Cortez Spanish Sweet wine, Blue Nun, and then, on a completely different level, Black Tower! Oh My G..! :o ;D
Mollinary
Quote from: fsn on 18 February 2016, 08:11:37 PM
Yes. It's hard to type and tread water at the same time. Going down for the third time ... tell Techno ... tell him ...
OK Techno...it would seem Nobby is stuck up to his middle in a puddle after a fearful deluge
This thread is what a Pendraken nursing home would be like.
Everyone tucked up in bath chairs, waiting for the ever youthful Leon to pass around the thin gruel which only has meat in it when one of the inmates passes away. Poor Dave been whipped away to the casting machines, Lemmey at the bar handing out Sanatogen and Night Nurse (no change there, then), Ithoriel looking at the Top Totty thread and trying to remember why, and Techno showing everyone his collection of bits of wall: "Berlin, Wailing, Hadrian, Max, China, 42 Acacia Avenue."
I'm looking forward to it.
When I started drinking in 1972 (aged 16) a pint of lager and lime cost 33p -30p without the lime. 20 No.6 were 22.5p. Nowadays lager is the last thing on my list of drinks, water is at least three stages above it! Plus I haven't smoked since 1991.
Watching England win the World Cup and my mum missing every single goal because she left the room on whatever missions mum's get up to when the football is on.
Hearing about the assassination of JFK while living in Hong Kong (army brat).
My mum not letting me watch a Stingray episode because it featured a puppet of the Loch Ness Monster! She thought it might give me nightmares. I think I was about 8 or 9.
Fireball XL5.
My problem with TV is that for most of my younger years we didn't have one. Bit pointless unless you were fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese or German. We had one in Wales and I remember being allowed to stay up to watch the Man from UNCLE and Gilligan's Island.
And more on the subject of TV -Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, The Prisoner, Goodies and Python.
My very first shinies -10 MiniFigs British Napoleonic Marines -that was all the shop had left.
Funcken's in French at £1.99 each. Still got 'em.
Radio Luxembourg but the annoying jamming noise used to get on my nerves so I switched to Radio Caroline. Loved rock music ever since.
@RoyWilliamson - Bob Carolgees (and Spit) now own a candle shop in Frodsham.
Deutschland 83 was good. Spoiler - I didn't die in a nuclear holocaust when I was 14.
Watching 'fantastic voyage' in black and white, and that being the catalyst for my parents to buy a colour TV.
The Sweeney, and being allowed to stay up late especially to watch it.
That magic moment when Thames TV went off air, and LWT took over- the official start of the weekend.
Finding my first book of proper wargaming in the library in early 80s. Already read Little Wars.
Saving up to buy Basic D&D.
Simon Mayo breakfast show.
No TV in the afternoon!
Frother Bars !.....At one old penny a go.
And from 'Subs' post above......
The Gerry Anderson shows.......The Adventures of Twizzle, Four Feather Falls and Supercar.
There was also another puppet show at that time....Torchy the battery boy ?......Not sure who made that one.
Cheers - Phil (Why is there a very wet Nobby, sitting outside my door in a bath chair ? :-\)
WE sent to Wales, he';s wet caues it's raining.....
IanS
Now we are onto TV
Daktari with Clarence the cross-eyed lion
Pogles Wood
Kung Fu with Grasshopper
Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 18 February 2016, 03:24:15 PM
Childhood memories... [sweets don't feature, so, now, off-topic]
2-Star Petrol.
4-Star Petrol.
Talbot Alpine car.
Bob Carolgees and Spit the Dog.
Rod Hull and Emu.
Matthew Corbett with Sooty, Sweep and Sue.
Sunday afternoon wrestling on ITV.
Being completely satisfied if I got to go out for an afternoon, on a weekend, up the Yorkshire Moors and splashing about in a very shallow stream bed, just off the side of the road. Moor grass, heather, sheep and other cars with people there too, all of us just getting on together - children playing with each other happily - until it got to around five o'clock then we all went home.
Eagerly awaiting for the A-Team to come on the TV. Thinking Mr. T (as B.A. Baracus) was brilliant, and laughing at Mad Murdoch's antics. Loving to watch the bit were B.A. built a heavily armoured vehicle out of bits of scrap, all to the sound of the theme tune.
Harvest Festival.
Harry Corbett with Sooty and Sweep, Mr Pastry, Whacko with Jimmy Edwards, Billy Bunter, Range Rider, Richard Greene as Robin Hood, Harry Worth, etc. etc.
Threads where old people weren't caught up in dewy eyed reminiscences! :P
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Well.....I'm enjoying the thread !! :)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 19 February 2016, 07:56:01 AM
Kung Fu with Grasshopper
Or no 42 as well call it at our local takeaway.
Did anyone else have a lemonade man that delivered fizzy drinks? Corona.
Mission Impossible, the TV series not the film versions with the midget.
"The Singing Ringing Tree" - creepy German TV series with the man-bear.
The Flashing Blade, Robinson Crusoe, White Horses
Sony Walkman cassette players
Chicken in a basket
Political parties that were actually different
Red Smarties
Newspaper leaving ink on your fingers
Doing the football pools
Trains without corridors
Petrol caps without locks
Quote from: fsn on 19 February 2016, 09:05:39 AM
White Horses
~X(
As a punishment for reminding me of that ......
.... apart from horses, still don't have a clue what it was all about. :-\
btw: "The Singing Ringing Tree" was creepy - was there not a dwarf and a big fish as well?
I'll see your White Horses and I'll raise you ...
I knew it! There was a fish! ;D
B@st@rd!
Time to phone the Therapist (the rapist?) Phsykia Shrink again ....
.. although I quite liked Robinson Crusoe but felt let down by The Flashing Blade.
Quote from: fsn on 19 February 2016, 09:29:09 AM
I'll see your White Horses and I'll raise you ...
I never ever saw the end of Robinson Crusoe, I was back at school before the series finished, every year it seemed. Some white horses brings back memories and listen with mother on the radio
Face stuck against the radio watching the valves warm up!!!!
The wooden tops
After church going to my grandads to read the eagle (relative did the art work after frank hampton - PC99 with scenes from Normanby)
On good days going up eston hills and my mother showing us crators from crashed aircraft etc from the war
We didn't get a colour TV and fridge until 72!!! first programme in colour war tweety pie!!!!
Dave
The first programme on our first colour TV was in black & white. :o
btw: I like the "thinking time" between the explosion and the stunt man doing his somersault at the start of The Flashing Blade video. Brilliantly bad!
I've got a piece of the Berlin Wall, too. Probably the only thing I do have that's worth saving.
Back in the 90's we had a 'Pop man' come around in his van and deliver lemonades and other fizzy drinks - used to collect the empties for re-use. The company was based at Darlington, and a neighbour who's son I used to play Action Force (British G.I. Joe) with used to receive 'Pop' from them.
There used to also be another company based out of Darlington that did home deliveries; Rington's Tea. Selling Tea (unsurprisingly) and chocolate wafer biscuits and chocolate marshmellow biscuits (they were probably just Tunnocks but in different wrappers ).
Too young for JFK. But I was rudely woken up one Sunday morning to be informed that Lady Diana Spencer was dead.
I was also shouted to come downstairs and see the TV on the afternoon of September 11th, 2001.
On a more positive note:
Sylvester McCoy as Doctor Who.
Timothy Dalton as OO7, James Bond.
The UK winning Eurovision with Catrina and The Waves - Love Shine A Light.
Israel winning Eurovision with Dana International - can't remember if Dana was a cross-dresser, or a transsexual. Either way, first time I'd heard of the gender swapping operation.
Going on holiday to Yugoslavia.
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Forgot to say, after reading FierceKitty's posts before that it brought back memories of my childhood and hearing the South African name F. W. de Klerk.
Hearing the newsreaders mention "President de Klerk" on the News always sounded so exotic to my young mind.
Newsreels, and sometimes serials, before the main movie.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 19 February 2016, 11:06:23 AM
Newsreels, and sometimes serials, before the main movie.
What a about a feature film before the main film :)
The milkman delivering the milk......By horse and cart.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: fsn on 19 February 2016, 09:05:39 AM
Sony Walkman cassette players
I bought one of those lately to record my Goons Show cassettes ino mp3... I no longer owned any casset players!
..over 24 hours of Goons Shows, Hancock's Half Hour, etc...
Bannana Splits Show
Marine Boy
The Three Musketeers
I remember waking up to the death of Diana, but I was working and my first thought was " If they make her Funeral a Bank Holiday I might get Double Time and a Half" Sadly her funeral was on a Saturday.
Eagerly awaiting "Military Modelling " magazine as this was the only magazine with wargame content.
Telephones with dials.
Little illuminated arms that flipped out on the side of early VWs and a few other cars to show a turn.
Dreadful filter coffee.
Having a choice of cabbages, peas, carrots, and onions in the vegetable section of the supermarket.
All night "Goodbye, Elvis" parties for a week.
Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan.
Does anyone else remember a TV show about jet fighter pilots, screened in the 1970's I think it was called The Aeronaughts, it was one of those French shows British TV showed that had poor overdubs. :) :)
Also the 1970's was when the BBC used to have some decent "propaganda" films with Raymond Baxter narrating, Air Attack on Salisbury Plain was one that I remember. They also used to have a program about the Farnborough air show every year
Always regretted Dalton didn't make more Bonds. That man was mouth-watering.
Yes all the TV clips, unfortunately.
IanS
Going waaaay back, Wally Whyton and Willum the Cat.
Ivor the Engine and Noggin the Nog, both by Oliver Postgate. That 'shertacue' noise that Ivor made has stuck with me ever since.
I remember Marine Boy as well.
Magic Roundabout with the doped up rabbit.
And of course The Bananananananana Splits.
Chips wrapped in newspaper.
Muffin the Mule (Illegal in 42 States :) )
The Woodentops
Bill and Ben
Watch With Mother
Noggin the Nog
Supercar
Fireball XL5
Saw all of them except Fireball XL5. I t started just after we moved to Wales, and where I lived couldn't receive ITV for about 5years.
I remember watching Quatermass and the Pit from behind the sofa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatermass_and_the_Pit
Wikipedia suggests I would have been 8 years old at the time.
Me too! Scary stuff! :o
There also used to be a compilation of Science Fiction and Horror film clips shown late on TV now and again (programme was a predecessor to Barry Norman's Film 'whatever year'). Showed clips from Quatermass, Them, War of the Worlds, Dracula and Frankenstein (old black & white versions). Should have been in bed but used to creep up to the living room door and watch it behind my parent's backs. Scared the hell out of me!
Another creepy TV programme.
"A Rubovian Legend." The guy who posted this youtube video says, "This was a puppet show for kids in the early 60's. It used to scare the 'bejazus' out of me." ;D
Totally agree.
More info here for Imagination fans:-
http://www.turnipnet.com/whirligig/tv/children/other/rubovia.htm (http://www.turnipnet.com/whirligig/tv/children/other/rubovia.htm)
Quote from: jimduncanuk on 19 February 2016, 04:24:54 PM
I remember watching Quatermass and the Pit from behind the sofa.
That WAS creepy, at that age ! X_X X_X X_X
The 'Rubovian Legend' looks vaguely familiar......At least, the puppets do. :-\
Can't remember much about it though.
Cheers - Phil
One tv show that has always stuck in my mind was Anzacs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzacs_(TV_series) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzacs_(TV_series))
I must have caught an the one episode back in 1985. Looking on Wiki it was probably either #3 or #4.
I can remember it being set in France or Flanders. The Anzacs were lying in wait awaiting the Germans to approach from their front. One Anzac hears a noise, gets up and looks over the stone wall of the field they were lying in wait in, and sees all the Germans in the next-door field all laid out in preparation to ambush the Anzacs. Both Commonwealth and German forces positioned sideways parallel to each other, expecting the other to come from the same direction through the fog to their front, when in reality they're side by side and within spitting distance. Obviously all Hell then broke out, and a rapid redeployment to the flanks performed.
I have it on DVD..good series . Bit of an Australian institution
Milk being delivered and the tops being pecked by the birds before you got to it.
Scampi in a basket.
Barrel glasses in pubs. Proper bitter on tap.
Peking, Bombay, Yugoslavia, East Germany
Look and Learn comic
Men on the streets selling newspapers - shouting unintelligible things
Quote from: fsn on 19 February 2016, 08:55:57 PM
Men on the streets selling newspapers - shouting unintelligible things
eee-n-yous
(Evening News)
Quote from: fsn on 19 February 2016, 08:55:57 PM
Men on the streets selling newspapers - shouting unintelligible things
Quote from: jimduncanuk on 19 February 2016, 09:14:16 PM
eee-n-yous
(Evening News)
=O =O
Brilliant! So true.
Almost everyone in India still calls it Bombay, I'm told.
The Indians I dealt with at work who were based there referred exclusively to Pune, Mumbai, etc. Perhaps it depends on who you are talking to though - big country after all.
Very big.
By the way, and off topic, Johannesburg (or, to locals, Jo'burg or Joeys), goes by the rather more attractive Egoli in the Nguni languages: "City of Gold". Though anything less El Dorado-like (barring Bloemfontein and Birmingham) would be hard to build.
When this thread was in topic? ;D
;D ;D ;D
I hear a rumour that one of our members is being rather shy about his memories. Here are his (in italics). Can you guess who it is? :-\
Quote from: fsn on 19 February 2016, 08:55:57 PM
Milk being delivered and the tops being pecked by the birds before you got to it.
~ Milk being pasteurised and bottled for the first time.
Scampi in a basket.
~ Head in a basket.
Barrel glasses in pubs. Proper bitter on tap.
~ Pewter tankards in taverns. Ale and mead from the barrel.
Peking, Bombay, Yugoslavia, East Germany.
~ Palmyra, Byzantium, Dacia, Prussia.
Look and Learn comic.
~ Mercurius Aulicus weekly pamphlet.
Men on the streets selling newspapers - shouting unintelligible things.
~ Town criers making public announcements - shouting unintelligible things.
:P
[edit: er, this rambles and strays off-topic by the time I reach the end. Whoops! ;D Probably should be titled
A Brief History Of My Hobby ]
Buying a metal GW figure for £1.25... and then pestering my parents to buy me a whole Skaven (ratmen) army of them.
They did. I didn't paint them. I sold them on eBay. Now would have been worth a lot (they were the old stuff pre-1993, that Andy Chambers made an army from in WD 137 if memory serves me correct).
Only playing GW games. It was actually so much easier. Buying from just the one manufacturer. Paints, flock, books, terrain. Turning up at school and there was already a collection of players. Richmond (Yorkshire) started a GW club, with adults and teenagers. Then Colburn followed suit, and soldiers and airmen came along from the various barracks on Catterick. Games were easy and plentiful to find. Life was good.
I ventured into historicals and tried other manufacturers (Pendraken being one of the first). Not so easy to figure out how to play historical wargames. Only people I could find played GW. Couldn't get a game. Couldn't figure out how to collect an army properly. Didn't understand all the historical rules and regulations. Life was hard.
Went back to playing GW games. GW opened a shop at Darlington, making my hobby even easier to enjoy.
The Internet came along.
I stopped playing tabletop games.
A decade past. I sold a lot of the stuff I previously had.
I found a number of historical players. Opportunities for games appeared left, right and centre. Shows popped up all other the country. More wargames sellers came into existence in the North East.
I ended up sorting through my lead pile, seeing what I could sell to help finance my 10mm ACW project. I came upon a box file, no idea what was inside it. 6mm resin buildings from Timecast. Hedges too. These were the stuff I used for terrain for BKC. I pulled out the box file below, again, having no idea what was inside. 10mm, painted, late war Germans based for BKC. Armour. Nebelwerfers. Some infantry. 80%+ of a BKC force.
Life was again good.
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Do you remember...
Brut. For men.
(http://www.skooldays.com/images/fa1142.jpg)
The Milk Tray advert
Quote from: FierceKitty on 20 February 2016, 12:29:00 AM
Almost everyone in India still calls it Bombay, I'm told.
So do I. After all I don't call Paris Paree or Munich Munchen, in the same way as the French always refer to Londres. Why should I then start calling other places by different names just because the guilt-ridden politically correct brigade think it should be done. So I will continue to consider Peking as the capital of China and Pressburg the capital of Slovakia.
And one day I might even visit Greece (someone, doubtless, will want me to start calling it Ellas before too long).
As an ex-librarian I have to say this made more of an impact on me than Brut adverts did.
Airfix kits in plastic bags
(http://www.oldmodelkits.com/jpegs/Airfix%20118%20P-40E%20bag.JPG)
First kit I ever built by myself.
(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y104/costelma/Models/HMSAjax.jpg)
Amazingly, my first ever kit was Eagle's Graf Spee! :o
(I made a right a mess of it :()
(also recall Airfix kits in plastic bags stacked on the counters in Woolworth's)
My first ever kit was also Eagle's Graf Spee, and I remember thinking how much better it looked than Airfix kits which I had seen. However my second kit was Airfix Julius Caesar.
Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 20 February 2016, 10:45:33 AM
Buying a metal GW figure for £1.25...
They were 40 or 50p when I first bought some and Games Workshop still sold other manufacturers products. Warhammer hadn't been invented...need I go on?
Quote from: NTM on 20 February 2016, 07:46:25 PM
They were 40 or 50p when I first bought some
14p when I first bought them. ;D
Cheers - Phil
Gosh! my first metal minis were Hinton Hunt ACW zouaves in kepi. I think they were 11d (4.5p),
Quote from: Techno on 18 February 2016, 11:25:14 AM
Sweet cigarettes ......Bet those don't exist anymore.
Not with the pink end, but they're still available: Candy Sticks these days IIRC :-\
Cheers!
Meirion
I remember chocolate cigarettes too, wrapped in edible paper.
Bought 'The Flashing Blade' on DVD 3 yrs ago. :) Sadly, after the music, the accents and acting meant :'(
Damn it! That theme from 'Robinson Crusoe'! Mindworm!
Vaguely remember the French jet fighter thing...remember 'Squadron' on Brit TV? (Cringe!)...or 'Who Dare's Wins' also cringe...but for the time :) !
Tudor Crisps. Winston Cigs at 50p a pack. JPS intenational in a shiny pack and McKewan's Scotch at 32p a 1/2.
Video juke boxes...endlessly reinforced memories from the '80's!
Earlier...
Yammering at Ma to take me to 'Traditiion' in London to get early 1/300 tanks...or to a shop in Edinburgh for Minifigs naps. Weekly buys of Airfix kits in bags or the absolute Heaven of the floor to ceiling kits in the Whitley Bay model shop nr Ryles corner...some still in the garage!
GHQ 1/285 made in Rothbury factory? Went there but don't think the guy knew what we were on about so got Ma to take me back back to Blenheim St. Model Shop, Horrible child that I was...and still am...just she stopped buying! :d
Now...the pleasure at fining a small general store where the proprietor actually knows what he's got and what it does! :)
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 21 February 2016, 03:14:07 AM
<snip>
...or to a shop in Edinburgh for Minifigs naps.
<snip>
Mr Alexander's "Toytub" in Raeburn Place maybe? I shopped, and even worked there occasionally when he needed an extra pair of hands, in the 70s and early 80s. Wonder if we met!
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 21 February 2016, 03:14:07 AM
Now...the pleasure at fining a small general store where the proprietor actually knows what he's got and what it does! :)
You
fine him for these admirable qualities?!
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 21 February 2016, 03:14:07 AM
Bought 'The Flashing Blade' on DVD 3 yrs ago. :) Sadly, after the music, the accents and acting meant :'(
One of the Saturday morning kids shows redubbed the flashing blade it was hilarious iirc.
Quote from: Leman on 20 February 2016, 04:17:27 PM
My first ever kit was also Eagle's Graf Spee, and I remember thinking how much better it looked than Airfix kits which I had seen.
I agree. The Eagle kits were lovely models. 1/1200 scale apparently. Such a pity they're no longer available. Found this link for those who wish to wallow in some Eagle ship nostalgia:-
http://www.shipmodels.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/eagle.htm (http://www.shipmodels.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/eagle.htm)
I also see Eagle did HMS Cossack. I think this might have been my second ever ship model - but it was the larger scale(?)* Airfix version(!) The link indicates that Eagle production stopped in 1964 which explains why all of my subsequent ships (KMS Scharnhorst, HMS Hood, HMS Warspite and HMS Campbelltown) with the exception of USS North Carolina (Revell?), were Airfix ones. They used to drive my mum mad (dust collectors!).
* but the link shows a pic of an Eagle/Airfix 'hybrid' - confused.
Quote from: Techno on 20 February 2016, 08:09:58 PM
14p when I first bought them. ;D
Cheers - Phil
Wasn't that 14 groats ??
No.....Pebbles......(Or were they shells..It's too long ago to remember.)
Cheers - Phil
No 6ft stones with a hole in them.......
IanS
Not in Copper Or Triganic Pu*?
*The Triganic Pu is a unit of galactic currency with an exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu. This is simple enough but since a Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles along each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Ningis are not negotiable currency, because the Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change.
Sounds like it belongs to the Ningy Nangy Noo.
HHG2TG!
Nerd
Weren't Nerds little misshapen lumps of candidates sugar with many many artificial flavourings?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerds_(candy)
Child of the 70s here...
Yes, I remember them. They were vile.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 22 February 2016, 07:39:12 PM
Weren't Nerds little misshapen lumps of candidates sugar with many many artificial flavourings?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerds_(candy)
Child of the 70s here...
Yes. The green ones were awesome......... @-)
Keeping change in your pocket as opposed to in a wallet or purse.
That's what I do now.....Which is why the back pockets of my jeans are always wearing out.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Leman on 20 February 2016, 09:13:22 PM
Gosh! my first metal minis were Hinton Hunt ACW zouaves in kepi. I think they were 11d (4.5p),
My first Hinton Hunt were Prussian Napoleonic Guard. Bl**dy expensive at 5p each when MiniFigs and Hinchcliffe were 3p...and of course they were smaller than both! Mind you, this was just after decimalisation in '71.
Quote from: Techno on 26 February 2016, 02:00:45 PM
That's what I do now.....Which is why the back pockets of my jeans are always wearing out.
Cheers - Phil
Mrs T needs all the paper money for the Horses. :(
And the rest ! ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil