things I remember about the 70's

[tigersaw]

Behind the bar there was a card of big D nuts, as the bags were removed it revealed a picture of a bird with her norks out

You always had a filling when you went to the dentist, and you had to wait 20 minutes before the tooth went numb, and then about 4 hours for it to wear off by which time you had bitten a lump out of your lip

There were hardly any fat kids

Teachers were allowed to hit you

If you had a telephone it was in the hallway and it was too expensive to use anyway

Coke came in a steel tin and you could make a spinny whizzer thing out of the ring pull

If you had a paper round you got to look at porno mags

You only knew a few people who had been abroad for their holidays

Racing bikes had handlebars like goat horns

There was no M25, you had to go cross London using the north and south circular roads, but they wern't busy anyway

Car and motorbike tyres were very narrow

There were still old bombed out houses to play in

Fish and chips was cheap and there were loads of chippies

Storage heaters were massive and you could sit on them

Formula 1 was brilliant

Everyone listened to the top 20 on Sunday at 6pm with their finger hovering over the record button

The test card was on the the TV more than programmes

If you went for an interview you were offered a cigarette

You took stuff to the dump and just threw it on the pile, none of this 10 different bins and restricted items

Cars had proper ashtrays and seatbelts that had to be adjusted each time

All girls had long hair

Space hoppers, choppers, clackers, esso blue, green stamps, pink stamps, magpie, tiswas, knebworth, platform shoes, clockwork orange,

I do miss it a bit

[Bri w]

A counting out god knows how many cigarette cards so mum could send off for a pair of candle sticks.

Building a bogie out of pram wheels and a plank.

Mum always being in when you got in from school.

Knitted swimming trunks that itched like 'ell when they got wet, and stretched down to your knees...

[maviczap]

Blimey I was just about this

Kids would be allowed free range to go where they wanted without their parents worrying, just as long as they were home for tea

Music was great

belts were elastic, with little S connectors

Lambs Navy Rum adverts

The guy in Farrah trousers water skiing

Tizer tasted better

Cider in brown bottles with rubber stoppers

Clarkes shoes with a compass in the heel

Best world cup ever 1970

Spangles

[timwilky]

Being caned at school.
11 plus
Being caned again
Cresta "its frothy man"
Being expected to get a job at 15
4 times round the block for a licence
3 pints and change for a quid
Led Zeppelin at Knebworth

[widepants]

At the end of our road there was a camp where the circus folk used to stay in the off season.I always think about the toothless lion on its rope.
Tin bath in the kitchen.
Red "wee" bucket at the top of the stairs (it was frozen in the outside loo"
It took 6 hours to get to northwales , a journey that can now be done in about an hour and a half.
going to work with my dad on the demolition site.
Eight yes Eight people holidaying in the same car.
The sewerpipes ran straight into the river..poop and johnies floating everywhere.
old money
And best of all...Ma grandad was so young.

[The Idle Biker]

Platform Shoes
High Waisters
Rounded Collars
Chopper Bikes
Punk Rock
More Flies and Blue Bottles than nowadays
No speed cameras, police in Austin Allegros that you could outrun
Pans People
Knock down Ginger
Dog poo everywhere including white dog poo
"The Joy of Sex" book

[shonadoll]

White dog poo.

[Dicky Ticker]

Being in my 20's------------------time flies bye quicker than you think.

Hippy brigade and free love seems to bring back some memories

[The Idle Biker]

Knitted swimming trunks that itched like 'ell when they got wet, and stretched down to your knees...

wtf?:confused:

[tigersaw]

As young kids we used to swim / paddle / play in the nuddie on days out to the riverside, loads of kids did, and no-one put our parents in prison

[Richie]

Dalek lollies

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I won a raleigh chopper with them :0)

:batman: Yes I was Cool even back then :0)

[littleoldman2]

Middle aged people reminiscing about the 1930s

[Geodude]

Magic roundabout biscuits mmmm

[BanannaMan]

Sex
Drugs
Rock & Roll

[wyrdness]

Raleigh Choppers and Grifters
Boney M on the radio
It's a Knockout/Jeux Sans Frontieres with Stuart Hall laughing his head off
Proper Tizer (already mentioned)
Short shorts and scorching hot vinyl car seats on sunny days. Ouch!
Rain dances on the telly during the 1976 drought.
Black & white ping-pong video games
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy on the radio.
People thinking that digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
Hamlet cigar ads on the tv.

[Dipper]

White dog poo.
Now that I remember! How come don't they do white poo now?

[Littlepeahead]

Space hoppers
Records on vinyl which you stacked up in a player that looked like a suitcase
The long hot summer of 76
Lolly gobble choc bomb lollies that had cheap crunchy chocolate down the middle - today's Nobbly Bobblies are a poor imitation and what happened to the joke on the stick
Anoraks with flower patterns and pointy hoods
Lots of butterflies in the garden
Scalextric
Cricket! It's when I fell in love with the game watching with my grand dad. The formidable West Indies and Botham getting 10 wickets in a match at Lord's in 1978

[maviczap]

what happened to the joke on the stick


They're making a return

[Richie]

discovering girls boobies... :0)
late 1978.. ( . Y . ) Great days....

[maviczap]

How come don't they do white poo now?

Diets changed - no more Chappie dog food

[Mrs DJ Fridge]

Watching tractors plough the fields with all the birds following behind to get all the worms and bugs. I could watch for hours.

[keith_d]

Frys Turkish Delight
Curly Wurlys
Apple ][ computers
ELO
Coal fires and chilblanes
Paraffin heaters on the landing
Esso Blue
Being the first house with central heating
Dr Who and the Daleks
Lean-tos

[Bibio]

being poor
catching money thrown out a window to go to the shops
glass cheques
cardboard slides
frost on the inside of the windows
running from the police getting caught and slapped about
belt/lines at school
people wearing stupid clothes
mucking about with my mates
never going on holiday to another country (still haven't) and hating going back to school for the 'what did you do in your holidays' essay.
super saturday show

[tigersaw]

Kojak
Massive newspapers
Police bells and nee naar sirens
school milk
the kerb drill
the corona pop man every Friday
the labour exchange

[The Idle Biker]

glass cheques
cardboard slides

Never heard of these two. What are they?

[HoL]

Cardboard slides? are there no hills where you are Idle? so you can go sledging when theres no snow :)

[grh1904]

Playing a 33rpm record at 45 or even 78 rpm - sounded like a chipmunk on acid breathing in helium.

Taking glass bottles (ginger where I grew up Scotland - pop for the Engerlanders) back to the shop to get money back & spending it on a ha-penny chew.

Playing ding-dong skoosh (ringing doorbells & running away).

Using a clothes peg & some playing cards to rattle against your bike wheel spokes to make that awesome "motorbike" sound.

Dynamo bike lights that made any pedalling nigh on impossible & went out as soon as you stopped.

Stacking the record player speakers around a tape recorder to record your favourite records & then telling everyone else in the house to be quiet so that it wouldn't ruin your recording.

£1.00 POUND NOTES!!!!!!!!!!

[Amadeus]

Bushes

[Traders]

Wagon wheels...

1st pair of trainers bought from a jumble sale (25p) 3 sizes bigger than my feet for the school sports day. My mother told me I would run faster in them and I believed her... after a week the fronts curled up.. looked a right d!ck.

[Dipper]

Power cuts

[Professor]

Middle of the Road - Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EpWOzIzhf8

[Viney]

Middle of the Road - Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EpWOzIzhf8

That was number one the day I was born

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[Messie]

Sex
Drugs
Rock & Roll
Exacerly!

Can't believe no-one has said it yet. Slight misquote but 'If you can remember the 70'syou were either too old, too young or not there!'

[carelesschucca]

Never heard of these two. What are they?
Glass cheques - fizzy juice bottles had return prices on them save the glass bottles up and go get a ten pence mix up.

I'm a little young to remember too much from the 70's one thing i do remember is;

Debbie Harry oh yeah 6 years old and infatuated.

[Bluefish]

first proper album i bought was hers, parallel lines, oh yeah :D

[Bluefish]

Exacerly!

Can't believe no-one has said it yet. Slight misquote but 'If you can remember the 70'syou were either too old, too young or not there!'
Thought that was the 60's, how old are you?

[Specialone]

Peg guns
Texan bars
Flares (didnt like these btw)
5p mix ups
Steer and go (driving game)
Stretch armstrong
Cine cameras
12p bags of chips (earliest price i can remember)

Getting slipper at school in first year of juniors.
My dad passing away :(

[Professor]

I wore white bell bottom jeans with actual bells attached. In the end I cut off the bells, too embarrassing.

Sorry that I am so old. I envy you, Viney.

[Specialone]

Oh btw, we called the 'S' belts, snake belts :)

[Geodude]

We had tudor crisps up here (lamb and mint sauce mmm) and they were 5p a bag and i remember them going up to 7.5p :(

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2UfzAQ8Pfg