Do You Remember When...?

Charles_Harding · 19th February 2008, 19:32

It took five minutes for the TV to warm up?
Nearly everyone's Mum was at home when they got home from school?
Nobody owned a purebred dog?
When a shilling a week was decent pocket money?
White dog poo in the street?
You only had to be home when the street lights came on?
Your Mum wore stockings that came in two pieces?
All your male teachers wore ties
Female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels?
You got your windscreen cleaned, oil checked, and petrol pumped, without asking, all for free, every time?
Cereals had free toys hidden inside the box?
It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?
Schools threatened to keep kids back a year if they failed……and they did?
When a Ford Capri was everyone's dream car?
No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?
Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a… “
Playing footy and cricket with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
Stuff from the shop came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
When being sent to the headmaster's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited you if your parents heard that you had been sent to the headmaster?
And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savour the slower pace, and share it with the children of today?
Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat!
But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.
Send this on to someone who can still remember Laurel and Hardy, The Famous Five, Secret Seven, Biggles, the Lone Ranger, Phantom, Roy Rogers and Trigger at the flicks.
As well as summers filled with bike rides, cricket games, Hula Hoops, tiger nuts, Frozen jubblies, visits to the beach and lemonade powder.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that"?
I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a double dare to pass it on.
To remember what a double dare is, read on.
And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care.
How many of these do you remember?
Sweet cigarettes, pogo sticks, marbles, Home milk delivery in glass bottles with foil tops
Newsreels before the movie, Sandshoes/Desert wellies, Four digit Telephone numbers
Press button A then button B, 45 RPM records, Hi-Fi s, Metal ice cubes trays, Roneo paper
Spud guns, Ford Capris, Twin Tub washing machines, Izal (germicated)toilet paper
Reel-To-Reel tape recorders, Houses made of cards,Meccano Sets, Anglo/Bazooka Joe pink bubble gum, MoJos/black jacks/fruit salads, Two bob for a gallon of petrol
Do you remember a time when...
Decisions were made by "eeny-meeny-miney-mo"?
"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends".
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "boy or girl germs".
Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a catapult.
There were no Saturday morning cartoons with 30-minute adverts for action figures.
Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles.
The worst embarrassment was being caught playing doctors and nurses by your parents.
Putting playing cards in the spokes that transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
Taking drugs meant the Polio injection in school or Nitty Nora
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?

If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!!
Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their "grown-up" life ... I double-dare-ya!

dave525 · 19th February 2008, 22:12

I must be getting old, i can recollect most of this

allan40alt · 19th February 2008, 22:46

45RPM records!! I still have a collection of 78RPM !! Changing those needles was an art in itself! ... and if you wanted to turn down the volume you had to stuff a sock in the big trumpet on the top of the needle!

What about Saturday morning cinema? Couldn't wait to see how the black and white Superman got out of trouble!

l-noel · 20th February 2008, 07:38

I do remember most of them... So UK and France are not so far away !

Unknownsoldier · 20th February 2008, 09:07

I'm 22 and I remember the following bits:

Nearly everyone's Mum was at home when they got home from school? (mine always picked me up )
You only had to be home when the street lights came on?
All your male teachers wore ties,
Cereals had free toys hidden inside the box?
It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?
Schools threatened to keep kids back a year if they failed……and they did?
No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked? (yes, but people did ask where the car was a lot though ),
Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a… “
Playing footy and cricket with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
Stuff from the shop came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
When being sent to the headmaster's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited you if your parents heard that you had been sent to the headmaster? (Always worse if your mum was first to hear, rather than your dad),

Send this on to someone who can still remember Laurel and Hardy (Not for me, but I could see their point, especially the song the Ballad of the lonely pine......On the blue ridge mountains of Virginia on the trail of the lonesome pine..... geez, I sound old), The Famous Five, Secret Seven (I remember that, and I remember fancying Anne in the books, wow thats an admission ), Biggles (Some seriously good stuff in those novels, where biggles battled the Nazi's at Trondheim, and fought VonStalheim in every book, or the collection: Biggles Pioneer Air fighter, and no one ever laughed at the term Ginger, or thought that the trio might be, well you know...."happy", my GCSE literature class shattered my illusions and innocence ).

How many of these do you remember?
Sweet cigarettes, and Sweet tobacco, pogo sticks, marbles, Home milk delivery in glass bottles with foil tops
Spud guns (I had the best one of them, my grandad tinkered with mine a bit, was like an AA gun, those were the days),
Izal (germicated)toilet paper (Still avalable in Sainsbury's )
Meccano Sets, Anglo/Bazooka Joe pink bubble gum, MoJos/black jacks/fruit salads,

Do you remember a time when...
Decisions were made by "eeny-meeny-miney-mo"?
"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "boy or girl germs".
Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a catapult.
Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles.
The worst embarrassment was being caught playing doctors and nurses by your parents (Not saying a word ).

Tom

Unknownsoldier · 20th February 2008, 09:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by l-noel

I do remember most of them... So UK and France are not so far away !

A few miles across some water

Tom

rallakias · 20th February 2008, 09:14

I remember Bombjack and other coin-op games with nostalgia...

rallakias · 20th February 2008, 09:23

I also remember my Amstrad's blue screen, the "CAT" command...

Unknownsoldier · 20th February 2008, 09:24

The Allan sugar computer, to think that has less ocmputing power than a calculater now, technology wow!

Tom

rallakias · 20th February 2008, 09:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by Unknownsoldier

The Allan sugar computer, to think that has less ocmputing power than a calculater now, technology wow!

Tom

All CPC models were based on a Zilog Z80 processor clocked at 4 MHz. Because a common pool of RAM is shared with the video circuits, the Z80 may only make a memory accesses every four cycles - which has the effect of rounding all instruction cycle lengths up to the next multiple of four. The speed is therefore roughly equivalent to a 3.3 MHz machine.
The system came with 64 KB or 128 KB of RAM depending on the model (capable of being expanded to 512k within the Amstrad-standard address space). The machines also featured an (almost) standard 9-pin Atari-style joystick socket which was able to take two joysticks via a splitter.

harleyfatboy · 20th February 2008, 09:42

spangles ... pea shooter...ice cream vans.....fish and chips in newspaper....and in my case in east london growing up and playing on bomb sites and finding old prams taking the wheels of making a wooden go carts steering with your feet and string and selling bundles of firewood wrapped up with string to the old people for sixpence....

dondon · 20th February 2008, 13:54

Beech Nut chewing gum
Refrigerated milk vending machine outside the Newsagent's shop
Big, red Coca-Cola fridge in the fish shop with glass bottles (and a bottle opener on the side)
Wolsley 6/99 car with bench seats (so the hand brake was next to the driver's door) and 3-speed column gear change; and my Dad let me learn to drive in it!!!
Cars with semaphore indicator arms that lifted out from the door pillar!!!!!!!!!

allan40alt · 20th February 2008, 14:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by dondon

Beech Nut chewing gum
Refrigerated milk vending machine outside the Newsagent's shop
Big, red Coca-Cola fridge in the fish shop with glass bottles (and a bottle opener on the side)
Wolsley 6/99 car with bench seats (so the hand brake was next to the driver's door) and 3-speed column gear change; and my Dad let me learn to drive in it!!!
Cars with semaphore indicator arms that lifted out from the door pillar!!!!!!!!!

I had one! My first car. Cost £25!! Lasted about 2 months before I tried to 'double declutch' in it!! Oh, calamity! Burnt one pint of oil to 1 gallon of petrol. Best accessory was a small bulb for the indicator arm that blinked!

What about tiger nuts, liquorice wood, locust beans and buying broken biscuits!

harleyfatboy · 20th February 2008, 14:52

luck dips.... sherbet dabs... penny gobstopper machines ...sweets in big jars you bought by the ounce...

harleyfatboy · 20th February 2008, 15:07

first car a standard 10... cost ten pounds.. el pico valve radio had to wait for it to warm up cost 20 shillings... i suppose about 50 pence now but had it on hp over a year....ahh..

harleyfatboy · 20th February 2008, 15:12

now we are off red driving license book like a small passport and first speeding fine shooters hill kent ...5 pound fine asked for time to pay and got it...

l-noel · 20th February 2008, 16:37

The first computer I've bought (in co-property with friends) was this one !

Sinclair ZX-81 computer

grasey · 20th February 2008, 18:51

Hand signals were part of your driving test, when was that stopped.

St Thomas · 20th February 2008, 19:34

Should I be worried?
Still got some Meccano from the 40's onwards!!!!

Jack The Lad. · 20th February 2008, 22:08

My Lotus 7, in kit form cost £499.
Colin Chapman wrote the instructions by hand

and I had to buy it 50 - 50 with my mate, as it was too much money.
Managed to buy him out a year later.

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Charles_Harding Civinfo guru Join Date: 14th August 2006 Location: S.E. London Posts: 3,288 Thanks: 113 Thanked 27 Times in 26 Posts iTrader: (0)	Do You Remember When...? *It took five minutes for the TV to warm up?* *Nearly everyone's Mum was at home when they got home from school?* *Nobody owned a purebred dog?* *When a shilling a week was decent pocket money?* *White dog poo in the street?* *You only had to be home when the street lights came on?* *Your Mum wore stockings that came in two pieces?* *All your male teachers wore ties* *Female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels?* *You got your windscreen cleaned, oil checked, and petrol pumped, without asking, all for free, every time?* *Cereals had free toys hidden inside the box?* *It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?* *Schools threatened to keep kids back a year if they failed……and they did?* *When a Ford Capri was everyone's dream car?* *No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?* *Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a… “* *Playing footy and cricket with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?* *Stuff from the shop came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?* *When being sent to the headmaster's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited you if your parents heard that you had been sent to the headmaster?* *And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savour the slower pace, and share it with the children of today?* *Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat!* *But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.* *Send this on to someone who can still remember Laurel and Hardy, The Famous Five, Secret Seven, Biggles, the Lone Ranger, Phantom, Roy Rogers and Trigger at the flicks.* As well as summers filled with bike rides, cricket games, Hula Hoops, tiger nuts, Frozen jubblies, visits to the beach and lemonade powder. Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that"? *I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a double dare to pass it on.* *To remember what a double dare is, read on.* *And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care.* *How many of these do you remember?* *Sweet cigarettes, pogo sticks, marbles, Home milk delivery in glass bottles with foil tops* *Newsreels before the movie, Sandshoes/Desert wellies, Four digit Telephone numbers* *Press button A then button B, 45 RPM records, Hi-Fi s, Metal ice cubes trays, Roneo paper* *Spud guns, Ford Capris, Twin Tub washing machines, Izal (germicated)toilet paper* *Reel-To-Reel tape recorders, Houses made of cards,Meccano Sets, Anglo/Bazooka Joe pink bubble gum, MoJos/black jacks/fruit salads, Two bob for a gallon of petrol* *Do you remember a time when...* *Decisions were made by "eeny-meeny-miney-mo"?* *"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest?* *It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends".* *The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "boy or girl germs".* *Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a catapult.* *There were no Saturday morning cartoons with 30-minute adverts for action figures.* *Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles.* *The worst embarrassment was being caught playing doctors and nurses by your parents.* *Putting playing cards in the spokes that transformed any bike into a motorcycle?* *Taking drugs meant the Polio injection in school or Nitty Nora* *Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?* *If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!!* *Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their "grown-up" life ... I double-dare-ya!*

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rallakias Souvlaki Drifter ! Magic Rear Seat Join Date: 31st October 2007 Location: Athens, Marousi GREECE Posts: 709 Thanks: 3 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts iTrader: (0)	I also remember my Amstrad's blue screen, the "CAT" command... Last edited by rallakias; 20th February 2008 at 09:41.

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harleyfatboy Locking Wheelnut Join Date: 24th November 2007 Location: london Posts: 180 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts iTrader: (0)	remember when spangles ... pea shooter...ice cream vans.....fish and chips in newspaper....and in my case in east london growing up and playing on bomb sites and finding old prams taking the wheels of making a wooden go carts steering with your feet and string and selling bundles of firewood wrapped up with string to the old people for sixpence....

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dondon Wheelnut Join Date: 18th February 2007 Location: Hampshire Posts: 95 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts iTrader: (0)	Beech Nut chewing gum Refrigerated milk vending machine outside the Newsagent's shop Big, red Coca-Cola fridge in the fish shop with glass bottles (and a bottle opener on the side) Wolsley 6/99 car with bench seats (so the hand brake was next to the driver's door) and 3-speed column gear change; and my Dad let me learn to drive in it!!! Cars with semaphore indicator arms that lifted out from the door pillar!!!!!!!!!


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dave525 Supporter Triangular Exhaust Join Date: 22nd November 2007 Location: Portishead Posts: 350 Thanks: 17 Thanked 21 Times in 21 Posts iTrader: (0)	I must be getting old, i can recollect most of this

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allan40alt Supporter Civinfo guru Join Date: 6th August 2006 Location: Rugby, Warwickshire. Posts: 2,248 Thanks: 12 Thanked 33 Times in 31 Posts iTrader: (0)	45RPM records!! I still have a collection of 78RPM !! Changing those needles was an art in itself! ... and if you wanted to turn down the volume you had to stuff a sock in the big trumpet on the top of the needle! What about Saturday morning cinema? Couldn't wait to see how the black and white Superman got out of trouble!

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l-noel Wine and cooking ! Rocketship door handle Join Date: 5th December 2006 Location: Roanne-France Posts: 1,227 Thanks: 3 Thanked 7 Times in 3 Posts iTrader: (0)	I do remember most of them... So UK and France are not so far away !

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Unknownsoldier Comedian/Smart Ase Civinfo guru* Join Date: 22nd September 2007 Location: Kent, UK Posts: 2,454 Thanks: 56 Thanked 26 Times in 24 Posts iTrader: (0)	I'm 22 and I remember the following bits: Nearly everyone's Mum was at home when they got home from school? (mine always picked me up ) You only had to be home when the street lights came on? All your male teachers wore ties, Cereals had free toys hidden inside the box? It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents? Schools threatened to keep kids back a year if they failed……and they did? No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked? (yes, but people did ask where the car was a lot though ), Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a… “ Playing footy and cricket with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game? Stuff from the shop came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger? When being sent to the headmaster's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited you if your parents heard that you had been sent to the headmaster? (Always worse if your mum was first to hear, rather than your dad), Send this on to someone who can still remember Laurel and Hardy (Not for me, but I could see their point, especially the song the Ballad of the lonely pine......On the blue ridge mountains of Virginia on the trail of the lonesome pine..... geez, I sound old), The Famous Five, Secret Seven (I remember that, and I remember fancying Anne in the books, wow thats an admission ), Biggles (Some seriously good stuff in those novels, where biggles battled the Nazi's at Trondheim, and fought VonStalheim in every book, or the collection: Biggles Pioneer Air fighter, and no one ever laughed at the term Ginger, or thought that the trio might be, well you know...."happy", my GCSE literature class shattered my illusions and innocence ). How many of these do you remember? Sweet cigarettes, and Sweet tobacco, pogo sticks, marbles, Home milk delivery in glass bottles with foil tops Spud guns (I had the best one of them, my grandad tinkered with mine a bit, was like an AA gun, those were the days), Izal (germicated)toilet paper (Still avalable in Sainsbury's ) Meccano Sets, Anglo/Bazooka Joe pink bubble gum, MoJos/black jacks/fruit salads, Do you remember a time when... Decisions were made by "eeny-meeny-miney-mo"? "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest? The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "boy or girl germs". Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a catapult. Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles. The worst embarrassment was being caught playing doctors and nurses by your parents (Not saying a word ). Tom

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Unknownsoldier Comedian/Smart Ase Civinfo guru* Join Date: 22nd September 2007 Location: Kent, UK Posts: 2,454 Thanks: 56 Thanked 26 Times in 24 Posts iTrader: (0)	The Allan sugar computer, to think that has less ocmputing power than a calculater now, technology wow! Tom

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harleyfatboy Locking Wheelnut Join Date: 24th November 2007 Location: london Posts: 180 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts iTrader: (0)	remember when luck dips.... sherbet dabs... penny gobstopper machines ...sweets in big jars you bought by the ounce...

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harleyfatboy Locking Wheelnut Join Date: 24th November 2007 Location: london Posts: 180 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts iTrader: (0)	remember when first car a standard 10... cost ten pounds.. el pico valve radio had to wait for it to warm up cost 20 shillings... i suppose about 50 pence now but had it on hp over a year....ahh..

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