Nostalgia
#1
07-08-2009, 04:27 AM
Nostalgia
I wonder how many of you.......................
REMEMBER WHEN
All the girls wore ugly gym slips
It took five minutes for the TV to warm up
Nearly everyone's Mum was at home when the kids got home from school
Nobody owned a thoroughbred dog
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny
Your Mother wore nylons that came in two pieces
You got your windscreen cleaned, oil checked, and petrol served, without asking, all for free, every time.
It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents
They threatened to keep children back a year if they failed. . . And they did it!
When a Ford Zephyr was everyone's dream car...
And people went steady
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
Playing cricket with no adults to help the children with the rules of the game
Bottles came from the corner shop without safety caps and hermetic seals
because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger
And with all our progress, don't you wish, just once, you could slip back in time
and savour the slower pace, and share it with the children of today.
When being sent to the head's study was nothing
compared to the fate that awaited the student at home
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.
As well as summers filled with bike rides, rounders , Hula Hoops,
and visits to the pool, and eating sherbert with liquorice sticks.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yes, 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.
Send this on to someone who can still remember the Lone Ranger and Sgt Bilko
How Many Of These Do You Remember?
Coca Cola in bottles.
Blackjacks and bubblegums.
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with tinfoil tops.
Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records.
78 RPM records?
Adding Machines??
Scalextric.
Do You Remember a Time When..
Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'?
'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
Catching tiddlers could happily occupy an entire day?
It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best Friends'?
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was'chickenpox'?
Having a Weapon in School meant being caught with a catapault?
War was a card game?
Cigarette cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
Taking drugs meant orange - flavored chewable aspirin?
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 needs a break from their 'Grown-Up' Life.
I Double Dare You!
REMEMBER WHEN
All the girls wore ugly gym slips
It took five minutes for the TV to warm up
Nearly everyone's Mum was at home when the kids got home from school
Nobody owned a thoroughbred dog
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny
Your Mother wore nylons that came in two pieces
You got your windscreen cleaned, oil checked, and petrol served, without asking, all for free, every time.
It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents
They threatened to keep children back a year if they failed. . . And they did it!
When a Ford Zephyr was everyone's dream car...
And people went steady
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
Playing cricket with no adults to help the children with the rules of the game
Bottles came from the corner shop without safety caps and hermetic seals
because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger
And with all our progress, don't you wish, just once, you could slip back in time
and savour the slower pace, and share it with the children of today.
When being sent to the head's study was nothing
compared to the fate that awaited the student at home
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.
As well as summers filled with bike rides, rounders , Hula Hoops,
and visits to the pool, and eating sherbert with liquorice sticks.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yes, 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.
Send this on to someone who can still remember the Lone Ranger and Sgt Bilko
How Many Of These Do You Remember?
Coca Cola in bottles.
Blackjacks and bubblegums.
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with tinfoil tops.
Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records.
78 RPM records?
Adding Machines??
Scalextric.
Do You Remember a Time When..
Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'?
'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
Catching tiddlers could happily occupy an entire day?
It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best Friends'?
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was'chickenpox'?
Having a Weapon in School meant being caught with a catapault?
War was a card game?
Cigarette cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
Taking drugs meant orange - flavored chewable aspirin?
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 needs a break from their 'Grown-Up' Life.
I Double Dare You!
#2
07-08-2009, 04:41 AM
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NICE POST ... !!! :-)
Pete ...they were the good old days.... and I mean GOOD !!!!
The younger guys will never be able to live those days that we did mate.... and I think that is a bit sad to be truthful....
I have soooooooooooooooo many good memories from those days , that I cannot list them, nor do I want to try too..... they are just memories, that om afraid , guys like you and me will have with us to the grave mate....
But what great memories hey Pete ..... words do not do them justice..!!!
Pete ...they were the good old days.... and I mean GOOD !!!!
The younger guys will never be able to live those days that we did mate.... and I think that is a bit sad to be truthful....
I have soooooooooooooooo many good memories from those days , that I cannot list them, nor do I want to try too..... they are just memories, that om afraid , guys like you and me will have with us to the grave mate....
But what great memories hey Pete ..... words do not do them justice..!!!
#3
07-08-2009, 08:02 AM
Pete..............I'm tripping back on this
My Uncle had a Zypher and to me it was like a Rolls Royce .....the size of it
from the eyes of a kid. A cuz of mine she used to drive for the Rootes/Imp
Team back then.
S where I got my taste for speed.............she used to terrify me as
a kid and always made me sit up front
My Uncle had a Zypher and to me it was like a Rolls Royce .....the size of it
from the eyes of a kid. A cuz of mine she used to drive for the Rootes/Imp
Team back then.
S where I got my taste for speed.............she used to terrify me as
a kid and always made me sit up front
Last edited by Sprock; 07-08-2009 at 04:57 PM. Reason: added Imp Link
#4
07-08-2009, 09:42 AM
What a "fab" post Pete, I have fond memories of all of them
The summer holidays seemed to last forever and it never seemed to rain,what about conkers on strings,pocket money that could buy you a weeks supply of 2 for a penny sweets,come home from playing all day when it got dark and when you went shopping with your Mum for fruit and veg it all went in one bag,her nylon shopping bag.
Who remembers the coalman or your local Bobby (who you would know by name,and he you probably)
Where did it all go wrong?
Double dare back at ya!
The summer holidays seemed to last forever and it never seemed to rain,what about conkers on strings,pocket money that could buy you a weeks supply of 2 for a penny sweets,come home from playing all day when it got dark and when you went shopping with your Mum for fruit and veg it all went in one bag,her nylon shopping bag.
Who remembers the coalman or your local Bobby (who you would know by name,and he you probably)
Where did it all go wrong?
Double dare back at ya!
#5
07-08-2009, 11:55 AM
Catching tadpoles in pools
All day with Dinky cars in the sandpit (before they had opening doors and suspensions !)
Clayfights in the local stream
watching your Dad fix the family car, no computer modules - just a distributor
the Beatles on 33 RPM LP's
Using a spark plug as a sinker when fishing
Sandwiches on the hot sand by the sea, with your Mum, age 7 or so-
No Coke, only orange juice, or Oros, couldn't afford Coke it was a treat !
Train rides to school...........
Marbles.....................
Oh the memories...............
Double dare ya !
All day with Dinky cars in the sandpit (before they had opening doors and suspensions !)
Clayfights in the local stream
watching your Dad fix the family car, no computer modules - just a distributor
the Beatles on 33 RPM LP's
Using a spark plug as a sinker when fishing
Sandwiches on the hot sand by the sea, with your Mum, age 7 or so-
No Coke, only orange juice, or Oros, couldn't afford Coke it was a treat !
Train rides to school...........
Marbles.....................
Oh the memories...............
Double dare ya !
#6
07-08-2009, 01:12 PM
Administrator - Retired
Good times for sure, shadow...
I haven't lost all hope, though. I mean, I grew up much later than you (10/27/80), but I still have the same types of memories. Maybe they'll just be a little different for the later generations? I sure hope so.
I used to love catching tadpoles in my grandfather's pond. We had a river and stream behind our house growing up, though, so I caught a lot more crayfish.
We had a sandbox, too. We'd play for hours.
Clayfights... yep. There was a lot of mud in the stream by the house. Got in trouble plenty of times.... (stupid sisters..)
I've watched the old man work on cars many times. We had a '70 Chevelle, a '79 AMC, '82 Fairmont.. etc. etc. My dad would borrow the repair manuals from the library because they were too expensive to buy. I learned a ton about cars from him.
The beatles... not so much. We had a record player, though. I liked listening to my dad's black sabbath albums, and for some reason Kenny Rogers? I wore out a couple of my favorites. Cassette tapes were the hot ticket for most of my childhood, though. I had a cool walkman.
I never used a sparkplug as a sinker, though.. That's neat.
However, my dad had a muffle furnace at work that we would melt old wheel weights in. Then we'd drill holes in a 2x4 and pour the hot lead in to make our own sinkers. We'd stick a loop of wire on top to tie the line to.
I remember the sandwiches. So many sandwiches....
I remember Coke being a treat, too... and i even remember the returnable bottles. My mom told me once that I was obsesssed with Coke from the first time I had it. She said that when I was about 2 or 3, I would say "Coco Tat" to anyone who was drinking a Coke. They figured out that what I was actually saying was "Coke is It" since I had heard it in the commercials. Remember those commercials? lol...
I never took a train to school, only the bus. Some good times on the bus, though. That's where you made plans to meet up with the girl down the street...
Marbles were fun, weren't they? I used to play a lot of marbles.
I even had one of those "Marble Works" sets... basically a set of chutes and contraptions you can hook together and send the marbles down. I liked the funnel looking one because the ball would spin forever. Also liked the zigzag... it made a cool noise when the marble went really fast...
So simple..
I haven't lost all hope, though. I mean, I grew up much later than you (10/27/80), but I still have the same types of memories. Maybe they'll just be a little different for the later generations? I sure hope so.
I used to love catching tadpoles in my grandfather's pond. We had a river and stream behind our house growing up, though, so I caught a lot more crayfish.
We had a sandbox, too. We'd play for hours.
Clayfights... yep. There was a lot of mud in the stream by the house. Got in trouble plenty of times.... (stupid sisters..
)I've watched the old man work on cars many times. We had a '70 Chevelle, a '79 AMC, '82 Fairmont.. etc. etc. My dad would borrow the repair manuals from the library because they were too expensive to buy. I learned a ton about cars from him.
The beatles... not so much. We had a record player, though. I liked listening to my dad's black sabbath albums, and for some reason Kenny Rogers? I wore out a couple of my favorites. Cassette tapes were the hot ticket for most of my childhood, though. I had a cool walkman.
I never used a sparkplug as a sinker, though.. That's neat.
However, my dad had a muffle furnace at work that we would melt old wheel weights in. Then we'd drill holes in a 2x4 and pour the hot lead in to make our own sinkers. We'd stick a loop of wire on top to tie the line to.
I remember the sandwiches. So many sandwiches....
I remember Coke being a treat, too... and i even remember the returnable bottles. My mom told me once that I was obsesssed with Coke from the first time I had it. She said that when I was about 2 or 3, I would say "Coco Tat" to anyone who was drinking a Coke. They figured out that what I was actually saying was "Coke is It" since I had heard it in the commercials. Remember those commercials? lol...
I never took a train to school, only the bus. Some good times on the bus, though. That's where you made plans to meet up with the girl down the street...
Marbles were fun, weren't they? I used to play a lot of marbles.
I even had one of those "Marble Works" sets... basically a set of chutes and contraptions you can hook together and send the marbles down. I liked the funnel looking one because the ball would spin forever. Also liked the zigzag... it made a cool noise when the marble went really fast...
So simple..
Last edited by kilgoretrout; 07-08-2009 at 01:17 PM.
#7
07-08-2009, 01:31 PM
oh yeah those were the days
Penny Bars
29 penny petrol
BUSH B/W TV with 425/608 lines switch
Batman and Robin cartoon series.
Parents Poker Parties .....next days smells of smoke and Gin & Tonic ....the mess !
Austin 1100 SKY Blue ......ignition lights , engine whine, ribbon tape speedo
Brudders huge Lamb Chops,earlier... drain pipes and periwinkle shoes and brown tweed jackets
Smell in my brothers room............figured that one out.
Our housekeeper....stealing
All kinds playing out in the street
Veg & Fruit Man, Meat Man, knife man
Battery Powered Milk Delivery trucks
It's a Knockout ...........Jeaux Sans Froniers (Europe)
Wimbledon...........plain timeless
MAN Utd..............Georgie Best ..........need I say more !
The Charton Brothers !
Jimmy Hill...............errrrrrrrrr
Benny Hill, Sykes , Morcomb and Wise..........
The great Tommy Cooper, Clive James, Little and large........Kend Dodd and the Diddy Men
Blue Peter, Jackanory, Magic Roundabout
Skippy The Bush Kangaroo.....Mark Hammond
Daktari !!!!!! Cross Eyed Lion Clarence
Thin Lizzy ....Phyl Lynott ..Boys Are back in Town..............THE BEST EVER MUSICIAN !
Horselips
Jimmy Saville
Dr Who
29 penny petrol
BUSH B/W TV with 425/608 lines switch
Batman and Robin cartoon series.
Parents Poker Parties .....next days smells of smoke and Gin & Tonic ....the mess !
Austin 1100 SKY Blue ......ignition lights , engine whine, ribbon tape speedo
Brudders huge Lamb Chops,earlier... drain pipes and periwinkle shoes and brown tweed jackets
Smell in my brothers room............figured that one out.
Our housekeeper....stealing
All kinds playing out in the street
Veg & Fruit Man, Meat Man, knife man
Battery Powered Milk Delivery trucks
It's a Knockout ...........Jeaux Sans Froniers (Europe)
Wimbledon...........plain timeless
MAN Utd..............Georgie Best ..........need I say more !
The Charton Brothers !
Jimmy Hill...............errrrrrrrrr
Benny Hill, Sykes , Morcomb and Wise..........
The great Tommy Cooper, Clive James, Little and large........Kend Dodd and the Diddy Men
Blue Peter, Jackanory, Magic Roundabout
Skippy The Bush Kangaroo.....Mark Hammond
Daktari !!!!!! Cross Eyed Lion Clarence
Thin Lizzy ....Phyl Lynott ..Boys Are back in Town..............THE BEST EVER MUSICIAN !
Horselips
Jimmy Saville
Dr Who
Last edited by Sprock; 07-08-2009 at 01:57 PM. Reason: censor fix ! + link
#8
07-08-2009, 02:06 PM
Ah yes , those were the days . Hours walking the dog in the woods behind the house .
Days spent fishing for sticklebacks and tadpoles.
I remember catching a crayfish once , the thing rose from the depths like a sea monster , couldn't belive it!
Then we moved to the coast and I'd spend all day on the beach.
I had a great little business collecting pop bottles to collect the deposit.
Ah yes , freedom and free enterprise
Days spent fishing for sticklebacks and tadpoles.
I remember catching a crayfish once , the thing rose from the depths like a sea monster , couldn't belive it!
Then we moved to the coast and I'd spend all day on the beach.
I had a great little business collecting pop bottles to collect the deposit.
Ah yes , freedom and free enterprise
#9
07-08-2009, 02:57 PM
Administrator - Retired
Yep... good times...
Speaking of TVs, remember the old antenna rotors? lol.. With the little box inside that you turned the **** on to rotate the antenna on the top of the house? Funny as hell now, but back in the day, that was one sweet setup..
And when the picture didn't seem to change much, you'd stick your head out the window to make sure the antenna and motor were ok... ha ha..
BUSH B/W TV with 425/608 lines switch
And when the picture didn't seem to change much, you'd stick your head out the window to make sure the antenna and motor were ok... ha ha..
#10
07-10-2009, 03:11 AM
Senior Member
I really enjoyed reading this post. I remember almost all this stuff. I never owned a 78 record but the rest of it really took me back. The quest for the perfect conker was massive when I was a kid (I mean when I was a young kid!). Once, I remember, my mates and I were throwing sticks up into a huge tree that hung over the fence of a dead set mansion type joint. An oldish guy walked out of the gate and we thought we were in deep ****, but he was carrying a huge carrier bag of conkers and said "here, take these and please stop throwing sticks at my tree". What a cool bloke!
My children are growing up listening to my Black Sabbath, Floyd, AC/DC, Led Zep, Motorhead etc. and I think they have fun too. We play a fair bit and they have their own joys in life. Nintendo Wii (we'd have loved that), shooting, lots of ping pong, too many dogs/ cats/ cows/ chooks/ dogs (have I nmentioned too many dogs??). Happy memories will hopefully be with our kids when they talk to others as adults. We can only do our best to make it so!
Sorry guys, I got a bit deep there didn't I?
My children are growing up listening to my Black Sabbath, Floyd, AC/DC, Led Zep, Motorhead etc. and I think they have fun too. We play a fair bit and they have their own joys in life. Nintendo Wii (we'd have loved that), shooting, lots of ping pong, too many dogs/ cats/ cows/ chooks/ dogs (have I nmentioned too many dogs??). Happy memories will hopefully be with our kids when they talk to others as adults. We can only do our best to make it so!
Sorry guys, I got a bit deep there didn't I?