Can't find a suitable category for your memory? Try posting here. This is the place for miscellaneous discussion relating to the 70's, 80's and 90's.
Surely I'm not alone in always wanting to be the first to read the new Kays,Littlewood,etc catalogue when it was delivered in the 70's?? straight to the toy section (always dissapointed with the summer edition:mad:). being a retrohead,I often wondered If anyone still had any old copies of...
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Can you remember old arcade games you used to play at your local arcade or fun fair. Not the computer games but genuine arcade games?
Times change so quickly - I was thinking about stuff I saw my parents do, but have never done myself, and things my kids just wont believe..... Making a coal fire. A part of everyday life when i was a kid - but alas as an adult i have never made a coal fire - Try explaining to your kids how...
Most of us may recall the shoe advert with the little girl saying 'My mummy says when I grow up I am going to be a proper little madam' This lead me to a thought train of what I wanted to be when I grew up..... the reality is far different from the childhood dream. All my childhood I wanted to...
You know you're a 90's kid if... 1. You can sing the rap to "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air". 2. You remember when it was actually worth getting up on a Saturday morning to watch Live&Kicking (you know the number - 0181 811 8181!) or SM:TV. 3. You had a huge fringe at some point in your...
Does anyone else have any 80s video shop memories? I remember the places always smelt of Mr Sheen polish and cigarettes,usually it was a pound to rent a film or maybe £1.50 or £2 in the later 80s for new films. All the video shops i ever rented from never cared if kids were renting 15 and 18's...
As a kid I was always comming home with a few war wounds things like Cuts,grazes and of course on the odd ocassion a Broken Bone or Two. On two seperate ocassions I broke my Collar bone twice.Once when I was Two and the second time I was eight. The first time I did it I don't remember how,but the...
In the very early '70s, we had a couple of trips to the West End. I loved all the huge department stores and I clearly recall the lifts at Selfridges, Oxford Street. Inside, the walls were chromed/mirrored and there was an elderly lift operator sitting on a stool. The lift would stop very suddenly...
Back in the middle to late 1980's I joined 'The Black Box Club' which was like a horror audio magazine, it was run by Mark Phelps who was at the time based in Wales. I got this first tape then lost contact for awhile;I eventually wrote to him and he said that there were many more Black Box Club...
I remember Benetton produced a series of much talked about print ads in the 1990s. One I remember were an AIDS victim, a new born baby & some blood soaked clothes. Smith & Jones did a good send-up by having what seemed to be a scene of crime photographer taking photos on a blood drenched...
Why did people do that? You'd get a new LP while in town, meet up wiv mates and there was always somebody wanting a look at the album. Fair enough they read the tracks list and any album cover blurb but then ,for unknown reasons, they'd slide the vinyl out of inner dust sleeve and solemnly...
Does anyone remember pop-a-point pencils and jumbo rubbers? a pencil case just wasn't complete without them.!!
As a child, what were the reasons you were allowed to stay up late? Here's my top three: 1. The babysitter was easygoing and good fun. 2. Mum was out and Dad was in charge of bedtime. 3. An Apollo rocket was about to launch!
Does anyone recall a kind of cover or 'holder' for 'Radio Times' and 'TV Times'? I think it may have been leatherette. It was like a binder with pieces of elastic in the spine. Each week, you could put your copies of the magazines inside it. My memory is from around the mid seventies.
We had a table lamp that I was terrified of when I was little. I don't know why but to me it looked like it was alive with an angry, evil looking shade and I always thought it was watching me. It was in our living room and I would walk right around the opposite side of the room to get past it....
I was talking with friends recently about words we don't seem to use anymore. The conversation was sparked when I mentioned my stove. I've always tended to call the top of my cooker where the rings are, the 'stove' but have to admit, it does sound like an old fashioned word. Then there's...
Does anyone remember indoor fireworks that you could buy from your local joke shop:eek:
Who remembers the Rag & Boneman? I was telling my son this story the other day..... I was telling him as a young lad me and my mates used run and shout (Ragbone) as the Rag & Boneman used come round the streets on his horse and cart calling Ragbone. And he was so surprised that a man on a...
Who had a Saturday job? what did you do and how much did you get paid? I worked in the local market all day on a Saturday selling "Womens Fashion"... got paid £3 a day! Went on to work for Littlewoods and got paid £15 a day. Didn't like shop work though. The customer is NOT always right!!...
Radio 4 panel game hosted by Nicholas Parsons. Of course, it's still going strong but worth mentioning as it began in the late '60s, so it spanned the entire DYR time period. Created by Ian Messiter who used to sit next to Nicholas and keep the score and time, the 4 contestants each week would...
For my 13th birthday my mum put one of those birthday greetings in the evening chronicle with a baby photo on it. HOW EMBARRASSING! I never reached the dizzy heights of the evening chronicle again, but I did get my photo in the weekly freebie when I won cinema tickets for full attendance at...
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