The Good Old Days V's Now

[Anna]

Ordering sweets by the quarter.
Sherbet dippers.
Those funny white skulls with strawberry syrup inside.
The Greater London Council.
Wake up London by the Vicious boys.
Fish and chips in newspaper!
The R Whites lemonade advert with the guy singing "I'm a secret lemonade drinker"

I still hate Arschentina LOL!!! hehehe

 

[Queen Boudica]

Can anyone else remember buying the 'Bunty' and cutting out the clothes which had little tabs which would fold over paper dolls?

Yes I remember them? Me and my sister then drew our own paper dolls and made clothes for them. We had a whole family of paper doll's called...... the paper doll family oddly enough.

Listening to Radio 1's Top 20 charts on the radio of a car that had got crashed into on the day my dad bought it, so it was a write off, but it was so old and cheap it was not worth insuring and it would cost more to tow to the wrecker's yard. So he kept it in the back garden. He would charge up the battery with crocodile clips in the garage so we could listen to the radio in the car on Sunday evenings and excitedly wait the count down to find out what was no. 1. (My mother thought pop music was satan's music so we were not allowed to listen to the radio in the house or to watch Top of the Pops)

Top of the Pops, Pan's people.

I was not allowed to spend my pocket money on sweets but every now and then I would find something like 1/2 p on the street and go into the sweet shop to buy a half penny chew. It taste sooooooo good.

My first vinyl single, I persuaded my granddad to buy it for me. I thought he spent so much money on me it was such a cool present I begged him to get me David Soul's "Don't give up on us baby". Actually I tell a lie he did get me a Donny Osmond single before that. (I loved the Osmond's) I dreamed they would come to my school and visit us there.

Woolworth's toy section, so many cool toys like Barbie dolls houses and furniture that I really wanted but never got.

 

[CraftyCath]

Can anyone else remember buying the 'Bunty' and cutting out the clothes which had little tabs which would fold over paper dolls?​

I remember Bunty so well, I loved dressing up my paper dolls. Then, when I had read the magasine, I would read my sisters Jackie! My best friend at school was called Claire and out teacher used to tease us by saying we were the original agony aunts from the Jackie!

My first single was Dancing Queen by Abba and my first LP was an Elton John one - I use to think he was so cool!! :laugh:

I pinched my sisters records when she was out and played them on my dads record player. I would check how she had put them into the sleeve and make sure I put them back exactly the same way! I was soon listening to The Osmands and David Cassidy (my first love) but then I grew into the New Romantics and was deeply into Spandau, Japan, Visage, Ultravox, Bowie and many more. I wore the Rara skirts and had the New Romantic hair and make-up.

I use to listen to my Dads 78's. He had the Yingtong Song by the Goones and that's how I learned to love Spike Milligan and the Goones (then Python). I also listened to my Mums classical albums and loved them.

I remember the Sex Pistols and the Anti-nowhere League getting banned. I can also remember my sister taping Top of the Pops from the TV onto her reel-to-reel tape deck!

My brother came home with a top loader video recorder and then the first Atari console (or was it a Z X Spectrum? I can't remember). We spent hours with those two white paddles going up and down ever so slowly! I grew very good at the first space invader game!

 

[KP the nut]

I remember going to my neighbours to watch Top of the Pops, because they had a colour TV. We also went there to watch the wedding of Princess Anne to Mark Phillips - so v poor, no car and a black and white TV.

Ohh CC, you are posh - but I like you (Dick Emery voice please).:laugh:.

 

[CraftyCath]

I remember our next door neighbors had a broken black and white TV set. It had sound but no picture. They also had one with a picture but no sound so they put them one on top of the other! It looked funny but it worked!

My first taste of colour TV was coming home from school and watching Emerdale Farm. I only realised it was in colour when they showed you the sunrise over the farm with the theme tune!

 

[Queen Boudica]

The Eurovision song contest -Brotherhood of Man - Save all your kisses for me - what a song! And then Buck's Fizz winning with Making your Mind up and that cheesy dance where they ripped their skirts off at the end and they sang completely out of tune but they still won.

Charie's Angels - we would play Charlie's angels in the playground I always wanted to be Farah!

The six million dollar man, Bionic Woman - We can rebuild him - we have the technology - 6 million dollars was a lot of money then.

Starsky and Hutch

Coming home on a cold Saturday evening to watch Dr Who which was really really scary even though the props were made of cardboard and the special effects were so cheesy.

The generation game with Bruce Forsyth (Nice to see you Nice and Anthea redfurn doing her turn in her latest dress). Trying to remember all the prizes on the conveyor belt.

The Bay city rollers - now that was fashion

The first big shopping mall the Arndale centre in Luton. Everyone thought it was so modern and cool, they knocked down a whole load of wonderful character historical buildings and lost the whole character of the town.

When TV finished at midnight and they played the national anthem and then the test card came on.

Children's TV ran for only a few hours in the afternoon and at lunch time and that was it.

 

[CraftyCath]

Coming home on a cold Saturday evening to watch Dr Who which was really really scary

I was terrified of the Daleks. I used to hide behind the cushion. My sister was scared of the Siber Men!

In comparison, my kids have never been scared of anything on TV; they seem immune to it all.

and then the test card came on

The test card came on during the day sometimes - that clown was scary!

For those who don't know what the test card was, it was put on the screen when there wasn't any programs on. It did nothing, it wasn't animated but it did have a scary clown! Take a look...

Does anyone remember Watch With Mother? This was a time when Mum and kids were encouraged to watch together. It wasn't a case of sticking your kids in front of Nickelodeon or CBBC. You could vet what they watched.

 

[NIKI]

When looking up directions meant pulling out the huge paper map and laying it out across the hood of the car and then having to store the information in your brain.

Passing notes in class instead of instant messaging.

When buying penny candy really did only cost one penny. For a quarter you could fill a bag with candy.

When the only way to find out info on your favorite movie star was to buy a teen magazine.

 

[KP the nut]

Does anyone remember Watch With Mother?

The Woodentops, featuring the biggest spottie dog you ever did see :roflmao: - H can do the walk :roflmao::inlove:, Bill and Ben, Trumpton - oh my, they were happy days.

Staying up really late, the boring epilogue, followed by the national anthem and then the TV dying into the 'white dot'.

 

[NIKI]

When there was no leash law for our dogs and they could roam free around the neighborhood.

 

[Anna]

I grew up in the 80s and was a teen in the 90s. The 80s were the best

A- Team- those guys rocked, how they build a tank out of rubbish from a scrap heap. What was the crime they didn't commit??

A-Team
Street Hawk
Air Wolf
The fraggles
The Muppets
English kids program called 73
The Tube with Paula Yates on channel 4
Knight Rider
Robin of Sherwood
When snickers was called marathon :p
Miami vice
Tour of Duty
V
Hale & Pace
Harry Enfield
Kenny Everett
Danger Mouse
Manimal
Jem and the Holograms!

Best programs made in the 80s if you ask me

Totally cool. The 80s rocked :p

 

[Queen Boudica]

Oh I had forgotten about the clown, I have been terrified of clowns all my life. I mean who would give that to a child? It is like a scene from a Stephen King movie. I swear that clown is going to turn it's head round at any moment and do something horrible to that girl who always looked really strange to me, the expression on her face.

Don't remember watch with mother, remember all the classic kid's TV programs when you could see the strings on the puppets and the cartoons looked like cartoons not like real images. ie. they were actually drawn on paper and there was not a hint of 3D and we didn't need them to look like real life. The clangers, Mary, Mungo and Midge, Finger Mouse, Bagpuss, The herbs, Trumpton, Top cat, scooby doo, the flinstones, play away, cracker jack ("It's Friday, it's 5:00 and it's...... CrackerJack!!!) Mr Ben.

I was never keen on the puppet things though they freaked me out. I would sit there terrified. Still hate string puppets. Ughhhhhhh!

And, the best bit, primary school kids did not have homework so we came home and played and watched TV and ran around in the garden straight after school instead of coming home to do more work.

Oh and Swap shop on Saturday mornings with Noel Edmonds and a very young Deliah smith. I used to think that was so cool