9 hours ago, bobandyson said:

 

There was a Dutton&Foreshaw showroom only two blocks away from our house. But it was a car showroom with a repair garage at the rear. Above the showroom there was a snooker hall. Nothing like the halls of today that are carpeted and have good air ventilation and lighting. No, this snooker hall was so smoke-filled it resembled low lying clouds and the smell of tobacco smoke and spilled beer was horrible to me as a kid.

 

And yet quite often at tea-time, my mum would send me to go look for my dad who would pop-in there occasionally from work on his way home. So, mum would give me 3d to go and see if he's there and my dad would give me 6d to tell mum that he wasn't there.

 

I had a nice little earner for a while. That is, until one time I said to my mum 'Dad said he wasn't there.' ????

55555

 

(Same guy/family I think....had their fingers in a few pies).

I hang my head in shame, for I was once the wearer of a tank top. I wore it on a Saturday night, with a purple shirt & green flares.

 

Bless me father, for I have sinned.

2 minutes ago, faraday said:

I hang my head in shame, for I was once the wearer of a tank top. I wore it on a Saturday night, with a purple shirt & green flares.

 

Bless me father, for I have sinned.

Bet you needed a stick to beat the girls back......555

6 minutes ago, faraday said:

I hang my head in shame, for I was once the wearer of a tank top. I wore it on a Saturday night, with a purple shirt & green flares.

 

Bless me father, for I have sinned.

I had the "green flares" too ! But a Ben Sherman shirt, no tank top ????

20 hours ago, CharlieH said:

My first drink in a Pub........

 

 

Bit of an acquired taste......preferred Exhibition.....not even sure you can get Exhibition now?

20 hours ago, CharlieH said:

My Dad always drank it.

 

 

 

Can remember the advert.....

 

It looks good, it tastes good....and by golly it does you good.

1 minute ago, Surelynot said:

Bit of an acquired taste......preferred Exhibition.....not even sure you can get Exhibition now?

I only drank it as I just copied the others ! Didnt have a clue what to do......had to be "one of the boys" but soon ditched it, never actually liked beer but you had to do it...5555

13 minutes ago, Surelynot said:

Bit of an acquired taste......preferred Exhibition.....not even sure you can get Exhibition now?

By the time I was legally allowed in Pubs, it was "Skol" or "Stella" that became my drink of choice.

6 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

I only drank it as I just copied the others ! Didnt have a clue what to do......had to be "one of the boys" but soon ditched it, never actually liked beer but you had to do it...5555

Bit like smoking cigars and drinking whisky.......you really have to stick at it for sometime....555

1 minute ago, CharlieH said:

By the time I was legally allowed in Pubs, it was "Skoll" or "Stella" that became my drink of choice.

Oh dear!

1 minute ago, Surelynot said:

Oh dear!

Yep...."Lager Lout" ! ????

3 hours ago, faraday said:

Looked a lot smarter than all those hippies, unwashed dreamers.

 

Loved my DM's, Cherry Red & I was constantly polishing them. For which I had the pish taken out of me!????????

me too loved a good polished pair of leather boots, still do it now.

1 hour ago, CharlieH said:

Yep...."Lager Lout" ! ????

Stella Artois, what a magnificent pint that was.

 

I bought a bottle from Makro a year or so ago, lower strength, tasted like shy**.

7 hours ago, lodstewart said:

so much truth in what you say there, yes I remember the Trolly buses too, they had a long wooden pole on the side, that was to change over the line for the return turnround the conductor done that job. that was in the Uxbridge area that I saw that.

in the days when all police cars were wolsley 4/44's with a siver chrome bell just above the front bumper

I used to have a Wolsley 6/90 ex Met police car in the mid 1960s. I never got any insurance or MOT for it. I used to drive it around the back roads of Norfolk for fun. I don't remember what happened to it.

1 minute ago, billd766 said:

I used to have a Wolsley 6/90 ex Met police car in the mid 1960s. I never got any insurance or MOT for it. I used to drive it around the back roads of Norfolk for fun. I don't remember what happened to it.

Austin A35.......15 plates pop riveted into the floor....you could see the road through the passenger footwell.

 

Got 10 people into it once, stopped by the police and told........... go steady.

20 minutes ago, Surelynot said:

Austin A35.......15 plates pop riveted into the floor....you could see the road through the passenger footwell.

 

Got 10 people into it once, stopped by the police and told........... go steady.

there were no seatbelts then, and no breathalisers, you only had to be able to walk along a white line at the cops shop  55

33 minutes ago, lodstewart said:

there were no seatbelts then, and no breathalisers, you only had to be able to walk along a white line at the cops shop  55

I think this might have saved me........... it was a country lane with no white lines........555

Waking up on Sunday mornings and hearing the bells from nearby churches. During the 70's and 80's they would become gradually silenced.

 

Listening to all the ship's sirens sounding from the nearby docks when the new year was brought in. Sadly, they would be heard less and less as the years passed until you were lucky if you heard just even one.  

 

Going to sleep with the bedroom aglow with a green light from the digital clock display.

 

Waking up on any Sunday would always have an ominous feel in the air. Because you knew that you had to make the most of it because the next day was a dreaded school day.

 

Bunking off school and going to a nearby golf course to search for golf balls in the prickly gorse bushes. Collecting them and then selling them the next day to teachers for 50p a bag.

 

Writing my own sick notes to take multiple days off school. Just one day here two's days there every so often. The deputy head-master could do nothing to check because we didn't have a home phone number at the time. But one time, after taking a full week off, I couldn't think of an excuse to put on the note. Then one day I got called by mum or dad to come downstairs where there was a Truant Officer waiting in the living room to talk to me. So that 'Jig' was well and truly up. 

 

There's was no Lazada or Alibaba. We had it better. We had the 'Kays' catalogue with female models showing a bit'a bum in the pictures of shower units. The bra and panty pages were hard core too at the time and almost better than the naked breasts of female Amazonian pygmies in the National Geographic.

 

On 6/9/2021 at 7:54 AM, Rampant Rabbit said:

How about 5  star remember that!

Yes , there was one garage near us that sold it , my brothers BSA Gold Star disliked anything less.  

Anyone remember Pez ? Hard sweets that came in a tube , flip the cap at the top and one would pop out.  How do I remember these from the late '50s ?   Last week in Lotus I saw Pez.

3 minutes ago, toofarnorth said:

Anyone remember Pez ? Hard sweets that came in a tube , flip the cap at the top and one would pop out.  How do I remember these from the late '50s ?   Last week in Lotus I saw Pez.

 

Last night my 3yo grand-daughter had a pez. They're well known around the world and many people collect them as a hobby.

On 6/10/2021 at 10:37 AM, thaibeachlovers said:

Kids having fun?

Unless fun is looking at a small screen all day, I doubt it.

I can remember when there was no tv, no internet, no social media, almost no crime, no pedophiles, and no kids killed themselves because they were being bullied "on line". Strange that despite kids going to school to learn stuff they don't seem to comprehend what the off button on a phone does.

 

There were always pedophiles.........it just wasn't reported.

11 minutes ago, toofarnorth said:

Anyone remember Pez ? Hard sweets that came in a tube , flip the cap at the top and one would pop out.  How do I remember these from the late '50s ?   Last week in Lotus I saw Pez.

 

Yes, I had one that had Popeyes head. Refills were hard to find, though. Anyway much better cheap sweets available.

 

Black-jacks & fruit salad.

Those luminous pink shrimps.

Gob-stoppers.

Parma Violets.

Love hearts.

Opal fruits.

Tunes.

Edible cigarettes (banned during the anti-smoking crusade).

And of course rows and rows of sweets in jars put in a paper-bag with twisted corners.

10 minutes ago, KarenBravo said:

 

Yes, I had one that had Popeyes head. Refills were hard to find, though. Anyway much better cheap sweets available.

 

Black-jacks & fruit salad.

Those luminous pink shrimps.

Gob-stoppers.

Parma Violets.

Love hearts.

Opal fruits.

Tunes.

Edible cigarettes (banned during the anti-smoking crusade).

And of course rows and rows of sweets in jars put in a paper-bag with twisted corners.

All attest to the fact I  have a  gob  full of  implants and crowns and the dentist drives a  Roller .............if  I was a  good  boy at the dentist I got a sweetie  !!! ironic now

7 minutes ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

All attest to the fact I  have a  gob  full of  implants and crowns and the dentist drives a  Roller .............if  I was a  good  boy at the dentist I got a sweetie  !!! ironic now

 

The same, but with no regrets. The teeth don't have to last much longer now.

Don't forget the Flying Saucers...

 

I can almost feel the rice paper dissolving in my mouth, & then the sherbet leaks out.. Delicious!

 

Apparently, they're still made!

26 minutes ago, KarenBravo said:

 

Yes, I had one that had Popeyes head. Refills were hard to find, though. Anyway much better cheap sweets available.

 

Black-jacks & fruit salad.

Those luminous pink shrimps.

Gob-stoppers.

Parma Violets.

Love hearts.

Opal fruits.

Tunes.

Edible cigarettes (banned during the anti-smoking crusade).

And of course rows and rows of sweets in jars put in a paper-bag with twisted corners.

Hey , I remember all those + 1 more . The sweet tobacco , came in pouches and looked like tobacco . bet that was banned many years ago. I had those pink shrimps on my hit list after swimming , loved 'em.

35 minutes ago, KarenBravo said:

 

There were always pedophiles.........it just wasn't reported.

True , I was about 10 and just before senior school.  Walking home and a chap stopped me in a copse near the main road and said he saw a wasp fly up my trouser leg. We wore shorts in 1957.   I had no intention of removing my shorts and went on my way home. I never mentioned to my mum as it all made no sense yet I still remember the event well.

At 10 years old there was still no knowledge of things to come.

yes,  all sweet shops had scales, loose sweets were sold usually 2 oz in a paper bag.

and were all still on ration until the fifties I think , I remember when sweets came off ration, but I cannot remember the date.

only allowed 2oz of sweets a week on ration. that would have made a lot of difference to the nations teeth , if they had stayed on.

anyone remember House Of Bewley shops ? tobacco of every kind sold loose , what a lovely smell that was .

On 6/9/2021 at 5:28 PM, Rampant Rabbit said:

Treacle  Tart the days when Mum could  cook anything, bread and butter pudding,  home made  marmalade  boiling away for what seemed  like  days, steam  pudding not the  krap  out of a  tin.

I still make treacle tart but can't find syrup so use honey . staye a bit soft after being in the oven for an hour but great with vanilla  icer teem.