Things you don't see any more

fandango

Stink bombs.

Joke Shops.

fandango

Teetonetal said:

NPP said:

one of the things I like about the UK (being German originally) is that not everything shuts down on a Sunday and you can get things done you wouldn't have time for during the week ...

Which is one of the things I hate about the uk, but love about switzerland. Sunday opening should never have been allowed.

I could see the change it made. Spent the weekends mtb'ing, and Sunday's were heaven going up the local high street as I headed for the hills. That was before the Govt opened the can of worms. Over a period of mere weeks, it definitely changed and the peace and quiet I/we so treasured had evaporated.

Fretwired

nick79 said:

Kids doing paper rounds. 

Still do them where I live .. lots of old folks who still want papers.

Fretwired

vasselmeyer said:

Don't see Drew, Lixarto and SirAxeman around much any more...

And a time when Emp Fab wasn't all ranty shouty .. ;-)

Sesh

Plastic throwaway tat in the cereal.

Kilgore

Postcards.

You'd go on holiday, send everyone a postcard on the last day and they'd get it a week after you came home. 

You can still buy them, but nobody sends them.

The photos on the postcards weren't even current, and were obviously taken in 1953.

Now you're mates can see you eating tapas in real time. Whats the point of that?

JAYJO

Clackers wrapped around a phone line next to a pair of baseball boots.
Rag man with balloons only an adult could inflate.
Cigarette machines in the wall.
Revolving upright ashtrays.
Mangle in the yard.
Cricket bat made from a plank of wood.
go-cart made from the bottom half of a silver cross pram.
Pink or blue National health glasses
light blue 3 wheeler national health reliant.

JerkMoans

Health and Efficiency magazine 

Brize

Hairy fannies.

Phil_aka_Pip

@skunkwerx I think your shakespearean english should read

Behold the field where I grow my fucks, Lay thine eyes upon it and thou shalt see 'tis barren

skunkwerx

Phil_aka_Pip said:

@skunkwerx I think your shakespearean english should read

Behold the field where I grow my fucks, Lay thine eyes upon it and thou shalt see 'tis barren

Damnit...  There were several wordings on that meme to choose from as well, I bet the others were correct.. heh. 

ESBlonde

When I was young (60s/70s) there were many more smokers and even in the villages the roadside grass was littered with discarded cigarette packets. The buses, pubs, anywhere really stank of stale tabacco.
There were also a larger portion of disabled servicemen to be seen daily about towns as they struggled about on wooden crutches etc.
Dogpoo was more common (including the white stuff) indeed the 'cartoon banana skin' is a polite way of displaying the poo / slip moment, it was certainly more common than now fortunately.
Children playing in the street and inventing games/scenarios.
Large industrial towns, not many left now, once upon a time a few large employers took pretty much all the schools output as apprentices and gave them jobs for life. Now people live miles from work and commute meaning many homes have multiple cars and creating the on street car parking mess we see all the time now.
Easy to mourne the changes but on probability our general health and standard of living is way better than it was say 40 years ago.

boogieman

ESBlonde said:

When I was young (60s/70s) there were many more smokers and even in the villages the roadside grass was littered with discarded cigarette packets. The buses, pubs, anywhere really stank of stale tabacco.

It wasn’t that long ago that you could smoke on the tube in London. Seems absolutely crazy now. 

DannyP

EricTheWeary said:

 
My mother still has her milk delivered by a milkman, although I don’t think I’ve ever seen him. 

He's the dead spit of you, actually Eric...

EricTheWeary

DannyP said:

EricTheWeary said:

 
My mother still has her milk delivered by a milkman, although I don’t think I’ve ever seen him. 

He's the dead spit of you, actually Eric...

I walked right into that one! 

Rocker

Music shops selling CDs and vinyl

Maplins

Tea shops/cafes where you can get a decent cup of tea or coffee

Decent fish and chips shops

JezWynd

Men in bowler hats on Platform 1, waiting for the 7.48 to the city.

EricTheWeary

Rocker said:

Music shops selling CDs and vinyl

Maplins

Tea shops/cafes where you can get a decent cup of tea or coffee

Decent fish and chips shops

Apart from Maplins I see all of those ( albeit far fewer music shops these days). Perhaps I live in a bubble with the only cafes left. 

skunkwerx

EricTheWeary said:

Rocker said:

Music shops selling CDs and vinyl

Maplins

Tea shops/cafes where you can get a decent cup of tea or coffee

Decent fish and chips shops

Apart from Maplins I see all of those ( albeit far fewer music shops these days). Perhaps I live in a bubble with the only cafes left. 

Well, we’re certainly not a many as we once was (I work for hmv). There used to be a few local in my area, I survived the Ilford closure, then Beckton and latest to go is Stratford where I imagine rent was way too high.

Gagaryn

Yellow film in shop windows to stop window displays from fading in the sun.

Although recently saw a shop in Shetland that still had yellow film in the window, strange as it's seldom sunny in Shetland.