Things you don't see any more

WezV

skunkwerx said:

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.

They are actually reopening the HMV here.  WTF is that about?

p90fool

RandomReg. 

ICBM

Gagaryn said:

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, as it's still 1975 in Shetland.

FTFY

(And about 1990 in Orkney! )

WezV said:

They are actually reopening the HMV here.  WTF is that about?

Realising that their new business model of selling stuff people want at prices they're willing to pay actually works. Who would have thought?

The Glasgow Argyle St one is always mobbed when I'm in. They did close the Buchanan St one, but what was the point of having two within half a mile of each other in the first place?

p90fool

Gagaryn said:

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.

I saw some in a shop in Lampeter last week - funnily enough my missus and I had been talking about nobody using it any more a few days before that. 

Phil_aka_Pip

The Test Card.

The white spot in the middle of the screen when you turn the telly off.

EricTheWeary

p90fool said:

RandomReg. 

Too soon?

 ICBM said:

Gagaryn said:

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, as it's still 1975 in Shetland.

FTFY

(And about 1990 in Orkney! )

WezV said:

They are actually reopening the HMV here.  WTF is that about?

Realising that their new business model of selling stuff people want at prices they're willing to pay actually works. Who would have thought?

The Glasgow Argyle St one is always mobbed when I'm in. They did close the Buchanan St one, but what was the point of having two within half a mile of each other in the first place?



I was in the merry hill one on Saturday and the stuff I was looking at was same as Amazon prices, didn't used to be. 
There were three HMVs in Birmingham city centre which always seemed a bit crazy so cutting it back to one big one felt like something they should have done long before their financial problems. 

CHRISB50

My cock and my feet

Phil_aka_Pip

CHRISB50 said:

My cock and my feet

tell me about it

CHRISB50

Phil_aka_Pip said:

CHRISB50 said:

My cock and my feet

tell me about it

I can't, I can't see them

prowla

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.
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.

Marlboro used to do free gifts for the foil inserts from fag packets; years ago I got a free pair of Ray Bans from picking them up off the road.

peteri

Have enjoyed a lot of these things - grew up in the 70's so especially remember all of the above ^

I had forgotten quite how much dog muck there used to be.

My memories of family gatherings in the 70s are a terrifying, fire inducing mix of chain smoking and nylon clothing.

Another one - cigarette cards, I remember devouring the catalogue looking at the toys I could buy with the cards my grandmother was smoking herself to death with to collect

Insane when you look back on it

boogieman

peteri said:

Have enjoyed a lot of these things - grew up in the 70's so especially remember all of the above ^

I had forgotten quite how much dog muck there used to be.

My memories of family gatherings in the 70s are a terrifying, fire inducing mix of chain smoking and nylon clothing.

Another one - cigarette cards, I remember devouring the catalogue looking at the toys I could buy with the cards my grandmother was smoking herself to death with to collect

Insane when you look back on it

Oh god yes, cigarette coupons. Forgot about those. My mate used to smoke Kensitas (always known as Cancertas) and collected the coupons religiously. As soon as he got anywhere near the amount he needed, a new catalogue would come out and the amount of tokens had gone up. We always reckoned he’d eventually have enough for an iron lung when he was about 70. 

ESBlonde

Green shield stamps,
Tiger tails hanging from rear view mirrors.
Metal AA badges on car bumpers.
AA boxes on the roadside.
Dogs under 12" high were puppies not handbag pets.
Men still sporting DA haircuts.
People washing thier own cars on sunday morning.
Families going out together all dressed in thier sunday best.

scrumhalf

In the days before all-day telly, trade test transmissions.

Snags

JAYJO said:

Clackers wrapped around a phone line next to a pair of baseball boots.

You still get those in a couple of towns around here - used by the local yoof gangs to mark the territorial boundaries.

proggy

Prostitutes and drug dealers hanging around Kings Cross Station, a few years ago there were hundreds of them.

midlifecrisis

families rushing home with a giant bag of popcorn and malteses and a small pile of vhs cassettes from blockbusters.

57Deluxe

my old chap when looking down

Phil_aka_Pip

Yam Fizzies going meeemeemememe meeeemeemeememe

benecol

zepp76 said:

The thing I don't see in my area anymore is workmen at roadworks, there are loads of coned off roadworks around here but the workmen are never to be seen! It took nearly 6-8 months for our local roundabout to be repaired/renewed, I drove through it at least twice a week and didn't see a single workman in all that time but it still eventually got done.

Highway repairs is the job with the highest death rate in the UK. For the safety of the workforce, most of the work on major roads and motorways is done at night, so the volume of traffic is lower and their high vis really pops.