The small things you miss from days gone by ...

Fretwired

Walking into a record store to buy a single or album and then running home to listen to it all the way through whilst reading the liner notes (LPs). No time these days and CDs and downloads just aren't the same.

The clatter of bottle tops as the milk float came round at 7:00 am.

Airfix kits.

The simplicity of life and the endless hot summers spent with your friends.

hollywoodrox

Ludwig.  

https://youtu.be/8ThMmLVWZo8

randella

Dave_Vader said:

There genuinely being fuck-all on the telly

Must be something wrong with my telly then, because every time I flick through the channels on a whim there still is fuck-all on.

randella

Actually, you know - further to that, I fondly remember the days when I turned on the telly and it hadn't found a 'new' channel full of recycled soft porn or bingo from the channel that shut down the previous day.

hollywoodrox

guitars4you said:

bodhi said:

Riding bikes, building tree houses, making slingshots and bows and arrows, the only rule being be home before dark, barefoot and carefree.

with  a can of Top Deck Shandy

On a hot summers day a can of top deck fresh from a chiller if you were really really lucky , it was just heaven, or shandy Bass , or any shandy from a pub.

i remember top deck  doing shandy , lager and limeade and even a cider shandy in an orange ish can.   My grandad said if you drank a really cold drink on a hot day the fat around your heart would set and kill you, i was dubious of this as plenty of people were drinking Carlsberg and eating ice pops and lollies . People evidently believe this stuff though and my mum recently mentioned it  in a serious manner

hollywoodrox

phil_b said:

builttospill said:

Early 1980's our local SavaCentre in Oldbury, West Midlands always seemed to have a massive range of Star Wars toys and merchandise on display, T.J Hooker, Street Hawk and Vesta curries. 

also dukes of hazard and starsky and hutch

I have a mint in box dukes of hazard watch in my box of collectibles 

hollywoodrox

Some kids at school had James Bond and six million dollar man watches , i yearned for these

Nitefly

Ohh, Vesta curries!  But the best Vesta was the Beef Risotto - one of those, and a sliced loaf, felt like I'd died and gone to heaven.  The chow mein was bloody good, too.

EricTheWeary

builttospill said:

Early 1980's our local SavaCentre in Oldbury, West Midlands always seemed to have a massive range of Star Wars toys and merchandise on display, T.J Hooker, Street Hawk and Vesta curries. 

I miss Sainsbury’s in Oldbury being called SavaCentre! I think it was a combination of Sainsbury’s and BHS? We still refer to it as Sava although I think that got taken off the signs years ago. 

When I was a kid I spent a lot of time with my grandmother, the local shop was Fags’n’Mags and I miss that! 

thecolourbox

builttospill said:

Early 1980's our local SavaCentre in Oldbury, West Midlands always seemed to have a massive range of Star Wars toys and merchandise on display, T.J Hooker, Street Hawk and Vesta curries. 

You sir, are from God's own town. I miss it being called SavaCentre, or affectionately referred to as"The Sava"

capo4th

Porno mags 

capo4th

Underage drinking a sixteenth of weed, a large bottle of cider and some girls all sat in a field 

capo4th

Youth clubs 

rustneversleeps

Long Life beer.

phil_b

beer glasses with handels

blobb

Eagle-eye Action Man.

scrumhalf

Things costing pennies (and fractions of a penny).

Listening to John Peel and buying a single by a band you've never heard of.

Beinbg able to play Sunday morning football after a Saturday night ending in an alcoholic stupor.

Conductors on buses, guards on trains, ticket collectors.

phil_b

phil_b

the Benny Hill show

steveledzep

phil_b said:

beer glasses with handels

Only good for water (music)  though.