Items you never see nowadays

[mancity2012_eamo]

Still made and very popular.

Are they still made by kids or by adults that remember them from their youth?

 

[Ribchester]

Donkey jackets were the dogs bollocks. Used to wear mine only to Maine Rd or away matches.

Bulldog

 

[oakiecokie]

Watneys party 7s

Threlfalls also did one, as did Greenall Whitley.

 

[oakiecokie]

Airfix model airplanes.

Bloody hell I had dozens of those and also included were sports cars and warships.Loved the smell of that glue.

 

[Ribchester]

Football Specials. (Trains). The End is Nigh. Halftime scores racing results. Stop press in the then MEN. Football Pink. Scoreboards. Program tokens. Token sheets. Rosettes n rattles. Skinners. Season ticket books. Coppers with gob all over their backs. Westler Hot dog and Burger carts. Pips. All night buses. Carling Black Label. Mind yer Car mister. Nicked away scarves. Razors and sawn off shotguns. Rampages. Silk Scarves. DGR Crombie Boys

 

[oakiecokie]

Football Specials. (Trains). The End is Nigh. Halftime scores racing results. Stop press in the then MEN. Football Pink. Scoreboards. Program tokens. Token sheets. Rosettes n rattles. Skinners. Season ticket books. Coppers with gob all over their backs. Westler Hot dog and Buger carts. Pips. All night buses. Calling Black Label. Mind yer Car mister. Nicked away scarves. Razors and sawn off shotguns. Rampages. Silk Scarves. DGR Crombie Boys

Loved my Crombie.Had a red hanky in the top pocket held in with a diamond type pin and topped off with blood coloured Doc Martens

 

[Ifwecouldjust.......]

Back in 1974 I had a 1965 Mini Countryman(the one with wood strips on the rear).
It had sliding windows and a piece of wire with a wooden handle to open the doors. And like most cars at that time it was riddled with rust. It would be inconceivable to have a 9 year old modern car in such a rusty condition but in the 60s/70s it was all too common.

My dad had a Humber Sceptre that had rusted so much on the passenger footwell that he knocked it out and replaced it with tongue and groove floorboards ..... i kid you not.

 

[urban genie]

Donkey jackets were the dogs bollocks. Used to wear mine only to Maine Rd or away matches.

I still got one wear it to the match and to go out in the winter, the donkey jacket is still a popular stapple amongst mod/skinhead fashion and also seen as a future choice for the hipsters.

 

[Fred_Quimby]

Mirrors and bells on bikes.

(Today it’s more important for those who make the rules of the roads to pander to Tour de France types than common sense road safety.)

Actually, as a cycling coach we go one better and teach our riders to be more aware of other road users by looking around. You only need a bell if pedestrians are daft enough to walk in front of you without looking and you can actually shout quicker than ringing a bell.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Teenage boys egging their mates in their birthday. It’s just “birthday digs” now.