Items you never see nowadays

[allblackcitizen]

Football boots with steel toe caps
Those green or blue parka coats with a fake fur trim on the hood that zipped right up so that you were looking out of a furry porthole
Sta press trousers
Smart R's or Lois jeans
Skinny Gary Numan ties
Coloured vinyl
Cassette players and taping the top 40 off the radio with all kinds of background interruptions - the cat miaowing, your mum shouting you for dinner, a really loud fart etc

 

[hammocity]

They're in Poundland every xmas. They've never gone away.

My son's had a few detentions over the past year or so, although I appreciate that you may not have.

That made me laugh, I had more detentions than Nelson Mandela, my parents were mortified but I think I’ve done enough in my grown up years to make amends, cheers.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

I was thinking recently of bygone things that have long since disappeared. Not ephemeral fads like those things that trend at Xmas and are then forgotten, but things that were part of the fabric of everyday life (some youngsters here might never have heard of some of these):

tea cosies....cycle clips..... calves' foot jelly....trouser turn-ups
Manchester's double-decker trams.....gramophone needles.....pound notes
running-boards on cars.......Wall's ice-cream tricycles.....driving gloves
Green Shield stamps.....Woolworth's and MFI stores....coal scuttles
footy fans waving rattles and wearing rosettes....Angel Delight
inkwells in school desks....shoe trees.....stamp albums.....Beechams pills
heavy leather straps to pull open train carriage windows.................
dangly sticky fly-papers........Oxydol washing powder......cinema organs
toasting forks.....fireguards......stone hot-water bottles.......
dubbin to soften football boots.......hand-operated mangles......
M/cr Evening Chronicle.....smoking in cinemas........bus conductresses
detachable shirt collars (needed studs)......Kardomah cafes
petrol station attendants to fill up your tank.......
furry steering-wheel covers.....waiter service in pubs......

Enough already. I could go on but I shan't.
Where has my life gone?

I still have the emboldened items at Ewing Towers.

 

[Mozzer]

Loved the cup games at Elland Road in the late 70's

What a great video, apart from the result. It's almost unrecognisable from today's game. The state of the pitch, not screaming for a penalty if looked at the wrong way etc. Modern players wouldn't last 5 minutes in those conditions!

 

[RadcliffeRick]

Football boots with steel toe caps
Those green or blue parka coats with a fake fur trim on the hood that zipped right up so that you were looking out of a furry porthole
Sta press trousers
Smart R's or Lois jeans
Skinny Gary Numan ties
Coloured vinyl
Cassette players and taping the top 40 off the radio with all kinds of background interruptions - the cat miaowing, your mum shouting you for dinner, a really loud fart etc

Had to be a fish tail parka to have street cred!!

 

[Banned Tosspot]

 

[oakiecokie]

Bloody hell,cap rockets.Forgotten all about `em.

 

[oakiecokie]

Just shown my missus this and she works for the British Heart Foundation.
They sent one of those off to put on e-bay ... it fetched just under £50 only a few months ago.

 

[sir baconface]

Watneys Red Barrel bitter, on Tiswas Lenny Henry read the “news”, he said “Watneys Red Barrel Brewery is to to close, 10 million gnats are being made redundant”

Or “Why is drinking Watneys like making love in a punt?”

“Because they are both fcuking close to water. “

 

[s1ty m]

Those green or blue parka coats with a fake fur trim on the hood that zipped right up so that you were looking out of a furry porthole

Weren't they called Snorkel coats?