Life in the 70s/80s

[mackenzie]

Here's a controversial one, but it is true....being the only kid in the class who didn't live with both their natural parents.

 

[BlueTony]

80's

Getting to a cup final! (and being so disappointed and hating Glennn Hoddle for saying he would, have scored any way {liar!})

Bemoaning the lack of another Bell, Lee, Sumerbee or Barnes.

John Bond.

New romantics.

Tommy Hutchinson.

Gerry Gow.

Neil McNab.

Steve MacKenzie

Tommy Caton

Ray Ransom

Thinking we had a really good team and looking back and realising we were just one or two players short.

All those years of hurt but it just makes it sweeter now.

The future is bright the future is blue

 

[pride in battle]

80's

Getting to a cup final! (and being so disappointed and hating Glennn Hoddle for saying he would, have scored any way {liar!})

Bemoaning the lack of another Bell, Lee, Sumerbee or Barnes.

John Bond.

New romantics.

Tommy Hutchinson.

Gerry Gow.

Neil McNab.

Steve MacKenzie

Tommy Caton

Ray Ransom

Thinking we had a really good team and looking back and realising we were just one or two players short.

All those years of hurt but it just makes it sweeter now.

The future is bright the future is blue

The cockneys beating us in 81!! ive never got over it!!

 

[another generation]

Home-knitted jumpers.
Village parades with trailers ('floats') for each group that wanted to decorate them.
Snake belts.
Stilts.
PT at school - standing in a line in the playground, doing arm exercises and looking like something from the Victorian era.
Wooden toys.
Velour jumpers.
Suede trainers.
Every single children's programme on the box!

 

[ali benarbia's studs]

vietnam,cambodia.... and phil thomson believed he was cool FFS!

HE S STILL A PLONK......mind you less the rash-tash!

 

[Patientman63]

Plastic belts with the "Polo" mints logo on.

3 Button waist band keks with side pockets and flared turn ups.

Cossack hair spray for men

Saturday morning cinema club

Platformed soled shoes

Catching the SELNEC 264 bus into town (for 2p), and going to the underground market

Saturdays night club with Gary Davies as resident DJ

Placemate 7

The Ritz! Oh my God the Ritz!, with its sprung dance floor, all the "grab a granny" memories come flooding back...

 

[another generation]

Roller skates. The original sort with four wheels and straps that you buckled over your shoes.

And then came...
Roller boots! (Still with four wheels. )

Not to mention roller discos. (I forget whether this topic was things that were good in the 70s/80s, or just things that were around then!)

 

[cyberblue]

Proper English Chippies .With Chips wrapped up in Newspaper & used to get scrapings for nothing

 

[another generation]

Butchers' shops with sawdust on the floor and thin chains hanging in the doorway.

 

[robsta]

Watneys Red Barrel
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Pipkins

Are you just showing off that you had a colour telly. Remeber that testcard picture but everything was grey on our set :-)<br /><br />-- Fri Apr 02, 2010 9:38 pm --<br /><br />

gigs were much easier to get tickets for!
used to go to the free trade hall at least once a week to see a band from 74 thru to 77
and the people who went were there because they liked the music, or wanted to see what they were like and not because it was an 'event'
seems its impossible to get tickets now, and when you do the people around you don't like the band and are there to be 'entertained' as part of their night out

pubs were a lot duller but friendlier places
no food in them so no kids!, but there was lots of smoke

Agree that gigs were easier to get tickets for but they still sold out. It's just they didn't all seel out on the internet within 2 mins of going on sale. You used to have to get down to the actual booking office or later on to Piccadilly Records to get your tickets. I remember getting to Free Trade Hall booking office and gutted coz Blondie had just sold out.

No big arena's then, at least not in Manchester so after the Free Trade Hall everything was at the Apollo. Went to queue up for Springsteen tickets one morning, got there at 6am and the queue stretched all the way back to the bus depot. So wasn't always that easy to get tickets.

Totally agree though that the people who went to the effort to get gig tickets were people who genuinely wanted to see whoever was on.

I truly think it was safer back then but got mugged walking home once, nearly got jumped another time by 4 guys in a car. Also got done in by rags after getting off the train back from an away game and walking back in to Piccadilly.