Life in the 70s/80s

[mr t]

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

When I was a kid my mates dad was a butcher and they lived in the butchers shop. To go in his house I had to go through the shop and his dad used to have a laugh by pushing all the chickens or turkeys that were hanging on the rail towards me.

I used to be petrified - I hated being hit on the head and neck by dead birds heads, beaks and eyes......................it's one of my earliest memories and I never ate turkey or chicken for years.

 

[blue1969]

Pips
Rotters
32" Bags
Two tones
Fred Perry's
Cars you could repair.
Getting pissed for £2 on Joey Holts
British cars
Paying on turnstiles
Helen the bell
fights without weapons

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Football specials. Hundreds of you crammed into a train to Ipswich or Newcastle.

Wearing scarves tied to your wrist, then hiding them under your jumper if you were going to somewhere like Leeds or Boro.

 

[waterloo blue]

Sitting outside the Denmark(I think it was called)pub waiting for my dad and his mates,so we could go to the match.
My aunties offie in Salford that had hand pumps for jugs of beer.
Being left in charge of my brother and sister as I was the eldest 11!. Buying bags of broken biscuits from Gleaves in the indoor market in Ashton for lunch.
Kids on free school meals being made to sit on a seperate table in the dining room at school.
Going to Wembley on my own at 16 to watch the FA cup final replay,my parentswere great honestly!.

 

[NPBlue]

Going into the backyard of the offie in the evening, picking up a load of soda siphons, then going into the shop and claiming your 50p deposit back on each one!

Banks opening at 9.30am, closing at 3.30 pm, and no ATM machines.

Strikes.

Brown cars.

Football League Review.

Shops shut on Sunday.

Sandwich soles.

Customised Ford Anglias.

 

[1_barry_conlon]

The Alpine man delivering mineral/pop to your door and whilst he was doing the said delivering you'd clean out the back of the lorry and nick the wares...especially the cream soda!

 

[stonerblue]

Vesta beef curries. The cutting edge of cuisine.

I lived on the 'beef' risotto vesta and tins of Irish stew in the 80's.

Also, 'collecting' scarfs of rival fans (satin ones)

Beige Farah's
black and white telly
Cup finals being the only live footy matches on telly then straight out for a game after the final whistle.
YTS'
Very rough in the Arndale
Bomb scares
Whit walks
2nd-hand comics
Party 7's
Heroin

 

[eggchasingblue]

Brought up in the 70's and if I could go back in time, that's the era I'd go to not only was it great but it gave me the Bay City Rollers to ogle (oh my god did I admit that out loud) ha

 

[The Pink Panther]

My sister joined the Police Force in 1973 and when the TV Series Life on Mars was shown she said that it was the Police Force she joined.

I still remember watching a World In Action documentery in the 70's that focused on drugs, or particulary heroin and it was no longer just a big city issue as its use had started to spread to satellite towns.
They interviewed two women druggies in Rochdale and then warned of what the future would hold.

When you went into a pub there was only one type of bitter, lager and mild on draught. It was really unusual to have a choice.
Pub opening times were 11.30am -3pm and 5.30pm - 10.30pm Monday to Friday. Saturday nights last orders were extended to 11pm and on Sundays the pub didn't open in the evening until 7pm.

Drinking real Coca Cola was a treat as it was so expensive and you were the absolute bollocks if you wore Adidas football boots

 

[manclad]

Porn where you could not see labia for pubes.

Porn that was censored meaning that we couldn't see everything.

I was about 18 before I realised that women didn't have big black stars covering their tits and fannies!!!