Members bolty58 Posted July 10, 2019 Members Share Posted July 10, 2019 Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favourite 'fast food' when you were growing up?' 'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him. 'All the food was slow.' 'C'mon, seriously.. Where did you eat?' 'It was a place called 'home,'' I explained. 'Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, And if I didn't like what she put on my plate, I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.' By this time, the lad was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table. But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I'd figured his system could have handled it: Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore jeans, set foot on a golf course, travelled out of the country or had a credit card. My parents never drove me to school... I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed (slow). We didn't have a television in our house until I was 18. It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at 10 PM, after playing the national anthem and epilogue; it came back on the air at about 6 am. And there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people... Pizza's were not delivered to our home... but milk was. All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers --My brother delivered a newspaper, seven days a week. He had to get up at 6 every morning. Film stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the films. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or almost anything offensive. Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it? MEMORIES from a friend: My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died recently) and he brought me an old lemonade bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. How many do you remember? Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car. Ignition switches on the dashboard. Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards. Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner. Using hand signals for cars without turn indicators. Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom. 1. Sweet cigarettes 2. Coffee shops with juke boxes 3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles 4. Party lines on the telephone 5. Newsreels before the movie 6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (There were only 2 channels [if you were fortunate]) 7. Peashooters 8. 33 rpm records 9. 45 RPM records 10. Hi-fi's 11. Metal ice trays with levers 12. Blue flashbulbs 13. Cork popguns 14. Wash tub wringers If you remembered 0-3 = You're still young If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age If you remembered 11-14 = You're positively ancient! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athywhite1958 Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 I got 12, I didn't remember blue flash bulbs or metal ice trays, only fast food we had was our local chippy and we could have that around once a month. I used to get 'Fridays ninepence' which got me into Athy baths and threepence spends, on Saturday we got a shilling which got me into Athy baths, threepence worth of broken biscuits from Woolworths and entry to the Saturday matinee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SatanGreavsie Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 5 minutes ago, athywhite1958 said: I got 12, I didn't remember blue flash bulbs or metal ice trays, ditto, and I fit the bill with all of the other stuff apart from lack of telly - my older brother used to work in an aerial rigger / tv repair place, so he'd bring loads of old sets home, which I'd dick about with - got electric shocks but became a dab hand at horizontal hold. In fact that one question would sort your age out: what is "horizontal hold?" a) summat you adjust on your tv b) a wrestling move c) a sexual deviation On the subject of sweet cigarettes, if they still had them would you see kids chomping e-sweet cigarettes nowadays? Vaping kayli? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 Same as Satan. Did the chippy and the pie shop not count as fast food ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamiwhite Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 6 hours ago, bolty58 said: Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favourite 'fast food' when you were growing up?' 'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him. 'All the food was slow.' 'C'mon, seriously.. Where did you eat?' 'It was a place called 'home,'' I explained. 'Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, And if I didn't like what she put on my plate, I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.' By this time, the lad was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table. But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I'd figured his system could have handled it: Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore jeans, set foot on a golf course, travelled out of the country or had a credit card. My parents never drove me to school... I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed (slow). We didn't have a television in our house until I was 18. It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at 10 PM, after playing the national anthem and epilogue; it came back on the air at about 6 am. And there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people... Pizza's were not delivered to our home... but milk was. All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers --My brother delivered a newspaper, seven days a week. He had to get up at 6 every morning. Film stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the films. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or almost anything offensive. Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it? MEMORIES from a friend: My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died recently) and he brought me an old lemonade bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. How many do you remember? Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car. Ignition switches on the dashboard. Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards. Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner. Using hand signals for cars without turn indicators. Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom. 1. Sweet cigarettes 2. Coffee shops with juke boxes 3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles 4. Party lines on the telephone 5. Newsreels before the movie 6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (There were only 2 channels [if you were fortunate]) 7. Peashooters 8. 33 rpm records 9. 45 RPM records 10. Hi-fi's 11. Metal ice trays with levers 12. Blue flashbulbs 13. Cork popguns 14. Wash tub wringers If you remembered 0-3 = You're still young If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age If you remembered 11-14 = You're positively ancient! Leigh White still has all those at home Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Wanderer Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 Damn the wash tub wringer me Gran had slipped me into 11/14 oh eck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Good Knee Posted July 10, 2019 Site Supporter Share Posted July 10, 2019 Cheers P I'm positively ancient remember all of em. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted July 10, 2019 Site Supporter Share Posted July 10, 2019 1 hour ago, H said: Same as Satan. Did the chippy and the pie shop not count as fast food ? In the old days, didn't folk take their own dishes/bowls to the chippy particularly if gravy was requested? None of this fast food packaging wazzed everywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon boy Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 Great post bolty, can I add, Donkey stoning front steps, Taking a pudding basin to the chippy, Tripe, Orange juice from the co-op milkman, Cider lollies On the subject of coffee shops with jukeboxes, loved them, can remember a few of them Powell’s, Togs/Tognarellis in Farnworth, the one on the corner at the bottom of Trinity street, near the technical college, who’s name I can’t recall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bolton va va Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 1 minute ago, Moon boy said: Great post bolty, can I add, Donkey stoning front steps, Taking a pudding basin to the chippy, Tripe, Orange juice from the co-op milkman, Cider lollies On the subject of coffee shops with jukeboxes, loved them, can remember a few of them Powell’s, Togs/Tognarellis in Farnworth, the one on the corner at the bottom of Trinity street, near the technical college, who’s name I can’t recall Just along Bradshawgate from Trinity St was " The Pantry ".......also had a pinball machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted July 10, 2019 Site Supporter Share Posted July 10, 2019 What about the pop man- was that a bit later? And the rag and bone man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Boothy Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 I don't think the milkman with glass bottles are quite extinct. Anyway, video man (Ritz video on wheels) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon boy Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 1 hour ago, bolton va va said: Just along Bradshawgate from Trinity St was " The Pantry ".......also had a pinball machine. The one I was thinking off, ‘Leons’ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SatanGreavsie Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 Off the top of me head this lot might sort out the "pretty old" from the "pretenders": Banda copiers Izal bog roll Children's Film Foundation flics at the cinema Slide rules Bernie the Bolt Clackers Half day closing Green shield stamps 7/6 dog licence Public Information Films Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MancWanderer Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 50 minutes ago, SatanGreavsie said: Off the top of me head this lot might sort out the "pretty old" from the "pretenders": Banda copiers Izal bog roll Children's Film Foundation flics at the cinema Slide rules Bernie the Bolt Clackers Half day closing Green shield stamps 7/6 dog licence Public Information Films 12 from bolty’s post and all except Children’s Film Foundation from satan “Meet Mike he swims like a fish” “Learn to swim young man, learn to swim” Also remember the coal lorry turning up with a bag of coal for the central heating Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter MickyD Posted July 10, 2019 Site Supporter Share Posted July 10, 2019 13 from Bolty's list. I don't recall newsreel before a film. But I do remember they played GSTQ at the end of the last film (AND everyone stood up for it rather than piling towards the exit. 57 minutes ago, SatanGreavsie said: Off the top of me head this lot might sort out the "pretty old" from the "pretenders": Banda copiers Izal bog roll Children's Film Foundation flics at the cinema Slide rules Bernie the Bolt Clackers Half day closing Green shield stamps 7/6 dog licence Public Information Films 9 of 10 of Satan's list. I think I was too young to give a shit about how much a dog licence cost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SatanGreavsie Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 16 minutes ago, MickyD said: 13 from Bolty's list. I don't recall newsreel before a film. But I do remember they played GSTQ at the end of the last film (AND everyone stood up for it rather than piling towards the exit. 9 of 10 of Satan's list. I think I was too young to give a shit about how much a dog licence cost. It was more the 7/6 that would get the young 'uns. 37.5p. Until 1971 there was radio license fee, and until quite a bit later the Radio Times was the only magazine or paper allowed to reveal BBC tv schedules more than a day in advance. I often use the phrase "a few bob" and every so often "10 bob" - but God knows how many people now know what they mean. Back then you'd be happy to find a "tanner" on the pavement. And I don't mean Elsie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Spider Posted July 10, 2019 Site Supporter Share Posted July 10, 2019 Horizontal hold. I remember giving the telly a fucking good whack to get the picture back to something decent. do that nowadays and your telly will end up at the other side of the house, they used to weigh as much as a car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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