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[daystate]

Mars bars were twice the size and my dad used to cut one into six pieces.A piece for every child.
Borderline rationing.

 

[Lucy_Lastic]

According to my dad....my great grandad invented the worlds first telescope. ...

yeah but your dad's a liar.

 

[daystate]

I can remember on a day trip back from blackpool the windscreen wipers packed up.
My dad ran string through the drivers and passenger windows and attached it to the wipers.
I had to sit there pulling and tugging on the string for about 30 miles to get the wipers to work.

 

[Btq97]

Mars bars were twice the size and my dad used to cut one into six pieces.A piece for every child.
Borderline rationing.

And wagon wheels were bigger than your hand. There were 2 and half tv stations bbc2 showed the test card for ages. The open university tv lectures with blokes with well dodgy beards and illegal ties

 

[oggbashan]

Mobile phone:

Back in the early 70s, one of my colleagues was helping in a South American country to set up radio communications for an airstrip deep in the Amazonian forest.

He, and others, flew in by plane taking parts for the radio system but the aerial was still being erected and not yet usable.

The plane blew a tyre shortly after landing and there were no spares on site.

My colleague had his experimental satellite phone with him. It was the size of a large briefcase. He opened it, took out the dish and pointed it at a satellite until he had a carrier signal. He then rang his office in London and asked them to arrange for a spare tyre. London rang their contact in the country and the spare tyre arrived within 24 hours.

The local engineers were impressed.

But the cost of the short call? £2,500.

 

[thefishfryer]

Mobile phone:

Back in the early 70s, one of my colleagues was helping in a South American country to set up radio communications for an airstrip deep in the Amazonian forest.

He, and others, flew in by plane taking parts for the radio system but the aerial was still being erected and not yet usable.

The plane blew a tyre shortly after landing and there were no spares on site.

My colleague had his experimental satellite phone with him. It was the size of a large briefcase. He opened it, took out the dish and pointed it at a satellite until he had a carrier signal. He then rang his office in London and asked them to arrange for a spare tyre. London rang their contact in the country and the spare tyre arrived within 24 hours.

The local engineers were impressed.

But the cost of the short call? £2,500.

I'm not surprised in the early seventies you had to book calls to USA and then they would cost about £10 a minute. I seem to remember watching the first TV broadcast from the USA to the UK in the 60's

 

[English_guy_bkk]

My mam used to get the Grattons catalogue. I'll admit to looking at the 12 hour girdles with interest.

 

[butters]

And wagon wheels were bigger than your hand. There were 2 and half tv stations bbc2 showed the test card for ages. The open university tv lectures with blokes with well dodgy beards and illegal ties

let's not forget our hands were a lot smaller, too

and tv broadcasts shut down around 10pm or so... and played the national anthem!

My mam used to get the Grattons catalogue. I'll admit to looking at the 12 hour girdles with interest.

mum had a littlewoods and something else... when we were about 6 and 7, my next sister and i sometimes spent a rainy afternoon catalogue window-shopping, choosing one of those great big dolls and them all their outfits, accessories, furniture, bedding, toys, everything!

 

[Btq97]

The big catalogues back in the day were little woods . Gus and kays of Worcester.
I did enjoy looking at the womens underwear. Many years later I got a job at gus. They had in house models that would wander about in just underwear.
Oh and gus and lays were just different brands for the same company. At one point all the products had to classified against a list by one the big retail analyst company I spent two days working with the female boss of my section classifying women's underwear.

 

[daystate]

Didn't we all look at the underwear section in catalogues!

yes

 

[KinoKe]

One of my early jobs was as marketing manager for one of the big women's 'underfashion' outfits. I was just 20 when I started. The house models were all serious flirts.

 

[oggbashan]

Didn't we all look at the underwear section in catalogues!

In my day, those catalogues were illustrated with line drawings, not models.
But I had my father's stack of older National Geographic magazines with bare-breasted tribal women...

 

[thefishfryer]

In my day, those catalogues were illustrated with line drawings, not models.
But I had my father's stack of older National Geographic magazines with bare-breasted tribal women...

Oh yes, and there was Health & Efficiency Magazine. If you could get hold of one. They got passed around a bit at school.

 

[oggbashan]

When I started work, the trainees' 'hut' was situated inside an ancient warehouse. In the hut was a small suitcase. When we opened it, it was full of Health and Efficiency magazines and others all dated from the early 1950s. That suitcase kept us amused for hours.

 

[English_guy_bkk]

So is everyone heading to the pub today?
Pop 10p in the jukebox for me please.

 

[Btq97]

nope the pubs near me are dire

 

[English_guy_bkk]

nope the pubs near me are dire

Yikes...where is that may l ask?

 

[Btq97]

stockport

 

[English_guy_bkk]

Ah ok.

 

[Btq97]

am sure there are good ones just not close enough for my lazy arse to walk to

 

[English_guy_bkk]

am sure there are good ones just not close enough for my lazy arse to walk to

I'm sure there are some nice pubs. Between you and me, bank holidays were too infrequent...seeing a lady in a pair of shorts with sunglasses.

 

[English_guy_bkk]

That said,..I've seen ladies in shorts wearing sunglasses in winter in Newcastle

 

[English_guy_bkk]

Maybe migraine sufferers like me (the sunglasses I mean, not the shorts, maybe I should try that).

Try wearing shorts as well and let us know how you feel.

 

[Btq97]

many years ago I went to q club in Birmingham there were any number of young ladies in big pants crop tops and fairy wings it was freezing i was in two hoodies and coat and still cold.

 

[English_guy_bkk]

many years ago I went to q club in Birmingham there were any number of young ladies in big pants crop tops and fairy wings it was freezing i was in two hoodies and coat and still cold.

Did you ask any of them for a dance?