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Growing up in the 70's

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morethanpotatoprints · 01/02/2014 21:34

I bet there's been one of these before but who remembers stuff about the 70's, looking back to me it was all a bit weird.

So some of my memories.

Mary Mungo and midge, the music in the lift. my orange space hopper, gridsy marbles and clackers.
Dehydrated potato, free milk you had to drink at school.
Playing out from after breakfast until dark or tea.

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thiswaytothebeach · 28/02/2014 14:30

Looking in "posh" houses at their tv`s and reporting back what colour every thing was ,not shown on our black and white tv

Flozle · 23/02/2014 20:20

AuntieStella I have a misty fondness for pretty peach...I wonder if my olfactory memories are accurate or if it smelled as rubbish as everything else did in the 70s?

Mysteries · 18/02/2014 12:04

Tinny music from transistor radios on the beach. Dancing round pile of handbags. Going to Romania and being shocked by the shortness of men's haircuts there. Cheap family winter breaks in Ibiza, where locals were still warm and hospitable and were new to tourism. Newhaven-Dieppe ferry (4 hours). Hovercraft. Party lines on phone, so you'd hear other people's conversations without wanting to. The smell of a new Jackie mag. Boots 17 make-up.Ashtrays everywhere. People frying in coconut oil in the sun. The smell of Bergasol in the summer. The Bergasol ad. Positive ads for cigarettes and cigars. That condor moment.

Darkesteyes · 17/02/2014 23:50

We both just managed to avoid that one then Nigella.
I think NH is no longer a boarding school like it was then... i think its just a day school now.

Newyearchanger · 17/02/2014 22:24

BCRs kit while roller skating . Scarf round the wrist, half mast home made white trousers with tartan trim , white and tartan jacket.
My brothers refused to be seen with me.
Grin

NigellasGuest · 17/02/2014 20:56

my gran also had a dunking bird! I remember sitting watching it for ages.

darkesteyes I narrowly avoided New Hall! refused to go when I discovered you had to wear tights even in the summer.

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morethanpotatoprints · 17/02/2014 20:17

Mumslife

Do you mean the bird that dunked into the glass of liquid? can't remember what they were called, except dunking bird.

Oranges

Would have loved to have seen you in all your gear, but understand. I probably would have sniggered Grin

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VivaLeBeaver · 17/02/2014 19:34

I remember big round red and see through bubblegum machines out shops.

Fag machines were fab as you could sneak in the back door of any pub and buy a pack at the age of 12!

Orangeanddemons · 17/02/2014 19:24

I did love my bob though. Great for that teenage hair tossing thing, especially when there was only one side to toss...

Orangeanddemons · 17/02/2014 19:23

Just....No....some things are best left unseen. Please believe me....

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morethanpotatoprints · 17/02/2014 19:13

Orange

Please please post your pic on profile, even if just for a while.
I promise to be kind.
Pleassssssssssssssssse!

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Orangeanddemons · 17/02/2014 19:05

Mums life we used to match them to our socks on our rolled up "baggy jeans". I have a photo of me in 1979 wearing all these hideous items, topped off with loafers, nasty small across body bag, and tucked in sweatshirt with rolled up sleeves. The shame.....and an asymmetric bob, a la Phil Oakey....

wongadotmom · 17/02/2014 08:59

Who remembers fag/bubblegum/chocolate machines on the pavement outside sweet shops?

What about picking tar out of the road and moulding figures with it.

Darkesteyes · 16/02/2014 23:01

I didnt go to a church school either ...just an ordinary one and it was the same thing.
I was brought up Catholic though (dont practise) and parents were considering sending me to New Hall (although this was in the 80s but thank Christ they couldnt afford it) i had to have catechism at the local convent alongside my younger brother so that we could have Holy Communion which i didnt have until i was 14 (all the other girls were about 8 years old so in the photos i towered above them.)

PixelAteMyFace · 16/02/2014 22:45

I didn't go to a church school, just an ordinaryone, but we started each day with prayers and a hymn in assembly,always said grace before school lunch, and finished the day by putting our chairs upside down on our desks and saying a prayer (Lord keep us safe this night...)

I remember endlessly burning joss sticks, and wearing musk and patchouli oil.

Silver eye shadow. Burgundy mascara that made me look as if my eyelashes were bleeding.

Permed hair - the coolest kids were all sporting an afro.

American tan tights obligatory with school uniform.

Loads of people with nicotine-stained fingers and hoarse voices. Top deck of the bus in a permanent thick fog of smoke.

thenightsky · 16/02/2014 22:22

Oh God... I had this very one... it might still be in my sewing box somewhere

thenightsky · 16/02/2014 22:20

these

thenightsky · 16/02/2014 22:19

I had a jean jacket with sew on 'cool' patches I bought from the ads at the back of Disco 45 magazine.

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KenDoddsDadsDog · 16/02/2014 22:08

A tommy tippee toothbrush with a chime in it.

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