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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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Darkesteyes · 11/02/2014 18:01

Frizzbonce Shock Sad Angry i only ever bought a copy of Jackie ...once i think. I moved from the Mandy/Tracy comics onto Just Seventeen and Smash Hits.

In this months Red (March issue) there is an article about teen mags.

Frizzbonce · 11/02/2014 15:12

I wrote a series about girls comics, but Jackie was my favorite, set in the 70s. There used to be a section called READER CONFIDENTIAL where only the most shocking confessions were expunged! The one I did began with a plummy mum bellowing: 'But Margaret? A BLACK boyfriend?!!' (This was 1976!)

Also, Nina Myskow, who I met at a comics convention was one of the agony aunts (Cathy and Claire) and she and the other female writers were desperate to provide readers with proper contraceptive information because they would get sad letters from girls who were pregnant and had literally nowhere to turn. But DC Thomson, the Scottish publishers refused. In fact when I applied for permission to use some of the Jackie stories, they demanded script approval and also didn't want me to use the word 'lesbian' in a script because they said, 'it's offensive.' I refused to change it. Says a lot about their attitudes. There was also a Reader Confidential which I didn't use about a girl who goes to a party and is assaulted by this boy. But it's all her fault because she's wearing a low cut top! I kid you not. Sad

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AllMimsyWereTheBorogroves · 11/02/2014 07:26

The Purdy cut. I had this. A deluded customer at my Saturday job told me I looked like Audrey Hepburn. A wonderful moment, but I knew I didn't really. It suits Joanna Lumley, but I didn't have her cheekbones.

Darkesteyes · 11/02/2014 00:24

When i was little i didnt fully understand what this song was about. I just knew that it was sad and that it made me cry.

As an adult it still makes me well up but now i know what its about.

Abba My Love My Life from the Arrival album.

BreconBeBuggered · 11/02/2014 00:14

Oliver Tobias being a sex god.

Darkesteyes · 10/02/2014 23:56

Richard Beckinsale.

Darkesteyes · 10/02/2014 23:54

Does anyone remember eating paper (candy paper) and candy cigarettes.

Darkesteyes · 10/02/2014 23:53

Flying Saucers sweets with sherbet inside. We have a Mr Simms sweet shop in our town centre and an independent one called Sweet Memories. I may pop in and have a look but the trouble is im doing Slimming World Sad

Mushypeasandchipstogo · 10/02/2014 21:57

David Cassidy in The Partridge Family.
E for B and Georgie Best?

Orangeanddemons · 10/02/2014 18:30

I thought Pacers were called Opal mints in the 70s. Like Opal Fruits but minty.

Short sleeve jumpers over billowing sleeved blouses
3 star jumpers
Soul bags
Supersonic
Revolver
Kenny Everett video show
Jeans rolled up over stripey socks
Hint of a tint
Miners make up
Feather cut
Straggle cut
Honey
Pink

Jellykat · 10/02/2014 18:29

Texan bars and Shrimps, Mmmm mmm!

I do remember the Galloping Gourmet, he was an enthusiastic chap eh?

Don't know if anyone's mentioned the 'Up, up and awaa a ay, in my beautiful, my beautiful balloooooon' song for the Nimble ad?

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morethanpotatoprints · 10/02/2014 18:05

Had to resurrect this thread.

I have just been out and found most of the sweets mentioned on this thread and spent loads in an old fashioned sweet shop.
Only trouble is I'm diabetic so have to give them to the dc, not all at once mind.
I found cherry lips, foam bananas and shrimps, chocolate tools, Texan bars, black jacks, fruit salads, coltsfoot rock, alphabet, candy necklace and cinder toffee.
I'm going back again in a few weeks. Grin

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Darkesteyes · 08/02/2014 23:01

I remember KTel records. Later on there was another cheapie range of records and tapes called Tring.

Darkesteyes · 08/02/2014 22:57

Me and my dad got bad food poisoning from a tin of tomato soup in the very early 80s.

thornrose · 08/02/2014 01:24

Heinz tomato soup with a swirl of milk and sliced white bread was my "off sick" food.

Darkesteyes · 06/02/2014 23:52

i remember my dad making me marmite soldiers with a boiled egg when i was off school in bed with a cold.

SalvatoreGirl · 06/02/2014 23:41

I remember Love Beads ..Dinnaeknow, when I started work in 72 I had to file stuff and frequently strangled myself with those blardy beads !

Of course who can forget the KTel records they had a very distinctive sound Grin

MorrisZapp · 06/02/2014 23:32

My dad had a fish van and we used to drive three hours to my grandparents on country roads with us bouncing about the back on a mattress.

The van broke down in the snow once, my dad had to set off in the dark and to this day I swear he came back with ice creams.

Joss sticks. Fleetwood Mac. Cheesecloth shirts. Homemade dungarees. Homemade everything.

Those pictures where you hammer nails in then wind thread round. My mum and dad basically having the same hair. Ditto me and my brother.

Having bread and honey for lunch, every day. With hot chocolate.

My sister having to wear the same jumper for eight years as my gran knitted us all the same pattern and we handed them down.

My primary school teacher not knowing what apple juice was until I explained it to her.

My mum volunteering with Women's Aid, and my dad ending up in fights with angry violent husbands.

Dory Previn.

Pan · 06/02/2014 23:19

it is odd how you remember fragments. I've just remembered my cream and brown platform wedges (circa 1976).Blush Banish that memory back to where it belongs!

Darkesteyes · 06/02/2014 23:18

Oh blimey yes the chairlift. My mum doesnt like heights so that was something we didnt do.

I got to go on a chairlift on a school trip to Switzerland five years later.

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