A Thing You Don't See These Days

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I found a picture of my mum standing on one of those big red coin operated weighing scales today. It had a big dial face. It was in our local shopping centre but I remember seeing them on piers, train stations etc too. Did you ever use them? Other than this picture of my mum I don't remember seeing one in use

@miniestelle - it's such a UK wide phenomena that DH actually wonders if it was a government initiative!
Crazy, but I remember playing in the woods and seeing some. So, you think ok, was it some perv flasher or a group of teenage boys? But that doesn't explain why it was bushes and woody areas all over, does it?

Apparently white dog poo was because of the crap ingredients in dog foods back then. 💩

I grew up in pubs so pub related. Peanuts on the bar and china shire horse ornaments. One glass washing machine. Cigarette vending machine. Sunday pork scratchings handed out.

Charity collections where you selected a tear off image of a 'deprived child' from a book of black and white images and made a donation - presumably in the belief that that was the child who'd receive your funds.

In our area the porn magazines were stored in the grit bin on the street corner. Like a DIY library.

Speed walkers. Used to see them everywhere in groups of 2-6, in their bright leggings and fleece top with 2kg weight in hand. Not sure I've seen one for years now...

[quote Wishingwell75]@miniestelle - it's such a UK wide phenomena that DH actually wonders if it was a government initiative!
Crazy, but I remember playing in the woods and seeing some. So, you think ok, was it some perv flasher or a group of teenage boys? But that doesn't explain why it was bushes and woody areas all over, does it?[/quote]
Of course it explains it lol! Flashers and wankers love bushes and woods. Provides cover and a peeping place.

@SupermanWithTheGreyHair

Apparently white dog poo was because of the crap ingredients in dog foods back then. 💩

Well I doubt this but not saying it didn't impact the poo but since I moved to Oz, I see white dog poo often.

I think it goes white when it sits in the sun and dries out. Perhaps because people left it around more in the 70s, it was seen more often...picking up after your dog wasn't the norm then maybe.

Then it was probably only seen in summer when the sun had a chance to dry it. It's always sunny in Oz and I do see poo on certain coastal walks where idiots just leave it...and it goes white.

Chocolate cigarettes for kiddies

Crop circles

FortunesFave

I read dog food used to have more bone meal put in as a sort of cheap ‘filler’, so high in calcium and yes when it dries out this is why it would look white. 😬 But yes, probably more people pick it up now and you’re in sunny Australia so probably dries out more than in cooler climates and I’m sure there’s still some of this cheap filler in some dog foods.

Lovely topic. 😂

I remember using those big weighing scales as a child. We’d go to see my gran and there was one in a big covered market. She’d pay for us to go on.

The little kiddie rides outside shops.

Porn Magazines in woods and a shoe/trainer in the road or on a phoneline. Always just the one.

@Wishingwell75

Those ornate glass bottles filled with brightly coloured liquid in Boots and other pharmacies. Why? Did they ever have a purpose other than decoration?

They're called carboys and they identified a chemist's shop in much the same way as three gold balls outside a pawn shop, or a red and white barber's pole.

www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/apothecary-glass-carboy-boots-chemist-305597378

[quote Wishingwell75]@miniestelle - it's such a UK wide phenomena that DH actually wonders if it was a government initiative!
Crazy, but I remember playing in the woods and seeing some. So, you think ok, was it some perv flasher or a group of teenage boys? But that doesn't explain why it was bushes and woody areas all over, does it?[/quote]
Groups of teenage boys, who'd nicked the mags off their older brothers, well so I've been told.

I remember seeing a woman standing on weighing scales with a coat under her arm! 😂.

2 other horrifying things come to mind.

Those stupid ashtrays where you had to push the top down and they used to spin, sending the ash flying.

I was brought up in France. Public loos often used to have yellow/brownie coloured soap on a metal stick above the hand basin. You often used to wonder exactly what you were washing your hand in. Had sanitiser existed at the time, l think l would have used that instead.

I remember talking scales in tesco up until about 10 years ago.
Does page 3 still exist? I remember with the peanuts on card in pubs, there used to be a scantily clad woman underneath the nuts. As a child I always found it strange.

Cars with a choke. Cars full of kids outside working mens clubs , eating crisps and drinking coke whilst the men drank inside.

Smoke filled offices, where the smokers always insisted on sitting near the window to let the smoke out. Cigarette breaks of 10 minutes per hour being considered reasonable. The tea trolley at work.

Slam shut railway carriages. Rag and bone man . The knife sharpening man. Dogs walking themselves and running round in packs.

@TooBigForMyBoots

Fire guards.🔥 All the houses where I grew up had fire guards. Big nursery ones with laundry on them, or smaller ones only put on if going out or to bed.

We had one until a few years ago - sold it when DD was big enough not to try and cook herself on the log burner. It was ace for drying things on!

Cars with a choke.

And if you saw a peg in a car with a choke, the first thing you thought was "ah, the choke is buggered".

Prepayment cards you could carry around with you to use in phone boxes. Huge printed phone directories and Yellow Pages, which were free IIRC - maybe just to BT subscribers? Thomson's local came later and was easier to use to find shops, tradesmen, places of interest.

Plastic headcovers when it was raining.
Post offices as a dedicated shop.
Lift assistants.

People carrying their enormous “mobile” phone in its own briefcase.

Our chemist has the bottles in the window and a large plastic guide dog collection statue thing at the door outside! Clearly trapped in 1970 here!!

I used the public scales yesterday - I don't have scales at home. They cost 20c - and showed me I weigh 3kg more than I thought!!

As recently as about 15 years ago I had a car without power steering. Never driven one since though.