Growing up in the 70's

[morethanpotatoprints]

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.

Because it was cold and the oil hadn't circulated, the pistons were harder to shift. So extra petrol entered the chamber, mixed with the air via the air inlet vlave and this mixture is combusted by the spark from the spark plug, thereby forcing the piston down the chamber and rotating the crank. (hence internal combustion engine if you didn't know?).
The coke was manually moved in the dashboard gradually as the engine warmed. To not do so led to too rich a mixture in hte chamber and juddering.

Furry pencil cases (I had a red one!)
Amanda Jane dolls

And Platignum felt pens.

Pan whoa.

Did you know that or did you google?
very impressive for a sunday afternoon.

I want some traditional flavour spangles, the brown ones.

Lots of traditional flavoured spangles!

Floral Gums. Smelled like cheap soap. I loved them !

morethan - doesn't everyone know this? Internal combustion - air and petrol exploding!!

"Because it was cold and the oil hadn't circulated, the pistons were harder to shift. So extra petrol entered the chamber, mixed with the air via the air inlet vlave and this mixture is combusted by the spark from the spark plug, thereby forcing the piston down the chamber and rotating the crank. (hence internal combustion engine if you didn't know?).
The coke was manually moved in the dashboard gradually as the engine warmed. To not do so led to too rich a mixture in hte chamber and juddering."

I'm sorry, but that is just pure filth Pan.

(sheepskin)

Lordy lordy. Only on MN.. I didnt even mentioning adjusting the points or lubing the drive shaft.

Only on MN indeed. And on a Sunday afternoon too !

Any 70's mechanic reading will know that to adjust the points you had to slip a feeler gauge between the points. S'true.
Off out for a run now.

Also remember having to 'top up' my battery in the boot of my mini with water....

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I didn't like the fizzy orange ones, the ones I like were brown and called traditional flavour, not sure if they were cola or liquorice, aniseed or something. They were really nice.

Didn't all the old 70's cars have owners who tackled a lot of the smaller jobs themselves, along with their Haines Manual.

Squirmles and Slinkies

Nancy Kominski and Tony Hart.

The drought of 76 and the Montreal olympics of 77.

Spangles, Pacers and Texan bars.

Jackie, Blue Jeans, My Guy.

taping the top 20 off the radio in my bedroom on a Sunday afternoon when nothing was open and we wanted to kill ourselves from the boredom.

Youth clubs.

Gypsy tops and boob tubes.

Fine Fare and Robert Greg.

Chelsea Girl, Snob, and Richard Shops.

Little cone-shaped paper bags when you bought 2 ounces of loose sweets, and bigger square bags for the affluent types who could afford a quarter. A schoolfriend of mine was given 20p for sweets every single day. We thought her parents must be millionaires.

I saw a 70's scrapbook the other day. Just pages and pages of pictures of food, sweets, fashions etc. I want to buy it, it was amazing!

Do people with cars still go for a run on Sunday afternoon? We did, often, to relieve the immense tedium of Sunday afternoons.

I think the brown spangles might be the mysterious Old English flavour.

I had a Sindy doll. I also had the Sindy writing bureau and the Sindy four poster bed.

One Christmas i got the Sindy horse and carriage....which i still have in its box ..it never got played with.

Things we didnt have in the 70s.
size zero
reality tv
Obsessive celebrity culture.

We have come forwards in some ways but gone backwards in others.

thornrose i think you and a lot of us on this thread would be interested in this.

www.amazon.co.uk/Things-Aint-What-They-Used/dp/0751542067/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1391359125&sr=8-1-fkmr2&keywords=phil+glenister+things

Ooh I'd love a pack of Old English Spangles now!
Anyone remember Peaches and Cream bath and body stuff from Avon (I think)?
Feather cuts, worst hairstyle I ever had.
Matching shirts and ties in lurid colours and patterns, my db had a very fetching orange combo.
I had the hairdryer with a bag for your head, the ad showed a lady wandering around having a cup of tea, however, you could only walk as far as the lead would go, I mistakenly thought you could walk miles with it.
Deely boppers, just why?!!
Typing on waxy stencil paper after removing the typewriter ribbon so the keys cut into the stencil, having to make corrections with some gunky pink stuff.
Typing one original and three copies with carbon paper and the trauma of correcting mistakes!

Gosh, so may blasts from the past.

Brentford Nylons (for sheets that would stick to the rough skin on your feet and make you sweat like buggery)

That Izal loo paper that was all hard and slippery and about as absorbent as Amy Childs in a Teflon coated mini dress.