Growing up in the 70's

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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.

Grange Hill remember the very first episode in 1978 (was 10)
Being off school for weeks on end due to fuel strikes
Winters being colder and summers being hotter
Penny and ha'penny trays in ye olde sweet shoppe
Little girls dresses being really short
Silver 2 1/2 pences
Crap corner shops
Strange random opening times for off-licences
Home made clothes
Only 2 families on our road owned a car
Playing all day long outside during school holidays
BBC strike so no bbc programmes at all during one summer

This apparently came out in 1974. Comedian Dave Allens anthology of his favourite horror stories. A Little Night Reading.

Would be nice if publishers would issue a 40th anniversary reprint

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Top of the Pops records with scantily clad women on the front
Filthy trains and derelict stations
portable record players that closed up like a briefcase
Secretaries
Girls being advised to go to Secretarial College
Early closing for all shops on the same day
Green shield stamps
Saving stamps for the Blue Peter appeals
My mother poring over Spare Rib
Olive oil in little bottles from the chemist
Dungarees
Sun-In - was that 70s or early
Rag and bone man
Crackerjack - it’s Friday, it’s five o’clock, it’s Crackerjack!
Tizer (and 5p for each bottle returned)
My Dad at the Hard Rock Cafe asking for the music to be turned down. Oh, the mortification!
Snoopy in the Observer Magazine
Sasha Dolls - fab 70s clothes
The excitement of Brent Cross shopping centre opening. We had a family day out just to gawp at it.
School runs with 12 children crammed into my Mum’s Mini
It’s A Knockout
Soda Stream

lostintoys, we had family days out to watch the planes at the airport!

lost Crackerjack wasn't at 5pm... 'It's Friday, its 5 to 5, its CRACKERJACK!!! I always wanted to go on and win a crackerjack pencil.

Sweets were a treat, not an everyday thing and they came weighed out of a big glass jar into a little paper bag. I could make a quarter last a few days. My granny sometimes bought me a half, which was a mega treat and I wasn't supposed to tell my mum.

having the hilarious thought of kids these days dreaming of going on national television and competing with other kids, who also have their hearts set on actually winning a pencil. I'll mention this to 14 yr dd and see what she makes of it.

Mimsy thanks for that memory about airport days out
We often took our children for an afternoon watching the planes at local airport . They had a viewing platform on the roof . We loved it and had a radio that tuned in to the call signs .
Then 9/11 happened . So sad .

The word ‘trendy’
Record tokens
Wimpy Bender-Burgers
Cinema usherettes
Vesta chinese meals – just add boiling water! I still fantasise about the crispy noodles.
Peg front trousers with a massive waist band (on men!) worn with big platforms.
Dancing, Showaddywaddy style with thumbs hooked into aforementioned massive waist band.
“Opal Fruits, Made To Make Your Mouth Water!” (Starbursts are NOT the same thing at all!)
That Condor moment…
Kaftans
Macrame
Cravats
Ashtrays all over the house
Pouring G&Ts for the grownups
Bridge

And

“They peel them with their metal knives, then they smash them all to bits…”

And finally And this piece of joy, not sure if anyone has posted it yet

do others watch top of the pops 1979, on tonight on bbc4 at 7.30

Love this thread.

Did anyone get Fanny and Johnny Cradock? And The Galloping Gourmet?

Magpie, with lovely Susan Stranks and Tony Bastable, Playaway with Brian Cant and its excellent theme song, Hector's House and also Gordon Honeycombe reading the news (happily he's alive and well, I believe)

and remember the Thames TV opening titles? Always a bit naughty, watching that instead of BBC!

I found a nice clipping from Jackie Magazine which says "It's amazing what goes on behind the scenes at Top of the Pops!: Not arf Pop Pickers!

Darkest I remember roller skating outside, I've got pictures of me and my brother in the play area. I was nine and a half so he would have been coming up eight.I remember doing a fancy dress contest, the gaiety theatre and the freezing outdoor pool. And the chairlift.yes we had bunk beds and oh how we fought over the top bunk! Don't remember the band but my parents where the entertainment one night when they were called up on stage.

Its funny how you remember childhood in fragments isnt it?
I just remember arriving, playing in the play area on the big red bumpy slide, going to the beach and it raining just as we got there. And the band. I remember sitting on the bottom bunk one evening reading my Mandy comic. And throwing up in the car on the way home And just in the last couple of days (possibly prompted by these threads) i remember two redcoats asking my parents if they needed babysitters and my parents saying no.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

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