Did anybody grow up in the 70s?

[floraloctopus]

The 50s and 80s threads are fascinating. Can anybody shed light on the 70s please?

[Flyingarcher]

@EnthusiasmIsDisturbed Dayvilles...yes. Next to the bookshop on the high street near the bus stop for 93. Hello fellow Wimbledon ite. I was an Ursuline girl. Which school did you go to?

The 1970s was rather brown and orange in hue. I remember going round the Wimbledon stores up in the village, which is a teeny tiny supermarket, by candlelight during the power cuts.

Fairground carousel being 10p a ride. Fanny Craddock. Racism and sexism as a norm. Melon with glace cherry as a starter, crepes suzette made by the waiter at your table - you never get crepes suzette any more. My father used to bring home ice cream balls covered in chocolate. I called them ostrich eggs but think their real name is melastragatta?? Or something along those lines. No seat belts. We drove across Europe with me in the middle seat with no seat belts.

[Muddledupme]

I remember watching lassie films

[Muddledupme]

I also remember collecting Humphrey stickers from the milk man and sticking them on the bedroom walls and getting into so much trouble. I also spent ages on my space hopper bouncing around.

[HeronLanyon]

Watch out, watch out, watch out, there’s a Humphrey about !

[HeronLanyon]

I have recently found my 70s brownies beret and my infants school beret and middle school beret (both state schools). !
Also remember this reinforcing rings wenwould out on punched holes making the file really fat close to the ring binder ? Why oh why ? They were kind of cotton woven and you had to lick them before they became self adhesive and then plastic and then just died out. What were we thinking !?
Clip on roller skates with a metal key to tighten.

[bringbacksideburns]

I remember being scared to death by those ' Watch out, watch out there's a Humphrey about!" adverts as a kid. And the public information film where the kid got locked in an abandoned fridge.

Weekend chocolates. They were in a white box I think and I was always allowed to have the orange jelly in the middle.

Dancing to The Wombles on the record player at kids Birthday parties in long patterned party dresses that had elastic over the chest and puffy sleeves also with elastic at the bottom that itched. ( like The Long Seekers girls wore.) And all the kids had their Birthday parties at home with homemade pink blamange, made in pladtic moulds and jelly.

Watching my mum zipping up her white platform knee length boots and getting upset when she went to the hairdressers and changed her long peroxide blonde hair to a brown purdey cut like Joanna Lumley in The New Avengers.

My dad painting the living room ceiling with his hair tied back in a ponytail because it was so long.

The National Anthem played at midnight on BBC 1 and then no TV channels on until the next day.

Getting a new telly from Rumbelows every few years and finding it very exciting.

Having a little ritual and putting a cushion on the floor and dancing on and off it to the theme tune of Rainbow every time it came on.

Getting up at the crack of dawn to arrange my Weebles and their playground set, then spending hours playing with it.

[Muddledupme]

I remember weebles there was an ad that said weebles wobble but they don't fall down.i had the fisher price tv that wound up and played row row row the boat and London Bridge is falling down. I also had the record player that had records that fitted into the side plus a wind up radio thing that the picture went past in a viewing hole. I also remember a red pair of binocular things that had circular disks that changed every time you pulled a lever down. Was it view finder or view master. My younger brother had a shape sorted that was red and blue and maybe hexagonal but you pulled the two halves apart by a spring loaded handle to get the shapes to fall out

[Muddledupme]

I also remember shrinky dink's that you coloured and cooked in an oven they were free with something. I loved bazooka joe bubble gum with the cartoon strip.

[HeronLanyon]

bring back sideburns I too was troubled by Humphrey. An older sibling used to sometimes put a red and white striped straw round my bed room door whilst chanting/singing that and it really terrified me sometimes to sobs !!!

[LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD]

Public information films
Charlie says
Fred can’t swim
Death (waits for small children by open water)
And the best of all ‘4 minute warning’

Oh and the potters wheel
Painting with nancy
Crown court
Pebble mill

[Muddledupme]

Does anyone else remember buying national saving stamps at school? I remember being obsessed with the green shield stamp catalogue with toys but my mum got a bale of towels. My friend had a penny puppy walker doll as tall as me I was so jealous.

[bringbacksideburns]

Heron I'd have been beside myself!! Ha ha.

The Galloping Gourmet. He'd always have a glass of red wine whilst cooking, then he'd pour the rest on the food and nearly set the place on fire and drag someone out of the audience to sit at the table and eat his food.

[HeronLanyon]

Still have very slight frisson.

[JoMumsnet]

Hello! We've had a few requests for this thread to be moved to Classics, to join this one on Life in the '80s and this one - Did anyone here grow up in the '50s?

Seems like a good idea to have them all together in one place so we're shuffling it over now.

[macshoto]

Born in the early 70's so remember:

Rhubarb and Custard (cartoon)
Captain Pugwash
Magic Roundabout
Blue Peter with John Noakes and Shep the dog

Cycling 3 miles along country roads to primary school with my sibling every day

School milk getting frozen in winter / trying to drink a milk slushie with a straw

Summer of '76 / dad burning his feet on the sand at the beach

Fancy dress / Papier mache costume for the Silver Jubilee in 1977

Winter (I think also 1976) where the snow drifted so much (8-10 feet deep) they needed to dig out the roads to make them passable (this was in SE England)

Reading lots (I still have 'Albert goes to sea' somewhere!)

[LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD]

I was just going to put a cereal box on the recycling... making things out of cereal boxes and washing up liquid bottles a la Blue Peter and it not being completely lame!

[TheBigBallOfOil]

Kids’ clothes didn’t have ludicrous signifiers of gender all over them. I had jeans, dungarees, jumpers and t shirts and one party dress. No one felt the need to put sequins or flowers on any of them to indicate I was female and bar the dress a boy could have worn any of my clothes without raising an eyebrow.

[LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD]

I never wore pink either. Orange brown and green mostly! Never black.

[TheBigBallOfOil]

Things lasted longer too. My nubbly arran cardi dressed me, my sister, both of my kids and both hers. Still going strong

[NannyKasey]

40p to watch local team in First Division in 'schoolboys enclosure'. (I still went, was in charge of all the other kids ( I was 13))
Going to the Wimpey as a final holiday treat.
Baskin Robbins opened a shop in the City Centre
Punk, New Wave and Heavy Metal

[aweedropofsancerre]

black and white TVs
Rag and Bone man
Bonacord ginger
Provi cheques for uniform (we were poor)
Free school dinner tickets
The belt-I got the belt for standing on the toilet seat , I was 5
Lots of peanuts!
Washing up liquid bottles being use in the summer for water fights
Staying out all day with friends from a very young age
No seat belts
Adults smoking everywhere
Space hoppers
Saturday night TV was for all the family
Played lots of board games
lots of 2pences for the phone
Racism was unchallenged
Scrambles at weddings- kids would wait for the bride and groom to leave the church and if they were rich they threw silver pennies and if not so rich it was coppers

[TSSDNCOP]

More than anything I wanted marker pens like Tony Harte used.

The start of Grange Hill. Everyone at school got giant flicks and starting tutting like Tricia Yates.

The smell when the rain finally fell in 1976.

Chilblains.

Bombs. As I child I left a small attached case containing some colouring and Enid Blyton books at a bus stop in our village. The bomb squad were called!

[TSSDNCOP]

Mums didn’t cook from scratch. They just made tea.

[janaus50s]

Not much in the way of take away food. Fish n chips. There was a Chinese shop, dad would take bowl from home, and get if filled with rice.
Public telephones boxes that actually worked. Big phone books.
I remember colour Tv coming to Australia in about 1973.
Tea cosies.
Flares
Big hair do’s
No baby safety capsules for the car back then.
No Sunday shopping.

[janaus50s]

Games - skippy, double Dutch, Elastics, Jacks,