saturday morning pictures, the adventures of zorro used to be gutted when it finished especially as it an exciting part was coming & untill next week what will happen with the mask man??????????? great.
Actually if you took a girl out and she asked for a vodka or something similar in the pub you had to do a quick check to see if you had enough cash as in those days the shorts cost way more than the pints..... I see stan mentioned Light & Bitter....that was a great drink because you asked the bar staff to put the bitter in first but they nearly always gave more than half a pint so you ended up with more than a pint but for the same price.....
I can remember walking into my local and there was a massive argument going on. People were going home and never coming back. Turned out that a pint had hit the pound threshold. I would guess that it was in 1984.
I had an excruciating teenage moment in a pub, aged 14 or 15, when I asked for a half of light and bitter. How they laughed as they refused to serve me. Had I asked for a half of bitter and a bottle of light, I suspect no questions would have been asked. The Alma would have gone under without underage drinking (school lunchtimes, in the days when pubs were open for about 3 hours total, and getting to a pub which trusted you with the lock in was a major breakthrough. Weirdly nearly all my locals in Mortlake/Teddington in the early/mid 90s were lock ins as normal practice).
Similar thing stan...we used to try and get into the Queen Adelaide at lunch time wearing our school uniform......no idea why we were refused service!!!!!!
Cerny you don't know the half of it......we didn't even have calculators...had to use something called a sliderule...never could work out how to use it...but at least i could do mental arithmatic. Yeah 1000 posts....celebrate
Shear Bloody madness .............. Late 70's ............. you could go out, buy a packet of smokes, and get smashed ............. for a lazy 5 bucks ! ............ I kid you not. Great times, great music ............. the benefits of being a Babyboomer !
Using my advanced Google skills I can tell you that 20p in 1976 would be the equivalent of 1.32 in today's money. So beer was cheap, my friend, and tasted better too.
A little white lie for Cerny's benefit. I think you had to search for decent beer then, but I didn't mind as I was not at all fussy in those days, only started to exercise taste when I was a legal drinker. Thought I saw Worthington E on tap in the Conningham last week, which took me back, but in no way tempted me. If there's nowt on offer, stick to the Guinness!
I have a huge rectangular ceramic ashtray which the brother nicked from a pub sometime in the seventies of 'Whitbread Trophy bitter - the pint that thinks it's a quart'. 1001 cleans the big big carpet, for less than half a crown (12.5 p in today's money)
thats got to be the worse tasting beer i've drunk but when it came out it was supposed to the dogs bollacks, mind you it tatsed like it.
