I remember that ice cream shop, Stevens comes to mind, though my memory might be playing tricks with me.
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Dandelion & burdock and Kerk from the fizzy pop lorry. Brown Cows made from a lump of vanilla ice cream in a glass of Kerk The weird cluncky noise the telly made when you turned it on and the delay in showing you the picture while the tube & valves warmed up. Findus crispy pancakes being exciting exotic new food (family joke) pointing to any recent building development and starting a conversation "I remember when all of this were fields..."
Floppy disks. Gameboys. Sony Walkmans. Megadrives, Mastersystems - Golden Axe, Streets of Rage etc. Nintendo 64 100p Mix Turning up at your mates house asking his mam if he was around to play, finding he'd gone out, and walking home. Fake cigarettes from the joke shop. Kids shaving all their hair off if they got nits. Telling someone they had 'dropped their gay card' and laughing when they looked down for it. Playing 'pogs'.
That's back in fashion although these days its purely to act pretentious and show people that you buy vinyl, anyone that does it has almost certainly already listened to the song online before they go into the shop.
having to wait for the tv to warm up before you could watch it. oh, wait... being able to watch the tv as soon as you turned it on.
Looking across the road to see if the people we shared a party line with are on the phone before you bother going to sit on the stairs and ring someone up
Or spending Saturday afternoon in a booth when short of money listening and then not buying them. Remember listening to the whole of Astral Weeks by Van Morrison when I was skint. Though I did get it later.
Hitchhikers. There used to be 100s on the roads, particulary roundabouts and slip-roads onto motorways. College scarves and service uniforms seemed to be the best passports to success in getting a lift, and lorry drivers never failed to stop, especially at night. Most of 'em seemed to want the company to help keep 'em awake on their long-haul journeys. The money saved anarl.
In reply to chazz, the box with the clanky dial that went from A to F or G ?? even though there was only 3 channels.
