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[holtender]

Nicked this off another board, but I thought a few on here would enjoy it.

Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favourite fast food when you were growing up?'
'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him. All the food was slow.'

'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?'
'It was a place called 'at home,'' I explained. !
'Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.' And I had to have permission to leave the table.

Some people, never wore jeans , set foot on a golf course, had holidays abroad nor had a credit card.

My parents never drove me to school – never had a car. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow).

I remember we had a television, the screen seemed about 6” square (that is 150mm in new money).
It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at midnight, after playing the national anthem .

Those that had a phone, were on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.

Pizzas were unheard of and therefore were not delivered to our home.... But milk was.

All newspapers were delivered by boys - and all boys delivered newspapers --me and my brother delivered newspapers, six days a week. We had to get up before 6AM every morning.

Film stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive.

If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.
AND

Headlight dip switches were on the floor.
Ignition switches were on the dashboard and there was a magazine shelf underneath.
Using hand signals for cars without indicators.
You had to pull the “choke” out to start the engine and MOT’s hadn’t been invented.
Bicycle clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner.

[Vamps]

I remember it all so well.......

When I begin a sentence with 'When I was a lad......' Miss Vamps and swmbo cringe, but so true, kids do not know they are born these days........ Oh dear, I sound like my father......

[tidla]

my kids are still shocked there were "only" three tv channels.

[Andy B]

my kids are still shocked there were "only" three tv channels.

My kids, who are now 22 & 21, once asked .... ''what videos did you watch when you were young?''
They were both amazed when they were told that there was no such thing! 

[Amego52]

my kids are still shocked there were "only" three tv channels.

Ha Ha yes, BBC1, BBC2, and 'the other side'   

[Lizzie_Zoom]

I remember when there was just the BBC broadcasting a very limited service, with plenty of intermissions!

But then along came the "commercial" channel!

[Andy B]

my kids are still shocked there were "only" three tv channels.

Ha Ha yes, BBC1, BBC2, and 'the other side'   

I can (just about  ) remember a time when there was a UHF socket & a VHF socket in the back of the telly. The aerial was plugged into one socket for BBC1 & BBC2 was plugged into the other.

[Amego52]

I was having this very conversation yesterday with some young 'uns at work. They just couldn't believe that a beeny hat, if thats the way you spell it now, originated from a benny hat worn by the one and only benny from crossroads.
They were even more speechless when they learned that crossroads was always a live performance, not that they knew of crossroads!

[Dishevelled Den]

A time when programmes like this were eagerly awaited;

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ0yjPP2xk8&feature=related[/media]

[Dishevelled Den]

Television news coverage of breaking events was slightly different then;


[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GPs3EtCNwI&feature=fvw[/media]

[cem_devecioglu]

there was only one channel black and white.. and not everyday..fast food :-?

computers , mobiles 

telephone was something very expensive and important but we had free because of father-mother  jobs

video is something new-ish

and cars were twice the price of homes

[PhilRich]

I've had a wistful smile a mile wide on my fizzog as I read this thread! Happy Days!!! and by God they were too despite having no money, pawning dads best suit on monday & reclaiming it in time for his going out on Saturday night  , being made to sit at the table 'cos I hated sprouts & wouldn't eat them despite having my arse laced with a leather belt & the cold leftovers served up for the next meal, and the next until it wasn't edible  (I still wont eat sprouts ), being sent to the corner shop for a gas mantle & walking home like I was carrying Nitro in case I bust it!   God, I could cry my heart out at the way things are now, & what my Grandkids have coming to them if things don't change for the better! 

[Vamps]

I've had a wistful smile a mile wide on my fizzog as I read this thread! Happy Days!!! and by God they were too despite having no money, pawning dads best suit on monday & reclaiming it in time for his going out on Saturday night  , being made to sit at the table 'cos I hated sprouts & wouldn't eat them despite having my arse laced with a leather belt & the cold leftovers served up for the next meal, and the next until it wasn't edible  (I still wont eat sprouts ), being sent to the corner shop for a gas mantle & walking home like I was carrying Nitro in case I bust it!   God, I could cry my heart out at the way things are now, & what my Grandkids have coming to them if things don't change for the better! 

Remind me, was it 1967 or 1968 when Hartlepool got electricity.....

Whilst, as you know I jest, there was a small row of about 6 terrace cottages in Sedgefield that got re built in the early 80's, they still had gas lamps in them... they had been empty for a number of years..

[Andy B]

......  they still had gas lamps in them... they had been empty for a number of years..

When ah were a lad .......  the old dear that lived next door still had a gas light in her front room, it used to fascinate me at the time ( over 40 yrs ago now  :-?)

[PhilRich]

I've had a wistful smile a mile wide on my fizzog as I read this thread! Happy Days!!! and by God they were too despite having no money, pawning dads best suit on monday & reclaiming it in time for his going out on Saturday night  , being made to sit at the table 'cos I hated sprouts & wouldn't eat them despite having my arse laced with a leather belt & the cold leftovers served up for the next meal, and the next until it wasn't edible  (I still wont eat sprouts ), being sent to the corner shop for a gas mantle & walking home like I was carrying Nitro in case I bust it!   God, I could cry my heart out at the way things are now, & what my Grandkids have coming to them if things don't change for the better! 

Remind me, was it 1967 or 1968 when Hartlepool got electricity.....

Whilst, as you know I jest, there was a small row of about 6 terrace cottages in Sedgefield that got re built in the early 80's, they still had gas lamps in them... they had been empty for a number of years..

We moved into our house on the West View Estate in 1959, & although it had electric lighting it still had the (working) gas lamps fitted in all the rooms, a coal fire (soon to be smokeless fuel), an inside lavvie but no bathroom!  & a gas cooker & Belfast sink with wooden draining board in the kitchen. In 1962 we moved to a brand spanking new house off King Oswy Drive (we were the first tenants on the new estate 'cos my uncle Danny was the Mayor  ) & it had a fitted kitchen, coke fire (with real glass in the door ), & a full bathroom & toilet (lavvies were for the 'lower orders' by then! ) and an outhouse with a gas 'Poss Tub'!!! Sheer bloody luxury