Lets dig up the past.

Well, here are just a few ..
Reckitt's blue
Fairy laundry soap - you can still get it, at around £7 for two bars (my late Mum would be delighted!)
Omo detergent
The plastic daffodil that came with some detergent and the 'novelty' in packs of cereal.
Mence Smiths - sold household and hardware stuff, taken over by Timothy Whites and Taylor who were, in turn, taken over by Boots.
Home and Colonial stores or even International Stores - popularly known as 'The International'.
Esso Blue - "Which is better? We always deliver whatever the weather or, whatever the weather we always deliver?" You're beginning to get some idea of my age here aren't you
Glass soda syphons
Dog Licences
The orange juice the milkman delivered
Telegrams
The Robertson's Golly, the Golly Club and the badges
Walls' 'Top Ten' ice cream (Just as a BTW - useless fact that no-one really cares about No. 703 .... The reason the cone with a flake is known as a '99' is because Cadbury's were the first company to make chocolate flakes and they were No. 99 on their salesmen's list of products).
Frozen stuffed pancakes
The 'Wear Something Light at Night' road safety campaign
The 'Duo Can', advertised by Leslie Crowther - it had 'curry' one end, rice at the other, you boiled the thing in a pan and it was 'supposed' to give you a plate of curry!
Policemen on point duty
Instant Whip
Kerb drill
Fry's 'Five Boys' chocolate bar
'Party line' telephone lines (I mean when you shared a line with someone else and nothing whatsoever to do with 'premiumium rate' numbers - whatever they are!!)

I also remember .. people saying 'please' and 'thank you', being able to spell and punctuate, knowing their 'times tables'; shops where the assistant said 'Good Morning/Afternoon' and not 'You awright there?'; when complete strangers would address me as 'Mrs' and not insist on calling me by my Christian name; when I could make a telephone call and just speak to someone without having to press innumerable buttons or waste hours on hold being told my call was 'important' to them; answer the phone and not be offered compensation for something and, most of all, I remember ........... long, hot summers!!

 

Smash adverts on the tv for the processed mash, with the robots in. Space dust when you ate it it used to crackle on your tongue. Texan bars and bar six my Mom all way got me and my brother one from from bingo. Pacers the mint chews my Dad used to get me and my brother a pack on payday, he'd come home and we would rifle through his work bag looking for them.

Rusty

 

School lunch. Go to the bakers and get a crusty french loaf between you and a friend. Take it to the chip shop where they cut it in half and scooped out the inner white leaving a big pocket. Stuff it full of chips, chuck on plenty of salt and vinegar. Heaven!!!

 

Prince of Wales check trousers worn a bit short with a small turn up, highly polished black shoes or doc martens, skinny braces (usually black or red), ben sherman check shirt, topped off with a classy crombie coat. Slick!

 

You have a good memory though

 

black and white televison in Zambia where I grew up ...

then left there when I was 8 years old, and no tv again until I was 16 years old (South Africa only got televesion in 1976)

so, we used to go to drive-in on a saturday night (movies that you went to and sat in your car and watched a big screen with a pole next to your car with a crappy speaker

and during the week, we used to listen to radio in the evening

 

Yes, we have all seen the flintstones.

 

they still have them in the USA ...

suppose they never tried it here, as it rains all the time, and you'd get dizzy from the window wipers

 

Here's a few of mine:

Public telephone boxes, when person answered press button A, if engaged press button B and you got your money back (fourpence)

Gobs (later called 5 stones)
Tiddleywinks
Highway patrol with Broderick Crawford
Hopalong Cassidy
Lone Ranger & Tonto
Muffin the Mule
Armchair Theatre
Sunlight soap
Lifebuoy soap
Rubbing Boards
Flit spray, you mixed it yourself
Buying broken biscuits in a bag (nothing wasted)
Putting coats on the bed in winter for extra warmth.
Ticking mattresses
Bolster pillow
Toys made by TRIANG
The Dolls Hospital
Saturday morning cinema
Champion the Wonderhorse
Boys all wore SHORT trousers & long socks.

Val

 

I still have my late brothers Grundig reel to reel tape recorder.

 

Girls had to do Pe GYM in their navy blue knickers.Hated having to wear these.

 

Cor, that's a pity.
I was thinking of getting one of those.

 

Hey! .... my (new) old volvo V70 has a radio/cassete tape and 1 cd combo stereo .... I still have loads of casette tapes so am well chuffed ...