[Misc] Things in the Sixties/Seventies.

[METALMICKY]

Porn in hedgerows! My younger missus thought I was joking when I mused that our sex education was largely built on this

 

[WATFORD zero]

" exotic" fruit and veg. Things like mango and guava, passion fruit. I remember my father returning from south america with a basket of fruit he'd smuggled through customs with his work gear,. It was full of stuff we'd never seen before, but are pretty much common now in every supermarket of any size

I clearly remember going to Greece in the 70s and seeing Pitta Bread, Red and yellow peppers, Aubergines, and Olives for the first time, never mind the more exotic Feta Cheese, Taramasalata, Tzatziki and Octopus

We didn't have stuff like that in Mile Oak !

 

[Gwylan]

The decades, not age.
Grown men in shorts, I can’t remember ever seeing grown men, not playing sport wearing shorts.

I'm sitting here wearing some now - I pretty much live in shorts from May till October.

Tattoo's generally were pretty rare,!

Not sure that's true - both my grandfathers had tattoos as did some of my uncles. I agree they were very rare on women though.

Things from the 60s you rarely see now?

Vesta curries
Angel Delight

And things you never see now:
fag machines outside shops. I remember missing the very start of the 1966 World Cup as I had nip down to the local shop and get some snout for my dad.
Milk machines
Fish and chips wrapped in newspapers

 

[maltaseagull]

Flared trousers. Jason King moustaches.

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

suet pudding

 

[studio150]

Sunday roast being served at 1pm on the dot without fail
Being able to play football in the street without the threat of getting run over
The John Player League live on Sunday afternoons
No Sunday football
Having to drive through London to reach the M1
Having to queue to get tickets for gigs

 

[studio150]

suet pudding

Still enjoy a bacon pudding today

 

[wunt be druv]

Being sent to the shops as a young lad, to buy my mum's cigarettes.

 

[Gwylan]

Being able to go to football matches on the spur of the moment

 

[Bakero]

Porn in hedgerows! My younger missus thought I was joking when I mused that our sex education was largely built on this

That was definitely still a thing in the early 90s.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

White dogshit

 

[bhafc99]

White dog poo. In fact, dog poo in general.

 

[Weststander]

Not running onto the pitch on 90 minutes. In my first Albion years in the late 70’s, kids including myself used to run onto the pitch to pat players on the back.

Visiting garden centres (as opposed to plant nurseries) - I first saw one in Lelant by St Ives in the mid-70’s.

Females fighting - in 100’s of nights out home and abroad, I never saw a . These days, it’s something the police deal with often.

Men doing the groceries shop - at most it was a family business, but women usually did it.

Openly affectionate dads - we weren’t in the main a touchy feely nation.

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

Telephone boxes - press button A, button B etc
Being able to walk right round the Goldstone so you could change ends at half time
The half time scores system with the letters at the side of the pitch corresponding to matches in the programme
Radio Luxembourg - the royal ruler et al
Caroline, London and other pirates
Transistor radios
Cricket on BBC all day
The FA Cup final on all day from about 10 in the morning
PETER WARD and those heady days of the mid-late seventies
The BEST era for music

 

[Official Old Man]

Blokes with long hair.

About the length of mine right now.
How about seat belts. Another 'my Dad' thing where he hardly ever wore one.

 

[happypig]

Wages van robberies.

Cars that didn't all look the same.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Cow horn handle bars on your bike

 

[Binney on acid]

Wages van robberies.

Cars that didn't all look the same.

Cars that were anything but black, white or grey.

 

[Nitram]

Trannies were very different in the seventies to those of today.

 

[RossyG]

Getting back to shorts, in the Seventies once you'd left primary school it was rare for boys to wear shorts other than for sports and cubs.

A couple of years ago, boys were wearing skirts to high school as a protest at not being allowed to wear shorts. It was a real example of the generation gap for me. The idea of wearing a skirt was mind-blowing enough, but the idea of wanting to wear uniform shorts was, too.

If I'd been told to wear shorts to school after the age of eight-plus I'd have gone mental. I never wore shorts to cubs, either, even though this irked the Akela (and irking the Akela wasn't done lightly). I'd say over half the pack wore long trousers.

At a friend's middle school (Walton-on-Thames) there was an unfortunate boy whose mum insisted he wore shorts. I never witnessed it, but apparently he was treated with derision and pity in equal measures. I overheard my friend's mum telling mine that teachers had written notes and spoken to the mother, saying he should wear long trousers, but she'd have none of it. The consensus was that for the sake of her neurotic Jennings fantasy, the boy was being psychologically damaged.

And now boys want to wear shorts to high school, never mind middle school.