Things We Miss From Years Gone By

[aquarius moon]

Was just reading another thread & found out the 'Dandy' has just published last edition. Was never my favourite comic (being a girl!) but made me think about comics/mags I used to love:

Judy, Bunty, Sally, Jinty, June & schoolfriend, Princess Tina

Then I progressed to Jackie, Photo-Love, My Guy & Valentine

Followed by Loving & Love affair

Does anyone else remember these?

This thread could run & run as there are so many things I miss that are not here now!

[GSJ57]

Would never miss an issue of Jackie - also Fab 208!

[aquarius moon]

I forgot about Fab 208.

I even remember Playhour (showing my age now!)

It had The Magic Roundabout on the front!

[aquarius moon]

Having decent programmes to watch on Xmas day.

Great one-off dramas and movie premieres.

What do we get now?

The Lord Of The Rings (great film, but I've seen it twice already)

Downton Abbey (fine if you follow it, I don't!)

Call The Midwife (don't watch that either)

All the soaps (all rubbish)

Thank goodness for Top Of The Pops & Paul O'Grady at Battersea dogs home!

[PeckhamRose]

I remember Loving Magazine when I was a teenager. Also there was a magazine called Pink.

For my comics I had Beano, Topper and Beezer, and me and my mates used to swap with Dandy and so on.

Loving Magazine used to feature stories of young women leaving home, getting a flat near Kings Road and a job in a Kings Road Boutique, getting pregnant often by the Manager, going to a home for unmarrieds then giving the baby to adoption then coming home to Mum. Every effing week. My Gran used to live at the Worlds End end of Kings Road and I'd stay with her and wonder why anyone would want to work in a boutique!

I have seen a couple editions of Loving for sale on eBay and often thought it might be fun to see a copy now.

[computedshorty]

I miss Popeye the Sailorman, with those big armes with anchor tattoo's.

It was the spinage that gave him the strength.

He needed that to handle his girl friend Olive Oil, thin as a rake don't we dont see girls like that these days.

[PeckhamRose]

yes ya do shorty, on every cat walk in every fashion show!

[computedshorty]

Popeye and Olive Oil, Sweet Pea comes later.

In the comics, Swee'Pea is a baby found on Popeye's doorstep (actually delivered to him in a box) in a 1933 strip. Popeye adopts and raises him as his son, or, as he puts it "boy-kid". Initially, Swee'Pea's speech consisted entirely of the sound "glop". As the years went on, Swee'Pea apparently aged enough to speak normally, and could throw punches if necessary; however, his appearance remained that of a crawling baby.

[aquarius moon]

So was I the only one who found nothing to watch on telly?!

[Otta]

The original and proper Thundercats!

[KidKruger]

Puffa Puffa Rice

[Annette Curtain]

A proper hairy fanny

I mean really, when did this Topiary start in earnest ?

[aquarius moon]

KidKruger Wrote:

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> Puffa Puffa Rice

I loved that!

It tasted of sugar puffs, but looked like ricycles.

[Annette Curtain]

Jim'll Fix It !

[uncleglen]

Proper Rugby Songs- (you reminded me Annette of the one that went ...And the Hairs on her Dicky Di-Do hang down to her knees,If she was my daughter etc. etc...)

[Ruffler]

1970s telephones!

[Huguenot]

That little baby's a trimphone - 1964 to 1982, but actually designed in the 50s. The paper design to handset journey was slightly longer (about 5 years) than the 3 months it takes nowadays.

The first 13 years were all rotary dial, but they were useless because the cradle was so light the phone used to twist instead of the dial.

When they introduced keypads in 1977 it solved the problem, but the electronics to produce dial pulses were so clunky that they had to increase the size of the cradle and it didn't look so 'trim' any more ('trim' actually stood for 'tone ring illuminator model' and they were illuminated because they were radioactive).

I grew up with the 700 series, and we knew it made us the dowdy side of the neighborhood.

[computedshorty]

Public Toilets.

You could spend a penny for nothing, now it might cost as much as ten new pennies to point percy at the porcelain.

That if you can find one in time.

Why has Human Rights not been consulted.

[KidKruger]

Agree on public toilets, it's perverse how as population has expanded the provision of loos has been all but depleted.

[computedshorty]

The girl Operators at the Telephone Exchanges were overseen by a Supevisor who constantly walked behind them and pointed at a flashing light that indecated there was a caller waiting to be connected it was very strict.

My wife worked at New Cross Exchange in St Mary's Road,for seventeen & half years being loaned to other Exchanges such as the Social Services block in the old Holdrons Building in Bournemouth Road, or the one at the Elephant, or the Exchange in Black Prince Road Vauxhall.

Later she transferred to the Faraday Building in Queen Victoria Street working on International Calls, connecting diect lines with Buckingham Palace, and often spoke to foreign heads of state to connect them.

She has lost that POSH voice now.

http://www.lightstraw.co.uk/ate/main/faraday/faraday1.html

[computedshorty]

I miss the Motor racing, Stering Moss in those early open racing cars, popular sport but the drivers often became casualties.

I followed his career and still have a large collection of his photo's that were taken by the Press prior to putting in the Newspapers

If you are interested there is a programme on BBC2 at eight tonight Thursday.

[aquarius moon]

Aztec, Cabana & Amazin' raisin' bars!

[computedshorty]

Sterling lost his Licence so after used his mini motor cycle, he lived in Sheperds Market off of Park Lane. A Mews that had been used over the years to house horses then for cars today they are converted to a high standard accommodation Sterling did his own even making holes in the skirting for a Hoover suction hose to be plugged into in all the rooms, to a central dust bag in the garage, he did not do too well when he fell down the lift shaft he was making.

Sterling at the Trophy awards, his first race since his accident at Goodwood where he was injured and was unconscious for a month.

When he was Knighted by Prince Charles on leaving Buckingham Palace the Policeman on the gate objected to the speed he arrived at the gate, saying " Who do you think you are Sterling Moss?"

He replied " Sir Sterling Moss actually!"

[Cassius]

Bunty and Jackie (especially the summer specials), the Rolf Harris xylophone called the Stylophone, Soda Streams at Christmas.

[KidKruger]

I was in the guitar shops around Charing X Rd last Friday and there for sale at Marati's (sp.) were, wait for it, brand new Stylophones - for only ?15....