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The Oldies Thread

the abuse and attitude from the staff is legendary...

the smell of josticks and patouli oil and the poseurs :)


There wasn't a record on the planet that they didn't stock. The staff would openly sneer at anyone who went in and asked for a " pop " record.

Going in for the first time to buy a record was almost like an initiation ceremony, as if you got it wrong you were scared for life !.

* There was a clothes shop over the road that sold some seriously expensive causal gear and had one of the best looking girls I've ever seen working in there.
 
There wasn't a record on the planet that they didn't stock. The staff would openly sneer at anyone who went in and asked for a " pop " record.

Going in for the first time to buy a record was almost like an initiation ceremony, as if you got it wrong you were scared for life !.

* There was a clothes shop over the road that sold some seriously expensive causal gear and had one of the best looking girls I've ever seen working in there.

Spot on. I went there most Saturdays, non season, so got to know a few of them in the end, but I was fascinated by Pete Burns' missus and petrified of him, and boxhead too :)

But, jeebus, just flicking through the vinyl was an education and it's only recently I got my head around the blue grass, cajun, creole stuff they used to play.
 
Spot on. I went there most Saturdays, non season, so got to know a few of them in the end, but I was fascinated by Pete Burns' missus and petrified of him, and boxhead too :)

But, jeebus, just flicking through the vinyl was an education and it's only recently I got my head around the blue grass, cajun, creole stuff they used to play.


Also the gang of " plastic punks " that hung round the steps all day, trying to look all anarchic.

Load of bedwetting public school kids !
 

Anybody remember when Buses and Trains were 'A Public Service' and didn't finish halfway through the afternoon of New Years Eve, Christmas Eve and other days when you wanted a drink but not drive...or Taxi.

And Pubs would open on Christmas day night as well as Lunch time
 
Spot on. I went there most Saturdays, non season, so got to know a few of them in the end, but I was fascinated by Pete Burns' missus and petrified of him, and boxhead too :)

But, jeebus, just flicking through the vinyl was an education and it's only recently I got my head around the blue grass, cajun, creole stuff they used to play.
Boxhead was a [Poor language removed] cat
 
Dovecot Baths.......or strictly speaking The Harold Davies Public Baths Dovecot......

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Anybody remember when Buses and Trains were 'A Public Service' and didn't finish halfway through the afternoon of New Years Eve, Christmas Eve and other days when you wanted a drink but not drive...or Taxi.

And Pubs would open on Christmas day night as well as Lunch time
Yes the shops over Christmas were shut for an age hence the Christmas hamper, its amazing how today the shoppers fill the trolleys as if the shops were shut like the old days or world war three was breaking out lol
Back to those hampers on who can remember what was always left over never eaten off hand in my memory a box of dates!lol
To have a chicken at Christmas in my family was a luxury!
It came with the hamper!
 
Yes the shops over Christmas were shut for an age hence the Christmas hamper, its amazing how today the shoppers fill the trolleys as if the shops were shut like the old days or world war three was breaking out lol
Back to those hampers on who can remember what was always left over never eaten off hand in my memory a box of dates!lol
To have a chicken at Christmas in my family was a luxury!
It came with the hamper!

To this day I've hated those bleeding dates........
 

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