Things under 40’s will never know.

[Littlesue]

Take a potato, rub a bit of oil on the skin and season and then put in an oven on gas mark 6 for about an hour

Don't forget to prick it!!

 

[Haydn]

Using the old red, urine and tobacco perfumed, public phone boxes to make free calls, by tapping out the number on the receiver, was considered advanced level, high tech hacking.

I moved to London, sharing a flat with Aussie and Kiwi travellers and quickly realised our method might not be quite cutting edge.

They had handsets wired with crocodile clips which they connected to bared wires in the phone box.

Amazing, they just dialled the number they wanted and got to make free international calls to the people they really wanted to speak to, rather than annoying 20 random people, as we did with our agricultural receiver tapping technology !

 

[n01efc]

The phone book and yellow pages. Spend ages trying to remember the last name of someone or a shop. Good for throwing at someone though!

 

[Kurt.]

19 pages @Bryan+

 

[ClausThomsen]

The phone book and yellow pages. Spend ages trying to remember the last name of someone or a shop. Good for throwing at someone though!

That's reminded me of TV strongmen in the past ripping the Yellow Pages in half.

Not the sculptured preening body-fat obsessed gym pests of the modern era but hairy, bullworker wielding barrel chested fellas who looked like 7 pints of mild and a fried breakfast was essential to their routine.

 

[Littlesue]

Using the old red, urine and tobacco perfumed, public phone boxes to make free calls, by tapping out the number on the receiver, was considered advanced level, high tech hacking.

I moved to London, sharing a flat with Aussie and Kiwi travellers and quickly realised our method might not be quite cutting edge.

They had handsets wired with crocodile clips which they connected to bared wires in the phone box.

Amazing, they just dialled the number they wanted and got to make free international calls to the people they really wanted to speak to, rather than annoying 20 random people, as we did with our agricultural receiver tapping technology !

Remember dial a disc too. They would change it every Sunday so would go to phone box and you could catch a couple of bars of the song before pups went so you could check if it was a song you liked or not.

 

[Haydn]

Don’t think anyone has mentioned this baby, the 1970’s version of Amazon and Ebay.

Send off your postal order and with a bit of luck and a lot of waiting, something loosely resembling the advertised product might turn up.

 

[Barrowjohn]

The phone book and yellow pages. Spend ages trying to remember the last name of someone or a shop. Good for throwing at someone though!

And don’t forget the first job- searching for your name when it arrived “yeah we’re in- look there we are see” simpler, happier times.

 

[Littlesue]

Don’t think anyone has mentioned this baby, the 1970’s version of Amazon and Ebay.

Send off your postal order and with a bit of luck and a lot of waiting, something loosely resembling the advertised product might turn up.

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Oh yes, bought a few things from that

 

[Kurt.]

They won’t even know who stan and Hilda Ogden were

 

[April1970]

Two branches of my bank that were about 500 metres apart in a small town.

 

[COYBL25]

They won’t even know who stan and Hilda Ogden were

 

[jazzy]

They won’t even know who stan and Hilda Ogden were

And definitely won't know who Stan and Ollie were

 

[Blue peter]

Best job ever

The issue for me was I kept on missing John Craven’s newsround!

 

[Kurt.]

The issue for me was I kept on missing John Craven’s newsround!

I remember them days well, Jossies Giants, Murphy’s mob, Grange Hill with zammo the smackhead