What do you remember- seems impossible now

[billkent]

Can you recall in days long past
When food was fresh and wasn't fast,
When traffic drove at half the speed
And nothing bought you didn't need.

When milk came home fresh from the cow,
Not pasteurised like it is now.
The milk drunk now could not surpass
That which the day before was grass.

Bill.

[mrs.tenacious]

One thing I was certainly glad to see the back of.....

the horrible rubber mask for anaesthetic at the dentist.  I only have to think of it and I can smell that awful smell!

Whenever I was 'put under' I used to have the same dream, that I was in the dentist chair floating up to the ceiling and just as I was about to hit the corner of the room I'd come round.

Gives me the shivers just thinking about it.

[billkent]

One of my earliest memories was of my mother holding me up at our bedroom window in Bromley watching the glow in the sky as the Crystal Palace burned, that was November 30th 1936.

[Pejic]

I suspect I have gone full cycle, I started off by explaining that a disk pack (1970's) was a bit like the record stacka in a juke box, then in the 90's I had to explain a juke box by saying it was like a disk pack, and now both of them are unknown.  I was also shocked last year to discover that audio cassettes are no longer available (when trying to restock my car's cassette player).  I remember milk being served in jugs from milk churns in the street and the "pig man" collecting kitchen scraps each week in exchange for a joint of pork at Christmas.

I remember when Stone Henge was just a pile of stones at the side of the road with a layby for parking while wandering/wondering around them.

Petrol at 25p a gallon (5/- in 1967)

[DudleyWinchurch]

I remember the petrol at 5/- a gallon.

I had a Honda Sport 50 cc motor-cycle and one gallon would just fill the tank whenever I got down to "reserve" level.

I also remember a ration book for that bike (that I probably still have somewhere).  It was due to an incident in the middle east (atound 1967-68?) I think but no longer recall the actual circumstances.  In any case, the vouchers were never needed as the incident passed without needing rationing in the end.

I do remember petrol rationing in my parent's car when I was child and also a petrol additive (called Redex?) what was that about?  The petrol was pumped for you by an attendant in those days and you had to ask for what you required and I remember my parents always ordering "Two and two shots" which meant two gallons and 2 squirts of the additive.

[eadaoin]

I was also shocked last year to discover that audio cassettes are no longer available (when trying to restock my car's cassette player). 

I was able to buy cassettes last year in Dublin - the salesman was quite insulted that I thought they wouldn't have them!

Reel-to-reel tape might be a different story!

eadaoin

[youngtug]

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I do remember petrol rationing in my parent's car when I was child and also a petrol additive (called Redex?) what was that about?  The petrol was pumped for you by an attendant in those days and you had to ask for what you required and I remember my parents always ordering "Two and two shots" which meant two gallons and 2 squirts of the additive.

Still available;
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0ejh/

[kooky]

Well this thread has taken me back!
I remember when sweets were no longer rationed.
The milk came in churns on the back of a cart and was ladled into big white enamel jugs.
When I was about 9 my mother was unwell, and my father had to work on a Saturday, so I went on 3 buses to Cheetham Hill and spent the morning with my aunt who worked at Wraggs grocers. We were upstairs and I helped cut the blue sugar paper and make bags for, yes, sugar! We also sorted out the broken biscuits which were sold out of rows of containers with glass lids.
They had the flying money system too!
I also remember green shield stamps and coop divi books,the precursor to the blue stamps. My divi no. was 16283 and when I was married in 1972 we had a co-op wedding car. It cost £7 and yes I got the divi!
The first TV we had, was a 10 inch set, rented from Fred Dawes. It was in a huge wooden case, the screen was very small. we got it in 1953 ostensibly for the Coronation, but my father got it in time for the Stanley Matthews cup final
I could go on.....
Kooky

[Jean McGurn]

Who remember the carrier bags that were made of brown paper and had string handles. The string used to dig into the fingers then one day mother bought a basket on wheels which I had to take to do the shopping.

Remember being embarrassed at fisrt but found it a boon when doing the Saturday shopping because it meant only one trip. (15 lbs potatoes which were loose, the vegetables and 8 small twists loaves to name just a few)

Jean