The 70's

[Gravity Aided]

Do you know the meaning of the group's name, though?

You gotta read up on your William S. Burroughs for that one.

 

[slowmotion]

Old Grey Whistle Test, Thin Lizzy, Moroccan Soap Bar.

 

[EltonFrog]

And these were buzzing about all over the place.

 

[clid61]

Im 54 loved the 70s , lived early 70s in Munich , late 70s in Warrington, wouldnt change a thing ! As i wouldnt change the 80s 90s and so on !

 

[marknotgeorge]

Sometime in the mid-to-late 70s (it was before we moved to the new-build housing Association house in Alvaston in about '78), we had a HMV black & white portable (trans: it had a handle) with a knob for tuning as the upstairs telly. It had been dropped or something, because the screen was at an angle. I remember being allowed to stay up late because Mum was on the telly - she'd been to a recording of some band, and was there at the end of a row with her loose crotcheted jumper and her long permed hair...

The downstairs telly was a Deccacolour, which died when the tube went. It was replaced by a rental telly - initially one with a 50p meter. We didn't buy a main telly until the mid-80s, from that electrical retailer that advertised that they gave you a plug and a screwdriver - Connect?

 

[Cuchilo]

And these were buzzing about all over the place.

And these where bouncing around every where ....

 

[Hill Wimp]

View: https://youtu.be/CvGaQqxs7eY


I remember this on Saturday nights which us kids got to see when we had family round for gossip and cards.

 

[Hill Wimp]

and the male family members used to drink this whilst playing cards

 

[Gravity Aided]

View: https://youtu.be/CvGaQqxs7eY


I remember this on Saturday nights which us kids got to see when we had family round for gossip and cards.

I lived down the block from a relative of Telly Savalas. Never saw Aristotlellis around, though. (One heck of a poker player, I'm told.)

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

And these where bouncing around every where ....

As kids, we had a secondhand one of these in the late '80s/early '90s, and I liked it so much that my best friend at the time and I pretended that I married it.

We hosed the 'lucky lady' down, cleaning 'her', before pretending to get all cleaned and dressed up ourselves. Then we had the ceremony in the front garden and on the pavement in front of the house with my friend being the Minister and the Best Man Boy, before the pretend pictures were taken!

Sweet, but a bit odd and heck only knows what our parents must have thought!
As for the face, I remember seeing it as being like a dog or similar, but I always saw 'her' as being her own species of little horned bouncing animal.
Actually 'she' was always a boy really (ooh err!).


With hindsight, I now realise that even though I was about 7 at the time, I had already been living in sin as I had rode 'her' plenty of times before we got married!! (And what's more, everyone else had already ridden 'her' too.... The slag!!)

My 'wife' got thrown out one day scarring me for life upsetting me , but, at least we were happy together for the time we had!

 

[Gravity Aided]

I had similar connection to an Irish Mail, but that was in the "60s. This is a picture from Classic Pedalcars site.

It was just like this one, and named Colleen. her handle broke, and a new one was fabricated. When that one broke, I was already quite on the bicycles, and the sweet Colleen was passed on to the neighbor children. She was repaired and re-tired many times, and I think she was still around the neighborhood when I was in high school.

 

[Fubar]

As kids, we had a secondhand one of these in the late '80s/early '90s, and I liked it so much that my best friend at the time and I pretended that I married it.

We hosed the 'lucky lady' down, cleaning 'her', before pretending to get all cleaned and dressed up ourselves. Then we had the ceremony in the front garden and on the pavement in front of the house with my friend being the Minister and the Best Man Boy, before the pretend pictures were taken!

Sweet, but a bit odd and heck only knows what our parents must have thought!
As for the face, I remember seeing it as being like a dog or similar, but I always saw 'her' as being her own species of little bouncing animal.
Actually 'she' was always a boy really (ooh err!).


With hindsight, I now realise that even though I was about 7 at the time, I had already been living in sin as I had rode 'her' plenty of times before we got married!! (And what's more, everyone else had already ridden 'her' too.... The slag!!)

My 'wife' got thrown out one day scarring me for life upsetting me , but, at least we were happy together for the time we had!

You are a strange, strange man - do I really want to go on tour with you?!?

 

[stephec]

As kids, we had a secondhand one of these in the late '80s/early '90s, and I liked it so much that my best friend at the time and I pretended that I married it.

We hosed the 'lucky lady' down, cleaning 'her', before pretending to get all cleaned and dressed up ourselves. Then we had the ceremony in the front garden and on the pavement in front of the house with my friend being the Minister and the Best Man Boy, before the pretend pictures were taken!

Sweet, but a bit odd and heck only knows what our parents must have thought!
As for the face, I remember seeing it as being like a dog or similar, but I always saw 'her' as being her own species of little bouncing animal.
Actually 'she' was always a boy really (ooh err!).


With hindsight, I now realise that even though I was about 7 at the time, I had already been living in sin as I had rode 'her' plenty of times before we got married!! (And what's more, everyone else had already ridden 'her' too.... The slag!!)

My 'wife' got thrown out one day scarring me for life upsetting me , but, at least we were happy together for the time we had!

This has got to be post of the day.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

You are a strange, strange man - do I really want to go on tour with you?!?

If you find her, let me know!!

 

[Hill Wimp]

I can't wait for the write up of that tour