The 70's

[Bobby Mhor]

The early '70s spent in a now fading seaside resort..
Went for the day in July '71 returned home 6 years later..
Disco stuff (DJ'ed in the Tavern and Moorings)
Summer nights, 10pm closing time, darts league on Mondays, summer swimming off the pier until the early hours, beefburger suppers, bottles of Old England fortified sherry(I use the word sherry very loosely), the locally bottled 'Scotsmac', illegal substances, oxford bags, fair isle sweaters, Levi Staypress breeks, cord trousers, denim jackets, gang wars THEN i met my future wife...back home, a secure job(38 years it lasted) and future drudgery.

Today?
my walkman is filled with 70s music....

I feckin' loved the '70s

 

[Hugh Manatee]

I remember odd bits and pieces:
The weather in 1976. We borrowed a plot of my gran's garden to grow veg on and the root veg just didn't happen that year.

Bohemian Rhapsody. Strange memories of being unsettled by the opera bits. I suppose I was only five.

Someone mentioned Bond Bugs. They were always orange weren't they?

Going to the beach every weekend in summer. It was I suppose a cheap day out.

Good memories!

 

[classic33]

Footin turf, digging spuds, stookin oats, tramming, fetching water from the well.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

• riding my bike, helmetless, around my neighbourhood as a child (I was born in '67).
• playing in the bushes in my neighbourhood, with neither my parents nor I having any fear of nasty perverts hiding in them.
• living in a house that was actually a reasonable size, with large front and back yards.

... and now? Tiny houses, weirdos everywhere, and bloody mandatory helmet laws. I wish I could just go back to the '70s.

 

[Poacher]

My mum always watched Crown Court on ITV when I went home from work for lunch.
I didn't usually pay much attention - it was a worthy but generally dull, and probably faithful interpretation of what went on in court, probably very cheap to make, with only the single set.

Then they let the wonderful N F Simpson loose on the script writing. The result was

a surreal libel case concerning a home for the elderly converted from a left luggage facility 3000 feet up in the Cairngorms, with the toilet block at the foot of the cliff. A minor gem of the era!

 

[midlife]

My Uncle Built Buccaneer jets at Brough on the banks if the Humber . I walked around with a sheath knife most of the time...

I'm surprised at the number of replies about the 70's. I'm 55 and feel I'm caught in the middle of the oldies and the youngsters. I thought I was alone but apparently not

Shaun

 

[gbb]

Bond Bugs...didnt they do green ones as well ?
Scammel Routeman and Crusaders, Leyland Bison, Buffalo and Matadors, lorries with manly names, Volvo 88s, proper lorries. Probably drove like pigs, but they looked good to a teenager.

 

[classic33]

My Uncle Built Buccaneer jets at Brough on the banks if the Humber . I walked around with a sheath knife most of the time...

I'm surprised at the number of replies about the 70's. I'm 55 and feel I'm caught in the middle of the oldies and the youngsters. I thought I was alone but apparently not

Shaun

Alone, on here!

 

[Accy cyclist]

Can remember Carlisle Utd being top of the football league, eggs being fried on car bonnets, the first digital watches (heralding the surefire end of the Swiss watch industry), three star jumpers and 45mph mopeds which all my pals had, giving a big world and happy days to 16 year olds. My dad getting his first new car August 1st 1976, it was red Datsun 120y, all the neighbours, came round

I can still smell the paraffin heater that used to sit at the top of our stairs and i can remember my Dad reading my bedtime stories by candle light during the power strikes.

We bought Esso Blue or something similar. In 1974 we had central heating put in. I remember my mum and dad having to almost remortgage the house it was that expensive. It cost about £4000, almost as much as the house was worth at the time!

 

[FrankCrank]

....as it's a bike forum, ought to mention my Raleigh Chopper, acquired around '71 or '72 near as I can remember. I was the second kid in my road to get one - lad down the road had his first, and I used to drool over it every time I saw it. My dad then got me one, and I felt like the bees-knees riding it around the neighbourhood.

Down our road we used to have deliveries of coal, wood and paraffin, and then there was the mobile library, and mobile supermarket where we got our 'lucky bags'.
Best one though was an old fella with a horse and cart selling fruit and veg - Steptoe & Son for real!

All this makes me feel prehistoric, despite being only 54 .......

 

[Accy cyclist]

We got out first colour telly in 1974. It lasted till we got a tv with teletext in 1989. Do tvs last that long these days? I remember we had the colour turned up to maximum, so much so that everyone was orange with a flame like affect following them. My dad said that if he was going to pay for a colour license he was going to have colour!!

 

[Gravity Aided]

Bond Bugs...didnt they do green ones as well ?

I seem to remember orange, green, and yellow. And maybe a four wheeler, at least in the States. I saw a PPV the other day, and thought I might like to have one. Some folks up the street had one when I was about 16, they drove it in the Bicentennial Parade. I think I may have played the fife.

 

[FrankCrank]

We got out first colour telly in 1974. It lasted till we got a tv with teletext in 1989. Do tvs last that long these days? I remember we had the colour turned up to maximum, so much so that everyone was orange with a flame like affect following them. My dad said that if he was going to pay for a colour license he was going to have colour!!

....you were lucky - we waited till '84 for colour. Made watching Star Trek more plausible, the red shirted guys were the cannon fodder, and quickly dispatched by some alien life form. Also made Pot Black easier to follow................

 

[raleighnut]

My Uncle Built Buccaneer jets at Brough on the banks if the Humber . I walked around with a sheath knife most of the time...

I'm surprised at the number of replies about the 70's. I'm 55 and feel I'm caught in the middle of the oldies and the youngsters. I thought I was alone but apparently not

Shaun

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzum25lHoqE&feature=player_detailpage

 

[Hill Wimp]

I remember one of my bikes being a Raleigh Honey

and i had another like this although i cannot remember the actual name. It would have been a Raleigh though.