The Nostalgia Thread

[Herbie]

Alf Tupper! The man Davywalnuts modelled himself upon...

His story is here: http://www.toughofthetrack.net/index2.htm

brill

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Desperate Dan cow pies

 

[laurence]

decent music

 

[Night Train]

Four figure log tables.
Tin bath.
Gas lighting.

 

[Rezillo]

champion the wonder horse

Casey Jones
Garrison's Gorillas
F-Troop
Stingray
Jonny Quest

 

[slowmotion]

Four figure log tables.

Slide-rules made of bamboo, not the Faber-Castell plastic rubbish....!

 

[slowmotion]

Head comix
OZ (the magazine, not the country....maaaaaan)

 

[Accy cyclist]

Hotels and guest houses that displayed "We have colour tv" multi coloured small signs in their windows.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Hotels and guest houses that displayed "We have colour tv" multi coloured small signs in their windows.

Fast forward now to

'We have free Wi Fi'


Just sayin', like

 

[thom]

Ice-caps, the GOP, bankers' bonuses

 

[postman]

Vernon's pools,Copes pools and Littlewood pools.5/- Postal order for your any 8 from 10 score draws ,four aways and six home results.Then you sat writing down the scores in the morning paper.
Arsenal 1 Aston Villa 1.
Burnley 2 Stoke City 3.
Leeds United 7 Southampton 0.
Those were the days.Football on a saturday at 3-00pm.

 

[ianrauk]

Those Spastic Children statues outside shops.

 

[subaqua]

Those Spastic Children statues outside shops.

and the guide dog ones with a great big golden retriever or Yellow Lab

 

[Night Train]

The days when your mother ironed creases into your jeans and you were too young to notice but old enough to feel the ridicule from friends.

 

[mistral]