Edward Trunk Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 There was a programme on telly last night featuring a family who had to live a 1970s lifestyle. No microwaves, no mobile phones, no Ipods, no satellite TV...the horror of it all. I survived the 70s, but I am wondering now how I managed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickP Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 [quote user="Edward Trunk"]There was a programme on telly last night featuring a family who had to live a 1970s lifestyle. No microwaves, no mobile phones, no Ipods, no satellite TV...the horror of it all. I survived the 70s, but I am wondering now how I managed...[/quote]I'll tell you how most people managed Edward, they were too busy working to bring up a family etc. to worry about the materialistic things in life. Remember this wasn't the era of the 120% mortgage and unlimited credit. And although these days unfortunately I'm not one of them, there are still people out there who do without these icons of the marketing world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chas Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 [quote user="Edward Trunk"]There was a programme on telly last night featuring a family who had to live a 1970s lifestyle. No microwaves, no mobile phones, no Ipods, no satellite TV...the horror of it all. I survived the 70s, but I am wondering now how I managed...[/quote]Try the 40's - outside toilet, we had a bath but the only washbasin was the kitchen sink. One radio, no tv never mind satellite. Next door neighbour had a phone. didn't see my Dad between 1942 and 1945. I think the 70's were luxurious. [:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cendrillon Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 I remember the 1970s. Trying to shop for a wedding dress during the three day week was interesting. Still have no microwave, Ipod or satellite TV and quite happy to survive without.[:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gluestick Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 [quote user="Edward Trunk"]There was a programme on telly last night featuring a family who had to live a 1970s lifestyle. No microwaves, no mobile phones, no Ipods, no satellite TV...the horror of it all. I survived the 70s, but I am wondering now how I managed...[/quote]Eh! Weren't life grand!We cooked properly: real food. Even during the 3 day week on an old oil stove or the top of our old coke burning stove!Wrote letters, correctly, with careful punctuation, capitalisation and and decent grammar.Music came from the radio or disks: and then 8 track players and after those cassettes. or we made it ourselves.If we went occasionally to a dance: then they were live groups; not some babbling buffon playing records at five times the correct volume!TV was mainly black and white: and worth watching much of the time. Particularly when BBC Two launched in 625 line definition! Now that was really living!And later in the decade, my journey to the City (1 hour) was accomplished without the need to irritate all the other passengers with loud tst tst tst thud thud thud noises from Walkmen then MP3 players, or prattling endlessly about nothing on toy phones: and people managed to survive this awesome journey of privation without carrying take-away coffee, fruit juice, Red Bull, water bottles and banging down instant pretend baguettes, burgers, pastries and the like: and girlies did their hair and make-up before they left home.Prior to that from the year I married in 1964, I was far too damned busy working and building up my business to be overconcerned with anything much other than a modicum of sleep: the odd weeks holiday: and eating! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 And we were evicted from our cardboard box...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeXMKygwSco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 [quote user="Gluestick"][quote user="Edward Trunk"]There was a programme on telly last night featuring a family who had to live a 1970s lifestyle. No microwaves, no mobile phones, no Ipods, no satellite TV...the horror of it all. I survived the 70s, but I am wondering now how I managed...[/quote]Eh! Weren't life grand!We cooked properly: real food. Even during the 3 day week on an old oil stove or the top of our old coke burning stove!Wrote letters, correctly, with careful punctuation, capitalisation and and decent grammar.Music came from the radio or disks: and then 8 track players and after those cassettes. or we made it ourselves.If we went occasionally to a dance: then they were live groups; not some babbling buffon playing records at five times the correct volume!TV was mainly black and white: and worth watching much of the time. Particularly when BBC Two launched in 625 line definition! Now that was really living!And later in the decade, my journey to the City (1 hour) was accomplished without the need to irritate all the other passengers with loud tst tst tst thud thud thud noises from Walkmen then MP3 players, or prattling endlessly about nothing on toy phones: and people managed to survive this awesome journey of privation without carrying take-away coffee, fruit juice, Red Bull, water bottles and banging down instant pretend baguettes, burgers, pastries and the like: and girlies did their hair and make-up before they left home.Prior to that from the year I married in 1964, I was far too damned busy working and building up my business to be overconcerned with anything much other than a modicum of sleep: the odd weeks holiday: and eating! [/quote]Wrote letters, correctly, with careful punctuation, capitalisation and and decent grammar.Lol things have changed then... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 [quote user="Edward Trunk"]There was a programme on telly last night featuring a family who had to live a 1970s lifestyle. No microwaves, no mobile phones, no Ipods, no satellite TV...the horror of it all. I survived the 70s, but I am wondering now how I managed...[/quote] Dang I thought I was doing OK but it seems the wifelet has a microwave and we have a satellite TV. I have never had a mobile telephonic device or an Ipod.Mind you I do have a wood oven and a CZ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 When my first 2 children were born I never even had a washing machine [:(] No disposable nappies then either, just towelling ones. Anyone remember Napisan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 Subject: Bring back any memories? Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favourite 'fast food' when you were growing up?''We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him.'All the food was slow.' 'C'mon, seriously.. Where did you eat?' 'It was a place called 'home,'' I explained. !'Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate, I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'By this time, the lad was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table. But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I'd figured his system could have handled it: Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore jeans, set foot on a golf course, travelled out of the country or had a credit card. My parents never drove me to school. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow). We didn't have a television in our house until I was 10.It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at 10 pm, after playing the national anthem and epilogue; it came back on the air at about 6 a.m. and there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people...I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line. Pizzas were not delivered to our home... But milk was. All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers --My brother delivered a newspaper, seven days a week. He had to get up at 6AM every morning. Film stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the films. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or almost anything offensive.If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing. Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?MEMORIES from a friend:My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother' s house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it... I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.How many do you remember? Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car.Ignition switches on the dashboard.Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards. Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner.Using hand signals for cars without turn indicators. > Older Than Dirt Quiz:Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about.Ratings at the bottom.1. Sweet cigarettes2. Coffee shops with juke boxes 3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles 4. Party lines on the telephone5. Newsreels before the movie 6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning.. (There were only 2 channels [if you were fortunate])7. Peashooters 8. 33 rpm records9. 45 RPM records10.78 RPM records11. Hi-fi's12. Metal ice trays with levers13. Blue flashbulb14. Cork popguns 15. Wash tub wringers If you remembered 0-3 = You’re still youngIf you remembered 3-6 = You are getting olderIf you remembered 7-11 = Don't tell your ageIf you remembered 12-15 = You're positively ancient! I must be 'positively ancient' but those memories are some of the best parts of my life. Don't forget to pass this along!! Especially to all your really OLD friends... I just did!!!!!!!!! (PS. I used a large type face so you could read it easily) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doodle Posted April 17, 2010 Share Posted April 17, 2010 Blimey how do you follow that!Anyone remember Avadne Price, headscarf complete with dangly coins, she was only visible from the waist up as she stared at you from her desk? She came on around 11:30pm each night and read the stars telling your fortune for the following day and she always ended her slot with 'and remember, think lucky and you will be lucky'. I grew up wanting to be the next Avadne!Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitty Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 What I remember about the 70s: Listening to:SladeMarc BolanThin Lizzy (at Cheltenham Town Hall)Gary GlitterNilsson "Without You"Alex HarveyGoing to:Reading Pop Festival Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just john Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 The oddest thing I remember about the 70's was listening to Bobby Womack on a record player installed under the dash of a Buick Electra driving along, no eight tracks for us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 The milk was delivered by the man with the churns and measured into jugs. It was then slowly heated to make the most glorious cream that went on the apple tart/pie my nan made (apples from her garden of course)! But that was s little before the '70s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitty Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 I didn't have a record player on my BSA Bantom, JJ. Just the sound of the wind in my hair.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just john Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 I'd got rid of my C15 after I got tired of the oil on my trousers, getting wet and discovering girls in cars were more fun[:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerdesal Posted April 19, 2010 Share Posted April 19, 2010 [quote user="just john "]I'd got rid of my C15 after I got tired of the oil on my trousers, getting wet and discovering girls in cars were more fun[:)][/quote] My girl didn't think an MG TC with no side screens was fun in the rain, but she married me anyway.[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gluestick Posted April 19, 2010 Share Posted April 19, 2010 Reminds me Steve: much earlier era (60s actually) an acquaintance had an early 1930s MG Midget (Which even had a JCC- Junior Car Club - badge on the front! How much is that now worth??)He had his face slapped on a number of occasions: 'cos as one applied the -cable - footbrake, the fly off handbrake went up and down in sympathy.And since it was the passenger side of the transmission tunnel.....................[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted April 19, 2010 Share Posted April 19, 2010 [quote user="just john "]The oddest thing I remember about the 70's was listening to Bobby Womack on a record player installed under the dash of a Buick Electra driving along, no eight tracks for us![/quote]Anyone remember the advert for I think Bisto where a young Tony Blackburn was driving home to his roast dinner and popped a 45 single into a record player under his dash?It was considered the height of cool at the time and my dad worked for a company in the group that made them (British manufactured bearings) I saved like mad and never stopped pestering him to try and get me one at staff discount, finally I was the proud owner of a very heavy and large BMB Boléro in car record player (which needed some serious metal fabrication to support it) just in time for the advent of 8 track to render it uncool [:'(]By the time I had switched to 8 track and got back in the groove K7's had once again rendered me uncool.The same thing happened when I got a bank loan to buy one of the first Betamax video recorders.As a consequence of all this adolescent trauma I have never bought a Cd player, DVD player, portable computer I-phone, Blackberry, games console etc, I am sure that there are loads of others that I have missed out but not missed out on, if you get my drift, I no longer even use a mobile phone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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