Things you no longer see

Camel hair coats

cigarette holders

Red velvet curtains at covering the cinema screen.

Good old black and white cowboy films at the pictures.

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Stagecoach?

Took a chick to see it back in '39.

Pinstripe suits.

Sweetie cigarettes/baccy.
Bowler hats.
Club feet.

BTW AP I agree with you Do Wah would have contributed well to this thread. Funny guy and badly missed.

kenny mann 16 Oct 15 16:34

Stagecoach ?

Yeah Stagecoach, released in 1939, and the film that launched John Wayne as a Superstar - despite already doing about 70 films.

It is still one of the greatest westerns ever made. The Indian attack and the Cavalry charge to the rescue are terrific action sequences. Love those old cowboy films.  Rio Brave and The Searchers a couple of other favourites, and The Lone Ranger on TV.

She wore a Yellow Ribbon

^ She Wore A Yellow Ribbon another fav. That was the first John Wayne/and director John Ford cowboy film in colour.

Wayne plays a retiring cavalry officer, he was about 40 at the time and had to play the part of a 65-year-old man. John Ford jokingly said, "I didn't know the big son of a b1tch could act !"

Rio Bravo was my fav Wayne film. Got a huge collection of old DVD films a load of 'em are Westerns and War films.  Fav war film Ice Cold In Alex.

I see it was released in 1950 but I remember my big brother taking me to the cinema to see it in 60 or 61.
Brings back great memories for me.

^ Loved the movie when I was a kid and I still love it. Although wouldn't say it was Wayne's best film but def in his Top 10

A clip of him singing with the great Dean Martin.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT0D0c_CSOk

The music of the title song did it for me as a youngster.
Loved the cowboy and Indian films.

^ Great video clip never seen that before, they just don't make guys like that anymore.

Dodgy 20 and 50 pound notes,that used to go for around £8 and £12 a piece allegedlymaybe 25 years ago..

Oct 12, 2015 -- 9:49PM, treetop wrote:

Jim Davison on the BBC.

Jim Davidson on anyone

A man lighting the lanterns in the street.

The Esso Blue Paraffin Man coming round the streets filling up for your paraffin heaters, all I remember it was a cheap way to heat up a room and they did give a lot of heat but the pong....... they did smell !

Petrol Stations without a shop or supermarket attached

Flags 1 yard from each end of the half way line on a football pitch.

Esso football coins.

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I haven't seen a Gypsy woman selling wooden clothes pegs and lucky heather for very many years.

Pity as I could do with some new pegs!

It could be because she said "Would you buy from a Gypsy" and I replied "Would you"?

White eggs.

Wire frame record racks

Pearly Kings and Queens...... never off the screens at one time

Ladybirds....

Well not for a couple of years anyway!

Betfair site working

PROPERLY

Pearly Kings and Queens...... never off the screens at one time

Yow'll find us owl dowing the Lembarth wok....

Chelsea Pensioners....

Well surely, there can't be many left now!

betfair working

glue sniffers..

pubs

Cigarette ends in the urinal

A dinner gong in a Bed and Breakfast

Things you don't see, but are still available, yum yum

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Hobnail Boots

Milk bottles on a step.

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Interludes on TV...

TV closing down for the night (after the national anthem).

People queuing at bus stops

Directories in phone boxes.....

Travelling "Knife Grinders"....

Fire buckets. Those heavyweight red metal buckets filled with sand.

Men working in heavy industry, wearing suits with waistcoats, shirt and tie and a flat hat,  plus the obligatory f@g in the mouth

Cigarettes in packets of five.

Yeah...that's where it all started "Five Woodbine please"....

Now they hide them away like sordid DVDs. Don't really understand the logic of that!

horse drawn milk floats
boys with rattles at football matches
laurel and hardy on tv

Mad rush to buy a couple of pints 'cos it was two o' clock on a Sunday, they were closed till seven

Churches with lead still on their roof.

do footie fans still wear rosettes?

Cockey watchman sitting by his brazier.

Penny bangers

Broken biscuits

Chandlers

Ten bob notes

Donkey stones

Toffee apple woman

Biros that wrote in 3 colours

Street fire alarms

Trafficators

Jerkins

Not seen a workman in a donkey jacket lately.

Lincoln biscuits.

Schools programmes on telly in the afternoons.
Women knitting on buses and trains.
Boys with badly patched knees in their trousers.

At one time we had the following people knocking at our door for money or some other reason;

Rent man
Milk man
Window cleaner
Insurance man x2
The Tally man (loans)
The Breadman
Rag and Bone man (monthly)
The Catholic priest
Gas man & Electric man (meter reading)
Lemonade man
Coal man

Its a wonder the effing door wasn't worn out, we occasionally hid from the rent man and priest I recall.

The priest always called on a Friday evening when you were having meat for tea - panick stations. Once they collected the dosh they were probably going home to fillet steak

The test card on tv.  Girl with a creepy looking doll

Books containing log tables

Public executions

Hare Krishnas

Truprint envelopes

Glass clackers

Cigarette machines on the outside wall of shops.
Chewing Gum machines on the outside wall of shops ......free packet every fourth turn.
Rental Television's with coin slots.
Melody Maker , Sounds & Record Mirror
Anglo Scottish Cup
French Tour De France winners
Decent Rock & Pop music

Kids doing  ''Penny for the guy?''

Nowadays the kids are more interested in halloween   

the bagwash laundry ,prostitutes,men wearing hats , mini skirts ,teddy boys ,motor cycles with sidecars ,plastic macs ,American service men,tony cutis hair styles .empty streets ,

hippy males with long hair,young women with no children ,queues outside cinema,s that still show films.

police patrolling the streets

cars being towed with a large  ON TOW SIGN ON THE BACk ,students on motor scooters , building workers without bright orange or yellow coats  ,bus conductors,policemen controlling the flow of traffic , news paper sellers ,assistants in shops serving the public,park keepers.

"Lobby Lud" competitions in newspapers -- where you had to spot a reporter in a seaside towns and claim a prize.

Derelict bomb sites -- now they've all been redeveloped. "We give thanks to Hermann Goering for our National Car Parks," as the old joke had it, although these days they are more likely luxury flats.

street corner grocers shops

newsagents owned/managed by white people

Silent movies on TV. Chaplin, Lloyd, Keaton etc

Hitchikers

the" stick " in the leccy meter!
roast chestnut seller on streets cooking em  in a brazier
knuckle dusters
kids in balaclavas in the winter
packs of 5 cigarettes

women wearing stockings and suspenders.

Sorry, I'll re-phrase that ... a women sitting down opposite you on the bus/in the pub/onthe train etc and she's wearing stockings ...

must dash off - be back in a few minutes.

adverts offering to help you sort out potential PC issues relating to the Millennium Bug.

Learner, I actually helped my old man take his car to a scrap yard yesterday, after his attempts to sell it were unsuccessful and it had an 'on tow' sign in the rear window. We both agreed we couldn't remember the last time we saw such a thing.

Not see but do cars backfire anymore?

Only seems to happen in comedy films.

A "Running in Please Pass" sign on the back of a car.

Steamrollers
Fax machines
Uri Geller bending spoons on telly.

Women with rollers in their hair and a headscarf on.

Daily photos from Pluto

things (ornaments,photo frames etc.) on top of the telly

Teddy Boys

A good "DA"

"Brothel Creepers"

Horses in the High Street, with nosebags.

Slipper baths.

Monday's washing.

Public slipper baths that is . Not the poofy overpriced bathtub.

Mussie woman on a bike.

Are they allowed to ride horses, BTW?

Never been Monday washing here.

That was the day the fishing boats put sea (no fishing on Sunday).

Do you washing on a Monday and you'd wash your men away.

People having all their teeth out at the same time

Amstrad music centres..huge systems with 1 wat output.

Thin-sliced bread.

Lemon flavour shampoo (for greasy hair).

the old man who used to push his cycle round selling peanuts and toffee apples and who used to ring a bell and then shout- and i mean SHOUT


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Coat hangers used as car aerials
Old women sat on benches with their legs wide apart
Amusing graffiti in toilets
Fingering