70's childhood memories

Kouros


Me mate gave me a bottle and said the lasses love it. I naively doused myself in the horrible stuff thinking the more I put on the better I'd smell

I must have smelt like a burned kebab post a cross country run

Did the same once.  Outcome embarassing.  Old Spice, Marlboro and the OMO adverts have a lot to answer for! 

Does anyone remember the early days of wrecking threads, besides two forumites going at it hammer and tongs, desperate to have the last word in a dispute no-one else could fathom?

They included ring bookmakers messaging their banal conversation (how are you? how's the wife? nice weather we're having) via the forum because they were too stupid to use a mobile phone (or too "shrood" because in those days, calls were not free).

And my favourite, insiders posting obscenities to get a thread removed after someone had posted information or a tip deemed to be too valuable for public consumption.

Ah the 70's


stinkin hot summers that went on for years (but snow up to yer armpits in Winter)
Running through the garden sprinkler stark b0ll*ck naked
Swingball
Home made frozen ice lollies from the chest freezer
Findus pancakes for dinner
Breaking open a huge cardboard box and flying down the stairs on it (often followed by a swift trip to A&E)
Beating the daylights out of my brother  (often followed by a swift trip to A&E)
Yep Panini football stickers - those shiny club badges
Magic/joke toy shop up the road - the nail through the finger, whoopee cushions, plastic dog turds
Picking footy teams in the playground and scoring about 9 goals during lunchtime break
Falling in love with Deborah Marsh and waiting outside her house for hours on end in the rain so I could gift her my Shakin' Stevens cassette tape
Star Wars figures
Finding my first jazz mag with all the pages stuck together on the local golf course


ah the 70's ...

Actually shakin stevens was probably 80's

First album i ever purchased CL

bogies, with the wheels of old skool prams..
budgie bike/stabilizers, grifter/n revolutionary
gear changing...BMX...2 sweets arf a penny...
ciggie machines on wall outside chip shop..
never lasted long once got a bit older....
n the ciggies machines with draws n ye tipped em
forwards n obviously open draws...1!!

Denim - for the man who doesn't have to try  ...  too hard.
A classic 70s fragrance and very successful marketing campaign. Still available today.

Seems Honcho's favourite antagonist's profile has been removed, has he been banned or just jumped ship ?

Off Tower Bridge

HoratioNelson
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First album i ever purchased CL Laugh

On reflection HN, we should have kept this info to ourselves

CL

We should!

To make it worse the first single I ever purchased was Passengers By Elton John!

I think it may have been my first pocket money experience and had no idea what I was doing

Big Mob of Barrow in Bromley on Saturday.. I was in Spoons

I was in there after the game....Whiskey gingers for £1.79....yes please!

Fair play to the Barrow lot that travelled down....that is some trek. It must have been a long way back after we nicked it late.

Proper fans if you do that trip imo.

I was there. Would have been the perfect day if Crewe managed to score and me £1100 acca came in....barring that it was fine

My first record was School's Out by Alice Cooper. I'd saved up my pocket money on the basis of the song's message and AC's look. What I forgot to factor into the equation was that we did not own a record player.

Couple more memories

Woolworths vouchers for birthdays - now back then you could take a £1 voucher in and buy a pack of polos or a few penny sweets and get the difference back in cash - that did not last long I can tell ya

Anyone remember the Big Mac jingle you could sing to the cashier in under 4 seconds to get a free Big Mac ?
Every fook1n day I was in there during summer hols




----The song you're referring to is the iconic McDonald's Big Mac jingle, which features the lyrics: "Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun".
This jingle was originally created in 1974 as a print ad headline for college newspapers, which was later adapted into a jingle by Mark Vieha.
The jingle gained widespread popularity during a 1975 advertising campaign, where McDonald's ran promotions offering a free Big Mac to customers who could recite the slogan within a specified time—typically under four seconds.
These promotions were so successful that some locations, including in New York City, ran out of Big Mac buns.
The jingle's catchy nature and memorability have made it a lasting part of pop culture, with many people still able to recite it word-for-word decades later.
While the original campaign ended in 1976, McDonald's has revived the concept in various forms, including a 2024 promotion in Australia where customers could win a small fry and drink by accurately reciting the chant within four seconds via the MyMacca’s app or Snapchat ----

Mine are from the 50s. Muffin the Mule and Sooty on black and white TV run by a diesel generator (no electricity or running water), food rationing, Meccano was popular then as well, roaming around the family farm.

My first LP purchase was Get Yer Ya Yas Out.  Thought I was dead cool.  However, for whatever reason, I also inexcusably bought a Mungo Jerry LP which was utter dross.

First single i bought was Monkey Spanner by Dave and Ansel Collins - Irie !

Then managed to get what i thought was a bargain, dirt cheap Top Of The Pops compilation LP with the latest hits on it  - didn't realise it was one of those dreadful cover version efforts until i played it

Bugg*r!  I’ve done that with a cassette tape.  Very educational but frustrating. 

3 day week
Out of control inflation
Power cuts
Endless strikes
Cod wars
British Leyland

Listened to Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly on an older cousin's record player.

Channel 5 had "The 70's everything we loved and lost" on the other night, still available to download, great nostalgia.

The three day week et al Salmon.  We must be about the same age.
Red Robbo?  Candles everywhere.  Gannex coats.  The miners actually had a leader, Joe Gormley, who delivered.  Oil crisis.
All sorts of things of that ilk that really didn’t mean much to me.  Adult stuff and they’ll sort it out.  “Where are we going on Friday night” was the summit of my concern

Sry, Saxon.

A few might like this site. It has what was on TV/Radio every day from the beginning of broadcasting to the end of the 20th century. Free to be a member and they don't pester with spam. So many memories.

https://tvrdb.com/listings/

smurfs
national garages

Good nostalgia site too

https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/

and

https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/channels

Every BBC listing ever, just input date and channel and it will show the listings from that day

Drumsticks, Flying Saucers, Joosa Jims, Milk Bottles, Cola Cubes.  Village newsagents having dozens of sweet jars.

Nick Drake (RIP) for the music, his sister Gabrielle for getting her kit off regularly in her films

1/4 of pineapple chunks please or if you were a little hard up, 2 ounces of pineapple chunks please

1.45 slot every weekday afternoon hoping it was Trumpton or Mr. Benn on that day

Saturday mornings Space 1999, still one of the best theme tunes ever.

What I only found out from a mate recently is that you can get a Ceefax app

https://nmsceefax.co.uk/#id=WyJubXMtY2VlZmF4IiwiaW50ZXJuYWwubmF0aGFubWVkaWFz...

RIP Captain, just seen his profile floating away in the ethernet.

A not unexpected demise Glasgow. Seems he could not rein it in.

Speaking of Captains, how about Pugwash ? A staple of 70s kids tv. More urban myths about the characters names in that series than any other i reckon.
All aboard the Black Pig me hearties !

Getting a Postal Order for 5 bob from your nan on your birthday.

Fa cup draw Monday dinner time on the wireless
Cup final day whilst racing took over my life many years ago cup final day was and still is very special
Slade,David Bowie,and Alice cooper
Preferring the dark over the blonde in abba that changed as I got older
Ronnie Radford
Jim Montgomery
Birmingham bags
The chopper
Belle vue zoo
The minstrel getting up to beat hot grove at Epsom my first derby
Troy the greatest ever performance on derby day
But most of all it was just fun from start to finish I wish the world was young again

Great thread pandora

60s 70s was fishing and football  mad as a nipper ,watching out of town on the telly hoping there would be a fishing slot in there somewhere .bunking in  over the wall at  Millwall one week and Charlton the next .
smashing windows in old derelict warehouses or factorys  throwing stones . about a dozen of us nippers got into an egg factory one Sunday afternoon big boxes of eggs 144 eggs in or a gross as they used to be, a dozen bored kids with time on their hands and untold eggs and no adults to spoil the fun 6 a side  what could go wrong .........absolute carnage !

Arthur daly and basil fawty the two greatest characters on television

Millwall or Charlton nowadays foyles ?

Tudor crisps factory (old dwelling house converted ) going on fire.  Watching it ( nothing to do with it ) then cottoning on next day that there might be salvage/would be unburnt crisps.  And there was.  Several boxes at a time were salvaged.  They lasted for weeks.    As far as I can remember none were seriously smoke damaged.  My old man asked, with a grim expression, where I had got them, and accepted eventually that “ the firemen told us it would be o.k.”.  .

Wash your mouth out, Jimnast
Foyles is Millwall, of course

2 other characters, Delboy and Bobbie Box?

haven't gone to a footy match for decades tbh  I do look out for the Millwall and Charlton results though .by the way z cars is on talking pictures tv now and every day at 12 . 60s - 70s gritty nostalgia !

Apologies, Jimnast
I thought Foyles was diehard Millwall

Was Jim Montgomery not one of ( I think ) three goalkeepers in a season who scored a goal direct from a kick out?  Like the long throw in I wonder when that play will be popular again?

Honcho, I think they must have been wind assisted to travel something like 80 plus yards as well as goalkeeping incompetence involved
Some of the grounds back then had "open" ends or sides but top flight clubs now have more enclosed grounds with bigger stands that might stop the wind being as much a factor... This is only a guess by me, might be way off the mark

You are probably right but what I do remember is that the ground was very firm for one of them.  I’m sure Alex Stepney was one victim.  I seem to remember his visible anguish at making such a blunder/being caught out so amateurishly.  Pat Jennings comes to mind as another scorer.  Memory can get things wrong though.

Don’t remember Jim Montgomery doing that the only one I remember is pat jennings for spurs against united at old Trafford in the charity shield.

Jim Montgomery won the fa cup for Sunderland in 73

Free School Dinners.....Stil scarred me to this Day ffs.

No worries reg like foyles I haven’t been for a long time ,never been to Charlton but as united spent a season in the then division 2 I did go to millwall once.

Thanks jimnast.
Macaroni and cheese was our hated school dinner.  Disgusting it was. All runny and watery.  I’m sure it was recycled pig swill.     Looking back most of the meals were terrific but they interfered  with fitty in the playground.    I remember we got a new boss dinner lady.  God she was scary, fierce and hostile in equal measure.  You only messed with her once.  Her spoonbanging on tables suggested that kids heads might be equally clattered! 

Your welcome loyal

Thinking back to the 74 season the 3 main grounds used for fa cup semi finals were all 2nd division grounds

I too went Charlton home games , in the 70,s they went thru a phase of playing on Friday nights

That terrace at the original Valley seemed to reach the sky String, great old ground.

Honcho, Pat Jennings scored that goal against Man Utd in the 1967 Charity shield.
Jimmy Montgomery never scored a goal as far as i can tell.
Incidentally Alex Stepney actually scored twice for Man Utd (both penalties) in the 73/74 season and we all know what happened at the end of that season !

Did he indeed.  Made one stupendous save against Eusebio I remember.  Thanks.

Dixie it was embarrassing at one stage of the season Stepney was leading scorer he missed one against wolves in a goalless draw they ended up relegated only those who went that season knew how bad they were,towards the end of the season they beat Everton 3 0 at old Trafford they a week later needed both points to give them a chance of staying up Everton won 1 0 it was then out of united hands.

Millwall

And I think I was the first punk in Deptford, 1975

Yes loyal it was a great safe against Eusebio only a couple of minutes to go and eusebios reaction was to shake his hand

1965.  Scotland not qualifying for England 66.   

Sniffin Glue

Drinking Lanliq - Buckie’s predecessor. 

what punk bands were about in 75.. Atv were 76 i think

not inc yanks

Depends how you classify what is and isn't punk i reckon String.

New Rose by The Damned is credited as the first UK punk single in 1976.  In the USA it's generally accepted that The Ramones were the first true punk band, great times.

yep Dixie , take no notice of me  im arf lagging   stab your Back   b-side

I remember going to a football club dance just as punk had hit the tv screens.  A young girl came all punked up make up and hair wise but simply wore a black bin bag with holes cut for her arms, and, a name tag on the front - “Luscious Lil”.  Terrific originality creating quite a stir and good natured humour.   Sure it was around Dec’73 but the dates mentioned in here make me doubt that now.  Must have been ‘74?

Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, The Time Tunnel, The Banana Splits and The Arabian Knights "size of an elephant"  Marbles and conkers.  Jim'll Fix It (my friend's sister was in it).  The Cup Final of 78? Arsenal 3 Man Utd 2 watched at said friend's house.  Cycling everywhere.  Being on holiday in Scotland during WC78 as a 12yo and watching the footie with the hotel chefs.  Italy v France iirc.  Football stickers and the football cards that had chewing gum in.  Crappy Youth Clubs.  Being the only kid in Secondary school in years 1-3 who was allowed out at lunch (because my mum wrote a note saying I could get better value in town).  I would buy a whole swiss roll   Switching from Showaddywaddy to Blondie

LoyalHoncho -- "...just as punk had hit the tv screens...around Dec’73...Must have been ‘74?"

Ramones and Sex Pistols were 1976.

Clydebank I noticed you question marked 78 it was 79 pretty poor cup final until the last 5 minutes

Jimnast anybody  get 5 out 5.
Ronnie.

No Ronnie

Thanks Ram.  So hard now to accurately “time place” memories.

1976 was definitely the year punk arrived here Honcho, i remember it well. In 77 i was a sixth former and we had booked X Ray Spex for our end  of year do but once the Head found out that they were one of those nasty punk bands he pulled the plug

Ta.

I tried to remember by which bird I was with.  Got the wrong bird. 

Never liked punk back then nor northern soul nowadays I don’t mind punk and once a month go to a northern soul afternoon.

Good grief loyal it would only have been a 50/50 choice

  What I remember too is that my brother’s brother in law tried to pull her while dancing with her.  Sniffer they called him I learned afterwards. 

Which footballers nickname from the 70s was sniffer ?

Good post jimnast

I had my first visit to England in about 12 years a few months back, seemed to me that every woman in England is blonde!!

Alan Clark

Jimnast, that would be Allan Clarke

His brother Wayne scored a few important goals in the toffees championship win in 86/87, including as cracker from distance against Arsenal at Highbury

Going back to that 73/74 season when Utd got relegated, there was only 12 points at the end of the year between Derby in 3rd and Southampton (relegated)in 20th, amazingly tight even allowing for the fact it was the days of 2 points for a win.  Leeds and Liverpool were well clear at the top.

Alan Clark correct Dixie and g hall

That season united finished with a great run until that Monday night at Everton

Wouldn’t have missed that season in division two for anything it was great united got use to winning again and all those quirky grounds I got a chance to visit,all different now due to the money

G hall a lot of those blonde women you saw there’s a big chance plenty of them had a pair of boll.x also

West Ham winning the 1975 FA Cup in me favourite home kit,
a proper Claret & Blue one.Not like the designs the teams
have today.

I saw Fulham win the semi final at Maine road that year Penzance watching Bobby Moore lead at Fulham against West Ham yet another incredible fa cup memory

I loved football in those days Jimnast, players were entertainers.  Bobby Moore being joined at Fulham for a spell in the mid 70s by Rodney Marsh and George Best was great fun.

Watching my local team (Gillingham) was also highly enjoyable down in the 3rd or 4th tiers, the atmosphere was brilliant.

As you say, all gone now

Good morning Dixie

I wished Gillingham could have held out a bit longer at Wembley in 99 if they had the landscape of football in this country may well have been so different.

DixieDean60 must be working the YouTube algorithm (or maybe it just reads whatever I read) because it has just thrown up:-

1976/77 - Fulham v Hereford (Division 2 - 25.9.76)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTZyAcNJ7Lg

I dearly remember Mama and Nanny putting me to bed in the winter of 67. The sky was clear and you could still see red whatever knocking on my small window pane. Mama and Nanny would cuddle me to sleep and kiss me and each other. Happy childhood. RIP Mama now. Nanny died before I was six.

And then you discovered betting shops.

Jimnast, that is a conversation that i have had with many a fan since that fateful day at Wembley. City i think would have remained in the doldrums but for that cruel (for Gills) ending.  For the first 80 minutes not much happened then two quick goals for the Gills had us fans in dreamland. We had never been promoted to the second tier before. Some of the fans around me were taking photos of the large electronic scoreboard as we hit 89 mins and Gills 2 up. Many City fans had already left before they pulled one back ! Then  in the 95th minute that slight deflection on Dickov's shot took the ball past Vince Bartram in the Gills goal. Vince was actually Dickov's best man at his wedding unbelievably .I have never felt so deflated at a game, we knew then our chance had gone. Mark Halsey was very generous with the injury time he allowed that day but in fairness the celebrations for the Gills goals did go on a bit.

Thankfully the Gills returned to Wembley the next year, again in the play off final, beating Wigan 3-2 in a cracker that went to extra time, this time they came back from 2-1 down to win. So they finally made it to the Championship. The next season Corals were going 5/2 the Gills got relegated whereas a local bookie were offering 6/4 they stayed up, so i made a few hundred quid backing both outcomes in a win/win bet before they rectified the odds !

Ramruna - that is a great clip,  true entertainment. I remember that being the main game on the Big Match with good old Brian Baden Moore being the commentator. Brian was a life long Gills fan and a director for a number of years, there is a stand named after him at Priestfield.

6/4 and 5/2 no draw can never happen again Dixie due to the internet almost everyone the same price,only yesterday I saw in the post regarding the ashes every single bookmaker was 2/1 England absolutely incredible not one odds compiler took the view they could go 9/4 or 7/4 depending what opinion they had

I was pretty amazed that the local bookie had a big board outside with 6/4 on offer to stay up (which gills did quite easily) as Corals were just a stones throw away with their coupons showing the 5/2 relegation. I'm told they opened up at 2/1 ! They cut the odds before i saw them, they eventually cut them down to 4/5. Unfortunately i had no more spare cash at the time or would have continued betting as much as possible. Tax was still 9% at the time unfortunately so reduced the winnings. I told all my mates and work colleagues to do the bets for guaranteed profit but many thought there must be a catch and didn't partake, those who did kept me in beers for a while the following May !

The internet does of course mean no repeats of the above are likely. I too have been searching for some value in the Ashes markets but little is available. There are some modest discrepancies in the top bowler/batsmen markets so i have done a few bets there. England will i think need to win the First Test if they are to win the series so 7/4 at Perth may not be a bad bet.

jimnast & DixieDean60 -- you are right about the impact of the internet (and the exchanges) but also in the old days bookies were protected by the minimum 5-fold rule. It was not uncommon to see different favourites to win a football match but difficult for the average, unsophisticated punter to take advantage of. This meant there was not so much pressure for odds-compilers to get it right. It was quite rare for odds to change between the coupon being printed and the match.

The price on the football coupons. At a time when Rangers were a lot better than Celtic so they would have been well odds on to score 1st. I had heard the 2 main strikers Mcoist and Hateley would miss the game. The great winger Brian Laudrup was 8/1 on the FGS market on the coupons. I thought we was the best bet I would ever see so took the day off work and toured the betting shops putting on as much as I thought each shop would take. IT was still 0-0 when he was clean through with plenty of time to pick his spot but the shot went wide.The 1st doubts entered my mind and yes someone else scored.It was a the full bank gone.I can laugh about it now.

Brighton beating Bournemouth 2-0 in a top of the table 3rd division clash, around Christmas time,maybe 1972 or 73, about 30,000 at the Goldstone Ground.

Ted McDougal and Phil Boersma up front for Bournemouth, great atmosphere, magical days.

Phil Bowyer, not Phil Boersma.

Saturday 21st December 1971
Attendance  30,600

Goalscorers
Kit Napier
Peter O' Sullivan