OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979...

[Dewi_cool]

We played on building sites, fell meny floors through scaffolding.

We climbed trees, and fell out, or avoided our friends chucking stones at us.

We played 15 a side football over the summer hols,and kept records or the results.

We played hookey from school, and rode the trains all day for nothing.

We got drunk on quarter bottles of bacardi mixed with bottle of coke,and were brought home by the local cops.

We got beaten black and blue, by our parents, yet still loved them to pieces.

We knew who all the 'funny men were' and just avoided them, and kept an eye out for our mates.

we had fights.

We went shoplifting after school.

we fumbled in the dark with our mates sister, listerning to 'Band of gold'

We watched what dad wanted to on the telly,except for Top of the pops, which he would let us see, so he could ogle BABS out of 'Pans people'

We stayed out all night in the graveyard, but put the willies up each other.

We played on '  the swings' includeing the whiches hat the roundabout the big slide etc.

We played 40 man british bulldog.

We went round jonny moufarge's mums flat, who although she had no furniture, or carpets,we would tuck into homemade apple pie.

We went to saturday morming pictures.

Later we went to sat morning Top rank, whare we slow danced with a girl.

Later still. We found PUNK. (by the way Anarcy in the UK, Sex pistols,was released 30 years ago this week.)

We did a Paper round,and knicked ciggies and sweets from old Mr barnet.

We got the cane........at 9 years old.

We found stuff on demolision sites,and we built camps.

We came down in the morning and got dressed in frount of a three bar fire (All three of my brothers)

We slept with our brother till we were 15.

We had mum, dad, five kids, and two lodgers in a terraced house.

We spent the evening sat outside the pub, remember that waft of heat and small of beer when the door opened.

We dreaded getting up, on a snowswept morning to give dads car a bump start.

We looked forward all week to dad bringing home a 'wagon wheel' from the pub on sunday night.

We had nothing.

But we had everything.

Eric, you the same age as me, sounds so real!!!!

[thetank]

Whats to say the kids born between 1980 and 2029 won't look back with similarly fond memories when they reach a similar vintage as you fuddy duddys.


Do you remember the good ol days, when you could breathe in and out without the aid of a machine. (While your pals threw rocks at you)

When we had to drive around on the ground.

When if wanted to go to the moon, you had to train as an astronaut.

Those were the days....

[suzanne]

"We spent the evening sat outside the pub, remember that waft of heat and small of beer when the door opened " dad used to bring us out a bottle of coke and packet of crisps , i loved those loooong days outside the Yorkshire Gray lol.

My memories are not so fond. Sitting on a stone wall that froze your butt. Being so cold that your fingers were shaking as you ate your packet of crisps..the bottle of coke came an hour later with the promises of "just 10 more minutes". As for getting some heat when the door opened...it was safer to sit on the wall. In some ways times have changed for the better.

[dik9]

ericstoner  HOW POSH ARE YOU?? Bacardi? I had to get drunk on Maddog 50/50 or Thunderbirds Blue.

I swallowed chewing gum without getting it wrapped round my intestines.

I sang baa baa black sheep without any malice

My mom took photos of me in the nativity play

And I enjoyed something called Christmas (I believe its called Winterville in Birmingham now) regardless of presents. An orange in the stocking with some chocolate or even a chocolate orange if i was lucky, was a stocking filler. Now a stocking filler is expected to cost about 40 quid an item?

I had a life and then these bloody computer things came along (god bless em) 

 

[dik9]

Oh and we used to watch Tiswas with a quart of Blue Kali whilst the posh peeps watched Swap Shop and ate Orange Spacedust out of a packet.

The Phantom flan flinger and the dying fly will never be forgotten

[suzanne]

A vivid memory is of an approaching Halloween, asking mum for money for a tumshie (thats a turnip to you English) with the usual responce "do you think im made of money"

So, plan B

Cash can be made by knocking on doors but we needed a turnip...end off.

So.1 Steal it from a greengrocers display......nope they had bouncers on patrol that week and no amount of distractions would steer him away from the turnip stand...a true pro.

Plan C.....there wasnt one

Plan D ....pinch one from the farm up the road.

By up the road I mean quite a trek as I lived in Edinburgh and the nearest farm was quite a distance but this was the only plan so off we went.

We walked for MILES and MILES or so it seemed till we finally got to fields and what was an obvious farm. Now even back then I wasnt totally stupid and I had studied the average turnip realising i would need to reconize it by its leaves as it lived underground.

So we walked from field to field..me my mate and my very tired younger brother and sister till I reconized the leaves that I thought was a turnip...excitedly I ripped one out of the ground......jackpot..... a turnip but it was the size of a tennis ball.

Ok I thought ....im on the right trail so we moved further down the field.

The further we went the bigger the turnips got.....then BANG!!!!!!!

WTF was that I thought but dismissed it as grabbing a big juicy turnip was all I was thinking of

Next thing out of NOWHERE 3/4 or 60 girt big dogs were running towards us and I realized then that the bang was the farmer shooting a gun........I grabbed my 2 siblings by the hands and said RUUUUUUUUUN.

We ran like mary out of hell with those dogs at our heels and a gun poppin behind us and I can honestly say it was the most scariest moment in my short life.

Only a short distance from the gate that we can leap over and know we r safe, my younger sister falls flat on her face...the dogs are just about on top of us now. I scream at my brother to keep running and I run towards the dogs shouting for all im worth thinking this is it.....Im dead but im not going down without a fight.

Suddenly ..the dogs stop.... and race for home.

Im guessing the farmer whistled them back but OMG i thought I was a goner.

AYE the good old days :-)

[suzanne]

TISWAS RULESSSSSSS

[suzanne]

Im possibly a wee bit older than most of you and younger than some.

I remember my dad letting me stay up to watch the moon landing even thought I fell asleep

The first digital watch which had a black background and red numbers and cost the EARTH

When telly went colour (it wasnt that long ago)

When STV finished at 11.30ish (only 3 channels back then) with the good reverend Mr I M Aburke giving a good night speech.

The Beta video recorder.....mind blowing

Getting a line phone.....can still remember our first number...dark grey square looking phone that made the most AWFUL trill noise

Im off to bed ........if you think about it.......i would have been there at 11.30 30 years ago with a nice guy who was probably giving the local barmaid one but with no video cams I wouldnt know.

Ignorance is bliss

[dik9]

Chips wrapped up in newspaper, haven't tasted the same since.

any year many memories  APART FROM BLOODY TIZWAS !!!
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[Sark79]

I was born on the divide between the late seventies and the start of the easily accessable home computers age.

I remember all of the things mentioned in Red-Dog's post. But I also remember happy memories of the zx spectrum 48k, C64 and those calculator watches every kid wanted.

I always think 30/12/79 was a great time to be born. It allowed me to experience what kids got up to before the mass home computer age.  But I was also given the opportunity to experience the beginings of what kids do today for entertainment.

[ifm]

Ahh the old betamax videos..........

We had the first microwave in our grove about a year before everyone else

I remember having a remote control for the telly, you couldn't lose that bugger, it had a wire attaching it to the telly!!

cigarettes were 55p for 10 (i didn't smoke)

a friend of mine got a mobile phone that came in a suitcase to accomodate the battery

Going to town on our own to buy LP's (i recently took my collection out and my eldest was totally bemused "what are they dad?")

Travelling anywhere on the buses for 2p

Having blankets on the bed quilts are a modern miracle!

4 TV channels, Tiswas was the best, being from Birmingham everyone i know was on it at some point

Wagging it from school in the cafe and sending Leeroy Saddler over to Tesco to shoplift lunch (till he got caught and sent the police and wagman over to catch the rest of us)

[MPOWER]

I was born in 1968

I grew up from 4 to 16 living in a new housing estate  Surrounded by Woods as
time went on the developers came in, our favorite game was standing on
small hills as Earth Movers cut into the side to level the ground for building, not wanting to get
picked up in the scoop. At weekends I stayed at a freinds farm
in Caythorpe Notts. I used to cycle Friday after school the 6 miles in record time
thinking what adventure we'd be upto weather going Pike fishing for tea or
ferreting, the best fun was running accross the roofs of old barn sheds, huge things
with asbestos roofs creaking and cracking as you ran for your life, any loose asbestos
you would burn and watch it explode, nothing left to burn we would then head for the quarry
and gravel pits riding on Conveyer belts carrying stones  making sure you jumped off before
going over the end into a silo. As for eating at the weekend well that depended how clean the
steam looked and what you caught. We used to make a good ammount of cash
maybe a few quid picking bluebuttons and selling them to the local pubs.

All good fun

then Astro wars and Packman came along and I never went out again  ever


        
  

[zelda]

This is so true!!!  I had a great childhood - out all day in the fields, making dens and rope swings, riding bareback without even a headcollar - would I let my children do that?  No way!!!  The world has changed - but we have let it...

[ACE2M]

I have wonderful memories of most of it and how we ever made it to adult life is truly a miracle as some of the quite simply insane stuff we used to do makes me shudder nowadays. Jackass stunts were tame compared to our madness. Thankyou for so much stuff Kipper, erin, jasper, dave, steve, arran... mentalists everyone of you.

[ericstoner]

Sorry for late reply Dewi.......I'm 48 years young, bah bet i'm older than you ,you look about 40 in your pic.