Easter cards
Milkmen
Library books in big print
Wrestling on television
Garfield
Pekinese dogs
Cream horns
Brawn
Sweet shops
Antimacassars!!!!!!!!!!
Moria anderson
Camp Coffee
Bibles in hotel rooms
Boys playing in the street
Habitat
Newscasters behind a desk
Hairnets
Proper telephone boxes
1930 metal window frames
Gypsy tops
Furry dice hung from a car mirror
Cheese and pineapple chunks together on a cocktail stick
Small boxes of jelly babies
Puppies in a pet shop window
Hand written letters
Espadrilles
Doillies
Things you don't see a lot of nowadays
Milkmen
Library books in big print
Wrestling on television
Garfield
Pekinese dogs
Cream horns
Brawn
Sweet shops
Antimacassars!!!!!!!!!!
Moria anderson
Camp Coffee
Bibles in hotel rooms
Boys playing in the street
Habitat
Newscasters behind a desk
Hairnets
Proper telephone boxes
1930 metal window frames
Gypsy tops
Furry dice hung from a car mirror
Cheese and pineapple chunks together on a cocktail stick
Small boxes of jelly babies
Puppies in a pet shop window
Hand written letters
Espadrilles
Doillies
Things you don't see a lot of nowadays
Doorstep double glazing salesmen
ReplyDeleteMilkmen
Jehovah's Witnesses
Swiss cheese plants
Starlings
"Spangles"
Rag and bone men
Nylon housecoats
Street cleaners with brushes
David Cameron
We have a milkman although you practically have to through yourself in front of his pickup if you want to speak to him.
DeleteOmg swiss cheese plants!
DeleteHere in Texas, the Jehovah's Witnesses are at our door regularly.
DeleteAnd here in Norfolk.
DeleteI live on a remote Scottish island. I'm two tedious ferry journeys away from the UK mainland and the Jehovah's Witnesses STILL show up, regular as clockwork...
DeleteThey enjoy having their backsides booted!
DeleteOf which reminds me, 'how much is that doggie in the windows, the one with the waggling tail...'
ReplyDeleteGreetings Maria x
It's $99.99 plus shipment.
DeleteMaria, forgot to say before nice to have you back
DeleteThank you John xxx
DeleteI miss the piles of discarded pornographic magazines thrown in hedges. The internet killed that off.
ReplyDeleteThey were usually in the sand dunes here in wales
DeleteNow we just have perverts
DeleteOr virtual ones. I am virtually one myself.
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ReplyDeleteSacks of coal on flatback trucks
Butcher's boys on a bicycles
Flat capped fans on the way to the match
Woodbines, Park Drive, Weights, and Passing Clouds
Watneys Party Cans
A circus with elephants
Boys with snotty noses
White dogshit
Old men spitting on buses
Jam jar golliwogs
Children playing marbles, hopscotch, tig, follow the leader, or skipping rope,
Boys using coats for goalposts
Girls pushing dolls in prams
Mothers on doorsteps shouting their offspring in for tea
AA men on combinations with salutes for their members!
Chewing gum machines with an arrowed knob - free packet every 4th turn.
I loved party cans with the attachable beer knob
DeleteAttach your knob here.
DeleteI like this game!
ReplyDeleteFlip top boxes of fruit shaped fruit gums
Newspaper sellers in the street 'Standard, standard read all about it!'
Fitted shag pile carpet
Women scrubbing the front door step
Button shops
Tomato ketchup in tomato shaped container
Wimpey bender brunch
Cresta 'It's frothy man' soda drink
Biba clothes shop
Martin Fordes (bought my school uniform there)
Cream horns and cream slices
Pray what is a wimpy bender brunch?
DeleteJohn, it is a frankfurter type sausage with slits bent around into a circle and sometimes stuffed in a bun! The link won't work here but you can see it on google images. It is very retro!
DeleteWomen with curlers in their hair, with or without a covering scarf. Oh yes, and frizzy perms. They didn't look to great on women either.
ReplyDeleteESPADRILLES? Wash your mouth out John; the place is awash with them!
ReplyDeleteI guess we can only assume Wales is too cold and wet for espadrilles. They're everywhere else...
ReplyDeleteI havent seen one for years!
DeleteVisit Florida although "flip flops" still seem to be the "shoe" of choice.
DeleteChildren let out to play unsupervised
ReplyDeletebrown paper lunch bags
paper grocery bags
no one cutting their grass on a Sunday
the ice man coming once a week to your door
milkman
breadman
coal fires in the woodstove
ladies 'dressing' to go downtown for shopping
long brown stockings on little girls
Christmas seals on packages
Whats a breadman?
DeleteGrowing up in Southern California in the 1950's we used to have the Helms Bakery truck visit our suburban neighborhood daily. The interior was fitted with slide out wooden drawers that carried all kinds of bread, donuts, etc. The neighborhood housewives would flock around it like kids did with an ice cream truck. Here's a neat little video about it that brought back fond memories for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9LeZD-Y4HY
DeleteYou're kidding, right, John?
DeleteWe didn't have a breadman but I remember the garbage man coming to the house and mom paying him ..
DeleteI have a bottle of Camp Coffee in my cupboard for when I make coffee cake. The bible is always in the hotel room. I throw it in the corner. We have a Habitat in our local Sainsbury's (no idea why).
ReplyDeleteAndy Stewart at New Year
ReplyDeleteProper round tubes of Smarties
Flocks of sparrows
Strawberry Mivvis
Children's knitted swimsuits which stretched when wet
Old men on the beach in shirt and tie with trousers rolled up (my grandad!)
I have a flock of sparrows on the field they number around 30....cheerful little buggers
DeleteLucky you - we never see them in the South East now. I'm so pleased they have emigrated to Wales!
DeleteIt must be too early, I can't think of a thing to add.
ReplyDeleteI saw loads of easter cards for sale this year, I even bought some. Didn't send or receive any though! Also, you need to visit more crochet blogs for lots of doilies - we call them mandalas these days and there is a Habitat in our local Sainsburys!! Hee hee!!
ReplyDeleteThings I haven't seen lately - sunny days!! Although it is sunny today.
Everyone is wearing gypsy tops in my neck of the woods - whether they should or not.
ReplyDeleteI suppose it's regional. I have and see lots of these things listed. I have paper doilies, in various sizes, in my cupboard and buy them locally.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you use them for. You dont strike me as a doiliy gal
DeleteI was brought up to use doilies. I can't imagine a plate of cakes or sandwiches to offer round without.
DeleteWhen I travel I like to pick up "doilies" and whatever small table linens and things that can be used at home.
DeleteI have small leather squares from Argentina that are used to protect the wooden coffee table / for glasses & cups.
We still have the newscasters.
ReplyDeleteI live in a small town, and still have a sweet shop, boys in the street (girls too)((The sound of the little voices steals my heart)), doilies, creme horns--it's a pain to keep scrolling up to see your list. I like the little kids best of all.
ReplyDeleteWe have espadrilles and gypsy tops, Pekingese dogs and kids playing outside...some things I don't even know what they are? Moria Anderson? Camp coffee? But I do send cards.
ReplyDeleteEaster cards. What is brawn?
DeleteWe call it pork cheese. It is still available from our local butchers.
DeleteBrawn is made from pigs head, little bits of meat and jelly. Made it once myself, not as nice as shops thought.
DeleteAlso known by some as pork jelly.
DeleteThis must be what we call 'head cheese'....delicious.
DeleteAnd what is camp coffee?
DeleteI can only think of piccalilli !!!
ReplyDeleteand Woodbines!!
ReplyDeleteI love the word "antimacassars."
ReplyDeleteYour list is great plus what commenters have added.
ReplyDeleteMost of the hotels I've visited in the States have had Bibles in the rooms. Usually they look brand-new, as if nobody even glances at them. But no doubt believers would throw a fit if they were removed.
ReplyDeleteThe Gideons started leaving bibles at hotels a long long time ago .. these days there are a few tight pantied people who are offended with a bible hiding in a drawer in their hotel room so while I am not "religious" .. I see it as something that has always been there and doing no harm, why get rid of them .. you never know how many people might have been at their wits end, checked into a motel and ended up being comforted by reading the only book in the room ... I don't see it as about believers or non ... it is there if someone needs it.
DeleteLove this post, great reminder of things past.
ReplyDeleteBriony
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Penny candy
ReplyDeleteBlue eyeshadow from top to bottom
Bouffant hair
Polyester pantsuits
Braces headgear
Great list John.... and the ones added by others... somethings i don't recognize the name... Wish i had something to add...... deb
ReplyDeleteMetal dustbins
ReplyDeleteNet curtains
Walls Jolly Jelly
And when I lived in Wales there used to a man selling icec reams from a wooden barrow cart I think he sold Tonibell ice creams
I have never heard of Gypsy tops so I don't know whether I ever see one or not.
ReplyDeleteI think he means a peasant blouse, sort of off the shoulders, gathered neckline?
DeleteFondue pots, Yardley yellow lipstick and I hardly ever see Irish setters. I used to.
ReplyDeletemilk in glass bottles
ReplyDeletelarge all-steel American cars
honest politicians
VHS players
large heavy boxy televisions
honeybees
chain belts
I would add happy people to that list.
DeleteYour list conjured up happy memories, but I'd have to add Fruit Salad and Black Jack sweets, Tizer, pokey bags of sherbet, Players No. 6 from a vending machine and hideous American tan tights.
ReplyDeletetan tights? Do you mean hosiery?
DeleteBenny, a wonderful gentleman who came out to the farms from the haberdashers spring and autumn with a small leather suitcase full of aprons and tea towels and such and ribbons and to my preschool delight white and multcoloured ballons (an unheard of treat..)that swirled with colour, given freely to each small person itching to see what ws in the suitcase. RIP Benny not forgotten.
ReplyDeleteOutside toilets, motorbike sidecars, police boxes,parrafin heaters, 3 wheel bikes, tie on roller skates, weekend chocolates, knitted swimming cossies, swimming caps.
ReplyDeleteNickle candy bar
ReplyDeleteBobbie pins
Fountain pens
Chatty cathy doll
I have not seen a cocker spaniel in awhile
Telegrams
Brillo pad
Telephone booth
Manners
I dont see as many turtles or pollywogs
As i used too either.
Thanks for the memories
I do write letters, paint envelops, and watch mayberry with andy and opie.
That squirty chocolate sauce that went hard on ice cream
ReplyDeleteScottish Terriers
True Staffordshire Bull terriers.
Woolworths
Pez sweets that came out of the plastic things mouth/head
Wade whimseys
All the shoe shops....Dollis, Freeman,Hardy, Willis.
Ra ra skirts
Dungarees
Ladies wearing hats
Punk Rockers
Spangles sweets
Cuckoo spit (maybe is was just the pervs and the discarded mags)
Toffee apples in Sainsbury's
Petrol pump attendants
Jovan musk oil in the chemist (I loved it as a teenager)
Ken Hom and his Wok.
Girls world- with the hair that came out of her head
Sindy dolls
Baby Alive- you could feed her and she peed. (Mine broke when I fed her English mustard)
C&A (coats and 'ats)
People helping old ladies across the road.
Horn rimmed glasses
Fuzzy felts
ReplyDeletePlay Doh
Mr Potato head
Mr Ben ( I loved him but think he was a cross dresser-which is fine)
Rainbow 🌈 Bungle, Zippy and Geoffrey.
Nuns on bikes.
Oh I could go on......
People under 30 who can walk down the street without having their face in their smartphone.
ReplyDeleteJelly Tip ice creams
ReplyDeletePint blocks of ice-cream in cardboard cartons
Mild delivered by the milkman (in exchange for tokens) and fresh bread as well.
A loaf of bread that split in two, with a "kissing crust" in the middle
Stocking and those ghastly suspender belts
Elderly women wearing hairnets to the shops
Loved the repies...an amble down a bygone age me thinks thank you alll x
ReplyDeleteNot sure if anyone has mentioned this... Walnut Whips... and not John the sometime offerings of your doggie crew on the carpet.
ReplyDeleteLoving these. Chewing gum vending machines.
ReplyDeleteMacrame plant pot hangers
ReplyDeletePlacemats with hunting scenes on
Spider plants
Afghan coats
Navy and white duffle bags
Free school milk (warm in winter!)
We still have a rag and bone man - he drives around the area regularly, ringing his hand bell)
The long narrow boxes in which cardboard library tickets were kept, strictly alphabetically.
It's a shame about the cream horns, but in the US there are still bibles in all the hotel rooms. But the person who added " children let out to play unsupervised " - I do miss that!
ReplyDeleteAlong with exploring and unlocking the Walk It Out! gameworld, players can also engage in a series of mini-games at any time. These include: Whack-A-Slack!, ...
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White Shoulders dusting powder
ReplyDeletemint green leisure suits
candy peanuts (gack)
Chevelle cars
Brylcreem
swiss dot fabric
sponge rollers
handmade doll clothes
snow cones at little league baseball
red hots
knee socks
clackers
jacks
slacks
Arnold's pickles
Hamms beer
schlotz beer
mateus wine
I am not a drinker
Along with exploring and unlocking the Walk It Out! gameworld, players can also engage in a series of mini-games at any time. These include: Whack-A-Slack!, ...
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What about the dunny man?
ReplyDeleteThank god his days are gone...what a job that would have been.
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Horse drawn milk truck . . .
ReplyDeleteI can still remember the sound . . .
I am getting old . . .
I think I should drop the word, getting . . .