Web Page  No 2400

26^th  August 2017

First Picture: X type TV Ariel

Second Picture: Dip pedal

Third Picture: Cinema News

Fourth Picture: Ice tray with lever

Hi Folks

Another of those do you remember pages, I am sure that will be some things here that you will have forgotten!

As a general rule:-

Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore jeans or shorts, set foot on a golf course, travelled out of the country or even had a credit card.

My parents never drove me to school... I walked until I had a bicycle for my birthday.

We didn't have a television in our house until I was at least eight years old and then we had to have a large cross TV aerial on the chimney. It was, of course, a black and white set, with one station, BBC, and that at 10 PM, after playing the epilogue and then the national anthem; it came back on the air at about 6 am for a locally produced news and farming show, featuring local  people but our set was never turned on that early.

Pizzas were not delivered to our home... But milk, bread, fish, paraffin, Corona and coal was.

All newspapers were delivered by boys and girls.

Film stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the films. Most films 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 recently) and he brought me an old lemonade bottle.  In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but those of the modern generation had no idea. When questioned they thought  that someone 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.

Now how  many do you remember?  

Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.

A choke button 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.

Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom.

1.  Sweet cigarettes
2.  Coffee shops with juke boxes
3.  Home milk delivery in glass bottles
4.  Party lines on  the telephone
5.  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.
7.  Peashooters
8.  33 rpm LP records
9.  45 RPM records
10.  Hi-fi systems
11.  Metal ice trays with levers
12.  Blue flashbulb
13.  Cork popguns
14.  Washing machines with wringers

If  you remembered 0-3 = You're still young
If  you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older
If  you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age
If  you remembered 11-14 = You're positively  ancient!

I must be 'positively ancient' but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.

Yours

Peter

DUSTYKEAT@aol.com

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News and Views:

On this day 26th August 1960-1965

On 26/08/1960 the number one single was Apache - The Shadows and the number one album was South Pacific Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Rawhide (ITV) and the box office smash was Psycho. A pound of today's money was worth £13.68 and Tottenham Hotspur were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 26/08/1961 the number one single was You Don't Know - Helen Shapiro and the number one album was South Pacific Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was One Hundred and One Dalmations. A pound of today's money was worth £13.25 and Ipswich were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.The big news story of the week was Burma becomes world's first Buddhist republic.

On 26/08/1962 the number one single was I Remember You - Frank Ifield and the number one album was West Side Story Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was Lawrence of Arabia. A pound of today's money was worth £12.89 and Everton were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 26/08/1963 the number one single was Bad to Me - Billy J Kramer and the number one album was Please Please Me - The Beatles. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Great Escape. A pound of today's money was worth £12.64 and Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 26/08/1964 the number one single was Do Wah Diddy Diddy - Manfred Mann and the number one album was A Hard Day's Night - Beatles. The top rated TV show was Labour Party Political Broadcast (all channels) and the box office smash was Dr Strangelove. A pound of today's money was worth £12.24 and Manchester United were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 26/08/1965 the number one single was I Got You Babe - Sonny and Cher and the number one album was Help - The Beatles. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Sound of Music. A pound of today's money was worth £11.69 and Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.