I think we need an old folks forum since we have a young adult forum

[CoffeeCat]

That yellow thing... know what it looked like to me? The top of a "childproof" (and usually senior-proof!) pill bottle.

[Richard H]

I knew the "45" hint would still be tough.

You all are too funny.
Are you old enough to remember 78s?

[slightlypuzzled]

I knew the "45" hint would still be tough.

You all are too funny.
Are you old enough to remember 78s?

Yeah...I remember them, but they were muzzle loaders, weren't they????

[Ashley274]

I knew the "45" hint would still be tough.

You all are too funny.
Are you old enough to remember 78s?

I have some BUT I inherited them. Ya know folks vinyl is back they sell them again AND the players last I saw cost a fortune.....I am not THAT old but beware this question would not seal the deal

[Ashley274]

That yellow thing... know what it looked like to me? The top of a "childproof" (and usually senior-proof!) pill bottle.

I am sooo glad I am not in need of senior stuff.....yet

[IMINXTC]

I knew the "45" hint would still be tough.

You all are too funny.
Are you old enough to remember 78s?

Had a stack of "78's" and an RCA Wind-up, which would be worth a handsome fortune these days

[Ashley274]

SFASH HOW OLD ARE YOU..You would be like over 100 years old

[IMINXTC]

I'm a spry 55... the wind-up was actually a precursor to the RCA; I think it was a victrola and already an antique when I had it. I also had player-piano rolls from the 1800's. All lost in a fire back when I was a whipper-snapper (including the player piano). Forever Young, Kiddo...

[Bethany67]

Are you old enough to remember 78s?

Yes; we had a record player that my Dad built from scratch that would play all size records, including his beloved Jerry Lee Lewis. We also had one of those huge reel-to-reel vertical tape players (I remember Burl Ives singing 'Ugly Duckling'), and we had silent cinefilm of Laurel and Hardy, 1930s cartoons like Jack and the Beanstalk and Tom and Jerry, and faded family holidays from the 1950s; we had a rolled pull-up screen that went on a stand. Mum still has them in the loft.

My Dad drove the same beloved Austin A60 Cambridge from the early 60s until the late 80s (replacing his Ford Seven):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Cambridge

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_7W

Early holidays for me were a boarding-house in North Wales, run by a spinster called Miss Jones; Mum and Dad went there for 20 years every year, and it smelled of boiled cabbage. We used to set off at 4am and stop at 7am by the side of the motorway to cook bacon and eggs over a camping stove. It was the only time we had breakfast cereal in those little individual variety multi-packs. We never ate macaroni and rice except as sweet milk puddings, never had mayonnaise (only salad cream - mayo was 'foreign'). Even ketchup was a rarity. Didn't even know what curry and pizza were - unless it was shepherds pie or steak and kidney pudding or Friday night fish and chips, every dinner was plain meat, boiled potatoes and veg, and the only seasoning in the house was table salt and ground white pepper.

McDonalds didn't exist in the UK in those days until the mid 70s - it was table-service Wimpy Bars only. It was Charles and Di's wedding in 1981 when we first ate savoury pasta - I made spaghetti bolognaise, and it was the first time we all ate mixed herbs, bought a dried packet and measured it out very carefully. A salad was a leaf of lettuce, a few slices of cucumber, and a quartered tomato, with a wedge of cheese and Heinz salad cream - pickled onions on special occasions. Never had French bread - we bought plain white loaves from the milkman who also sold the incredibly exotic orange juice in glass bottles (but we didn't have that because it was 'special' and too posh for us - Dad got an orange one Christmas during WW2 and held them in high regard ever after). He made orange marmalade and wine with stuff he grew on the allotment.

Duvets were viewed with suspicion as foreign; 'proper' beds were made with sheets and blankets and candlewick bedspreads. We only drank tea, never coffee unless it was liquid Camp coffee made entirely with hot milk.

My Mum drove an Austin A30 bubble-car until the late Eighties, and still has an olive-green kitchen and a light blue tile and orange cork bathroom. I proudly have Axminster-type red patterned carpet, and a shelf-full of my and hubby's singles and LPs. She still can't work the video player she bought in 1982 though.

[Richard H]

For SFASH: (wind-up & 78prm record)



For Bethany: (Auston A30 Bubblecar)

[Bethany67]

Yay - that's the one. It had no seat belts and these bar indicators that flipped out on the side. Mum sold it to a local hippy and we used to see him beetling around in it for a couple of years, but I expect it's scrap metal now. I loved that car - never went above 30mph and was like a Flintstone car. They don't make 'em like that anymore.

[moonglow]

Are you guys still talking about old people's stuff on here?
















I wouldn't know any of this stuff cause I am not that old....heh....

[Bethany67]

Yes we are - young whippersnapper If you're not careful, someone'll bring up powdered egg, the landgirls and Vera Lynn ...

[moonglow]

Yes we are - young whippersnapper If you're not careful, someone'll bring up powdered egg, the landgirls and Vera Lynn ...

Maybe we need a forum for the middle aged folks then a forum for the really old folks on here...





ok so I admit I do know some of the stuff you guys are talking about...

but don't tell anyone...

[Bethany67]

I start the day feeling like a creaky 68-year-old, but I get 'younger' as I warm up ... until I'm positively youthful by about 8pm (like Dorian Gray), and then it's time for bed anyway. It's my version of doing the Timewarp.