Things you won't find anymore...

VHS Movie Video Stores like Blockbuster or West Coast Video

That was always an outing or a 'date night' with your beau. You could peruse the selections...read the back of the box about the flick...pick up some popcorn for the evening.

Yep. I miss those times. It was a slower era but we never lacked entertainment.
 
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Who remembers seeing their father, or grandfather, cursing as he tried, often in vain, to get the collar stud through both his shirt and collar? When was the last time you saw a shirt with a detachable collar?

This shirt originally had a fixed collar, it's shop bought and in the words of my lady, poorly made. The collar always looked skewed, like I had fallen asleep in it. When the lady examined it she found that the collar didn't fit well so she removed it and made the shirt with a detachable collar. Clever girl also backed the cuffs in white so that I can have matching collar and cuffs if I so prefer. It's become a favourite shirt when a collar ant tie are called for.
 

hollydolly said:
In the 60's my aunt Betty used to go to the Locarno Ballroom every weekend with her friends... she was my fathers' youngest sister only 10 years older than me, and I can see her now with her bouffant hair style.. her tight skirt, and her white stiletto heels..

My father was a Bus conductor before he became a Bus driver... at one point he was also a Bouncer at the Locarno Ballroom

You can just barely see my father on the back of his bus..he was the driver at this time.. but for some reason was standing on the back..Perhaps waiting for his conductor.. this bus was parked outside what was the Bus depot at that time

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Burtons only closed their stores in 2021, so everyone remembers those... and I remember the ads on TV for John Collier shirts.. to this day....
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Ah yes. The old Glasgow Corporation colours. Partick, Whiteinch, Yoker...names to conjure up magical memories (or maybe not)
 
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Those Brits with long memories will remember the white fiver.
It was withdrawn in March 1961. The replacement was, and
still is, pathetic.
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27 years later, in March 1988, the one pound note was replaced
with a one pound coin. Such is inflation.
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In between those two dates, 1970 to be precise
the shilling was withdrawn as our currency
went metric. You could have a decent night
out on a ten Bob note.
 
Alizerine said:
A friend, once going to a job interview was without stockings. She drew a seam down the back of her leg with some sort of pencil.
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There was a time when it went against social convention to go bare-legged other than at home or the seaside, so the problem was greater for women of the 1940's than can be understood from today's perspective. Many young women resorted to going bare-legged in the summer to preserve their hosiery, and the government even forbade employers to require women to wear stockings in the office, slowly attitudes changed to accommodate the restrictions of war.
Sunshine was the easiest way to improve the colour of white legs, that was alright in climates like Australia, but in places like Britain, the possibility of sun tanning was very limited. Many women didn’t want to seem vulgar for being bare-legged so gravy browning, walnut juice, tea, iodine, and brown shoe polish were all tried to imitate the appearance of stockings. To add to the illusion, some used eyebrow pencils to draw lines up the back of their legs to resemble stocking seams.
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Something 'you won't find anymore'... A bizarre Top-40 oldie like "The Bristol Stomp". First, why would a group call themselves The Dovells? (Something to do with doves maybe?) And why would teenage kids in 1961 go for a stomping dance? But topping it off, there's the mixed metaphor in the first line of the chorus: "the kids in Bristol are sharp as a pistol" — sure, hot as a pistol, sharp as a knife... but sharp as a pistol? Can you picture a kid who's sharp as a pistol?

The kids in Bristol are sharp as a pistol
When they do the Bristol Stomp
Really somethin' when they join is jumpin'
When they do the Bristol Stomp

Whoa, they start spinning every Friday night
They dance the greatest and they do it right
Well, it's the latest, it's the greatest sight to see

The kids in Bristol are sharp as a pistol (Whoa, oh, oh)
When they do the Bristol Stomp (Whoa, oh, oh)
Really somethin' when they join is jumpin'
(Ah-ah-ah, whoa)
When they do the Bristol Stomp

Whoa, it started in Bristol at a dee jay hop
They hollered and whistled, never want to stop
We pony and twisted and we rocked with Daddy G

The kids in Bristol are sharp as a pistol
When they do the Bristol Stomp
(Whoa, oh, oh)
Really somethin' when they join is jumpin'
(Ah-ah-ah)
When they do the Bristol Stomp
(Duh-duh-doo)
 
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