Some fascinating memory lane prompts. For what it's worth, we still have, and use, a finger dial phone, however, it's connected at the socket to a modern phone so that we can identify incoming calls. There is also the problem of voice menus, when you get asked to press: "One for the money,two for the show," dialling it will simply get you cut off.
Carbon paper, ugh, the mess I could get into with that stuff. We have a two drawer filing cabinet, it's very useful for keeping and retrieving documents like motoring insurance, amongst other things.
That floor button for the headlight main beam may have been moved to a column or stalk button on the steering column, because it was so easy to catch either the brake or clutch pedal and by the time you had corrected the error, the poor motorist approaching from the opposite direction had a face full of headlight beam.
Records are, surprisingly still popular, but the days of dedicated record shops are long gone. Records today are mostly sold online but if, like us, you find yourself at a vintage fair, you will discover that not only old records being bought and sold, but new ones are also up for sale. Thank goodness for that, it means that our jukebox is not redundant yet.
You never see dedicated stores for things like women & men's clothing, or made to measure suits, I remember some of the names of those stores, such as: Alexanders, Burtons, Hepworths and others. Same with shoe shops, Saxones were very popular back in the sixties. Back then though, nobody "dressed down."
We don't have dustmen (garbage collectors) anymore. Our waste is still collected though, but households have to segregate everything. We have five receptacles called wheelie bins. One for recycling another for garden waste, a third for disposal, the fourth is for anything glass and the last, a small bin for waste food, that includes potato peelings, egg shells, tea bags as well as mealtime leftovers. There was a time when it all went into one single bin, that bin would be lifted shoulder high and emptied into the truck. I have an amusing anecdote about that. I will post it next time.
. but we do have an 'Any Old Iron' type of guy who comes around once a month in his truck collecting anything that might be made from metal..old washing machines , dryers, pots and pans, bikes .. anything that can be melted down..
