Electric Dreams

jcr16

we really enjoyed watching it last week. hope they gonna show more of them.

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cyclingyorkie wrote: »

i grew up in the 60's and 70's with a dansette record player (78's eh? Try explaining those to your teenagers!)

I too had a Dansette with the two tone red/grey, but before that I saved up ( couldn't have got credit as my Dad wouldn't have signed any agreement for me and in those days you had to be over 21 to buy anything on 'tick'), and bought a Grundig reel-to-reel tape recorder it cost 15 guineas (£15.75) which was a fortune when my only disposable income after paying my Mum 'keep' and fares was around £2. took me ages. This was in 1959 and it weighed a ton.Humping it around to friends houses to listen to recorded hit songs from Radio Luxenborg was a bit of a chore, but it was the only music that was portable for teenagers in those days .Mind you we weren't considered teenagers just large children. Trying to tape stuff off the radio wasn't easy either as Radio Luxenborg used to fade out half way through a record.Great fun at a party though as everyone used to sing out the words that had faded before they returned:rotfl:Those days parties had only soft drinks for most of us, or the occasional Babycham if you were at someone's house whose parents had a drinks cabinet that you could raid.Most folk didn't keep drink indoors unless it was a small bottle of brandy for medicinal purposes. For years I thought Brandy was some sort of medicine:D
Great programme though I too thought that oven chips wern't around in 1970 I never can remember seeing them.But I had a chip pan with Lard in to cook my chips in then:eek:.
I watched tonights programme and thought what a po-faced woman the Mum was.The Dad is brilliant, he seems to be really keen on showing the kids what things were like. I still have a stereo similar to the one tonight but mine is in a cabinet. When we bought our first Video machine I remember it cost us £560.00:eek: My husband used to love over dubbing films with his own words and singing whilst recording, as I worked at the time for a company that sold hi-fi equipement and I had a microphone that we could plug into our video.We had some hilarious soundtracks for the 'spaghetti westerns':rotfl::rotfl:Imagine Clint Eastwood singing 'Knees up Mother Brown' as he was shooting the baddies:rotfl:
1980s music was great tonight as well, but oh those awful blouson jackets and mullet hairdos

ktpie

Last nights programme reminded me of when I had a microwaved birthday cake, we had to break it up with a hammer and chisel!

Kiwisaver_2

Shame I can't watch it the 70's was my era, bearing in mind I left home in 1982. My parents didn't get a telephone installed until I had left home, my nan had one before us. As someone else said, my father refused to get one whilst we kids were still at home, on the grounds it wasn't necessary and he was probably right, everyone we knew was within walking distance and if needs be we went to the phone box down the road to call someone.

1971 saw some big changes, my mum and dad were able to get a mortgage and move from their two up two down house that had coal fire and didn't originally have a bathroom. It was updated a bit by my dad and a bathroom was created, my mum had a mangle in the back yard. The new house was indeed that, 'brand new', wow with hot air central heating. Pretty crap they realised later on, but it seemed fantastic at first. My dad had a veggie garden at last and a Chest freezer was purchased to store all his homegrown produce and huge tins of ice-cream from Bejams. I remember visiting on holidays the Lakeland Plastics store at Windermere, especially so we could get special plastic food containers and bags for the freezer. :eek:

My Dad had Hillman Imp that we were so ashamed of we would hide low down in the back seats, if we saw anyone we knew. No worries there though, it was HIS car, nobody elses, my mum didn't drive and did her shopping on her bicycle. The car wasn't used other than to get the old man back and forth to work and family outings on Sundays or for holidays. If we young ones wanted to get from A to B we had to get the bus, walk or cycle, or get a taxi home from pubs and clubs when were a bit older. I only remember one day he drove us to school when it was snowing.

We had a stereogram in the lounge, which was replaced on my 18th Birthday (1983) with a swish Amstrad 'Stack System'.

Somewhere along the line I remember another new revelation was my mum getting an electric deep fat fryer, so no more chips cooked in lard in a manky chip pan on the stove. Gosh we did get very up to date and start cooking with vegetable oil before cholesterol was even invented. The microwave took some while longer, as nobody was sure and a bit sceptical about the 'waves' and how they affected you or your food. I think they didn't really take off until the 80s.

Video player, well ha ha ha, we didn't have one of them either. A friend of mine did, but that would have probably been 1981 ish when there was still a battle with which type was going to be THE one to take off.

Definitely twin tub in our house too, my mum used to have to sit on the broken lid of the spinner, it had long since come off the hinge. I can only remember the colour of the water by the time she was finished - grey and the big pair of tongs that were used to fish the washing out of the water and the puddles on the kitchen floor when she hadn't hooked the waste pipe in the sink properly.

Oh happy days! I'm sure my mum doesn't have equally fond memories of those times with three kids, the miners strikes, three day week, power cuts and food shortages. I can remember various times all us kids being sent to different shops to buy particular things that were limited to one per customer - candles and sugar being some of them. I also remember the big change to 'foreign foods' rice and pasta and shopping at the delicatessen for the first time when potatoes were on short supply.

How did we survive?

NualaBuala

Thanks JackieO and Kiwisaver - I love reading about your memories. Makes me feel all cosy inside!

jackieb

I have an old dial phone from the 70s. I'm stuffed if phone somewhere where I have to 'push 1, */# key, etc ).

I've just finished watching yesterday's episode. I thought the livingroom was nice! They thought it looked like an old Granny one. :rotfl:

Boodle

angeltreats wrote: »

I was born in 1980 but we weren't very well off, so most of the technology in this episode we didn't get until the 90s. We didn't have a video recorder till about 1991, and my mum had no microwave until about 2000. I think I had my first CD player in 1995.

Next week should be interesting, the technology in the 90s moved so fast.

So weird... we also got each thing you mention about the same time! I used to think my grandparents were posh because they had a toaster! They also had a sandwich toaster, electric beaters and a blender :O :rotfl: