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My grandson asked me the other day, 'What was your favourite 'take-away' when you were growing up?
''We didn't have any take-aways when I was growing up,' I told him. 'There wasn't any.'
'Come on, grandad. Where did you eat then?'
'It was a place called 'home,'' I explained!
'Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate, I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'
By this time, the lad was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.
Then I told him;
When I was a boy, my parents NEVER owned their own house, wore jeans, flew in an aeroplane, travelled out of the country or had a credit card.
My parents never drove me to school. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 4 stone, and only had one gear, (slow).
We didn't have a television in our house until I was 7.
It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at 10 pm, after playing the national anthem and epilogue; it came back on the air at about 4.30 p.m. the next day, with children's programmes. (Andy Pandy or Muffin the Mule)..(both sound rude nowdays!)
We never had a telephone until the 1970's. The phone was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.
Pizzas were not delivered to our house... But milk/bread/parrafin/coal/and newspapers were.
All newspapers were delivered by boys, and all boys delivered newspapers. My brother delivered a newspaper seven days a week. He had to get up at 6 a.m. every morning.
Film stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the films. There were no movie ratings because all movies 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 grand children. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.
Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?
How many do you remember?
Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner.
Your dad using a starting-handle outside, to start the car .
Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about.
Ratings at the bottom.
1. Sweet cigarettes.
2. Transport cafes with Rock-ola juke boxes, and ex-juke box records for 2/6d with the centres pushed out.
3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles. 6d milk machines that sold 'Micky' chocolate milk drink.
4. Red Telephone boxes that took 4 old pennies.
5. Pathe Newsreels before the film.
6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (There were only 2 channels).
7. Your mum washing your hair with 'Tide' soap powder.
8. 78 rpm records.
9. Spangles and Sherbert Dip.
10. 'Zip' firelighters.
11. Spud Guns
12. Radio Luxembourg.
13. Having a Pantry, but no 'fridge.
14. Hoover-matic Twin-tub washing machine.
If you remembered 0-3 = You are 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!
''We didn't have any take-aways when I was growing up,' I told him. 'There wasn't any.'
'Come on, grandad. Where did you eat then?'
'It was a place called 'home,'' I explained!
'Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate, I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'
By this time, the lad was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.
Then I told him;
When I was a boy, my parents NEVER owned their own house, wore jeans, flew in an aeroplane, travelled out of the country or had a credit card.
My parents never drove me to school. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 4 stone, and only had one gear, (slow).
We didn't have a television in our house until I was 7.
It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at 10 pm, after playing the national anthem and epilogue; it came back on the air at about 4.30 p.m. the next day, with children's programmes. (Andy Pandy or Muffin the Mule)..(both sound rude nowdays!)
We never had a telephone until the 1970's. The phone was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.
Pizzas were not delivered to our house... But milk/bread/parrafin/coal/and newspapers were.
All newspapers were delivered by boys, and all boys delivered newspapers. My brother delivered a newspaper seven days a week. He had to get up at 6 a.m. every morning.
Film stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the films. There were no movie ratings because all movies 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 grand children. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.
Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?
How many do you remember?
Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner.
Your dad using a starting-handle outside, to start the car .
Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about.
Ratings at the bottom.
1. Sweet cigarettes.
2. Transport cafes with Rock-ola juke boxes, and ex-juke box records for 2/6d with the centres pushed out.
3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles. 6d milk machines that sold 'Micky' chocolate milk drink.
4. Red Telephone boxes that took 4 old pennies.
5. Pathe Newsreels before the film.
6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (There were only 2 channels).
7. Your mum washing your hair with 'Tide' soap powder.
8. 78 rpm records.
9. Spangles and Sherbert Dip.
10. 'Zip' firelighters.
11. Spud Guns
12. Radio Luxembourg.
13. Having a Pantry, but no 'fridge.
14. Hoover-matic Twin-tub washing machine.
If you remembered 0-3 = You are 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!
