memories

Looking for a few memories from the boom time of Motown Soul music. To jog your memory, here's a list of words that all mean the '1970's' to us.

TV, Radio, Movies & Media

Farrah Fawcett posters and Charlie’s Angels
Saturday Night Fever
The Six Million Dollar Man
Jaws
Jackie magazine
M.A.S.H
Star Wars
Swap Shop
Grange Hill
Bo Derek’s ‘10’
Blue Peter v Magpie
Crackerjack
Police women with Earl Holliman and Angie Dickson
Are You Being Served
Tiswas
Swop Shop
Budgie
Radio Luxemburg 208 http://www.pjede.de Emperor RosKo
Catweazle
The Tomorrow People
The Double Deckers
H R Puff 'n' Stuff
Tom Baker as Dr. Who
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. with Napoleon Solo and Ilya Kuryakin
Benny Hill
Love Thy Neighbour
Starsky & Hutch
Liver birds
Randle & Hopkirk
The Double Decker's
Banana Splits
The Partridge Family

Music

Motown
Bay City Rollers
Sex Pistols
Top of the Pops
Wigan Casino
Donny Osmond
David Cassidy
Marc Bolan - T Rex
Noddy Holder - Slade
David Essex
The Sweet

Fashion

Platform shoes
Tartan flares
Kipper ties
Cheesecloth
Prince Of Wales check trousers
Boob tubes
Hot pants
Ponchos
Brogue shoes
Afghan coats
Polyvelt shoes
Full leather trench coats
Brut aftershave
Ben Sherman Shirts
Grandad vests
Braces
Riding boots
Shopping at Chelsea Girl,
Birmingham Bags/Oxford Bags (High waistband, 30" bottomed trousers with side pockets)
Two tone suits
Brutus shirts
Loafers shoes
Crombies
Budgie Jackets
Harrington Jackets
Doc Martens shoes and boots
Fishtail Parkas
Mini, Midi and Maxi skirts
Twin Sets
Wedge heeled Shoes
Smocks
Satin trousers and jackets
Velvet jackets
Chelsea girl
Clogs
Loon pants
Tie dye
Sta-Prest trousers
Loafers with red socks
Tie pins in your hanky pocket
Platform shoes for school - and lectures about the 'dangers' of wearing them. No one took any notice and we had unofficial competitions over who could wear the highest.....

Food & Drink

Spangles sweets,
Cresta – it’s frothy man
Bazooka Joe
Fondue
Tab
Space dust
Prawn Cocktail
Black Forest Gateaux
Orange Jubilees and red ones called fire water
Blue Ice Pops
Sterilized Milk
Long sticks of barley sugar and the caramel coloured one that had chocolate running through it
Sherry and Port from the barrel
Party seven cans of beer
Mojos and Black Jacks - both 4 for a penny.
The sweets you could buy for sixpence: chocolate tools, white mice, sweet tobacco
Vimto and Dandelion & Burdock pop
Curly Wurly
Wagon Wheels
Bar Six

Personalities

Kevin Keegan’s perm
George Best
Bjorn Borg,
Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova.
Noel Edmunds, Tony Blackburn, Alan Freeman, David 'Kid' Jensen

Must Have's

Raleigh Chopper bikes
Atari
Clackers.... and the schools banning them
Stylophones
Sports mopeds Yamaha FS1E, Fantic GT, Gilera Trial...
Lambretta Scooter
Clickers to click
Trolls
LED watch

The Queen's Silver Jubilee street parties,
Your dad fancying Purdey
The Allegro car with the square steering wheel
Vauxhall Vivas
The test card on telly
Abba’a Eurovision win
Watergate,
Munich Olympics massacre
Mark Spitz and Olga Korbut
Princess Anne’s wedding
Harold Wilson
Kerplunk & Mouse Trap games
Power cuts
Clunk Click every trip
Plucked eyebrows and lip gloss
‘O’ levels
Hostess trolleys
Johnny Ball’s Think of a Number,
Buying No.6 tipped in packs of 5
School Milk
Mixing ink powder with water to make ink for the ink wells
GoJo girls - forerunner to Pan's People
Power cuts
White dog poop
Action Man
The hot summer of 76 (UK)
First colour TV
School discos dancing to Judge Dread
Lucozade when you were off school sick
Marbles
Train journeys with waiter & silver tray service, or even a separate dining carriage!!..
The pop man
The milkshake that came in cardboard straws? Rip the ends off, pour the powder into milk and then sip through the straw that went soggy and disintegrated into the pink milk.
The Austin Princess
Smurfs from National petrol stations
Clarks shoes with a compass in the sole
Cyclone Tracy (Australia)
Dismissal of Gough Whitlam (Australia)

Nostalgia - remember when...

All the girls wore ugly gym slips

It took five minutes for the TV to warm up

Nearly everyone's Mum was at home when the kids got home from school

Nobody owned a thoroughbred dog

You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny

Your Mother wore nylons that came in two pieces

You got your windscreen cleaned, oil checked, and petrol served, without asking, all for free, every time

It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents

They threatened to keep children back a year if they failed... And they did it!

When a Ford Zephyr was everyone's dream car... And people went steadyp>

No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked

Playing cricket with no adults to help the children with the rules of the game

Bottles came from the corner shop without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger

When being sent to the head's study was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home

Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat