Things in living memory which seem very anachronistic now

[Harpo]

The lack of any concept of "pampering for men" spa days and the like would possibly seem anachronistic for those who indulge now.

I’ve always had a daily four wash (3 hot, 1 cold) facial exfoliation and rehydration.

But I just call it shaving.

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Yup they were the best that Woolies could sell in terms of records.They did however prompt the big three record companies (EMI, Decca and PYE) to start pushing out compilation LPs of the original hits. I can rememver PYE 'Golden Guinea' LPs, selling for a guinea (£1.05) when full price LPs were £1 12s 6d £1.62 (approx).

‘The album chart’ became ‘The full price album chart’ in a disgraceful bit of protectionism.

 

[Dr Day]

Rectangular Christmas cards - the majority appear to be square these days!

 

[The exile]

Rectangular Christmas cards - the majority appear to be square these days!

And ones that folded along the top so didn’t stand up properly.

 

[ChiefPlanner]

Household barometers as a means of weather forecasting. I expect a few of you will inform me that you still have one in the house which you occasionally tap in order to coax the pointer towards a more favourable weather outcome.

Yes - a 1930's art deco one - bought for a reasonable sum and consulted quite frequently

 

[gg1]

On the subject of christmas, acquaintances who's sole form of contact was the annual exchange of christmas cards.

I'm sure a fair chunk of the cards my parents used to receive were from people they hadn't seen or spoken to for over 10 years, anecdotally I don't think they were especially unusual in that regard.

 

[dangie]

On the subject of christmas, acquaintances who's sole form of contact was the annual exchange of christmas cards.

Wife: ”Oh look, we’ve received a card from Joyce and Jeremy”
Me: “Who the hell are Joyce and Jeremy?”
Wife: “You remember, they’re the couple we met in Benidorm 15 years ago…..”

 

[MotCO]

Wife: ”Oh look, we’ve received a card from Joyce and Jeremy”
Me: “Who the hell are Joyce and Jeremy?”
Wife: “You remember, they’re the couple we met in Benidorm 15 years ago…..”

Me: Have we got a card we can send them? Do we have their address?

 

[GordonT]

When "pigs in blankets" were not a prominent part of the festive melange.

 

[Acey]

Toothpaste in metal tubes !

 

[McRhu]

When "pigs in blankets" were not a prominent part of the festive melange.

Which reminds me - daintily sized diner plates. When comparing my mother's 'Old Country Roses' dinner plates - from which we used to partake our festive nosh in days of yore - with our current crockery, I am struck by how relatively diminutive our helpings must have been back then. Our current olympically dimensioned dinnerware would make Mr Creosote baulk.

 

[Bald Rick]

When "pigs in blankets" were not a prominent part of the festive melange.

Thats going back a bit. There have been mountains of them on every Christmas dinner table I’ve sat at that I can remember in the last half century!

 

[Merle Haggard]

Toothpaste in metal tubes !

Possibly the metal was lead. I can remember melting down tubes that were definitely lead to weigh down my 00 model locos.

 

[Trackman]

Toothpaste in metal tubes !

You got your money's worth out of them!
Suppose you do these days, but then you could see how much toothpaste was left.

Possibly the metal was lead. I can remember melting down tubes that were definitely lead to weigh down my 00 model locos.

Tin and Lead according to Google

 

[Acey]

That's right,very thin lead !

 

[Lloyds siding]

That's right,very thin lead !

No, definitely tin!! |

 

[Acey]

Right you are then ,thanks !

 

[Dr Day]

Thats going back a bit. There have been mountains of them on every Christmas dinner table I’ve sat at that I can remember in the last half century!

There have definitely been variations of rolled up streaky bacon and chipolatas on every Christmas dinner table I’ve sat at too but the terminology ‘pigs in blankets’ has only appeared in our Scottish origins household in the last ten years or so.

 

[Crithylum]

Plastic straws

 

[Sun Chariot]

Front car seats without headrests and rear car seats without seat belts.

 

[MP33]

I can remember Fruit machines, where if you hit the buttons on the way past. There was an unclaimed Nudge and 10p for a minor win would fall out.

 

[Raddleman]

Daytime tv test card and music. BBC TV going off air between Children's Hour 5-6 and news at 7.30 and close down at 1030 pm.
Early stereo sounds experiments using Third (Radio 3) program as LH loud speaker and TV sound for RH speaker. Watching 1953 coronation on Black and white 12" tv with magnifier attachment and lots of neighbors.
Early 50s most cars were unsuppressed for ignition and caused rows of white dots on TV's Some cars had little blue window stickers with "Friends of TV" when fitted with inline suppressors .

 

[AM9]

Daytime tv test card and music. BBC TV going off air between Children's Hour 5-6 and news at 7.30 and close down at 1030 pm.
Early stereo sounds experiments using Third (Radio 3) program as LH loud speaker and TV sound for RH speaker. Watching 1953 coronation on Black and white 12" tv with magnifier attachment and lots of neighbors.
Early 50s most cars were unsuppressed for ignition and caused rows of white dots on TV's Some cars had little blue window stickers with "Friends of TV" when fitted with inline suppressors .

If you remember tV in the early '50s then maybe you can recall the public service ad telling people to fit suppressors to their cars. Here is one of them that I clearly remember as a child.
It was quite entertaining.

 

[Harpo]

Daytime tv test card and music

Daytime primary schools broadcasts. At the scheduled time, classes would go to which ever room or hall had the school’s black & white TV which was fixed at height inside a large wooden cabinet with doors and mounted on a moveable trolley.

The TV was also wheeled out for the school to watch Charlie Windsor meeting his mum at Caernarfon in 1969.

 

[Western Lord]

Daytime primary schools broadcasts. At the scheduled time, classes would go to which ever room or hall had the school’s black & white TV which was fixed at height inside a large wooden cabinet with doors and mounted on a moveable trolley.

The TV was also wheeled out for the school to watch Charlie Windsor meeting his mum at Caernarfon in 1969.

Our school had one of those. In July 1967 (it would have been the 7th) with exams over and no lessons scheduled we were allowed to wheel it into the school hall and watch the Wimbledon Men's Singles final (in those days it was on Friday afternoon). John Newcombe versus Wilhelm Bungert, easy straight sets win for Newcombe and all over in about an hour and a half in those serve and volley days.

 

[Lloyds siding]

Daytime primary schools broadcasts. At the scheduled time, classes would go to which ever room or hall had the school’s black & white TV which was fixed at height inside a large wooden cabinet with doors and mounted on a moveable trolley.

The TV was also wheeled out for the school to watch Charlie Windsor meeting his mum at Caernarfon in 1969.

Luxury!
In the early 60s we would listen to some events or schools programmes on the radio. Each 'classroom' (half of them were ex WW1 army huts) was fitted with a two pin socket. We could plug a speaker into these, and receive the broadcast from the radio kept in the headmistress's study (a broom cupboard sized room in the corridor). I rember listening to live reporting on the Mercury 7 launch from Cape Canaveral in 1962.

 

[johnnychips]

Our primary school class were kindly invited to Karen Smith’s house to watch Charles’s investiture as she had a colour television. Very nice gesture from Mr and Mrs Smith.

 

[D6130]

Our primary school class were kindly invited to Karen Smith’s house to watch Charles’s investiture as she had a colour television. Very nice gesture from Mr and Mrs Smith.

OT, but he had rare double-headed class 40 haulage to Caernarfon....216 "Campania" and 233 "Empress of England".

 

[Sun Chariot]

OT, but he had rare double-headed class 40 haulage to Caernarfon....216 "Campania" and 233 "Empress of England".

I don't suppose he was the sort of chap who would show his appreciation with a spot of flailing...

 

[D6130]

I don't suppose he was the sort of chap who would show his appreciation with a spot of flailing...

No....but he may have red-penned them in his secret Ian Allan ABC.

 

[dangie]

Keeping on the old school theme.
The duplicator/copier machine which workd by rotating a handle. Think its correct name was a Mimeograph Machine. I can still remember the purple ink smell.