Nostalgia Thread! Imagine...

sneakerfreak

Having Punts in your póca again...

Arranging to meet over the phone (now known as landline)...

Using phoneboxes...

Smoking on buses (still available in some areas)...

10 boxes of cigarettes...

Name yours folks

brummytom

Watching kids TV - Tellytubbies, Come Outside (no, that's not porn)


It's still more entertaining than half the shows on now

4zn76tysfajdxp

Moved to All Things Retro


/Moonwalks out of thread.

lord lucan

10p bags of Tayto.

Crunchos.

Agricola

Buying phonecards for the phone boxes,

"taping" stuff on TV with a blank tape in your VCR

writing hand written letters to relatives *




not explicitly retro, but as good as!

irish1967

phoning the barman on your new 088 mobile phone to order pints

pulling the choke out to start the car on a cold morning

watching the dot when you turned off the TV when programmes finished at midnight

black lettering on red number plates

blue garda cars and orange and white P+T vans

taping the top 40 from the radio on a sunday afternoon

sunshine and heat during the summer

Ruu_Old

Taping music videos on the Beat Box.

candy-gal1

cheaper good magazines and comics with lots to read about stuff of interest aka Ellegirl, TVhits, smash hits, bunty, etc!

really great TV channels! and movies!

cheap sweets and chocolate, you could get loads for 2pounds!

GOOD pop music aka 90s artists!

me_right_one

Black and orange CIE trains.

Yep, they're all gone:(

branie

Watching the National Anthem at closedown on RTE (if you ever stayed up that late).

stone roses

having to get up of the chair to change the channel on the telly!! lol :-0


many a row with the brothers

"its not my turn ya spa i changed the channel the last time"!!

cinnamon

Renting out video RECORDERS from the video rental shop

Saving with Henry Hippo from Ulster Bank

Buying ha'penny sweets (in the 80s)

Waiting years for films in the cinema to be released on video

Having penpals and waiting aagggeeesss to get letters

Going to the cinema and watching Star Wars beofre it was massive and collecting as many action figures as my mother could afford!

When summers seemed to last forever and wearing shorts ALL summer long

merlie

My mum and me going to Terenure to buy some broken biscuits in a shop there.

Using A and B phones

Getting on the bus from the back and holding onto the bar for dear life before alighting. Paying the conductor, not the driver, my fare.

Watching TV and the line hold would go.

Putting in a big battery for the radio, an old blue Ever ready pp6, I think it was.

The whistle of the TV after the station closed down.

The street lights going out at 12am.

ghost_ie

The old buses with the open platform and conductors.
Steam trains (I remember my brother in the early 60's refusing to get into a diesel-pulled train as it wasn't a "proper train")
Unsalted crisps with a little packet of salt included - were they Perry Crisps?

Ann22

Going uptown when it was dark being an adventure (when I was young not every house had a car). Walking for miles to find a working phone box. Having fun when the lights would go out due to power cuts or when someone had to put 10p in the meter.
Fish and chips takeaway for tea being a novelty. Having minerals in the house only occurring at birthdays and Christmas.
Only having a few tv channels so everyone at school would've been watching the same progs.
Outdoor toys being all the rage not ps games etc.....hula hooping, hopscotch, balls(in saying that I mean the games girls would play to songs like'plainy Irish rhubarb!':o) Coca Cola and Fanta spinners, games like Red Rover, Polo, Tip the Can (we called it 1,2,3) Cops and Robbers, Tippin' out of Jail, Stuck in the Mud.
Hot summers that stretch instead of flying by, the way it always seemed to be. When it was safer than it is now to let children wander off. We'd go home when we were hungry or when it was dark:).

Princess Zelda

Getting fed a meal before going into the nightclub

Mobiles before text messaging when they used to have the pull out aerials

The national anthem played as the disco finished

mega man

imagine they brought back the Feile..LOL

kelle

Playing out on the farm with friends for hours on end during the Summer, climbing the hayshed roof (:eek:) and lying for hours on the top while basking in the sunshine with no sunscreen (non-existent)!

Phoning a guy I just met, and having to talk to his mother for 10 minutes before I could talk to him.

Arranged a meeting with my student brother in Dublin, then had to cancel but had no way of contacting him except to write him a letter!

Airline ticket booklets, handwritten details. And being allowed to take as much luggage as you wished on the flight.

When one would pile about 7 kids into the car, one would lie down on the back dashboard and two oldest ones in the open boot! Well, how would you fit 7 carseats into a Ford Grenada - if they even had rear seat belts!

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Orange Dublin Bus

Shan75

ghost_ie wrote: »

Unsalted crisps with a little packet of salt included - were they Perry Crisps?

I remember Golden Wonder crisps had the little bag of salt.That would have been early 80's.

Shan75

Dusting off the tennis rackets as soon as Wimbledon would start and frantically searching for the tennis ball.

Making up our own Olympic Games with running, jumping and skipping and other events which I can't quite remember but I seem to recall one was a fastest eating competition.

Playing bulldog and chain-tig in the field as well as the normal soccer and hurling.

Playing Kerbs.Great game---wouldn't mind playing it now.

Going through the tunnel of pain---About 8 people would line up about a metre from a wall and you'd have to run past them suffering a lot of kicks in the process.

Getting one of those calculator watches which also had a stopwatch.Great times were had timing all sorts of things: How long it took someone to run to the shop and back or around the block, timing my Dad hopping down our stairs at home(ha! my Dad was as ridiculous as us)

Playing knock-a-dally and loving if you got a chase, as long as you got away.

Spending hours wandering about trick or treating on Halloween night to make sure that every house in the estate was called to.Kids cannot do this unaccompanied now which is a shame.

Being sent to the local shop by elderly neighbours and not considering it a chore or contemplating not doing it.

Going for Sunday drives and more often than not ending up in some remote place with grass in the road or up the side of a mountain.We'd usually end up stopping somewhere we could run about while my parents got some peace for a while.Some rare occasions we'd stop in a Pub which would be the highlight of the week.

My Dad telling stories when the electricity would go off and we'd be sitting in candle light.This seemed to happen quite a bit although probably not as much as I think.

My Dad trying to make us say evening prayers, Rosary or some such thing, and all of us just messing about, including my Mother, until he gave up on it.

Getting those little booklets of raffle tickets in Easons and having our own raffle where we'd sell as many tickets as possible to the neighbours and then raffle off something really crappy.

Getting the gift tokens with the Texaco petrol.My Dad worked in a Service station for a while and lots of customers weren't bothered with the tokens so they'd just tell him to take them himself.We got thousands of tokens and exchanged them for loads of things like tapes, clock radios, household goods etc.I remember getting INXS's album "Kick" while my sister got Michael Jackson's "Bad"

Make Money tokens with Shell Petrol where you'd have to try and get both sides of a note with a monetary value to exchange for that value.I remember being well upset that we couldn't manage to get the two sides of a decent value note such as £1000.

Princess Zelda

Shan75 wrote: »

I remember Golden Wonder crisps had the little bag of salt.That would have been early 80's.

You can get Tayto crisps in Sainsburys in Newry that have a little bag of salt with them. I nearly self-combusted with happiness when I saw them

Ruu_Old

Des picture reminded me of the old buses we were brought to school in.

Link

rainbowtrout

RTE1 and RTE2 only

phone number with only 5 digits (Limerick City went 6 digit in the early to mid 80s)/ many friends not having 'house phones'

only four gears on the ford fiesta! households with only one car/no car

collecting milk tokens

milk being delivered by a milkman

a double deck with hi speed dubbing was an essential for a teenager copying albums

watching my parents paying for stuff with a credit card and the cashier filling out a carbon copy slip and sticking the card in the carbon copy machine.

no such thing as laser cards or paypath

everyone going to the seaside for their summer holidays. a trip to france was considered exotic.


calling for my friends as part of the routine of going to school in the morning, meeting people at their houses along the way.
everyone walked to school. you only got a lift if you lived 3 miles away and it happened to be on your father's way to work (as most mammies didn't work!).

xoxyx

Oh yeah - the tarmac on the streets used to go soft in the summer heat.
And water balloon fights where you'd spend most of your time filling up the balloons from the tap.
Hop scotch using the top of an old shoe blackener tin.
My mum combing my hair for almost an hour every night to get all the leaves and twigs out.
Johnson's No More Tears shampoo.
Made up games - annoy the boys was our favourite!
God - the days in primary school when we were allowed wear our tracksuits in 'cause we had double P.E.!!
So many more - I don't think that kids anymore have the fun that we did.

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rainbowtrout

not forgetting

SomeFool

When RTE 2 became Network 2

lord lucan

Following on from Des' post,does anyone know of anywhere that sells a set of framed old Irish banknotes,whether they be the last series of Punt notes or the older/bigger ones before that? I've had a gander around ebay and a couple of touristy shops in town but never came across one.

Des

Since someone posted Network 2 I couldn't resist posting this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R86_TLuI51w

Des wrote: »

Orange Dublin Bus

That's a Leyland Atlantean PDR/1. I saw one of these on the Ghost Bus tour on Tuesday night, apparently it's on its last legs now though. I can't remember them in service but do remember the Atlantean AN68s and the Bombardier single and double decks. One of my earliest memories is an AN68 in that CIÉ livery.

garbanzo

merlie wrote: »

My mum and me going to Terenure to buy some broken biscuits in a shop there.

Using A and B phones

Getting on the bus from the back and holding onto the bar for dear life before alighting. Paying the conductor, not the driver, my fare.

Watching TV and the line hold would go.

Putting in a big battery for the radio, an old blue Ever ready pp6, I think it was.

The whistle of the TV after the station closed down.
The street lights going out at 12am.

Broken Cakes in Eaton's Cake Shop in Terenure, they were 5p a bag. I remember it well. And there was me about be smart and post the old saying......" nostalgia ...it aint what it used to be".

Antlantic 252

garbanzo

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Antlantic 252

Have you being drinking ? ? ?

s_upergirl

Lampost swings (which ur mam would say were death traps - amount of times I must have got concussed but had to keep quiet)

Saturday meant veg man, vidoe tape man & club milk man

Getting 2 buses to visit ur granny

When we did get a car - a banger fiesta & my dad putting a blanket on the engine at night to hopefully stop her freezing!

A mouse being in our house & us all camping in the living room for a week

Cycling our bikes for miles in the summer

Paths Championships (or kerbs if ur posh)

Street parties

Summer Project

Making daisy chains

Making dens

Catching frogs

Running all the way home from school to catch the start of the den (Ian dempsey & Ray d'arcy - legends!!!)

There are so many more I could name - Never realised how poor we were when I was a child - something I always think stands to my Mam&Dad!!!

RayM

Being all excited when the fire brigade arrived to put neighbours' chimney fires out (at least once a month).

Snow almost guaranteed in January.

Friendly binmen, who rang your doorbell or jumped your gate if you forgot to put your bins out.

Helping to push-start your neighbour's rusty Datsun Cherry.

Stray dogs roaming the streets.

An engine oil stain in every second driveway.

Giving old clothes to "the tinkers" when they call.

The old green buses that you could hear in the distance, five minutes before you could see them.

The novelty of getting the older (and strangely quieter) buses, with blue leather seats and a string for the bell.