What do you miss?

Rubecula

What items from your youth do you miss not seeing or owning these days?

For me I miss my Dinky and Corgi cars. Yes they still make the Cogi models but they are not the same and top quality ones cost a lot of money. Besides I can't sit in the mud playing with them. (I could but at my age it would look sort of odd):D

I miss the bags of Jap Dessert sweets.

Some of the kids tv I used to enjoy (WoodenTops, Rag Tag and Bobtail, Supercar etc)

Airfix models.

Meccano construction sets, (Great brain training... Nintendo DS? Bah thats just for kids):D

There are many more but what do others miss?

BBDBB

Action Man
Toy Soldiers
Playing football for hours and hours

centrifuge

My teeth.

mp22

Real money,half crowns ect,bus`s you could jump off while they were still moving.

Cicero

^^you could jump on to them too..:p

Packets of crisps with their price on them...


...don't remember them being this price but do remember them being 7p...

Bearhunter

Cicero wrote: »

^^you could jump on to them too..:p

Packets of crisps with their price on them...


...don't remember them being this price but do remember them being 7p...

That's my earliest memory of Tayto, when they were 3p. And if you only had tuppence, you were stuck with Mr Spud crisps instead...

Sunnyisland

All sorts of street games, They dont seem to do/have them any more, its all gone internet.

Cicero

realies wrote: »

All sorts of street games, They dont seem to do/have them any more, its all gone internet.

Off ya go and do a "Street games" thread realies......think it could be a good one for here...:)

dubtom

Kiss chasing,kick the can, rounders (the poor mans version of cricket, only the object was to hit the runner with the ball,not the wicket) releiveo, the kids now don't know what their missing.

teacherspet

Luscious fruit, like pears. The used to be big and soft and the juice would run down your chin as you ate it. Now you only have these small hard pears that you have to leave on the window sill to ripen. Not worth the effort.

OldGoat

Glass milk bottles and the sound of the milk deliveries.

mp22

Yea and pouring the cream on the cornflakes, used to get a clatter for that

up for anything

My red Lancia HPE Executive.

mp22

A long ray and chips in the lido chipper on pearse street.

merlie

I miss my go car, my pram, my two dolls houses, my teddy and panda.
I miss the bit of music on the radio, that used to come on before RTE 1 radio station used to open with. The music used to repeat itself.
Gay Byrne's show on Radio 1. The Gay Byrne Hour. Used to love listening to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF-uZuce5R0

The national anthem at the end of broadcasting by RTE television, it reminded me of a John Hinde postcard of Ireland. Wonderful scenery. I still remember the spiders web.
Hopping off the back of a CIE bus.
Bus conductors.
School lunch break games out in the yard. Red Rover and The Farmer wants a wife.

oldyouth

Stella Cinema in Mount Merrion. 2 films on a Saturday, a bar of chocolate and a bag of crisps, all for 12p.

Always tried to wait for some beleagured parent arriving with a posse of kids on a birthday trip. If you timed it right, you could run in with the bunch of kids and save yourself the admission

Happy days. Now it's a furniture store

tbh

Harbour hotel on the radio

Tayto being the ideal tv snack

Sunshine 101 / radio nova

The old parking meters.

Dublin being full of derelict buildings (weird one I know)

The beano waiting for me when I got home from school on Wednesday

Murphys micro quiz-m

Kalkitos

Uncle Remus toys

The old orange buses and looking at the driver through the periscope

Driving sown grafton st

Santy in switzers window

Lenihans hardware on Talbot st

Not being allowed into shops in my cubs uniform (why??)

Panicking when I heard the glenroe music cause I didn't have my ecker done

Snorkel coats and George Webb shoes

The grove and the slow set!

Fiat mirafioris

Swizzle sticks

More as I think of them!

sipstrassi

I had completely forgotten Kalkitos!!

How could I have forgotten them? Have just had a rush of memories..:)

Looks like they are being made again: http://www.kalkitos.sg/

K.Flyer

During school holidays going out to play and wandering for hours without having a care in the world and your parents not worried sick about where you were.
We played outside because, we had no computers, no games consoles, no electronic gadgets and we had fun with our friends.
Mastering the the art of 3 of us on 1 bike.
Playing hide and seek or cops n robbers in derelict buildings.
Making Real Friends, not this Facebook S**te.
Summers always seemed sunnier.
Using Doc leaves to take the pain of the stingers away.
Blowing jinny joes in the wind to see how far they would travel.
Borrowing an apple or three from an orchard.;)
Being chased from same orchard by the priest.
ESB power cuts during the foggy or was it smoggy evenings.
The delivery men, The Milkman, The Veg Man, The Baker, The Coalman.
My first wage packet had real cash in it.
The old RA open back buses.
Tapping phones to make a free call.
10p for a bag of chips. (petrol was 80p a gallon then)
Always wishing your life away to be able to do what the older ones could do.
Now wishing you could go back and do it all over again.:rolleyes:
You addressed your friends parents as Mr or Mrs ....
You had respect and looked after your elders.
Neighbours looked out for each other.

Alice1

My DH ( A Dub) says

Subuteo
The wee chips left over at the chipper
Relieveo
Scutting on the backs of cars (in icy weather)
Making "slides" on the road in icy weather - with bottles of water (yep, got a clatter for that)
Playing knick - knack (tie a thread to the door knocker and pull the thread and scarper)
Sweets: pear drops, sour apples, five unwrapped Mars bars for 20p,

Rubecula

In another thread Ramette mentioned Walnut Whips. I had totally forgotten them, not seen them in many years. Used to love them as a kid. And Jubblies, they tried a relaunch of Jubblies a while back but they were very small compared to the giant things I remember.

Kalimah

Alice , tbh and Flyer - you must be all my own vintage. Born in the early to mid sixties?
All that you remember, as I do too, seems like 100 years ago. I often say I must write it all down. Does anyone remember Reckitts Blue that our mams or grannies used to put in the white washing to make it even more white?

tbh

I'm 1974, but I've always been old for my age:)

Asiaprod

Golly Bars, and Smith crisps with the little blue bags of salt in them.
Acid drops and Clove drops by the penny.
Dandy, Beano and 200AD. You could read comics in those days.
Holding Barbie dolls to ransom.
Building and crashing go carts.
Lamp Ball
Penny in the Maul
PLaying Poker behind the Church.
Back seats in the Grafton Street Cinema (most comfortable seats in town).
The Dandelion Market on a Saturday
Collecting Oulwans' turf on a Saturday for 2 shilling a load
and stealing apples from orchards on the NCR, D7 (blessed apples they were and owning up in confession, I loved that bit;))

BBDBB

My Grandad:(

Rubecula

Anyone remember Parma Violets? and Spangles?

chucken1

Rubecula wrote: »

Anyone remember Parma Violets? and Spangles?

My hubby loves Parma Violets..I could never stand them,they taste like soap/perfume . He finds them in Lidl or Aldi sometimes.
Spangles were lovely

We still have walnut whips,Will I post you some?

Stained Class

Sorry, I'm drunk cos I've just had a bottle of wine to 'celebrate' that I've been 1 day off Smoking.

I know I'm doing the right thing.............but it's really hard!

On topic though, I miss the way everybody smoked everywhere in the past...........

vampire of kilmainham

Bearhunter wrote: »

That's my earliest memory of Tayto, when they were 3p. And if you only had tuppence, you were stuck with Mr Spud crisps instead...

i would nik em if i only had2p:eek::D

vampire of kilmainham

OldGoat wrote: »

Glass milk bottles and the sound of the milk deliveries.

a yes that brings back memories

vampire of kilmainham

tbh wrote: »

Harbour hotel on the radio

Tayto being the ideal tv snack

Sunshine 101 / radio nova

The old parking meters.

Dublin being full of derelict buildings (weird one I know)

The beano waiting for me when I got home from school on Wednesday

Murphys micro quiz-m

Kalkitos

Uncle Remus toys

The old orange buses and looking at the driver through the periscope

Driving sown grafton st

Santy in switzers window

Lenihans hardware on Talbot st

Not being allowed into shops in my cubs uniform (why??)

Panicking when I heard the glenroe music cause I didn't have my ecker done

Snorkel coats and George Webb shoes

The grove and the slow set!

Fiat mirafioris

Swizzle sticks

More as I think of them!

toffee apples
gob stoppers
suger sticks
candy floss

vampire of kilmainham

K.Flyer wrote: »

During school holidays going out to play and wandering for hours without having a care in the world and your parents not worried sick about where you were.
We played outside because, we had no computers, no games consoles, no electronic gadgets and we had fun with our friends.
Mastering the the art of 3 of us on 1 bike.
Playing hide and seek or cops n robbers in derelict buildings.
Making Real Friends, not this Facebook S**te.
Summers always seemed sunnier.
Using Doc leaves to take the pain of the stingers away.
Blowing jinny joes in the wind to see how far they would travel.
Borrowing an apple or three from an orchard.;)
Being chased from same orchard by the priest.
ESB power cuts during the foggy or was it smoggy evenings.
The delivery men, The Milkman, The Veg Man, The Baker, The Coalman.
My first wage packet had real cash in it.
The old RA open back buses.
Tapping phones to make a free call.
10p for a bag of chips. (petrol was 80p a gallon then)
Always wishing your life away to be able to do what the older ones could do.
Now wishing you could go back and do it all over again.:rolleyes:
You addressed your friends parents as Mr or Mrs ....
You had respect and looked after your elders.
Neighbours looked out for each other.

i sure do rember all that different times simpler times id love to go back to it all again funny how we wished to be grown up and do adult stuff now we want to go back still it's great to have the memories

vampire of kilmainham

tbh wrote: »

I'm 1974, but I've always been old for my age:)

sure your still young wish i was your age again

Kylo Ren

I just turned 19 and already want to go back to the 90's

vampire of kilmainham

Asiaprod wrote: »

Golly Bars, and Smith crisps with the little blue bags of salt in them.
Acid drops and Clove drops by the penny.
Dandy, Beano and 200AD. You could read comics in those days.
Holding Barbie dolls to ransom.
Building and crashing go carts.
Lamp Ball
Penny in the Maul
PLaying Poker behind the Church.
Back seats in the Grafton Street Cinema (most comfortable seats in town).
The Dandelion Market on a Saturday
Collecting Oulwans' turf on a Saturday for 2 shilling a load
and stealing apples from orchards on the NCR, D7 (blessed apples they were and owning up in confession, I loved that bit;))

i rember U2 busking outside the dandelion market long time ago now i often bought ol junk from the stalls in there toooo and the grafton cinema i rember it well

vampire of kilmainham

Rubecula wrote: »

Anyone remember Parma Violets? and Spangles?

yep i sure do

Rubecula

Apparently Swizzles make up buckets of mixed sweets for things like Halloween. I was informed by one of the kids here that they include Parma Violets, Love Hearts, Swizzells, and Refreshers. (Plus a few other old time favourites)

You can still get Sherbert Fountains and Sherbert Dib Dabs if you want them too.

I think come Halloween this year I may just kill myself on sugar.:pac:

Alice1

What about "click clacks" or maybe "clackers"? Two hard plastic balls on a string that you shook from side to side?

Rubecula

My baby sister had them Alice. I always thought they looked vaguely phallic... Warped mind even back then I suppose.:pac:

Over the weekend I realised there is something I really do miss. Cars that you can fix with a toolkit at home!!!! I broke down and it needed a computer to diagnose what was wrong........AAARRRGGGHHH!!!:mad:

ToxicPaddy

One very very fond memory I have and miss hugely..

Working in my grandfathers sweet shop with my bro and my cousins.

It was one of those old style shops where everything was behind the high counter and they had a big glass case at one end full of sweets, there were big jars of loose sweets too. Meat and cheese was cut to order using a big old style slicer from big lumps of the stuff, ham, cheddar cheese, corned beef and luncheon.. nyom nyom..

All customers had to be served, everything was added up with us writing prices on brown paper bags, the price of everything was written down and calculated using nothing only our brains and a pen.. then everything was put into the same bag, so it acted like a receipt.

Other times it was written in the "book", regulars had an account that they paid off when they got their wages on a Friday..

Going to the Cash n'Carry every Sat morning to get the stock for the week, all lumped into the back of his estate car and then unloaded into the shop. Once that was done, a break was had and then we started unpacking it all and started loading the shelves.

Took a good few hours, usually in there about 9-10am, finished around 5pm.. once all done, I was given a big paper bag loaded with sweets.. My mother used to always be giving out to him for feeding me such junk

If any of his friends were in, we had to stand there and read the newspaper headline and the main articles out loud, because having the confidence and being able to speak in public was very important..

That and being the "official taster" for the shop, so all new sweets were sent out to our house for us to assess..

Ahh I miss that so much..

OldGoat