Good clothes being robbed off the washing line!
Shopping centres were closed on Sundays until about 1996 I think. I remember learning to drive in the car park of Rathfarnham shopping centre back then.
People writing on a piece of paper putting it in a an envelope and putting a stamp on it posting the letter before email was invented. People had the Internet dial up internet it was not broadband you could read news or forums you could download a short lowres video .you plugged the modem into the socket used for the phone line .before websites there was the yellow pages a large printed book of business phone no,s eg plumbers hardware stores shops solicitors
We used to get a pound to spend on sweets after mass. During Lent we still got the pound to spend but we had to put the sweets in a jar and weren't allowed to touch it until Easter Sunday.
Something else you don't see anymore is kids traveling in the boot of the estate car during family holidays.
The pubs closing on a Sunday afternoon.
Lads in for the cure after mass, and then the pub shutting down from 2.00 to 4.00 so the boys would go home and get their dinner!
in the 80’s and 90’s public transport was so infrequent and unreliable.
Getting the bus home from school and if you just missed one the next scheduled one was 35/40 minutes away and the number of times two would arrive at your stop together… both later than scheduled. In those days the traffic on the roads was tiny compared to the volumes these days..and demand for their services tiny in comparison……………….
Getting one of those little slips of paper that had your bus route times. Every so often your bus would start arriving at different times so you'd pop into Connolly and pick up the latest timetable.
Small town shops shutting early on some random midweek day like a Wednesday or Thursday.
Trocaire boxes. Those magazines from the missions with the fictional kid with learning difficulties who couldn't spell, Pudsy Ryan.
Before 2 fm started broadcasting there were pirate radio stations playing pop music .if you wanted to listen to pop music there was not much choice.they would be raided and the dept of posts telegraphs would take their transmitters .
Eventually 2fm q102 fm104 were licenced . And of course you can listen to radio on the web
That was us. 2 adults and 5 kids. Originally a Ford Estate and later and Opel Cadet Estate.
2 adults in the front seats, 3 oldest kids in the backseats (no seatbelts in the Ford) and the two youngest in the boot.
My uncle made a sheet metal roof rack for us to put all our clothes and tents or whatever else. The boot was filled with some bedding and food.
Sunday afternoon TV dominated by The Waltons and Little House on the Prairie: Wholesome Central. The closest thing to sport was One Man and His Dog.
Closing the curtains to watch a live football match such as the FA Cup final.
Little House On The Prairie wasn't that wholesome. Got quite dark in places.
Oh yes, people kept dying in all sorts of tragic and bizarre circumstances, and there were lots of hard luck stories. But that holds true for much of 19th century fiction - think Charles Dickens or Thomas Hardy.
Little House On The Prairie - the books - aren't fiction, though. They're biographical, albeit there is some smearing of timelines.
The TV series adds fictional elements, like the adopted kids, but they were written in the 70s.
Oh, I know all of that, but it's still purporting to depict life in the 1870s-1880s. Only realistic* to a point though, as it would presumably have gotten very boring after a while. Real life is often tedious. Hence the term "drama". Moralistic both shows were though, hence their presumed suitability for family viewing.
*A still lower bar than "biographically accurate".
The time they were going to eat the horse left a mark on me still.
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Classic TV adverts … there's a goldmine. "What's this 'We' business, Paleface?"
Taping songs on the radio , mostly Dave Fanning at the end of the year
My aunt just told me the local bank manager wouldn't authorise a car loan for her in 1972 unless her husband or her father signed the agreement 😳. She had a permanent full time job and could afford the repayments, had a full licence, but was only 19 so legally couldn't vote, marry or enter into a legal contract without the oversight or permission of a husband or parent/guardian.
Jordan Peterson, loan manager.
Its descendant might be ripping from youtube...
Fanning used to do a wrap up of the year . I’d be hanging on with blank cassettes to record it.
When did he do his top 50? Was One by U2 usually the winner?
I'm not sure about One, or to be more accurate I can't remember (or maybe care?). But for years (starting mid 1980s) it was the live version of Bad from the Wide Awake in America EP:
I listened to it until 2003.
From memory:
1980 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird
1981-1983 U2 - 11 O’Clock Tick Tock
1984 The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
1985-1990 U2 - Bad (Live)
1991-1992, 1994, 1999-2000, 2002 Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
1993, 1996, 1998 Radiohead - Creep
1995 Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings
1997 Radiohead - Paranoid Android
2001, 2003 U2 - One
To directly quote Meatloaf: two out of twenty three aint bad.
In the same vein, a Garda wasn't allowed get married without the approval of his Superintendent. The Garda was obliged to inform his superiors of his intention of marry. The Superintendent would then interview the lady and ensure she was of reputable character to be the wife of a Garda. If the Superintendent didn't give permission the Garda either had to resign or end the relationship. Around the same time a female Garda was obliged to retire when she married I think that changed in the late 80's possibly
Fanning's Fab Fifty
Thought I'd heard all the crazy rules that women had to abide by back in the 70's but that's a new one 😳
Has fasting before mass been mentioned? As I recall, eating from an hour before the communion time was verboten.
Explaining the terrors of the confession booth to youngsters might also take some doing.
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