FabSwingers.com forum: Let's go Retro

By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

I know it wasn't all rosey but the summers seemed to last for ever and we had very little cares in the world.

So feel free to post anything retro that brings the memories flooding back.

Food, games, tv programmes, drinks anything and everything

Curly wurly to the one that makes me smile most.

School summer holidays

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Buffy the vampire slayer

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A few of you crowded around a BBC or Spectrum computer arguing about who's turn is it next. With an adult trying to get you all to go outside in the sunshine

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

Computer games with a seperate tape to load the games.

20 minutes of whirrs and watching it load and then just as it got to 97% it crashed or froze

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By *ob Carpe DiemMan
over a year ago

Torquay

To be honest given the rubbish air heating we had not waking up with ice on the inside of the windows was a blessing, but there was a big field at the back so loads of room to kick a ball around and even hit a seven iron, being light till gone 9 was great for that

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

Making cassette tapes from my northern soul records for a girl I fancied at school

Using a pencil to put a cassette back together when the tape recorder ate it and there was ribbon everywhere

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Computer games with a seperate tape to load the games.

20 minutes of whirrs and watching it load and then just as it got to 97% it crashed or froze

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

Holidays in the uk always involved stopping at a "golden egg" for a meal and knickerbocker glories or banana splits on seaside holidays

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

Loved those 1970's foreign holidays to Spain and Greece etc before it all became like Blackpool with sunshine

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over a year ago

Being able to carry a knife!

Without being portrayed as someone who was going to knife someone!!!!

Tracking in the woods!!

Mowing a cricket wicket on the farmers field Without his consent and playing until it went dark !!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Buffy the vampire slayer"

I love you

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Holidays in the uk always involved stopping at a "golden egg" for a meal and knickerbocker glories or banana splits on seaside holidays"

Little Chef for me - pancakes and maple syrup.

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By *iddle ManMan
over a year ago

Walsall

Not too retro but I still love CD's. I was laughed at with my first car having a cassette player and now I had that my new car has no CD player,

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By *iddle ManMan
over a year ago

Walsall

And yes... All school summer holidays were hot... In my memories.

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By *ave-and-LouiseCouple
over a year ago

Torquay

Growing up we had a TV with a remote control... On a cable!

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By *ave-and-LouiseCouple
over a year ago

Torquay

"Growing up we had a TV with a remote control... On a cable!"
Seeing those big old TVs brings back a few memories of.

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By *llaboutthewifeCouple
over a year ago

Cardiff

Showed my daughter some pics, she was OMG I wish I grew up in the 90s you have fab dungarees, and a VW Beetle, and the music was better, profound, coming from a 13 year old!

Jo xx

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By *ankie303Woman
over a year ago

Weirdsville South Coast Dorset

Bottle of 20/20 down the park in front of the police station always guaranteed me and my mates a lift home in the meat wagon by midnight, winner

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By *ady23Woman
over a year ago

Coventry

"I know it wasn't all rosey but the summers seemed to last for ever and we had very little cares in the world.

So feel free to post anything retro that brings the memories flooding back.

Food, games, tv programmes, drinks anything and everything

Curly wurly to the one that makes me smile most.

School summer holidays"

Leg warmers

Fame

Rah rah skirts

Shell suits

Arcade machines

Texan bars

Opal fruits

Fondue

Rubic cube

Ooh chinos

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By *ady23Woman
over a year ago

Coventry

"Holidays in the uk always involved stopping at a "golden egg" for a meal and knickerbocker glories or banana splits on seaside holidays"

Knickerbocker glory. Forgot this

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

I could be here a while

Knock down ginger

Two-a-side football down the park (jumpers for goalposts of course)

Climbing under the roundabout and sitting on the struts inside while your mates pushed it round and you clung on

It's A Knockout

Hillman Imp's, Morris Minor's and Austin Maxi's

Raleigh Choppers

Six Million Dollar Man

Lego (when it was just bricks)

Fuzzy Felt

Sticklebricks

Flight Deck

Top Deck Shandy

Some Mothers Do 'Ave Em

British Bulldog

Wide Games

Ronco and K-tel

Green Shield stamps

Cigarette adverts

Sweets that were pretend cigarettes

And many many more

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By *essie.Woman
over a year ago

Serendipity

Recording the charts on a Sunday evening on my cassette player.

Crispy pancakes.

Chicken in the basket at the pub.

Walkmans.

Having bags of milk delivered that you put in a plastic blue jug to pour.

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

"Recording the charts on a Sunday evening on my cassette player.

Crispy pancakes.

Chicken in the basket at the pub.

Walkmans.

Having bags of milk delivered that you put in a plastic blue jug to pour.

Can't remember bags of milk,

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

"Holidays in the uk always involved stopping at a "golden egg" for a meal and knickerbocker glories or banana splits on seaside holidays

Knickerbocker glory. Forgot this "

Happy long hot summer holidays go hand in hand it was always a treat

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

Fishing for minnows

Major Morgan

Screwball scramble

Action Biker Clumsy Colin on c64

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By *dward_TeagueMan
over a year ago

wolverhampton

Having hair!

Tiswas

An Umbro football kit

Metal tips on the heels of your shoes

Going pop bottling

Bonfire night being much bigger than Halloween

The bread man and the milk man

Beer at Home - Davenports delivered

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Loading computer games by cassette tape. Playing arcade games..Defender, Robotron etc. Getting into heavy rock around 79-80.

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By *ictoriaathomeTV/TS
over a year ago

Huddersfield

The national anthem played on TV every night when it closed down followed by the 'test card'.

Not a favorite but a sign of what we have now!

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

Space invaders

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By *iking67Man
over a year ago

BP Auckland

seeing rah rah skirts over fishnet tights and those lace gloves mmmmmmm

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By *oxyVikingCouple
over a year ago

East Anglia

Listening to ABBA. Takes me back to my Mum dancing round the house in Sweden pretending to be Agnetha xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Collecting wood for bonfire night.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Walkman and a bottle of 20/20

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I miss recording the Top 40 and trying to make sure I don't get the talking at the start and end.

I also miss riding, building and selling BMX bikes and doing tricks.

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By *lasphemouscoupleCouple
over a year ago

Cambridgeshire

Seaside fish and chips and mint/vanilla whippy Ice cream in Goulston every summer as a kid.

Mrs.

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

"Seaside fish and chips and mint/vanilla whippy Ice cream in Goulston every summer as a kid.

Mrs."

Sounds idyllic

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By *exyfuncouple-40Couple
over a year ago

Bloxham

"Holidays in the uk always involved stopping at a "golden egg" for a meal and knickerbocker glories or banana splits on seaside holidays

Knickerbocker glory. Forgot this "

Brown Derby’s at the Wimpey

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

terraces at football matches, MSG made food taste good and long summers

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

Mum reaching across to hold you if she braked hard

Burning your legs in shorts on car vinyl seats

Car ch.kes

Wind up and down car windows

Air horns on cars that played multiple tunes

Sun roofs (I miss the proper wind back ones)

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