Hey speak for yourself !
Oh, no, wait - I just checked. I am old.
Damn.
Things I remember growing up in the 70s
by The Rebel 44 Replies latest jw friends
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karter
Love thy neighbour a 70's classic these day it would be band by the P.C bragade.
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Simon
Lot's of 70's TV wouldn't be allowed now but at the same time, some of it was ahead of it's time and helped changed views and opinions. Rising Damp for instance - the black guy was the (higher) educated, refined and intelligent one and the white guys the lazy layabout or old ignorant fool.
Some was just bad TV.
What I only realize now was how great the UK's children's TV was. The stories were great and they were just magical. Trumpton, Camberwick Green and Chigley. Mr Ben. The Clangers (now remade and on HD!) plus of course all the Blue Peter, PlayAway and other stuff, the science programmes for TV ... now it's just loud colorful idiotic crap.
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Landy
Making Bogies.
For those on the other side of the atlantic, you would take the axles and wheels from an old silver cross pram and connect them together with a piece of wood allowing the front axle to swivel via a bit of string. if you were posh you'd cover the wood with a bit of old carpet. You'd then find the biggest hill you could and have races down it.
Jumping over your mates with your bike. You'd build a ramp and get your mates to lie down and you'd jump over them evel kinevel stylee.
I once did seven. :)
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smiddy
The things you learn on this site that you won`t find in the "AWAKE" , white dog poo , and I thought my dog had a calcium deficiency .or would that be a Calcium overload , oh well.
smiddy
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freddo
@Landy
We did that in the south of the UK too - we called them "trolleys" or "carts".
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jhine
Well that has to be the oddest thing l ever Googled . I only got as far as " white dog " and it was the first option given !
Jan
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Simon
For those on the other side of the atlantic, you would take the axles and wheels from an old silver cross pram and connect them together with a piece of wood allowing the front axle to swivel via a bit of string. if you were posh you'd cover the wood with a bit of old carpet. You'd then find the biggest hill you could and have races down it.
Jumping over your mates with your bike. You'd build a ramp and get your mates to lie down and you'd jump over them evel kinevel stylee.
Ha, yeah, I did both of those. I remember going round knocking on doors asking people if they had an old pram they didn't want and eventually I got me some WHEELS !!
We lives right at the bottom of what seemed like a huge hill (to walk up) and with some tuning and oil my go-kart could go all the way down and round the corner out into the next street. Further and faster than any others. It had big pram wheels at the back and smaller ones at the front. Dragster style.
I also remember both lying in the street waiting for a bike to go across us and being the one doing the jump.
The strange things is, despite all the crap we used to get up to, I can't ever remember anyone getting even mildly hurt.
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Ucantnome
I built a car with doors that opened out of Lego and also won a Lego set in a competition with something I made. In the 1960s
I also liked the Narnia books the teacher read to us in primary school cause they reminded me of 'the truth'