Who remembers and used.

[Chippy_Tea]

What did you own or use back in the day that the youth of today wouldn't believe existed if you told them today.


Who remembers these public phones, if i remember right you put your 2p (2d old money back in the day) in pressed A dialled the number then when someone answered pressed B.

 

[An Ankoù]

Might be wrong, but I recall pouring your well-earned pennies into A and if nobody answered, or if you hung up before you'd used up all your dosh, you pressed B to get your money back.
I see the directory has been nicked again. And the Yellow Pages!

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I think you could be right having watched this -

 

[An Ankoù]

This has the makings of a great thread. I'll think of something in a minute, By Jesus, so I will.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Black and White TV with no remote not that you needed one there were only two channels in 1960, BBC and ITV, BBC2 arrived in 1964.

 

[chopps]

“Got to go, there’s the pips!”
Anyone born this century wouldn’t have clue what I’m on about.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

“Got to go, there’s the pips!”
Anyone born this century wouldn’t have clue what I’m on about.

Speaking really fast after the pips before you got cut off cos you didn't have any more coins

 

[An Ankoù]

You're right. Black and white TVs. But the best bit is inside:

... with a cathode ray tube to make the picture on the screen- scanned in lines, across the screen, and, if I remember the terms correctly, thermionic valves. These mothers had to warm up so you had to turn on your set (radio sets as well) five minutes before you wanted to use the device so that it was all working nicely. Faults were dealt with by s sturdy thump on the side of the set from dad (technician) which served to reseat the valve in its setting and restore good electrical contact. Bloody marvelous. Proper technology. I wonder how many valves were involved in launching Sputnic 1 in 1957.

 

[sifty]

I watched 'The Goonies' with my girls the other night (they're 10 and 12).
I had to explain cassette tapes and film cameras to them...

 

[chopps]

Here’s another

 

[Irishwizard]

veg is easy carrots, onions celery bit of tyeme, a few peppercorns, and no salt

Yep. Heavy haulage and plant machinery needs to go hydrogen combustion engine, everything else should be hydrogen fuel cells or pure ev

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You're right. Black and white TVs. But the best bit is inside:
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... with a cathode ray tube to make the picture on the screen- scanned in lines, across the screen, and, if I remember the terms correctly, thermionic valves. These mothers had to warm up so you had to turn on your set (radio sets as well) five minutes before you wanted to use the device so that it was all working nicely. Faults were dealt with by s sturdy thump on the side of the set from dad (technician) which served to reseat the valve in its setting and restore good electrical contact. Bloody marvelous. Proper technology. I wonder how many valves were involved in launching Sputnic 1 in 1957.

When I was at school the teachers would openly tell you that if you worked hard you would get a decent job, if not you could go to Mullards and make valves

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Days before alarm clocks when a guy knocked on your window to wake you up.

 

[The Baron]

They called him the knocker upper in our area but I often wondered who got him up to knock everybody else up?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

They called him the knocker upper in our area but I often wondered who got him up to knock everybody else up?

Same here, i wonder if he slept all day and stayed awake through the night, i imagine it would be the really early hours when he was out doing his job.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Knocker-ups developed a system to remember which houses needed to be knocked up and at what time. To keep customers straight, knocker-ups often chalked outside their customer’s homes. They used “all manner of figures, ‘1/2 past 3,’ 1/4 to 4,’ ‘5 o’clock,’ and such.” Sometimes there were more than chalked sidewalks, as it was claimed that in Manchester signboards were often used. Besides displaying the time, the signboards also advertised a knocker-ups business. Such signs could be found hanging “over the doors of dingy cottages, or at the head of flight of steps, leading to some dark cellar-dwelling, containing the words, ‘Knocking-Up Done Here.’

The goal of a knocker-up was to get as many customers in the smallest circle as possible and to cover as much ground as possible “in as little time, so it became like a ‘sprint-race.’ For that reason, knocker-ups sometimes exchanged customers with one another. Mrs. Waters never claimed to have exchanged customers, but she did assert her good wages occurred because she devised a system to knock-up a large number of houses in a short time: She found shortcuts through neighborhoods; claimed she “took care not to let the grass grow under her feet”; and, asserted she had a “knack of rousing … employers because … my knock or ring or way of tapping was more effective than that of other knockers-up’.”

https://lancashireminingmuseum.org/2017/09/07/who-knocked-up-the-knocker-upper/

 

[DavidDetroit]

I used to drop in a quarter, let the home phone ring once, hang up and pocket my quarter that was ejected. Folks knew it was time to come pick me up. Started my criminal career at 12.

 

[Clint]

Those pay phones...allegedly,if a 2p was banged hard into the 10p slot you got 10p worth of call for 2p. Also a piece of banding (the strip used to secure stuff to pallets)was pushed into the money slot it let a call be made..allegedly.Just some things I was told by some much older,naughtier boys who I don't know what their names was.

 

[Galena]

 

[Galena]

 

[Clint]

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Seen something like that in the mucky book shop...