What do you miss from long ago?

[MichaelW2]

I miss reasonably priced Lego Technic. I was going to buy a pnumatic truck kit I had when I was about 10. Probably 25 quid I thought. No, £189

Freeform Lego kits used to be the only way to buy. Now you can still get them but most products have a specific plan to follow so you know what to do. Everything is awesome.

 

[mustang1]

It seems this is a cycling related question otherwise I would have said things like:
Free time
No mobile phones and other such tech
Car parking spaces readily available.

But cycling related:
Free time (haha)
No mobile tech to record rides (I suppose today I have a choice).

 

[freiston]

I miss having shoes with proper animal paw print soles and a compass inside.

Wasn't it Clark's Commando shoes that had the compass in them?

Edit: A bit of websurfing confirms the Tuf Wayfinders had the compass (and the animal paw prints) - the Clark's Commando shoes came with a badge

 

[HMS_Dave]

Jazz mags in hedgerows in the 80s. I dont really miss them but they were memorable. Even archeologists are interested in their discovery.

https://newsthump.com/2013/01/23/archaeologists-discover-porn-mag-in-hedge/

 

[Blue Hills]

Wasn't it Clark's Commando shoes that had the compass in them?

Edit: A bit of websurfing confirms the Tuf Wayfinders had the compass (and the animal paw prints) - the Clark's Commando shoes came with a badge

thanks for that - I remembered them being Tuf.
I well remember nagging my mum for a pair.
I assume there was a premium for the joy of being able to simulate a stampede of small animals.

 

[Blue Hills]

Jazz mags in hedgerows in the 80s. I dont really miss them but they were memorable. Even archeologists are interested in their discovery.

https://newsthump.com/2013/01/23/archaeologists-discover-porn-mag-in-hedge/

I was a small town country boy so yes remember this.
Where did urban dwellers dump them?

 

[HLaB]

Nothing, everything was sh!t in the 60’s and 70’s, even worse in the 80’s and don’t even get me started on the 90’s. I wouldn’t go back even if I could. Everything is much better now. Even the the telly, ‘cos I don’t watch it.

At least telly back then was more original its largely repeats now. Other than nostalgia like you there is no way I want to relive the 70s ,80s or 90s (thankfully I missed the 60s)

 

[HLaB]

Guards vans on trains. Chuck your bike in, sit in the guards van with it. No need to book.

I did that last year

 

[Dayvo]

The simplicity of life: take the '80s, for example.

 

[Blue Hills]

At least telly back then was more original its largely repeats now. Other than nostalgia like you there is no way I want to relive the 70s ,80s or 90s (thankfully I missed the 60s)

What happened at the millennium to lift your mood?
Did I miss a second coming?

 

[Blue Hills]

The simplicity of life: take the '80s, for example.

Not sure i understand your post dayvo.
Being sarky?

 

[Vantage]

Big family get togethers at my grandparents house.
Racing my mum to the front door in the morning to get the cream at the top of the milk bottle.
'Helping' my dad with DIY jobs around the house and the cars...which were always being fixed/built.
Shooting my brother in the arse with my bb gun
Quieter roads. And cars that weren't the size of small houses.

 

[Blue Hills]

those stencilled pictures on old pint milk bottles.
Quite possibly my first experience of art.
I do seem to remember peering at them for ages.
and you could touch the art - feel it.

 

[colly]

In shoe shops: Those boxes where you, as a kid, inserted your feet and looked down through a glass viewer to see the outline of your feet inside the your shoes to see how much room your toes had.
I doubt they were actually x-ray machines but in the 1950's/1960's who knows?

This was a time when kids were given small samples of mercury to hold and examine.

 

[Blue Hills]

I doubt they were actually x-ray machines

No more than those glasses advertised in the back of kids' comics promising that they would be able to see through the clothes of the young woman next door.