- 3 cent bus tickets
- AC Kermans
- Airline bags to carry your books in
- Autograph books
- Bay City Rollers
- Beano
- Bessie Bunter
- Bioscope
- Body Fashions
- Bonanza (especially Little Joe)
- Braaivleis, rugby, sunny skies and Chevrolet.
- Cadbury’s Kiddies Club at the movies
- Cake mascara
- Carlos coffee shop (forbidden but oh so attractive)
- Cassette tape decks
- Charles of the Ritz beauty products
- Ché jeans and tops
- Cheesecloth
- Chopper bicycles
- Collecting the insides of cold drink bottom lids and filling albums with them
- Coppertone QT QuikTan
- Coppertone suntan lotion
- Crocodiles
- Curly Wurlies
- Dallas
- Darling magazine
- David Cassidy
- David Essex
- David Gresham
- Dingbats
- Donny Osmond
- Dr White’s Sanitary Belts
- Elastic games in the playground
- Espadrilles
- Galoobs
- Gap
- Garlicks and the way the perfume hall smelled
- Getting your first bra at Body Fashions in Newton Park
- Glooks
- Goya Aqua Manda perfume
- Grannies with blue rinses
- Grease sandals
- Greatermans
- Greatermans’ Rose Room
- Groovy cooldrink
- Heatherbank
- Heatherbank Discos
- Hifra fountain pens
- Home made sherbert at cake sales
- Iodine
- Jackie magazine
- Jet Jungle
- June magazine
- Kolnicks
- Le Sabot leather sandals with wooden platforms
- Life Magazine
- Maths tins as pencil cases with pictures tapes onto them
- Men from the Ministry
- Mercurochrome
- Michael’s record bar
- My Fair Lady Talc
- Nail Polish called Copper Penny
- Naturama
- Nick Nack Knockers
- On The Go Show
- Pantie and hemline inspections
- Photo comics like Louise
- Pikkies
- Pink magazine
- Pip Freedman
- Popshop
- Popshop
- Princess Tina magazine
- Purdy from The Avengers
- Rabbitt
- Rainbow skates
- Roll O’ Gloss lipgloss
- Sanitary towels with loops
- Sarah Moon paintings
- Saucy Cat boutique at OK Bazaars
- Scope magazine
- See magazine
- Shane
- Shelly Shop
- Shipwreck in gym class
- Skipping games
- Spectrum
- Springbok Hits
- Squad cars (they prowl the empty streets at night, in fast cars, on foot…)
- Sr Bernard
- String games on hands
- Sugarbush
- Sylvia’s mother by Dr Hook (my mother hated that song)
- Squad cars (they prowl the empty streets at night, in cars and on foot. These are the men of….Squad Cars!)
- T Rex
- Tammy magazine
- Tennisette
- The clipcard for the bus
- The ice rink
- The lift operator at OK Bazaars
- The Mutual Arcade
- The old roneo machine the nuns used to use to make copies. And how they smelled.
- The periscope on the double decker buses
- The Pick n Mix carousel at OK Bazaars in main street
- The smell of furniture polish on the last day of the term
- The Stage Door
- The Sweet
- The Tempting Tray at OK Bazaars
- The thrill of getting into over 18 movies
- The TV test pattern
- Thick multicoloured slip slops in blue or brown
- Toff O Luxe
- Tramp perfume by L’Entheric
- Two hours of TV a day
- Up and Down the Stairs Boutique
- Using baby oil or Brylcreem as tanning lotion
- Waffles at Greatermans
- Waiting for the bus in Russell Road
- Valderma and Clearasil
- Wearing hats to school
- When having your period was called ‘being unwell’
- Viewmaster
- Village Gate
- See also this post
Any more to add?
Yes, I always went after Saturday “bioscope” as well. Hard to get Root Beer here but when I can it brings back wonderful memories. I gave some to my 3 granddaughters last year and they loved it. My son and daughter in Law were not as impresses as now they have to try to find more…. 🙂
Root Beer and those half chocolate half vanilla swirly soft serve ice creams from a side street somewhere just of Main Street… Mmmmm.
I think that was the original Sugarbush. We used to go there after the Cadbury Club at the 20th Century. Think root beer was about 7c, so would save my pocket money for after the cinema.
Flings were 3c a packet.
I am sure if I look hard enough I still have a Sara Moon jigsaw puzzle in my attic!!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome Janet!
I bought a Curly Wurly the other day, from a wee store here called “Little Britain” They import goods from the UK.
We weren’t allowed to go to Carlo’s…
What about Stagedoor to add?
Yes Spirograph, loved that.
And small packets of chips for about 2c?
And a White Lady icecream?
I still drool for some of those chocs from Pick n Mix at OK Bazaars…liquid mint inside a thick chocolate cup, shiny silver wrap with gren or silver dots on it…gorgussss!
Fantastic Viewmaster, am sure Mom still has it packed away with all the slides:) Loved those 3D images.
Saturday Night Fever
Sha Na Na
The Hole in the Wall, fruit and veg store/cafe/deli
I had a viewmaster just like that one above and I remember all of the above. When I left HRC I worked in Barclays Bank next to OK in the Hight Street for the first year….There was a record shop next door as well and they played “I was born under a Wandering Star” all day, every day. I hate that now. I also remembe the Ice rink on Humewood sea front. Spent a lot of time there. Great memories. Thanks. 🙂
The Partridge Family, Spirograph, Etchasketch, 126 and 110 Kodak Instamatic cameras
We’re giving our age away here Steve! I loved my Spirograph!