Lol Major Morgan think I got that for Christmas that year.
This is really sad but as kids me and my brother used to get really excited when the new catalogue came out- we used to play a game where we'd each pick a number and see who'd get the best toys.
Lol Major Morgan think I got that for Christmas that year.
This is really sad but as kids me and my brother used to get really excited when the new catalogue came out- we used to play a game where we'd each pick a number and see who'd get the best toys.
Yeah Hobbit Feet, the CD players aren't there are they? I left school in '86 and we deffo had CDs then. I didn't own any mind you, I lugged all the LPs off to halls in a bloody heavy box!
I used to love looking through years old Argos catalogues at my Nan's, a real eye into the past and how stuff used to look. Into looking at the old gadgets myself
Not only was it a wonderful trip down my childhood memory lane (seeing all those toys I played with, TVs that we owned etc.) but it confirms to me that I am now officially old. LOL
The reason I say that is due to the replies in this thread from members who "can't believe how things used to look" etc. and are amazed at the old Argos catalogue. The very fact they view an old Argos catalogue as an antique makes me worry. I remember a high street without Argos!
You know what's really amazing though? The prices!
The prices back then are more or less the same as they are now, yet the average wage was around £100 per week for a full time worker.
Seeing that catalogue has made me realise that people who complain they are poor today just don't know which side their bread is buttered on! :cool:
The first Argos shop I visited was in London's Bond Street around about 1974. In those days it was a revolutionary way of buying goods. I'd like to see one of the very first calalogues - they had a very limited range of goods in those days.
Item 1 - "woodland animals" mugs. Somebody bought me and the OH a set of those as a wedding present (1986). We've still got one of the squirrel design, the others got broken at various times.
Actually, somebody else bought us a set of Item 11 too
I had one of these folding calculators, and my dad had this top-notch Harry Moss ICE in his Renault 9. Mum had a Haden kettle, which did indeed switch off when boiled. My brother had both parts of An Introduction to BASIC - never did him much good, though. And my sister was only 5, so shw probably had one of these.
Your mission, should you wish to accept it, is to find something in 1985, and see what the equivalent item is in 2010's catalogue...
Thanks for posting! I used to have 'Loving You' Barbie and the plush My Litlle Pony and I'd forgotten till the pictures jogged my memory. I can totally understand why 30-somethings try and buy all their old toys back on eBay!
I never knew that, they are so expensive as well lol.
OMG. I feel old.
We also had TV back then you know (albeit only 3 channels until Xmas 1982), and we had iPods (but you had to put a cassette into them). We also had Playstations (games back then came in 8 colours though which was pretty cool if your mum could afford a colour TV for you to play them on). What else? We had Facebook (it was known as 'Filofax') and Ben 10 was called He-Man. Unlike nowadays, every living room had an iPod docking station for your music and it was called the Amstrad MidiHifi System. Lady GaGa was storming the charts back then under her stage name "Cyndi Lauper" and you would txt your friends using something called a postage stamp stuck to something called an envelope.
Lol...turned to the lawn mower pages and saw the lawn mower Sprintmaster XE30 that I bought then...long since deceased and probably resting in a landfill somewhere......thanks for happy memories of sunny grass cutting days.:D:D
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This is really sad but as kids me and my brother used to get really excited when the new catalogue came out- we used to play a game where we'd each pick a number and see who'd get the best toys.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/3592618833/in/set-72157619206330728/
Look at number 7 on that page.
Who said the DS was innovative.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/3592620853/sizes/l/in/set-72157619206330728/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/3592622965/in/set-72157619206330728/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/3593431332/in/set-72157619206330728/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/3592627045/in/set-72157619206330728/
Now kids and people just play music on there silly little phone speakers.
And not one of them plays CDs.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/3593439054/in/set-72157619206330728/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/3593441062/in/set-72157619206330728/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/3593455540/in/set-72157619206330728/
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Black And White
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/3592653395/in/set-72157619206330728/
You could get CD players in 1985 - probably still a bit pricey for the Argos catalogue.
I got my first one in 86.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/3593475252/sizes/l/in/set-72157619206330728/
Agh, Operation, I never liked that game, it made me feel tense.
To catch the tears of joy!
been around since the 50s i think
Not only was it a wonderful trip down my childhood memory lane (seeing all those toys I played with, TVs that we owned etc.) but it confirms to me that I am now officially old. LOL
The reason I say that is due to the replies in this thread from members who "can't believe how things used to look" etc. and are amazed at the old Argos catalogue. The very fact they view an old Argos catalogue as an antique makes me worry. I remember a high street without Argos!
You know what's really amazing though? The prices!
The prices back then are more or less the same as they are now, yet the average wage was around £100 per week for a full time worker.
Seeing that catalogue has made me realise that people who complain they are poor today just don't know which side their bread is buttered on! :cool:
Actually, somebody else bought us a set of Item 11 too
Your mission, should you wish to accept it, is to find something in 1985, and see what the equivalent item is in 2010's catalogue...
Snugglebumms:D http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/3593498912/in/set-72157619206330728/ How did I ever forget?
Mission accepted.
This http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/3593128800/in/set-72157619206330728/ item 15. "Gives a natural, even tan in about one week" price £119. Perhaps it should read "gives a natural even melanoma in about 20 years".
Today's Argos equivalent: http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4480011/Trail/searchtext%3ESPRAY+TAN.htm price £49.95
OMG. I feel old.
We also had TV back then you know (albeit only 3 channels until Xmas 1982), and we had iPods (but you had to put a cassette into them). We also had Playstations (games back then came in 8 colours though which was pretty cool if your mum could afford a colour TV for you to play them on). What else? We had Facebook (it was known as 'Filofax') and Ben 10 was called He-Man. Unlike nowadays, every living room had an iPod docking station for your music and it was called the Amstrad MidiHifi System. Lady GaGa was storming the charts back then under her stage name "Cyndi Lauper" and you would txt your friends using something called a postage stamp stuck to something called an envelope.
The 80's wasn't so bad you know.
Lol...turned to the lawn mower pages and saw the lawn mower Sprintmaster XE30 that I bought then...long since deceased and probably resting in a landfill somewhere......thanks for happy memories of sunny grass cutting days.:D:D
I've still got No14 from that page!
It's outlasted an
Alphacom 32
Star LC10
Fujitsu Breeze 200
Samsung Laser
Epson Stylus Colour
And now...
An HP colour laserjet sits on it.