Turn Back Time Howlers
buttsfife
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After watching the concluding episode this week - The "Corner Shop" must be the only one in the UK that does not sell Cigarettes - a staple product along with Alcohol in most of the emporiums I used to frequent in the seventies.
The Supermarket would also have had them - used to be by the tills if I remember correctly.
Also "Irn Bru" was featured which I'm sure was unavailable in most of England at that time.
Have the PC Brigade been at it again:p:D:D
The Supermarket would also have had them - used to be by the tills if I remember correctly.
Also "Irn Bru" was featured which I'm sure was unavailable in most of England at that time.
Have the PC Brigade been at it again:p:D:D
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Or it could be the PC brigade at the BBC
Full coverage of the series in the dedicated thread.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1380274
However as was suggested by many, getting both the new record shop and the new milk bar "ten years out of their time" was a very basic error.
Yes it was, as has been said, like the milk bar in the previous week, it was at least ten years too late.
Cassettes did actually feature in that episode.
I am from Kent and Irn Bru was around in the 60's and 70's down that way.
Not sure exactly what you are saying here as i didn't see the programme but!, all my music in those days was on vinyl, mainly Rod Stewart LP's if my memory serves me right!.....
There wasn't the money about in those days to rush and buy all the new latest gadgets that came out like nowadays, we had a big unit with a built in record player and to buy cassettes you would have to buy a cassette player!, i think the first time we had one in our house was when my girls born in 1970 and 1972 were taking an interest in music and i dont suppose that would have been until the early eighties
Although they mentioned creditably that the Asian Shopkeeper had been the victim of racism and violence during the era - what was the "Elephant in the Room " ?
They failed to mention the "colloquial term " for a shop with proprietors emanating from the sub-continent that was in common use at the time (thus avoiding much angst amongst Guardian chomping muesli readers sensibilities no doubt)
The P*K* Shop:o
Irn Bru was certainly on sale in Yorkshire in the 1960s because I used to drink it !
I bought my first proper "hifi" in 1972. It consisted of separate units, a tuner/amp, record deck, tape deck and two speakers. This configuration was a "must have" for many people in those days. I think the lot cost me just under two hundred and fifty quid, I don't know what that would have been in "real money" today.
I had a cassette tape player in my car before the mid seventies with one of the first units that would "find" the next track when you fast forwarded it. These machines superceded "8 track" car cassette players, so the facility to play tapes was very common in the early seventies. There were also transistor radios with duel tape decks, so you could copy one tape to another.
During the feature on Christmas during WW2 they said people watched the King's speech and showed King George V.. I though "maybe it was supposed to be WW1" but they preceded to state "Christmas in 1945".
Anyway, loved Turn Back Time. Shame they didn't show the 80's but I'd imagine it would have been just like the '70's episode.
Portable mono tape recorders were quite successful in the '70s, but most people were moving to all-in-one "music centres" by the end of the decade. Cassettes only really started to dominate in the '80s when boom-boxes, Walkman-type devices, tower systems with tape to tape facilities and better sound quality (via chromium dioxide tapes) started to become available and affordable.
You wasn't watching properly then?
I had a cassette tape player in my car before the mid seventies with one of the first units that would "find" the next track when you fast forwarded it. These machines superceded "8 track" car cassette players, so the facility to play tapes was very common in the early seventies. There were also transistor radios with duel tape decks, so you could copy one tape to another.[/QUOTE]
Ooh yes!, i remember those!, i had a friend/neighbour who's husband bought the same, and they were so proud of it!..regarding the money side of it!, we bought our first house in 1974, a 3 bedroom terrace, and it cost us £9.400.00, i cant quite remember how much the mortgage was but i am fairly sure my husband was earning about £33, per week (take home).. i had a part time evening job at the local telephone exchange and i brought home about £9.50p a week, so if your hi fi cost around £260 pounds i would say that was an awful lot of money then!, no wonder we didn't have one!......:D... but how interesting, going back to those days, i really wanted to see the two programmes on the 60's and the 70's but something else was on the other side!, The jungle i think?, and i missed them!, hopefully they will be repeated and i will get a second chance!......:)
Ooh, and we never had a car that early!, it wasn't until the law was changed and women could work all night that i changed to full time and we could afford to get one!...that was in about 1980ish i think!.....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/search?q=Turn%20Back%20Time%20-%20The%20High%20Street
Oh thanks Diego, i think i will watch one of them now, being as there is nothing holding my attention on the tv!.......:cool:
I was a bit miffed about my tuner amp as it gave up the ghost this year and would have cost quite a bit to repair. But I was able to buy something ten years younger and equally as good to replace it for just over £30 on eBay.
This sort of all singin' and dancin' equipment with a fantastic sound quality and output, fortunately isn't popular amongst younger people now. So everything's fine again.
We bought our house in 1972, our (third) new kitchen five years ago cost more than what we paid for the house.
I didnt hear cassettes mentioned
You are very welcome - enjoy!
IIRC, the record shop guy offered them to the older couple that complained about the records jumping/skipping and as an alternative format to attempt to keep their custom. He had some cassette albums in stock.