Things you dont see anymore

[Rosencrantz]

Shoe testing equipment. { what they used in the 1930’s , now they just fall apart after you’ve worn them for a week }View attachment 4151

Looks like some elaborate schoolboy punishment contraption. Just bend over here.

 

[Greyhound]

The Football League Review magazine freebie that came with your City programme for years ?

"Look at it this way....with editor Harry Brown."

I expect I've still got a few Reviews somewhere.

 

[ramone]

Council workmen going round spraying the weeds on the pavements.

 

[Oldsmobile-88]

Small ads in the back of the Music Papers(they have disappeared too I think or online only)

I loved trawling through sounds to decipher the cryptic ads for bootleg live recordings.Punk rarity’s or of interest to the serious collector were a couple of terms to look out for(obviously for legal/ copyright reasons the real nature of the recordings could be advertised)
A address to write to or occasionally a phone number to get the latest Clash Live material(in my case) from the USA.Sent on a C90 tape for £3 inc pp.
I was sent a great recording of a gig from the Agura Ballroom,Cleveland Ohio Feb 1979.Many others too,you had to rely on the senders judgement of quality.The chap I dealt with from Stoke Newington always gave the recordings marks out of 10 in the list he sent.Most bands of that era were covered by his contacts to get recordings.

A ad that always made me smirk in those days (1979/80)..Anna Fords bum by Walvis O’Shea...No idea what the meaning was.It was in Sounds every week for about a year.

 

[Swanaldo]

People tearing phone books in half.

 

[RedPaul]

People tearing phone books in half.

Phone Books themselves.

 

[STURTZ]

Booths in record shops.

 

[Billy The Fish]

Booths in record shops.

Good one. Also people singing out loud in those booths with their headphones on.

 

[Alistair20000]

City defeats away in the early rounds of the Cup

 

[dontpassback]

A politician who doesn’t talk complete and utter b####ks !