Those were yon days!
Monday, September 29, 2014
I'm in the mood for ...
Well I've noticed over the past few posts that I keep returning to the formative years and to the times when we were growing up so as to try and preserve, in my mind at least, a picture of the positive things that I remember from those distant days back in the mid to late 1970s. In some ways it seems like a thousand years have passed by since I had direct experience of those times, in others it feels like yesterday. So, to satiate my nostalgic tendencies for a few days at least, I decided today to collate a little mood board for your delectation. Mood boards rock, after all! I gave myself a couple of hours to assemble my version of those times, in their essence and as I remember them, but strictly in the time allocated (already I'm missing at least a thousand icons - Fizzlesticks, Superstars, The Fonz and Tony Hart have just sprung to mind ... as has Roy Castle ... and Bernard Cribbens!). I've also probably got it skew-ways in ninety percent of cases but, hey, feel free to fill in the blanks or create a board of your own times on your screen or in your head. It's a nice thing to cast yer mind back.
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Brilliant Bag. Brought me right back. You couldn't have captured it better. My tuppence worth. The Rockford Files, Joe McKenna, help the black babies, Argentinian ticker tape, colour tv, the goodies, AAA golden maverick ads, T Rex, petrocelli, Billy Bremner and Kevin Keegan getting sent off, boot boys and dubs fans in butchers coats. Love that you included Red ahead of Abba.
ReplyDelete:) Love it ... once ye start it's hard to stop!
ReplyDeleteIronside, Mario Kempes, John Walker, 3 and in, Clive Best and Pop Robson, Double Diamond works wonders, Sally O'Brien, Fr Michael Cleary, fish on Fridays, homemade go-karts, Rene van der Kerkhof's broken wrist, O'Brien and Judge, Bracken, Bernie Flint, Lene Zavaroni, Zulu, macaroon bars, Hillman Hunters, Cheeky Charlies, Fr Iggy Clarke, sodastream, gob stoppers, Breville Sandwich Toasters and lastly football shorts with built in jocks.
DeleteGolden Maverick! Class :)
ReplyDeleteSimilar hymn-sheet, Pearse - but I'd prefer forget Cleary!
ReplyDeleteAmazing that star wars or jaws haven't been mentioned. Every item you read trigger another 2. Ironside = kojak and Colombo. Macaroons bar = trigger bars and highland toffee. Where's Steve silvermint? I must agree with Pearse that 70s hammers were Pop and Clive plus Alan Taylor. Trevor got his header in the 80s.
ReplyDeletePop and 'Clive' were of their time indeed though Clyde was a bit before mine - Trev was legend to me back then - way before the header. It would've been ungrateful of me to put anyone else before him except maybe Billy Bonds or John Lyall!
ReplyDeleteYou and Ron Greenwood were the only people on the planet who thought Trev was a better player than Hoddle. No one has mentioned Wonder Woman or Charlie's Angels. Must be something wrong with us.
ReplyDeleteKendo Nagasaki, Trpitaka, It's a Knockout, Women forgetting they had their 18 hour girdles on, depressing Hovis bread ads, Shake and Vac putting the freshness back, Cinzano Bianco, over sized wrigley spearmint gum, gum, gum, think first, think twice think bike, clunk click every trip and fingers of fudge good enough to eat
DeletePete's Peanuts!
ReplyDeleteA geezer in his dressing gown on the scent of the Cookstown sizzle
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