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[OLDEREK]

1947.Wow........Was it really that cheap then, I was a three year old....... :D

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[Mikey]

.....and we still had change from a fiver

[SELEDA284]

Blimey.. ....dont s'pose prices had increased much 2 years later when I made my "entrance" onto this globe....

[Tab]

Hi Derek,

If you can lay on some 1947 beer at the club next week I'll bring along my pound note and treat the house. I'll also dig out the ration book just in case it's needed.

[Geoff Alderton LH]

Hi all. I was born in the year that a Mr T Murphy,secretary of the showmans guild, predicts a big future for the juke box in UK, the tea ration was increased from two to two and a half oz per person, top hit songs were Donald Peers with You, Fascinating You. Russ Morgan With There Goes That Song Again. Dick Haymes with Laura and lots of Sinatra and Crosby numbers. The world amature jive Championship was held at Wembley Town Hall and the winner was Sonia Rudnick, 18, of London and Lloyd Lindemann of Toronto. Pro footballers get a pay rise of £1 per week to make the max pay up to £9 per week and the day I was born was recorded as the hottest day in February for forty years.62* F.
Regards Geoff.

[Apache1]

My Generation (was not only a song by The Who) but people who were born before Television, before frozen foods, contact lenses, and the pill. we were born before Credit Cards, Split Atoms, Laser Beams and Ball point pens - before Dish Washers - Tumble Dryers - Electric Blankets - Air Conditioners and Tights. We used to play with marbles - Cigarette Cards and Hula Hoops (now making a come back) the best way to earn pocket money was a paper round, because your mum & dad could not afford to give you any. -- Saturday afternoons were spent at the pictures with Hoppalong Cassidy - Kit Carson - Roy Rogers and Flash Gordon, all for "one shilling" We thought that Fast Food was something you ate quickly
a "Big Mac" was an oversize raincoat and Crumpet was a "pikelet" that you toasted - we existed before House Husbands - Computer Dating - Dual Careers, We had never heard of FM radio -CDs - Word Processors - Yoghurt - Pizzas - Mobile Phones - or Men wearing Earrings. For us a "Chip" was a piece of wood or a fried potato you could buy a bag of sugar for 3d (£-s-d) "Hardware" meant nut's and bolt's and software wasn't a word. The term "Making Out" referred to how you did in your exams and a "Stud" was what you fastened your collar with. "Going All the Way" meant staying on the bus to the depot....
In our day cigarette smoking was fashionable (but stupid) "Grass" was mown "Coke" was kept in the coal shed and a "Joint" was the piece of meat you ate on Sundays...............,
The kids nowadays are so unlucky that they will never experience what we did in our youth, they will never have to get up and rake the ashes from last nights
fire before you can light another. They will miss the discipline and respect that we had that made us what we are, ---------- Grumpy Old Men.
John

[John M]

This could almost be a script for a Monty Python sketch....
BTW..my family couldnt afford a house..we lived in a carboard box.

[OLDEREK]

Cardboard Box !!!........You were lucky !!! ..........We lived in the middle of a busy motorway..... And my dad made us sweep the white lines ever morning before School....

[rocker43]

1943 and yes I am still alive for those of you who have not seen me or heard from me for a while.I am still trying to play that Funny Shaped piece of Wood with 6 bits of wire on it.
Cheers
Peter

[Nick Allan]

Derek - Motorways ??? Then ???? I believe the first was 10 years later.

Nick.