Things you never see now

Always remember the excitement of going to put a sixpence in a machine near the beach in South Shields where we used to go most summers to visit our granny. Inside was a little elephant who went around in a circle then dropped a little rectangular white box with a small treat inside.Another machine for a few coppers played a laughing policeman which always had me and my sisters laugh along, such simple things back then made us happy.

62Granny my dad used to bring home a Fry’s 5 centres on a Friday and we were allowed to choose a flavour each. There was my 2 sisters and me. I assume my mum got what was left I never asked. So easily pleased

My grandad was in charge of the BAC or so I was told. I remember stories of him refilling machines at train stations and Blackpool Pleasure Beach.

There were 6 of us and the Clarks sandals were passed down from one to the next, I was the fifth child so they’d be pretty well worn by the time they got to me.

I remember Milk Tray from a chocolate machine 5 or 6 different centres, I loved the Turkish delight.

ViceVersa

Greyduster

Bacon slicing machines in grocers shops. You could specify what thickness you wanted it. Loose biscuits in tins, weighed out into paper bags.

Some butchers still have those. One we go to certainly does - best bacon ever!

Come to France and see the butcher and poultry stalls in the markets or shops, ready to slice bacon or any hams.

The yellow trafficators on cars.

22:14 Oldnproud

If you had asked that a few days ago I would have said over fifty years ago, but I actually saw one yesterday 😁

Oh, wonderful! 😄👍
They were a huge part of my childhood, regarded as a bit eccentric even in the 1950s, but we had so many happy holidays and family outings - mom and dad in their leathers on the bike; little sister and me with the dog in the sidecar; luggage in the panniers and strapped to the open boot lid of the sidecar. On fine days, we'd roll back the sidecar's sun roof and cruise along, all singing loudly - anything from Ten Green Bottles to Daisy, Daisy. Most of the village thought us a bit bonkers but we didn't care. Sadly, my dad developed arthritis in his fingers and, in the mid 60s, the big old Panther motorcycle rig got traded in for a car. Sometimes, if I close my eyes on a quiet evening, I think I can still hear the steady thump-thump-thump of that bike's engin as it hauled us for so many happy miles.🙂

This!

You could buy postage stamps from a box attached to the pillar box.

Oh gosh, I'd completely forgotten that!

Scribbles

When did you last see a motorbike and sidecar - outside of a transport museum, that is?

If you had asked that a few days ago I would have said over fifty years ago, but I actually saw one yesterday 😁

"On the Buses"
When Olive is pregnant and Arthur takes her to hospital in the sidecar.

When did you last see a motorbike and sidecar - outside of a transport museum, that is?

62Granny

Vending machines on the railway platform for Fry's chocolate, there was one that was five different flavours.

I think it was called 5 BOYS chocolate bar
I also remember chewing gum machines outside sweet shops.

Greyduster

Bacon slicing machines in grocers shops. You could specify what thickness you wanted it. Loose biscuits in tins, weighed out into paper bags.

Some butchers still have those. One we go to certainly does - best bacon ever!

Casdon

Children’s sandals - remember the Clarks ones with crepe soles and cutouts, like this, my sisters and I all had a pair exactly the same every year, brown, red or navy. No longer seen I don’t think.

Joyance, if I recall correctly, Casdon.
Staple of our household- alternating red and blue each summer!

I never see dark chocolate Bounty bars now ☹

Don't know if it counts, but men whistling whilst walking

Greyduster

Bacon slicing machines in grocers shops. You could specify what thickness you wanted it. Loose biscuits in tins, weighed out into paper bags.

I worked in the village shop from 14-16 and loved, loved , loved using the bacon slicer. “Number 4 please” was most common.
Almost as much fun as the cheese wire, trying to cut exactly 8 oz. Easy on a block of mild cheese, not so much on a circle of strong cheddar.

Sunshinegirls What hanging and children watching enactments of a man being hanged?

20:33Grandma70s

If only we could go back to those times.

Poor Kittycat it wasn't fair.

There were ashtrays everywhere. Between the cinema seats and on the back of bus seats.
Come to think of it there was a lighter in our car.

Sunshinegirls

I remember on the seaside pier a 'What the butler saw' wind up machine lol how tame compared to what's on offer now, a different world, a better one I think.

I remember a pier penny-in-the-slot “amusement” called The Condemned Cell, which showed scenes of a condemned man culminating in his hanging. Absolutely horrific from today’s perspective, yet I, the least violent of children, watched it eagerly when I was about six or seven. This was in the 1940s.

I used to hate those embossing machines because you paid like a penny for 3 letters and the limit was 9 letters. My name is 10 letters so my mother used to print out the shortened version which I never liked. I always used to loose the little printed strip.

Bacon slicing machines in grocers shops. You could specify what thickness you wanted it. Loose biscuits in tins, weighed out into paper bags.

Until relatively recently, there was a collection of moth eaten toy monkeys in a glass case on Worthing Pier. If you put 2p in the slot they jiggled about and 'played' "Spanish Flea" by Herb Alpert on various musical instruments.

Cigarette machines. They seemed to be everywhere at one time. Ashtrays on the seats in aeroplanes.

Grammaretto

The x-ray machines were banned in the 1950s

I remember having mine done in a shop in Ilfracombe when I was about nine so that would’ve been 1962..
My aunt May used to buy me my shoes for some reason and she always took me to the store once a year at least to get my feet x-rayed
My feet are horrendous now, but nothing I can blame on the x-rays I don’t think 😁😂