Things you never see nowadays

numberplease I just met you on the 'where are we' thread! Blackpool eh? I used to go there to the Mecca Ballroom - I'd told my daughter that and she told me to watch '999 what's your emergency' about the Emergency services in Blackpool - wow, it's certainly changed! Happy days

Sel, last time I was in Blackpool was 1989, and that was the first time in about 15 years, due to us moving across the country. At that time, I thought it was even shabbier than it used to be, but I believe that a lot of changes have been made recently, for the good. But there`s still no Fairyland!

I was at school in Blackpool about 1951-5.
Never went up the tower but remember there was a zoo underneath it?

Yes, I used to feel so sorry for the animals in that zoo, it was far too small and confined, glad it`s not there anymore. As far as I`m concerned, the only thing of beauty in Blackpool is the gorgeous Tower ballroom, I can remember going to see Reginald Dixon on the organ, as a child I was absolutely overawed at the organ (and Mr. Dixon) coming up out of the stage floor!

Some lovely posts here! Very nostalgic.

What about dances down the local swimming pool? They used to board it over - nice and bouncy to dance on! I doubt health & safety would let you get away with it these day.

If you're interested in recording memories - or helping someone else do it - this is an interesting idea for Christmas: www.yourstoryforever.co.uk/

Dancing! I still love dancing.

It was very much the Twist. Twist and Shout by the Beatles and Let's Twist Again by Chubby Checker. I even won a twist competition when I was away on holiday in Wales with my family. I think I was 14 or 15, can't remember what the prize was.

I missed out on the jive, and certainly on the jitterbug! There's a group of young people meet every week near where I live to dance Jitterbug!

Oh, the twist! I'd had a fall - tripped on the edge of a manhole cover - as a student and my knee was bruised, bloody and wrenched. After an evening of the twist at a student ball, it was completely recovered!

Why has no one mentioned the street singers after the war, beautiful voices
that carried on the air, men walking slowly in their old army greatcoat singing such wonderful songs that lifted a child's heart and stopped women working.

Numberplease

you couldn't be that young girl from Glasgow who I met in the tower at Blackpool, and who promised to love me forever and never wrote?

What year would that have been Cannybairn? I`m not from Glasgow, but when I was 15 I met a nice young Scottish lad whilst walking along the"front", and he went round the pleasure beach with me as well, think he was called Brian.

When I was a child Indian men in turbans went from door to door selling household items from a suitcase.

I loved the Twist! Did you have one of those twist dresses that were straight shift type but covered in little fringes that moved when you 'twisted'?
Some girls were overdoing it a bit and sprained a muscle in their side- were taken to hospital with suspected appendicitis?
I am sure it was good for the figure though!
So was the hula hoop!