50 years

[marty21]

I reckon it was this one

 

[hash tag]

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50 today.
Those league ladders were a nightmare to change.

Checks date on mag, That really was today 50 yrs ago

 

[BCBlues]

Checks date on mag, That really was today 50 yrs ago

Someone mentioned it on the radio earlier, I had to look it up as I couldn't believe it was that long ago.
There were adverts to the back iirc and I used to but football programmes from there with my pocket money.

 

[hash tag]

Now thats what I call music

 

[marty21]

Now thats what I call music

that didnt start 50 years ago , probably 35 or so ?

 

[Serge Forward]

Nah, it was all Ronco, K-Tel and Top of the Pops erzats hits.

 

[hash tag]

that didnt start 50 years ago , probably 35 or so ?

Your right, but it has "hit" 50!

 

[marty21]

Nah, it was all Ronco, K-Tel and Top of the Pops erzats hits.

I think Elton John sang on one of those TOTP albums when he was a session singer.

 

[belboid]

I think Elton John sang on one of those TOTP albums when he was a session singer.

Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) & Snake in the Grass - supposedly

 

[Serge Forward]

Elton John... who woulda thunk it?

 

[hash tag]

just over 50 years ago, Euro vision was won by Lulu with Boom Bang A Bang

 

[BCBlues]

just over 50 years ago, Euro vision was won by Lulu with Boom Bang A Bang

From wikipedia...
Over two decades after its first release, the song was included on a blacklist of banned songs issued by the BBC during the 1991 Gulf War.

 

[brogdale]

Just over 50 years since Fairport Convention released Unhalfbricking, widely acknowledged as a very significant moment in the development of Folk Rock.

 

[hash tag]

Sailing...morning cloud won the Sydney Hobart race in 1969.

 

[danny la rouge]

Just over 50 years since Fairport Convention released Unhalfbricking, widely acknowledged as a very significant moment in the development of Folk Rock.

 

[brogdale]

As I get older there are some tracks that tend to give me that 'grit in the eye' moment...this is one. And standing in the Far Out tent at GreenMan last week listening to Richard Thompson play this was one such moment.

 

[hash tag]

Some Notable books published in '69....the hungry caterpillar, the stud, the godfather, papillion, French lieutenants woman, portnoys complaint......

 

[JuanTwoThree]

the hungry caterpillar, the stud, the godfather, papillion, French lieutenants woman, portnoys complaint

And I've read them all.

 

[hash tag]

three pints for ten Bob
50p at 50: how Britons' living costs have changed since 1969

 

[cupid_stunt]

three pints for ten Bob
50p at 50: how Britons' living costs have changed since 1969

I remember getting 3 or 4 pints, handing over £5, and getting over £4 in change, even in the mid 80's.

Although, TBF, I was friends with the barmaid, who was happy to fiddle things.

The 50p coin was worth a lot then – indeed, more than any coin in circulation now. In real terms it was worth the equivalent of just over £8. Fifty years on, especially after rampaging inflation in the 1970s, the 50p is a shadow of its former self – it has shrunk in size and weight, but above all in value. Today’s 50p now only has the buying power of the old “tanner” – the small 6d piece.

Blimey!

 

[marty21]

three pints for ten Bob
50p at 50: how Britons' living costs have changed since 1969

In the 70s , I thought £100 a week would be great money , my first full-time job in 1983 paid me nearly £3000 a year #ffs

 

[BCBlues]

My dad used to give us 50p pocket money between three of us. I was the youngest so I got the lower rate of 16p while my big sisters got 17p each. It was plenty.
A few years later I got a job with my elder brother on Saturday mornings and got paid 50p, all to myself.

 

[marty21]

My dad used to give us 50p pocket money between three of us. I was the youngest so I got the lower rate of 16p while my big sisters got 17p each. It was plenty.
A few years later I got a job with my elder brother on Saturday mornings and got paid 50p, all to myself.

I got £1.50 a week from my dad - but when I started a part-time job in 1978 (at a shop on Saturday afternoons) he stopped it - said I was earning now I was paid 66p an hour for 4 hours - so ended up with £2.50 a week (I was 13 so it felt like a lot of money)

 

[JuanTwoThree]

50 years of Scooby-Doo. First aired Sep 13 1969.

Yikes!

 

[fishfinger]

50 years of Scooby-Doo. First aired Sep 13 1969.

Yikes!

 

[JuanTwoThree]

50 years. 1 plot.

 

[hash tag]

Was one of these things the best thing about growing up The 10 Best Things About Being a Kid 50 Years Ago

 

[brogdale]

Bomb sites, they forgot clambering around in old WW2 bomb sites...plenty still around in the 60's.

 

[Serge Forward]

That one about knowing your neighbours... everyone in our street was 'uncle' or 'aunty'. And bomb sites were dead good too. We had a flattened brickworks at the back of our prefab, known by us kids as 'the sand pit'.

 

[brogdale]

That one about knowing your neighbours... everyone in our street was 'uncle' or 'aunty'. And bomb sites were dead good too. We had a flattened brickworks at the back of our prefab, known by us kids as 'the sand pit'.

Our best bomb site had advertising hoardings up all round it...you could burn all sorts of shit behind there