Remember when......

[Lpgc]

I remember Corona and the milkman bringing Larkspur pop.

 

[Lpgc]

A open bed Corona lorry delivered the drinks direct to peoples houses when I was a lad. Looked a bit like a milk float. Probably late sixties.
We used to hide behind a grass bank and when the driver went to a house, run to the truck and steal a bottle.
Cream soda was my favourite steal.

Walking to school...

On the walk to school if my mate was thirsty he'd nick a bottle of milk from someone's doorstep, always went for the none skimmed.

Towards the end of foil topped glass milk bottle delivery crows learned how to pierce the foil and get a drink but not many people liked the cardboard cartons that came next.

Remember broken glass being all over the place.

 

[WhatsThisFor]

 

[Nevillerover]

I didn’t enjoy the tobacco as I don’t like coconut but used to eat it none the less becuase it came with a tattoo that you licked and it printed on your arm and lasted a few days if you didn’t wash and in those days, we didn’t very much.

 

[LeStempy]

 

[Magnu]

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I fancied one of these the other day, couldn't find any in B&M or Sainsbury's .

 

[dognero]

 

[dognero]

 

[Magnu]

I used to have a toy car and track set that may have been from Hot Wheels around 1971. I think the track was orange or maybe red, my memory is vague.
The cars were propelled by a spring loaded tunnel affair. You could loop the track around so that the car would go into the tunnel and go around again. Or you could make the cars go airborne .

Does this ring a bell with anyone? My Google Fu has let me down.

 

[WhatsThisFor]

I used to have a toy car and track set that may have been from Hot Wheels around 1971. I think the track was orange or maybe red, my memory is vague.
The cars were propelled by a spring loaded tunnel affair. You could loop the track around so that the car would go into the tunnel and go around again. Or you could make the cars go airborne .

Does this ring a bell with anyone? My Google Fu has let me down.

Hotwheels roadrunner, orange track and the cars went through a battery operated booster box with two sponge rollers which spun around, spitting the cars out and down the track.

My cars often entered the booster box and would jam vertically as they hit the rollers.

 

[Blaggard]

I used to have a toy car and track set that may have been from Hot Wheels around 1971. I think the track was orange or maybe red, my memory is vague.
The cars were propelled by a spring loaded tunnel affair. You could loop the track around so that the car would go into the tunnel and go around again. Or you could make the cars go airborne .

Does this ring a bell with anyone? My Google Fu has let me down.

Lethal running marbles through it

 

[Magnu]

Hotwheels roadrunner, orange track and the cars went through a battery operated booster box with two sponge rollers which spun around, spitting the cars out and down the track.

My cars often entered the booster box and would jam vertically as they hit the rollers.

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Thanks for this @WhatsThisFor

SWMBO thought I was going mad when I started talking about this, her brother who is one year my junior had a yellow tracked Matchbox set.

 

[dognero]

 

[dognero]

 

[dognero]

 

[dognero]

 

[dognero]

 

[ElCurio]

Yes to pretty much them all.

 

[dognero]

 

[dognero]

Spent many an early morning cold and walking for mile in Hamsterly, Kielder etc.
Those were the days