General / Off-Topic Who remembers 1977 ???
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I remember the street parties. I won second prize in a fancy dress contest.I remember '77! Street parties to celebrate Her Majesty's Silver Jubilee! Not sure we'd have anything like that any more (Health & Safety y'know).
And oh, that moon pic. We all see the moon pretty much every day, but whenever I look at detailed pics like that I can't help get goosebumps and just think .. "we've been there".
+rep OP.
Back then I thought we would be travelling on rockets all over space in the 21st century. I am heartily encouraged by SpaceX landing their booster. Fireball XL-5 is just around the corner.
I thought '76 was the hot one, and back to the original topic being a precocious 12 yr old in '77 the only moon I was looking at wasn't up
You are right -I remember that too. Water rationing and we all had to get water from a stand-pipe down the street. Ground baked as hard as concrete. Sunburn, a plague of ladybirds (I kid you not) Those were the days...I thought '76 was the hot one, and back to the original topic being a precocious 12 yr old in '77 the only moon I was looking at wasn't up
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Wasnt me! I wasn't ever there. I had a Tomahawk. A smaller version of the Chopper. Ahhhhh the 70's.
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I seem to remember getting this - http://www.peter-upton.co.uk/striker.htm from Santa.
It really was a much simpler time.
It really was a much simpler time.
1969 The moon looked a lot bigger.
My brother got a Grifter, with a twist gear change on the hand-grip. Cool in a different way, I loved riding that bike - it was a tank, weighed a ton.
I remember 67 too, just (I was 3).
I presume this thread qualifies as a luna-tick.
(I'll get my coat.)
I presume this thread qualifies as a luna-tick.
(I'll get my coat.)
I remember that in 1977 the reason to fear the future was all down to socialism and those nasty Ruskies. (Thank goodness for our dear friends, Saddam in the ME, bin Laden and his crowd in Afghanistan and of course, that lovely Mr Ceaușescu and his caring, wife, mother to all her people (They met the queen you know?).)
Now, of course, the reason to fear the future is global warming, (The world is getting hotter and and we're all going to die and the only way to avoid it is to pay more taxes, feel guilty about our existence and praise our leaders for saving us as we know they will), and Muslims.
In other news, 1977, with the continuing innovations in state benefits it was becoming increasingly pointless to work, blow was about £14 a quarter, Punk had arrived, the Post Office responded to criticism of their phone service by offering us all push button TrimPhones, (which sadly didn't work because the GPO's equipment wasn't suitable and no-one had bothered to check before hand), BL was promising that the coming year it would finally turn itself around, (it did, 360degrees), and the press had decided that Princess Anne was really, just too rude and someone should give her a good talking to!
Now, of course, the reason to fear the future is global warming, (The world is getting hotter and and we're all going to die and the only way to avoid it is to pay more taxes, feel guilty about our existence and praise our leaders for saving us as we know they will), and Muslims.
In other news, 1977, with the continuing innovations in state benefits it was becoming increasingly pointless to work, blow was about £14 a quarter, Punk had arrived, the Post Office responded to criticism of their phone service by offering us all push button TrimPhones, (which sadly didn't work because the GPO's equipment wasn't suitable and no-one had bothered to check before hand), BL was promising that the coming year it would finally turn itself around, (it did, 360degrees), and the press had decided that Princess Anne was really, just too rude and someone should give her a good talking to!
I remember very well this Christmas 1977. And I had taken a photo at the time
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I remember that. Turns out the moon in the background is a fake. The dark sleigh was actually against the dark sky and someone put the moon in for effect.
Also, he wasn't hauling presents at all, seems it was parts for BL cars which still didn't arrive for 2 years!
Huh! Poseurs.
