Whatever happened to...........?

I threw our old one away when I moved. It was positively dangerous

Marmight My granddaughter had a pogo stick for Christmas!

Those cut out dolls on the back of Bunty comics and their various outfits that had little tabs at the top to hang onto the doll.

Thanks Chewbacca I have never heard of it before

Fruit salad sweets and mojos 4 for a penny.

And Black Jacks, also 4 for 1d. And Flying Saucers. And those little wooden sticks of liquorice root that you chewed into a slimy stringy mess until all the flavour had gone.

Chewing gum dispensing machines outside shops. I think they were Wrigley's?

chewbacca. I keep my loo rolls stacked on an old ‘posser’!
I still buy Instant Whip & Angel Delight for the GC

Machine in railway station where for a penny you could stamp out your name on a flimsy piece of metal (?why)

Quink ink in green/turquoise/red/blue

‘Whizzer’ which you cut out from back of a cereal packet and threaded onto string (and whizzed ?)

French knitting with 4 nails in a wooden cotton reel (I never knew what to do with resulting snake)

Roller skates which grew with you with the aid of a key
Same with dental plate to make gaps for the new teeth

Pogo stick

Clothes roller clamped onto the wooden draining board

Fruit salad sweets and mojos 4 for a penny.

Clock on/off machines
Detachable real fox fur collars (thank goodness)
Frozen individual cartons of mousse desserts (can't remember brand name)
Dolly pegs
Hazlet

Gajahgran Around Christmas time, some of the supermatkets sell packs with a small bottle of Babycham and the cute glass for about £5.
I have bought them as gifts. My glass is one I bought I'm the 1970s.

Wow Nannatwiglet that's quite a list - well done!!

Junket

Posser not poster!

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What is a Dolly Tub Please ? A couple of posters have men
Jenpax a dolly tub was a large round galvanised metal tub that was filled with boiling water. The soap and dirty laundry was put it and was then agitated and mashed with a poster until they were thoroughly washed. A poster was a long wooden pole that had a copper dome on the end, and it had small holes in it to allow the soapy water to gish through. I've attached photos.

Instant Whip

How about ....packets of VIOTA cup cake mix.
Hair shampoo that came as a powder which you had to mix with water.
Round tins of Gibbs solid toothpaste.
Stiff petticoats that we had to “stiffen” with sugar water.
Back-combing the hair for “beehive”hair-dos.
White stiletto “Winkler-picker”shoes.
Suspender belts.
Mending runs in our nylons with a blob of clear nail varnish.
Roll-on rubbery girdles with detachable suspenders.
Padded bras and bras with “chicken piece”inserts.
Bristle-y hair rollers.
Chocolate machines at railway stations.
Penny (Beech nut)Chewing gum machines.On some, for every fourth penny put in,you had an extra packet.
Sweets for a penny (1d)....Blackjacks,chews, shrimps,dib-dab sherbert fountains, liquorice laces, gob-stoppers etc
Packets of lemonade powder.
Tupperware and stainless steel-ware parties.
Fondue sets.
Decorative fire screens.
Mangles.
Treadle sewing machines.
Gas& electric meters...to put the shillings in.
Knitted fair-isle pullovers.
Candle wick bedspreads.

What is a Dolly Tub Please ? A couple of posters have mentioned these

when i heard of americans eating hotdogs in films, i thought that was rather brutal.
well they were called hot dogs.
and then there were these long low dogs, which were called sausage dogs, so i assumed they used the torso of young ones.
i never did eat them.

Still get angel delight Grandkids used to love it
Sweet cigarettes with red tip and sugar mice
Corona van used to come round our estate and we lived there when kids were 10,8 and 4 so about 43 years ago
Milk flavour machines where you could put your money in and buy a Flavoured milk drink I think there was plain chocolate and strawberry
Having to buy a ticket to get onto the platform at the train station
Clarke’s brown summer sandals with an open pattern on the front
Egg cup of whiskey to dip your finger in and put on toothache
Warm salt in a handkerchief to put on earache
No swimming or bath if you had a period
Don’t sit on radiators you ll get piles
Bottle of milk and straw at break time

Dachshunds

NotTooOld

Phonotas - those ladies in brown overalls who came round offices every now and again to clean the phones. Was only talking about them this morning. DH doesn't remember them but I do. The phone smelled lovely after they'd gone.

The Phonotas lady! I had completely forgotten. Unfortunately, the lady that came to our office in the 70s had dreadful BO. So the phones smelled lovely but the office stunk until we opened the windows.

'Old Moores Almanac' that my nan used to buy every year. Horoscopes in magazines/newspapers along with money off coupons. Suspender belts and Woolworths!

Luncheon vouchers. Great thread this!

Angel Delight
Lemonade Crystals
Royal Scot biscuits

Did not realise you can still buy Babycham Kate1949 I will look out for it. I do have a plastic Babycham Bambi.

Oh, also, you don't see Cream Soda much anymore, which is sad.......