Things that time forgot.

[teamsaint]

Dial - a - disc.


( mentioned in the Bowie threads).

[Lat-Literal]

Proper record shops.

[Bryn]

The Digital Compact Cassette (DCC).

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The 8 Track cartridge.

(Bonus - sold in Woolworth's.)

[doversoul1]

Things that time almost forgot

Life without mobile phone

[ed.] early closing day (on Wednesday)
I’ve just had a delivery from Amazon (on Sunday)

[Nick Armstrong]

Callard & Bowser's "Butter-Scotch"



The pieces were long rectangles, individually wrapped in foil, and scored across the middle - you could suck a piece sideways until your tongue broke it at the score line, then you had a remaining thin bit in each cheek. Well, that's what I used to do, anyway...





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[johncorrigan]

Callard & Bowser's "Butter-Scotch"



The pieces were long rectangles, individually wrapped in foil, and scored down the middle - you could suck a piece sideways until your tongue broke it at the score line, then you had a remaining thin bit in each cheek. Well, that's what I used to do, anyway...

I mean that was a real treat, Cal...can taste it now. They made good sweets, Cal and Bows...any relationship.

Mine is always Woolies who used to do hot peanuts, a stop-off enroute home from the baths.
...and while I'm here, buses where you could hang off the back of the platform.

[Mary Chambers]

I think time has forgotten me.

[Nick Armstrong]

I mean that was a real treat, Cal...can taste it now. They made good sweets, Cal and Bows...any relationship.

Alas not! The company was founded by two Scottish brothers, Richard Callard & John Bowser in 1779 in Maryhill, Glasgow, Wiki tells us, and its demise followed a corporate dance-of-death over several decades: having merged with Suchard, the company was sold to to Terry’s of York in 1982, which was then acquired by Kraft General Foods International/Philip Morris Tobacco Company in 1993, then by Wrigley’s of Chicago in June, 2005. Today, the only C&B brand of confectionery that is still produced is "Altoids", the "Curiously Strong Peppermint", which is now owned by Mars, which acquired Wrigley’s in October 2008.

[Anna]

Floppy disks. It's been years since computers were built with a slot hasn't it?

(Off topic: Surely those hankering for Callard & Bowser have a substitute in Werthers? Edit: Didn't they do a treacle flavoured one)

[teamsaint]

flexi discs.

I have a couple of good uns, such as Komakino by by Joy Division, and a live Pretending to See the Future by OMD.

[zola]

Britannia Music Club

Ash trays

Slam door trains

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I think time has forgotten me.

We haven't forgotten you, Mary.

[Anna]

Littlewoods Football Pools

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I think time has forgotten me.

It never got round to remembering me! (Which is great - it means I can wander around doing most things as I wish to do them, rather than as somebody else thinks I ought. I do have a Mobile Phone - for emergencies* - but use it to the tune of about £20 a year. There's still a look of horror when staff ask me for my Mobile number and I tell them I don't have one. Divides into two sorts - those who respond as if I say I've had all my limbs removed, and those as if I've informed them that I have a particularly infectious type of leprosy.)

* - and the only time I've needed it in an emergency (the car broke down in the middle of nowhere) there wasn't a signal!


Reminds me - do they still make Signal toothpaste? Or Gibbs SR? Or tooth powder?




Jeez - I'm only in my mid-50s!!!