Things that time forgot.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

16 rpm records
Double-sided DVDs.

[Roslynmuse]

16 rpm records
.

How many 16rpm records were made? The old Bush record player I grew up with had all four speeds but we didn't even have any 78s!

This was the model we had, or something very similar -

[P. G. Tipps]

Six-of-the-best.

Oh, how I miss those, Padraig!

At my old school the thick corporal-punishment implements made of whale-bone covered in shiny, quality leather (the 'tolly' to snotty-nosed young miscreants) were beautifully and expertly manufactured by an order of nuns called The Sisters of Mercy. Judging by demand they certainly had a good little business going there, bless them.

They don't make 'em like that anymore ... the implements or the nuns.

[Richard Tarleton]

Has anyone mentioned snooker in black and white?

[Aubade]

Mac OS 6.7. (Much more stable than 6.5.)

[mangerton]

Has anyone mentioned snooker in black and white?

Ah yes. As Ted Lowe once said, "For those of you not watching in colour, the blue ball is the one next to the pink".

[french frank]

Children's (girls'?) liberty bodices.

[gradus]

Children's (girls'?) liberty bodices.

and Thermogene Wool

[pastoralguy]

My uncle Bob had the complete speeches of Winston Churchill on 16rpm records. He used to listen to one every night before retiring. However, his new wife soon put a stop to that little habit!

[pastoralguy]

For me, the demise of 35mm films at the cinema is a great loss. Going to the pictures is simply an over sized blu-machine and an over priced sweetie shop.

[vinteuil]

Children's (girls'?) liberty bodices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_bodice

... and whatever happened to cami-knickers?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_(garment)

[mangerton]

Children's (girls'?) liberty bodices.

Never had one myself, but I'm sure my sister did.

Other childhood delights that the modern child is spared include:

Short trousers in all weathers, bread poultices, iodine, cod liver oil, and Virol. And then of course there was corporal punishment. In these northern parts we were subjected to the Lochgelly-made tawse, and then I moved to the different regime of the cane.

"The happiest days of your life"? Aye, right.

[Tevot]

Doug McClure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P3yseZ38TM

[Serial_Apologist]

Never had one myself, but I'm sure my sister did.

Other childhood delights that the modern child is spared include:

Short trousers in all weathers, bread poultices, iodine, cod liver oil, and Virol. And then of course there was corporal punishment. In these northern parts we were subjected to the Lochgelly-made tawse, and then I moved to the different regime of the cane.

"The happiest days of your life"? Aye, right.

One can still obtain iodine - here in local pharmacies, at any rate!

[french frank]

cod liver oil

We had halibut oil - a few drops on a cube of sugar. No idea why.